The "near zero inflation" is a bogus government statistic designed to make the average person, especially social security recipients accept the lack of wage/benefit increases. If you consider only the cost of things you need/use everyday (food, clothing, housing, insurance, prescription drugs) all have seen a significant increase over the last few years. Things like TV's computers, etc. and oil recently have actually dropped in price which averages out overall inflation to near zero. Inflation is also very regionally sensitive. Any who lives in or around NYC knows that the cost of housing has skyrocketed in the last few years.
The escort market is probably one of the most sensitive to supply and demand. If an escort raises his prices, demand will likely drop. However if he can make the same or more money seeing fewer clients, it works for him. If his income drops then a price adjustment may be necessary to increase demand.
Given that I am in the NYC area, I am somewhat suspicious of any escort that drops below $300 for the first hour. I have never gone above $300/hr and I do however expect multi-hour discounts somewhere in the 25o for the second hour/200 for the 3rd hour. Are my suspicions warranted?