I have been on this board for about a year and by my observations, to cien or not to cien seems to be part of the game as much as it is about fcuking.
If I get on a plane and travel for eight hours, haggling over $20 to fcuk is pretty small to me. I talked to a guy once who bragged about taking the bus from the SJO airport and that it took 1.5 hours but it was only about $2.50 rather than paying $18 to the orange taxis. I'm sorry, this is not a savings to me.
Anyone on this board who is self-employed understands how valuable one's time is. I bill out my professional services anywhere from $50 to $150 per hour in the USA. I'm not about to spend an extra hour on a bus in CR to save $16 nor haggle with a chica I really want to Phuck to save $20. If I am going to pay a mechanic $80+/hour to work on my car I don’t have a problem paying a hottie $100/hour to Phuck me – regardless of the average wage of her homeland.
I think for the newbies, the thrill is partaking in the endless options in the candy store. Once that newness wears off, the sport of negotiation takes over.
In the end, even if the CRT membership collectively decides to never pay cien again, I don't think it will make much difference. The Presidente Hotel doesn't bow down to our influence and I don't think the chicas will either.
As long as someone (call him a sucker) is willing to pay $100 or more for the chica, her price is reasonable.
We are all about free market competition back in the USA but then we visit CR and expect the rules to be different. We bitch about the collective bargaining power of the labor unions back home but have we not created our own price-fixing union in CR? – or at least tried to..?
Realize that the cien is a psycological threshold in price and that trying to overcome it is as much about ego as anything else. Maybe deep down we all think that the chica should want to be with us so we think that if we accept her asking price it somehow detracts from the personal aspect of the transaction. We want a deal because we think that if we get a great deal it is because she wanted us more than the next drooling slob in line behind us....???
I went to CR five times in 2007 and had maybe 10 chica sessions out of the DR/KL. If I paid each $100 rather than $80 that's a mere $200 total over those five trips.
I'm not inclined to sweat the $200.
Maybe I’m just fed up with people who always want to negotiate. In my business nearly every client I talk to bitches about my expected fee so I lower it a little to show good faith. Often, once I finish the job and present the final invoice and the finished product, the client again tries to renegotiate the fee after already having agreed to a price. This is very tiresome. I don’t want to negotiate. I dare say that I am one of the best in my specific field of service. I can be a little cocky sometimes. If you want me to do your work, you need to pay me what I expect. If you want to pay less, then hire a lesser person and hope you get a good job. I always give my best effort to every client and always produce good results. I have no problem paying top dollar for the same.
I have a little bit of sympathy for the DR chicas who think they are at the top of their game and would rather go home than take your $80 for a Phuck. There are sometimes that I give up a job because someone doesn’t want to pay what I expect. Too bad for them. I don’t need the money so I won’t take their crappy offer. They can take their chances with someone who can’t afford to have the attitude I have. There is a reason why there are people who don’t have my attitude – some of them are new and hungry yet qualified and some are experienced yet incompetent. It is not my problem to sort that out. I know that if a customer hires me he will get a good job – period. I know that if he goes elsewhere he is as likely as not to get screwed or at least a phucked up job.
Why do you people think mongering is any different? You marvel that chicas would rather go home with nothing than compromise on price. I say kudos to her and “get a clue†to the monger. If the chica would rather go home broke than take $60 to Phuck your smelly ass, then maybe that should tell you something?

Why hold it against her.

She has her price….If your neighbor saw you on a sunny afternoon drinking beer and grilling steak on your deck and said “hey, since you are just sitting there, how about I pay you $6/hour to ride my lawn tractor around and cut the grass?†You’d think he was a jackass and (by the CRT no-cien attitude) he would think you were stupid for opting to make $0 for sitting on your ass when you could at least make $30 on your Sunday afternoon.
Stupid phucking gringo, why sit and watch football for 6 hours when you could pocket $40 for riding a loud, smelly, obnoxious machine for six hours ..?. These chicas are often asked to ride a loud, obnoxious, and smelly machine..........

It is all about supply and demand in the end. Get it?