Does this post fall under godwin's law now. Is it over?

Immitation is the best form of flattery, they say. It wasn't my idea to import Hitler into this board.

Thanks for the welcome SG. You are so sweet.

Yes, one side came after the failed Stuart rebellion about a century prior to the famine.

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So it would be okay to charge pro-ams more if it were because they have more money and teaching amateur couples were considered a "noble sacrifice of sorts"?

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Not all pro-am students have a lot of money and it is totally unfair to charge someone more money because that person has money? It is like treating someone like sucker. A friend of mine borrowed money to do pro-am with Champion X because she has such a difficulty to find a partner. She only can afford Champion X to go to comp with her once a year and the rest of the year she takes lessons with Champion X on a regular basis. Champion X has another rich lady who can afford competitions many times a year and both ladies are charged same price which is fair.

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Personally, I think I prefer the 'pricing based on how much work it is to do the job' theory.

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This makes more sense. There are coaches charges a slightly higher fee for single person than couples based on the argument that it is more physically demanding to teach a single person. In other words, I would benefit more by taking lessons alone with a teacher because the teacher works exclusively on me and I can focus more, etc. However there are teachers that I've known of prefer to teach single persons and they believe that there are "more work" to be done with certain couples, such as the couple tend to argue and blame each other in the lessons and put the teacher in the very difficult situation. So the teacher doesn't want to coach couples like that since they don't want to deal with the am couples' emotional issues.

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Let's face it, sometimes couples are harder to teach than indivuals, pro am or whatever

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The same applies to pro-am. That's why there are pros turn down pro-am students by increasing their prices. Gentleman A is rich and able to afford zillions of lessons with world-class pro lady X and many other lessons with visiting coaches from England and Italy, but has very little talent and also very difficult to deal with. He blames pro lady X for being eliminated at an early round at a large comp. Pro lady X also has Gentleman B who makes moderate amount of money and able to afford take private lessons on a regular basis but has talent and more pleasurable to work with. Pro Lady X charges Gentleman A nearly twice as much as Gentleman B and Gentleman A didn't know about it until he asked Gentleman B. Of course Gentleman A was in rage after he learned the price difference. By the way, Pro lady X is getting more reluctant to doing pro-am comps with Gentleman A as her career advances. As a result she decided to increase Gentleman A's price even more to turn him down. So of course Gentleman A quit Pro Lady X and went for a less experienced female pro.

I have seen many cases that a pro-am teachers turn students down by increasing the price per comp to a price that a reasonable person would not willing to pay. The message here is that "It is a shame that you are using my precious body and I don't want to been seen by judges that I have crappy students like you – but if you really have to have me, you got to pay more than everyone else".