Makes perfect sense. Learn 4 chords, the famous Pachelbel Canon progression, and you too can play in a copy band. Hundreds of songs that never deviate from that 1-5-6m-4 progression.
And if you can only handle 3 chords, you can play in a Kiss or Skynard copy band!!
Here is what I am trying to say. Your comments seem to have almost nothing to do with the OP's subject...gig prices.
So far your contribution has been about how you don't care about information that had to do with the subject at hand, what this forum is really about, and how you don't like "copy bands."
I'm fairly certain that a number of people on this forum generated these gig prices, whenever they played, from play at least some covers at some point.
Don't take my lack of response going forward as I have nothing more to say. I am, for the first time, going to use the block feature. It's at the advice of another forum member. I frequently remember your comments and see that you're not about an opposing view on whatever the subject at hand may be. I actually like that! Your's isn't about contribution, it seems to be about disruption. You make accusations that, when challenged, you can't back up. Still waiting for that list of other times I have referenced this band. That didn't go unnoticed. I see no point in having a conversation, now or in the future, with someone who does thing like that.
So, I wish you the best, and see ya

My apologies to the OP. Hopefully that will end this part of it...at least from my side.