Thanks to both of you for that additional info, because it means a lot to some of us. I just responded to a spa today to tell them (essentially) that I really don't give a shit how great any girl's "performance" is or how many people think she's gorgeous or that she looks like some photo of anybody who isn't her. There are plenty of girls who I know are "gorgeous" who just don't do anything for me, and plenty of girls who I recognize as not being attractive enough to be fairly considered "gorgeous" whose features just grab my dick like the aroma of Wilma's cooking grabbed Fred Flinstone's nose. Nobody knows how important or unimportant various features might be to anybody else.
Presumably, when these spas have one or two girls priced 50% or 100% more than other girls (and I'm not even talking about JAV stars), it means that there's a general consensus about those girls being hotter than their other girls; same goes for feature acts getting several thousand per appearance vs. some 4-day/week regular girl hoping to take home more than a few hundred a night. Some spa girls who are not necessarily worshipped as much for their looks as for their performance happen to knock me the fuck out on first sight, and there's not one of those more expensive girls who I'd see for more than $250/hour. Same goes for some $400 independent providers vs. some $1,200/HR girls who I literally might not even bother with if they threw themselves at me wherever we knew one another.
I don't see any girl whose real photo (even if blurred to conceal ID) I can't see at all, because of the few times that I didn't trust my gut and did book a girl because so many guys had raved about her looks and/or performance. If I did that 5 times, there were 4 times where I never even finished and was thinking "how the fuck could everybody be talking about how hot this girl is...she looks even worse in person than in those photos I figured had to just be bad photos." In some of those situations, I actually liked the girl as a person and we had a very nice conversation...and my time is free to them...but the last thing I'm looking for is to pay to talk to any girl to whom I'm not sufficiently attracted to pay to see as a provider. So, never again. Fuck that fake picture shit. Wrong industry for that. Period.