Here's my take after talking to one of the girls. So note that this is just one opinion (mixed with mine).
The problem is we're so overly concerned about keeping the rates down while pissing and moaning if we don't get a full hour that girls are starting to get two impressions about the DC area:
1. Customers are too demanding.
2. Customers are cheapskates.
Combine that with a smaller customer base due to decreased advertising, and also that for some reason, we like to keep the better girls "secret" (thus essentially robbing her of potential tips from new customers), and you've got a mediocre situation in DC.
In California, the AMPs have all died out and girls work at AAMPs where it's $160 for 30 minutes and $200 for the full hour, $60 still being the house fee (so girls make $100 for half hour and $140 for full hour). Meanwhile, check out the reviews in Atlanta and Florida to see what kind of shitty service guys are getting (a whole lot worse than what we complain about) while giving up anywhere from $120 at minimum to $200 on top of the house fee. And believe it or not, these girls with "shitty service" are the same girls we used to all fawn over in 2006 about how great their attitude and services were.
Want proof that's more local? Check out these two ads:
http://www.eros-dc.com/files/dc-cs4-rie1.htm
http://www.eros-dc.com/files/dc-christine79-christine1.htm
These two girls used to work at DC AMPs in the past. None of us would have had problems giving them straight 9's and 10's across the board. Then they realized, "Hey, this is fucking stupid. Why am I working from 10AM to 4AM, 7 days a week, getting $100 per customer just like that ugly hag over there?"
While I'm not so sure they are worth $250 or $300 per hour, I know they were definitely worth more than $160.
Solution? If there is a girl you like, tip her more.
$100 is the minimum. Not the maximum. There's no reason that a younger spinner with a good personality should get paid the same as an older, fatter lady. Unless you want to be stubborn and believe you're "keeping prices down".
Don't be misinformed and think that you're doing the rest of us a favor by "keeping prices down". No, you're doing the complete opposite. You're helping to drive a girl away to better opportunities in other places. It doesn't have even have to be that much as we have the advaneforum.xxxe over Atlanta and Florida in terms of location (girls get to save on transportation costs). Tip just $20 more if you see a hot girl. I guarantee you that if each and every one of us tipped just one extra Jackson, suddenly we'd have the hottest and best girls again.
Also make sure to spread the word about any lovely girls you might meet. You're not just helping the rest of us, you're doing a direct favor to the girl herself who came to DC to make money, not to just service you, and only you, a couple of times a week.
Check out the AMPs in Detroit or Chicago if you want to see how far DC could potentially fall. There's a reason that the girls who work in massage parlors in those cities and rural areas are a lot uglier than the ones who used to work in DC that currently work in New York, California, Atlanta, and Florida.
Think about it. Hint, it's green and made of paper.