Venny sisters found me fast in El Centro
I was in the back of a retail clothing store near the church at Ground Zero and the Vinny miniature I banged there a few days ago found me dragged me out to meet her sister in the plaza and then we were off to Zona Rosa in a flash, more about that later.
As a side note, if you have an eye for it and you can pick out things for your girlfriend to wear Medellin is a gold mine. The clothing is decent to good quality and the prices are really cheap. I bought this cute short set for Catgirl for less than $5 USD, and the return on it in the affection and performance will be as if I spent $100 in the United States.
I probably spend more money than the average mangerer on chicas but by no means would I ever infer that you have to spend extra money to be happy. You can spend little money or no extra money and do fine, but for a little extra money you can really increase their performance. That's more of a personal style than a recommendation and I don't think anyone should ever feel pressure to outperform anyone on price, higher or lower.
I do believe in paying slightly above fair market value because I think that gives me a lot more back in performance but that's just a personal strategy.
The market is psychological and doesn't have an official price list posted on a computer or billboard sign or otherwise advertised, so you have to guess at the price from personal experience and what you read in places like here but it's not hard to figure out. Right now the basic rate is floating somewhere around 40 mil COP you can try to go under and risk not getting the girl you want or you can go a little higher and be more certain of success although performance is variable as we all know.
I'll sketch out a graph of the law of supply and demand on a napkin soon and take a picture of it for here. The two most common misconceptions about price are that there is a relationship to payment or cost but both are completely independent variables and have nothing to do with the price you pay.
That doesn't mean that price is not going to go up over time as Medellin becomes more well-known and more Gringos float in but that's due to the number of Gringos and the increased demand they create and not the price they pay. If the number of Gringos increases and the number of putas equally increase to compensate for the increased demand then he price will stay the same. That is an unknown factor at this time.
Why is this point so important? Because if you understand it, then it actually increases your negotiating power, not decreases it. If you're arguing against or for the fair market value you should understand the psychological effect it's going to have on the deal, and not that you're delusionally controlling the price by what you pay. Actually most guys even if they don't understand the principal aren't going to care enough about what other guys pay and they shouldn't. They should just concentrate on what they want. But to put pressure or suggest to other guys that they should be concerned about payment because of how it affects others is bad information, erroneous, flat- out one hundred percent wrong, delusional and misguided. And it devalues the other information you might be providing as a subject matter expert.
I can oversimplify it and say you can be sure that as long as you're happy what you paid and hopefully maybe the girl is happy too, that is the Hallmark of a good deal. Let the market take care of the price which it does automatically.
Wow, I got off on a side tangent but this is important.
I will flog this dead horse into dog meat if necessary.
The irony of it all is mongering is not a science, it does not depend on IQ, success is mostly due to Common Sense, Street smarts, and the ability to read people. Intelligence is a factor on expertise of these peripheral subject matters like price and the other nuts and bolts but the act of mongering itself is more of an art than a science. I will argue in a future post that intelligence can actually be more of a hindrance than a help when it comes to mongering.
Mental Map of Medellin (aka How I Met Your MMOM!)
This post is in response to reading the post about having phones out, printed pages, maps in general.
Medellin looks to be on a grid coordinate plane. With Calle being your X-axis and Carrera being your why-axis. The little trick for me is "calle East: and "Carrera north". It is a little mnemonic trick that says to me Calles run east-west and Carreras run north-south. See that I capitalized the same letters?
Calle North and Calle South has an event horizon that runs through Pobaldo. As you go north, the Calles count higher. Unless you are going to Invigato, Calle Sur (Sur is south in Spanish) will never enter your thinking. However, the same is true. Further south you go, the numbers will increase.
Carrera West and Carrera East does not seem to exist. The Carreras start way off in the east, so they just count from 1 on upwards as you go westwards. Having a river bifurcate the city is helpful, IMO, as it says "east-side" or "west-side", but to me though alone though as I don't know if anyone else sees it that way.
Does Medellin have squiggly streets? You bet it does, but it does not change the fact that you can pretty easily navigate if you know which way is north, or any one cardinal direction.
If you have been to NYC or any city with a grid system, even if it has twists and turns, you can figure out Medellin.
Nexuses to keep in mind: Carrera 39 and Calle 9, "Carrera 51 Calle 51" aka the center of the universe jajajaja kidding but rather Carrara 53/ Avenida Cundinamarca and Calle 52 which is Veracruz, and lastly La Setenta or aka Carrera 70.
Best strip clubs in Medellin? Best massage?
In Medellin one week abd was curious as to everyone's first choice of strip club was?
Last trip spent many a nights at "Phase 2" anything better?
Thanks in advance. Will report in with where I end up!
Puta Economics 101 A Primer
Osteoknot,
The prices have already gone up in Centro over the last six months, and the notion that if the numbers of Gringos increase along with an equal number of Putas that prices will remain the same is not correct.
The reverse is true, with new mongers arriving and over-paying the Putas, prices will increase as word get's out thru the Puta grapevine what the newbie gringos are paying.
And to illustrate my point, I would say that during the last six months there has been more Putas showing up in El Centro, primarily Vennies, along with an increase in Gringos, but not as many Gringos as Putas.
And guess what, prices have gone up as a result of the newbie Gringos overpaying.
Of course this is just my personal observation based on my time here, versus something out of an Economics textbook that goes by the pure logic of supply and demand when constant.
