If lockdown teaches us anything it should be that we should refrain until conditions are met, in this case don't see over-priced SPs until they reduce their prices. There will always be cheaper to get the deed done for a month or so. Saving 20-50% means you can punt more often in the future.
Agreed. And even when it's safe to do so, I'm not going to encourage profit taking by paying well over the odds. The flip side of lots of us needing a shag is that there's lots of girls who need the same and are preparing to sell it. Business as usual.
The only difference now is that some are doing it to top up there earnings as they have time spare whilst not having to commute, and others are doing it because they need more cash.
So at the risk of sounding like a cold thinking heartless capitalist (because hey, when did an SP only ever think about the money?!), it's a game of who's going to blink first.
We just need to think with the stuff between our ears and let the overpriced price hikers pass us by. The reality is that the supply of punters is the same as ever, maybe smaller as we're an older demographic than most SPs, and don't want to venture out until safe. Whereas there's a marked increase (over supply) of new SPs on AW. Which means their prices will plummet if we don't go ape over a self created mini bubble of our own making.
Put another way - the margin between price asked and price paid is down to our choice/stupidity.
If you don't pay £100/30 mins, no one gets £100/30 mins, and rates will quickly reduce back to normal levels across the board.
What someone asks is never what they get, unless you're daft enough to bite !