There are 7 upscale restaurants that pay $150.00 per night. There used to be 8 until a sax player came in with sequences last year at onwe of them and offered to do the job for $75.00.
That $150.00 price has been constant for about 15 years. There are 200 players chasing those 7 jobs, offering to do them for little or nothing.
This place is new. None of these guys have been serious competition in the past. If the place wants them at that price, I'll just go to one of the three that have contacted me in the last 3 months, including the top one I spent 14 years at.
I really believe in a free market economy. I feel that, if a player of lesser ability gets a job purely on the basis of price reductions, he/she can have it. If they're better than me, they deserve the job at a fair price. Usually, these "low dollar" offers do little but piss me off.
We'll see what happens.
Russ