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I never said anything about paying a little more.  But I am not going to go over the top with a mutli thousand dollar signing bonus.  The AP needs to want to work with our family, not milk me for all of the perks.  The ones who go for the perks first mindset end up in rematch frequently anyway. [/quote]

But nobody is asking you to. Everyone is just saying that there is nothing wrong with families offering thousands of dollars if they want to and for OP's AP to prefer them to a family who doesn't. 
Accepting and seeking to be paid more doesn't make you a ''princess', have you never looked for an higher paying job? Wouldn't you pick a job that suits you and offer great benefits vs a job that suits you but doesn't? Would that make you a princess to make a financially sound choice for you and your family? Would going for the higher paying company make you a poorer employee with poor work ethics? Or you would be the same employee just with a higher paycheck?

Pay what you want to pay but calling people names or implying they lack work ethic for making a sound financial choice for themselves is ridiculous.

Better service usually cost more, no reason why an AP who has experience and good reviews and is obviously good at what she does shouldn't aim to get as much as she can get for her second year.

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That I get, but I once had an AP candidate say to us well the other family I like has a pool and a ski house that I can use.  You don't have that so what else can you offer me? I said we don't have any of those things but we will treat you well.  she went for the other family and after 6 weeks was in rematch (they really treated her poorly) and emailed us to see if we had matched yet and we had and said no thank yo. [/quote]

All families promise they'll treat an AP well. It's very possible that you would have treated her as badly or worse than the other family. Why should she have chosen the hosts who are[b] asking for more hours and offering less in exchange[/b]?

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Who said anything about more hours? And we have a great track record with former au pairs.  we keep in touch , have visited them in their countries, they visit us.  Honestly, I've done my own work exchange abroad after college so I kind of get the lifestyle so I do approach with empathy. but do go on and keep inventing your own stories.[/quote]

You offered less.  The AP chose the family with more perks, because she can’t know which family would treat her better.[/quote]

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