Re: Tip request in Bangkok
You could always offer free English lessons in lieu of a tip, which apparently some farangs do. :-)
Re: Tip request in Bangkok
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Originally Posted by cdnmatt
You could always offer free English lessons in lieu of a tip, which apparently some farangs do. :-)
I don't undertip. I prefer to pay cash and be done with it. I just don't think it is helpful for other tippers to make tip demands on others. It's a waste. They can say what they tip but to say less or more is wrong is simply..... wrong.
If a guy in a bar is willing to take english lessons in exchange for sex... Who am I to say that is a bad deal and should never happen?
Re: Tip request in Bangkok
They can say what they like, it's free speech. You can ignore them, that's your right. Paying a little more being a waste? I really don't agree. I enjoy paying something more than the going rate if what I am getting is somewhat better than the basics. To me it encourages good service. If someone is beaten down to the same low figure whether the service is great or crap where's any incentive to provide good service?
Re: Tip request in Bangkok
What is the "going rate" & who determines it. Has any scientific survey been carried out?
If bucknaway was happy with the company he had at the bar who was a good company for the evening, then the tip he paid the man was the going rate. It's quite useless really to stick to the 2000 baht going rate of boys from Dreamboys if the customer was totally disappointed in the end.
Once again, who actually determines the going rate?
Re: Tip request in Bangkok
The going rate in Bangkok is higher than other places in Thailand less
Than 1500 BHT will not be appriciate by money boys there, it is very rare that I take boys in BKK .
Re: Tip request in Bangkok
The Dreamboy host and all the rest of the bar management in Soi Twilight should stay out of the 'tip' aspect of the hook-up cos they don't have a clue about business.
One of them told me in 2014 that drink prices had gone up to 350 baht because 'now we no have cutamer'. I was tempted to say the obvious but I buttoned my lips and setltled in as the only cutamer in the bar.
I don't approve of cheap-charlie customers and I'm not one myself but the tip should vary depending on long-time or short, the boys expectations, service and so on.
The problem with a blanket policy of 2000 baht is that many boys who would welcome 1000 baht or 1500 baht will never meet the customers who are willing to pay these amounts.
One can argue that Thailand is much cheaper for this sort of gay R&R than Australia, Europe and America but these foreign customers must pay to get here and stay here and they come here partly because there is (or was) percieved value for money.
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OH....here we go again...the price nazis will soon jump on the band wagon. Yeah right...the going rate in BKK is 2000 ...yet I score sooo much prime arse under 1000....now where is that amphora of water...need to turn it into wine....fuck I'm good!!
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There was a guy frm Tawan who once asked for 5,000 for a long time session. Not sure if he was serious or that was another way of saying "No". :-)
Re: Tip request in Bangkok
At the end of the day the customer decides the tip.
As for the 2000 baht "recommendations" from the mama-sans in Soi Twilight, they can go fuck themselves. Probably most, if not all, of the guys would be happy with a little less as opposed to nothing at all.
1500 for short time sounds like a reasonable starting point in Bangkok. The cost of living is higher there than in Pattaya.
The guy I offed every day from Golden Cock told me that hardly any guys ever get offed from his bar. Customers come in for a drink, maybe leave a tip and then leave. That may be why the guy said he'd be happy with 1000 or less.