# WhatsYourPrice.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668 "2013-02-08T02:46:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/1 "2013-02-08T02:46:29Z")
Okay, so I am sitting in the previously mentioned Applebee’s, where the only good thing about the deafening ambience is that you can’t hear any of the TVs. As much as I try to ignore the babbleslabs, one catches my eye with what seems to be, what \*has \*to be a parody ad of some kind. Then, dear gawd in heaven, I realize it’s \*not \*a parody. **[www.WhatsYourPrice.com](http://www.WhatsYourPrice.com)**… where you can bid for first dates with women. Or, alternatively, if you are a woman, you can put yourself up for a first date auction. I am too boggled on too many levels to continue. Discuss amongst yourselves. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/2 "2013-02-08T02:50:11Z")
Date? Or a “date”? Do they have itemized price lists? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/3 "2013-02-08T14:38:37Z")
Oh great. What’s next? “[Prix Fixe](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prix%20fixe)\*”? \*Void where prohibited by law. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/4 "2013-02-08T15:40:11Z")
“Babbleslabs”? I love it. I will have to use that term, often. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/5 "2013-02-08T16:40:37Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > “Babbleslabs”? I love it. I will have to use that term, often. 🙂 Copyrighted term, let me know where to send the licensing bill. 😃 I needed an update to all the other tee-vee terms since they are only technically “boxes” now. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/6 "2013-02-08T16:44:36Z")
Yeah I heard the ad on the radio. I figured it was some scam attempt at semi-legal prostitution. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/7 "2013-02-08T16:54:01Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > Copyrighted term, let me know where to send the licensing bill. 😃 Hmm. I guess I’ll have to reverse-engineer an equivalent term, and then incorporate improvements. I know! “Babbleboards”! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/8 "2013-02-08T17:15:31Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Hmm. I guess I’ll have to reverse-engineer an equivalent term, and then incorporate improvements. I am kidding, of course. 'Slab away. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/9 "2013-02-08T17:17:35Z")
Can I pay extra for specific first date things I want them to do? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/10 "2013-02-08T17:23:45Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Can I pay extra for specific first date things I want them to do? The site seems - pardon the phrase - nakedly businesslike. I really did think the ad was a parody, because another unbelievable ad about some kind of magic medicine followed, and then it slowly sank it that they were meant to be taken seriously. Look at the site. It might as well be for an escort service. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/11 "2013-02-08T19:35:44Z")
I can’t imagine it being illegal to do the same thing if it were more of a barter set up. Like setting up a dinner at Le Frenche Restaurante vs McDonald’s. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/12 "2013-02-08T20:28:37Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > I can’t imagine it being illegal to do the same thing if it were more of a barter set up. I’m pretty sure there’s long legal precedent that pandering and prostitution are such no matter what the value exchanged is. I would suppose that the site owners have good legal representation and have all the right disclaimers in place, but I don’t give them very long before they’re named in a legal case. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/13 "2013-02-08T20:36:18Z")
:: looks at site :: What, we have to choose _between_ “generous” and “beautiful” people? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/14 "2013-02-08T20:37:55Z")
Oh, that’s interesting. The “beautiful” ones are female, and the “generous” ones are male. How… convenient. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/15 "2013-02-08T20:45:01Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Oh, that’s interesting. The “beautiful” ones are female, and the “generous” ones are male. How… convenient. “Generous” is a well-established code word in personals and dating ads. ETA: There’s nothing about this that shocks or educates me except in how absolutely bare-faced blatant it is, up to the TV ads. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/16 "2013-02-08T21:08:43Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > I’m pretty sure there’s long legal precedent that pandering and prostitution are such no matter what the value exchanged is. I would suppose that the site owners have good legal representation and have all the right disclaimers in place, but I don’t give them very long before they’re named in a legal case. How would a “barter for dates” site be any different than advertising one’s desire for casual sex through okcupid? The guy buys dinner, they go back to his place, they hump. No laws were broken because no cash has changed hands. IANAL, obv ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668/17 "2013-02-08T21:45:39Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > How would a “barter for dates” site be any different than advertising one’s desire for casual sex through okcupid? The guy buys dinner, they go back to his place, they hump. No laws were broken because no cash has changed hands. > > IANAL, obv IANAL but I’m sure **NitroPress** is right on this one. It isn’t sex for cash that’s illegal. It’s sex for value. Otherwise, hookers would just ask to be payed in gold or some other legal commodity that’s easily converted to cash. Taking a look at their site, either you have to register to search (by price or by location) or the thing is just badly designed.