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Originally Posted by Exchequer
Dear Spanky,
I am a numbers person and I like a good value.
When I see rates based on minutes (60/$300, 90/$400), gets a better value per minute ($5.00 / $4.17). Most of the time I will go for a longer time cause it's a better value for me.
But then I will see a rate where it is the opposite. (60/$300, 90/$500) where it's ($5.00 / $5.55).
Why are some a worse value?
Thanks,
Exchequer!
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As someone who almost always books longer apointments, I have wondered this myself.
Here are my thoughts:
First, maybe some ladies just like shorter appointments and want to de-emphasize longer ones by making them not as good of a value.
Also, if a provider is popular and knows she can book all the slots she has available anyway, it wouldn't be in her financial interest to book discounted incremental hours when she could book full price individual hours.
Finally, I think some think of their per unit of time rates as absolute amounts and not amounts per minute if that makes sense. For instance, one lady I saw had an hourly rate of 300. I assumed her 90 minute was 450, but nope. It was 500. Why? Because her half hour rate was 200, so she added her half hour rate to her full hour rate to come up with her 90 minute rate.
Probably a thing to think about is that they don't necessarily only give a break on multi-hours to make it a good deal for us, but because it's less effort for them to get ready for a 2 hour appointment than 2 one hour appointments. Of course for most they will see some incremental revenue from discounted incremental hours because they don't necessarily book all their time consistently. Some money is better than no money.
Just some theories. I'd actually love to hear some of the ladies' thoughts on this.
Dear Spanky
