Background: Style group customer for close to 10 years, used service at least 50+ times.
Saw they lowered 新人割引 to be competitive with other services, so tried to book erouto, been about a year and a half since I used style group last.
After confirming time and girl, got the 20,000 yen foreigner fee, okay question?
Asked them really, it's twice the price now?
"Well, since it seems like you have used us multiple times, we can lower the price, but we are still going to have to charge 10k."
Told them, " to tell you the truth, it's not about the money, have to consider other options " and they hung up on me when speaking above sentence.
All in Japanese
It seems as if ownership transferred in the past 2 years, as the page has entirely changed, and all group shops except JK and Erouto have shut down.
Have seen girls on twitter complain about management recently.
Assuming new ownership saw they had a foreign customer base and decided to try to milk the tourist market, because they are not offering anything unique. No one that is a frequent monger in Tokyo is going to pay that fee, when there are so many better options.