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Carrot Dating - Date people by 'bribing' them
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#12And for added sexism, the whole page of course strongly implies ugly rich men ("fat chance") buying hot young girls.
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#13Is this satire? Looking at the site the message I get is "Here are 12 women who will be bought, to some degree, for a price. Make a bid and see how much you get."
Let's not pretend real life is that much different. You can imagine scoring a date with a very popular girl just by some funny joke at the coffee machine all you want, but inviting her to a show or taking her out for dinner will be much more successful.
While impressing women with wealth certainly works, and there are some things you can straight-up buy[1] that will immediately boost your attractiveness, in general trying to win women over with favours (dinners, shows, shopping sprees) works against you. It signals that you're so desperate as to be willing to buy attention.
I'd say everything on that list except for coffee and maybe drinks is a sucker's bet.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's not pretend real life is that much different. You can imagine scoring a date with a very popular girl just by some funny joke at the coffee machine all you want, but inviting her to a show or taking her out for dinner will be much more successful.
While impressing women with wealth certainly works, and there are some things you can straight-up buy[1] that will immediately boost your attractiveness, in general trying to win women over with favours (dinners, shows, shopping sprees) works against you. It signals that you're so desperate as to be willing to buy attention. I'd say everything on that list except for coffee and maybe drinks is a sucker's bet. [1] htt…
Aww, that citation is for the much less striking part of your post. Do you have a citation for the 'works against you' effect being stronger than the 'works for you' effect? It doesn't sound like something you can conclude without actual study.
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#15Checking the about page is pretty terrifying...
Wade is founder of SeekingArrangement.com - the leading sugar daddy dating website, SeekingMillionaire.com - a millionaire matchmaking website, WhatsYourPrice.com - where singles bid for first dates, and MissTravel.com - the first travel dating website.
Re: Carrot Dating - Date people by 'bribing' them
#16Am I the only one that thinks online dating isn't superficial? Yes you have the pictures but you also have a complete rundown of the persons likes, dislikes, personality, what they do for a living, as well as how attractive they are. Bribing people is a really good way to get bad dates. You have no idea of your shared interests, personalities, nothing at all to gauge whether you are of compatible attractiveness.
Online dating is certainly a lot less superficial than picking people up in a bar. I've read somewhere that a significant fraction of modern relationships (a third?) start online. And they tend to be relatively stable. There's clearly something to be said for discussion interests before looking at the picture.
"Start online" does not mean "on online dating". My current relationship started "online" - we met on last.fm and noticed that we went to the same concerts. From there on it's basically a regular dating story.
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#17And I thought I was cynical. Crumbs.
Reality is more cynical than the cynics? Ironic, no?
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#18so beta
Re: Carrot Dating - Date people by 'bribing' them
#19Is this satire? Looking at the site the message I get is "Here are 12 women who will be bought, to some degree, for a price. Make a bid and see how much you get."
Let's not pretend real life is that much different. You can imagine scoring a date with a very popular girl just by some funny joke at the coffee machine all you want, but inviting her to a show or taking her out for dinner will be much more successful.
I don't know. Everyone's different. All my relationships have started because I hit it off with the person in question.
(For the avoidance of doubt, by 'hit it off' I mean 'got on well with').
Re: Carrot Dating - Date people by 'bribing' them
#20Is this satire? Looking at the site the message I get is "Here are 12 women who will be bought, to some degree, for a price. Make a bid and see how much you get."
Let's not pretend real life is that much different. You can imagine scoring a date with a very popular girl just by some funny joke at the coffee machine all you want, but inviting her to a show or taking her out for dinner will be much more successful.
For the most part, you need to ask people out. You can't depend on them doing it for you, nor can you just wait for something spontaneous to happen. However, I reject the idea that you have to shower women with money to get them to go out with you. Something like going out for coffee is low-key and harder to reject, whereas a show or dinner puts on a lot of pressure. It might help if you were funny at the coffee machine last week.
What's the deal with "popular" as an adjective, anyways? It seems like a habit of putting people into categories like a cliche high school movie.