One more reason not to use online dating platforms.
Or create better ones.
Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
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Re: Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
#42OKCupid also charges men, especially more than women for their premium service. It's common on online dating apps. Not much different than real life... in many clubs women can go inside for free while men have to pay entry ticket fee.
My issue with this is that these decisions aren't necessarily being made because of operating costs. It doesn't cost more to host a man than a woman.
Meh, it's just like cover prices at a club. As a guy, you can let the "unfairness" bother you, or you can realize it's in your best interest to minimize barriers for women because basically everything is a saugagefest otherwise.
Then again, the actual figures in the article tell a different story than the title does.
- Queer female under 30: $7/mo
- Straight female over 30: $30/mo
- Straight male over 50: $35/mo
So it's really age in general.
Though I'm a male in my 30s in a metro center and it's just showing me $8/mo. Though that's probably just Tinder's AI recognizing me as the gift to women that I am.
Also, Tinder Gold is optional. I'm a heavy dating-app user and would never pay for premium features.
Re: Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
#43OKCupid also charges men, especially more than women for their premium service. It's common on online dating apps. Not much different than real life... in many clubs women can go inside for free while men have to pay entry ticket fee.
The fact that is common doesn't make it right.
Re: Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
#44OKCupid also charges men, especially more than women for their premium service. It's common on online dating apps. Not much different than real life... in many clubs women can go inside for free while men have to pay entry ticket fee.
My issue with this is that these decisions aren't necessarily being made because of operating costs. It doesn't cost more to host a man than a woman.
It's simply supply and demand. There are many more men than women using most dating services.
Re: Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
#45I don’t agree with discrimination in pricing or any other kind in that sense on the platform side. Never paid for Tinder either, but for what it’s worth I did meet my wife on there. And she’s amazing, so there’s that.
Re: Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
#46Adjusting prices by demographic is so common in many industries.
Charging less for children, families and the elderly is the same thing. Charging less for women in clubs. Same with booking hotels and flights, based on browsing history, IP address, cookies and the extrapolated demographic.
Even a repair contractor adjusts his prices up for someone who lives in a mansion with expensive cars in the driveway, and down for a single mother with three young kids running around her.
Of course Tinder charges more for older men, why wouldn't they. Every industry ever wanted to be able to do this, and some can now automate it easily with all the available demographic data they collect.
Re: Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never used Tinder myself but based on what I’ve come across on Reddit, if your profile is “premium” you can just hide your age? I guess that could mess up your target matches but you can presumably still set your own age range filter.
To anyone that knows anything about tinder having age hidden implies that you have premium implies that you are desperate. Only a fool would use the hide age option.
Haha I haven't considered that. Damn, the economics & related behaviours (signalling, honest signals, supply & demand etc.) of dating are brutal! I'm fortunate I'm off the market (currently).
Re: Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
#48Tinder has two goals:
- make the most money from vulnerable people
- make non vulnerable people behave like if they were on a social network
Having different price, per geography, gender and age is just a consequence of the first.
It is not surprising that you can't see anymore the instagram handles of people on tinder. Instagram is a direct competitor to tinder for most of their users ( the non vulnerable ones).
Actually that's very smart, Tinder is probably the only big social network (tinder is not a dating app) which didn't require ads or a lot of funding to get big, only because one small portion of their user are willing to pay to be part of their community
Re: Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm the last person to defend old men from discrimination (mostly because it's uncommon), but yeah this doesn't sound right to me.
Did you have to add the "white" in there? Was it definitely necessary or adding anything to this discussion?
I took it out just for you