(02-08-2016 10:20 PM)Ensam Wrote:  I wonder if adding new pics gets you further up in the queue. You could try deleting your professional pics and re-adding them.

You mind sharing that dog pic bro

I ended up deleting it after giving it another shot.

For me it seems like a waste of time vs. reward and it becomes easier to skip out on making approaches when I know there are other avenues right on my mobile device.

(02-09-2016 01:30 AM)The_CEO Wrote:  I ended up deleting it after giving it another shot.

For me it seems like a waste of time vs. reward and it becomes easier to skip out on making approaches when I know there are other avenues right on my mobile device.

I'm leaning towards the same path, I reinstalled two days ago after being off for about a month or two, but then I just get sick of going through the profiles, then the lame conversations, then the whole date thing. Boots to ground is the way to go, for me, at least.

(02-09-2016 01:52 AM)Drazen Wrote:  

(02-09-2016 01:30 AM)The_CEO Wrote:  I ended up deleting it after giving it another shot.

For me it seems like a waste of time vs. reward and it becomes easier to skip out on making approaches when I know there are other avenues right on my mobile device.

I'm leaning towards the same path, I reinstalled two days ago after being off for about a month or two, but then I just get sick of going through the profiles, then the lame conversations, then the whole date thing. Boots to ground is the way to go, for me, at least.

Same here. I generally get a much better response in person vs. apps so it's like, "why am I doing this?"

If I was killing it on Tinder that'd be one thing but it's so hit or miss for me. The appeal is it's a lazy easy out and like playing a slot machine for hot matches.

Heads up, Tinder is now throwing random men into our card stacks to discourage the use of auto-swipers (similar to what OKC has been doing for a while).

(02-08-2016 02:29 PM)The_CEO Wrote:  

(02-08-2016 03:46 AM)pantsonfire Wrote:  I am noticing a lot of really bad woman on Tinder.

Bumble has alot of hot woman but I think alot of them are fake.

Curious: Why do you think are fake?
I get the same idea which is why I ask.

I always get the opening message on Bumble Hi [name], how is [todays day]?

worse and worse. summer of 2014 living in a shitty Midwest town, I would get almost 10 matches a day. now, I live in a highly populated town in florida, and I barely get 1 a day.

So I originally started using Tinder a year ago, I had good success with it at the start, I stopped using it for a while and started back up.

Getting matches is pretty easy for me. There are a few problems that I haven't been able to get over which is bugging the shit out of me.

-Current city isn't required. This is a pain in my ass and the biggest time killer for me. I live outside of a large city and as a rule I don't venture into the city(juice isn't worth the squeeze). I can't tell where I'm matching for sure unless I get into conversation with them.

-The matching based on GPS. I fucking hate this feature with a passion. Some girl comes into town. Swipes right on me and now is back out of town 300 miles away. More time wasting

-Girls not filling out any info. I usually open with something profile based. I guess I need different strategy but even when I get them to respond

-Girls tend to just answer questions(one sided conversations). It's odd because on OKC if a girl isn't interested she's usually ignoring you which is good since you can move on. On here if I get the match and she's not that interested she will still answer my texts but it's these one way conversations. For example right now I'm talking with a cute blonde Russian 7.5. She's responding to my texts but it's a one way conversation. I can see she's on every min so she's probably have a text conversation with 10 guys at once. I just noticed this trend that i'm matching and getting responses with a some good looking girls coming in the 7-8 range but they tend to give me nothing back.

I know I need to change up my strategy on this but I'm trying to recalibrate. This app is so fucking cluttered that girls I'm having a conversation with will stop responding out of nowhere. The only way I can get them back is a double message but I'm already losing ground once i have to resort to that. It's pretty common on this app. OKC I really never have an issue of a girl just stop responding out of no where.

(02-10-2016 11:46 PM)The Wire Wrote:  -The matching based on GPS. I fucking hate this feature with a passion. Some girl comes into town. Swipes right on me and now is back out of town 300 miles away. More time wasting

I love this feature.

I live in a well known beach resort town that gets huge numbers of tourists, many of them from out of state who will be here 3-7 days. Unlike POF and OKC which base their matching feed on the location stated in the profile, Tinder uses the girl's actual location and states her distance away from me, so I know what part of the beach she is staying in.

Plenty of these tourists girls are looking to get banged out while on vacation, and Tinder gives them another avenue to meet a guy easily. If they are swiping while on vacation, they are obviously not looking for a guy to date; they are either bored and curious what local guys look like, or are looking for vacation dick.

Even though I didn't join Tinder until the fall after tourist season was over, I've gotten a couple of bangs this way already. I wouldn't be surprised if I get 7-10 bangs next year by this method.

You can also use this method in reverse, where you are the traveler. Get into a town and start swiping right away. Or do what I"m doing and use fake GPS to put yourself in a city you'll be going to soon; I've got several chicks pipelined for a trip I'm taking later this month.

(02-11-2016 07:49 AM)MrXY Wrote:  You can also use this method in reverse, where you are the traveler. Get into a town and start swiping right away. Or do what I"m doing and use fake GPS to put yourself in a city you'll be going to soon; I've got several chicks pipelined for a trip I'm taking later this month.

I can understand it's perfect for living in a resort town and if you are traveling. Problem is I don't live in a resort town and I don't use Tinder when I'm traveling(Online dating apps are the last thing on my mind when traveling to be honest but I can see it being useful). Living in the suburbs is a fucking nightmare trying shuffle through time wasters being an hour drive away.

This wouldn't be an issue if Tinder would just pull the current city info from Facebook. I wouldn't even care about the GPS matching if I could just easily scan their current city and decide to unmatch right away.

It seems I'm late to the tinder party. I think now it's just self validation. They're swiping right on every guy just to get matches for their egos. Why would you bother with the app if you have no intention of talking to the guy 1 mile away that you "liked"?

I had a bit of a coversation with a match today, but it fizzled. Fuck it.

Even on Valentine's weekend, I'm still not getting any matches. I don't understand it. Maybe tinder is truly dead in the city I live in.

(02-12-2016 12:45 AM)BrewDog Wrote:  It seems I'm late to the tinder party. I think now it's just self validation. They're swiping right on every guy just to get matches for their egos. Why would you bother with the app if you have no intention of talking to the guy 1 mile away that you "liked"?

I had a bit of a coversation with a match today, but it fizzled. Fuck it.

I have made a post on this already. Look out for how many pictures they have if they have attached a Instagrams to their Tinder. If she is in the high 100's and her pictures aren't well traveled/interesting...she is a Texting/Snapchatting/Instagramming time waster, who is collecting matches (which used to be for Moment updates every hour on the hour, but they have removed that attention whoring feature since).

I have matched with a girl like that several times and she admitted having 4000 matches. Her pictures were all selfies with different make up routines.

Now the girl who had a picture of her in India and no instagram attachment, messaged me right away, gave me her number in less then 10 messages and we were having a conversation the next day. No bang guarantee but I knew she wasn't flaking.

I agree. Most lizards I match with just want to talk. Then flake as soon as I go for the number.

(02-14-2016 09:31 AM)CleanSlate Wrote:  Even on Valentine's weekend, I'm still not getting any matches. I don't understand it. Maybe tinder is truly dead in the city I live in.

It's not dead, you are just facing a harsh reality. The West that is.
Top 5% of guys get 90% of the matches, while the other 95% fight for the remaining 10%.

The match distrubution on Tinder is worse than the wealth distribution of the USA.

Tinder is pointless unless you are very good looking. I don't know how you look like, I am assuming you are average, or above average. We have it very hard in the west. I was in Brazil on december, got ~50 matches daily in Rio. In NY I'm lucky to get 3-4 every day. Some guys don't even get that many, I have a friend who gets like a match every week and the match turns out to be a bot.

(02-14-2016 06:59 PM)911Turbo Wrote:  

(02-14-2016 09:31 AM)CleanSlate Wrote:  Even on Valentine's weekend, I'm still not getting any matches. I don't understand it. Maybe tinder is truly dead in the city I live in.

It's not dead, you are just facing a harsh reality. The West that is.
Top 5% of guys get 90% of the matches, while the other 95% fight for the remaining 10%.

The match distrubution on Tinder is worse than the wealth distribution of the USA.

Tinder is pointless unless you are very good looking. I don't know how you look like, I am assuming you are average, or above average. We have it very hard in the west. I was in Brazil on december, got ~50 matches daily in Rio. In NY I'm lucky to get 3-4 every day. Some guys don't even get that many, I have a friend who gets like a match every week and the match turns out to be a bot.

It's not right. We need to ask the 90% of ladies to gives up their fair share of pussy to the rest of the male population, instead of just giving it out to the top 10%

Photos are key. I have model looking shots on this thing which make me out to be a 9 and shockingly still barely get any matches (on OKCupid, SA, POF don't really have a problem getting dates). The girls I do get out on a date I bang on a rate of about 70% so Tinder is still worth it for me. I don't know anyone who consistently fucks the really hot women on this, it's like winning the lottery.

I am 6ft tall, fit, reasonably well off. I wouldn't consider myself as ugly. I've been trying to crack to code of Tinder but have falied miserably. For example in Thailand and Philippines I don't even use Tinder because I don't have the attention span to interact with all the matches.
In Brazil I was treated like a local, everyone thought I was a white brazillan, and yet I had much more matches even though I didn't have the exotic factor on my hands like in South East Asia. I've been finding myself agreeing with Brodiaga a lot, we travel thousands of kilometres just to get decent matches. +1 for you bro, I love your avatar too : )

Seeking Arrangement works wonders for me, I kill it there. Okcupid is nice too, no trouble getting dates from there either. But Tinder sucks for me

(02-14-2016 07:08 PM)VforVlad Wrote:  

(02-14-2016 06:59 PM)911Turbo Wrote:  

(02-14-2016 09:31 AM)CleanSlate Wrote:  Even on Valentine's weekend, I'm still not getting any matches. I don't understand it. Maybe tinder is truly dead in the city I live in.

It's not dead, you are just facing a harsh reality. The West that is.
Top 5% of guys get 90% of the matches, while the other 95% fight for the remaining 10%.

The match distrubution on Tinder is worse than the wealth distribution of the USA.

Tinder is pointless unless you are very good looking. I don't know how you look like, I am assuming you are average, or above average. We have it very hard in the west. I was in Brazil on december, got ~50 matches daily in Rio. In NY I'm lucky to get 3-4 every day. Some guys don't even get that many, I have a friend who gets like a match every week and the match turns out to be a bot.

It's not right. We need to ask the 90% of ladies to gives up their fair share of pussy to the rest of the male population, instead of just giving it out to the top 10%

The difference with Tinder is that's it's not 10% but I imagine much closer to 1 to 2% of guys fucking all the girls on there, in that sense it's online game at its finest (worst). Even the RSD guys such as Jeffy and Todd mainly use OKCupid for online game, and that's even after getting professional model shots and paying people to send opening messages for them which they contract out.

Looking back, I do get more traction on OKCupid than tinder (SIFs notwithstanding but thats another thread). I changed my location to Bangkok a couple hours ago and already got a match, so now I know it's not any technical issue on my end.

I think it's also a location thing. I live in the Netherlands and tried OKCupid and it was a complete waste of my time. Most of them are really not that attractive and of course the best ones are inundated with messages. I actually went on one OKC date before I deleted it, it was an extremely tall Dutch girl (I'm really short, 5'6, but I still convinced her to come out), with an average to below average face. She was telling me that she has way too many messages and she has to scroll through all of them and just pick out the 'interesting' (read, good looking) guys. The crazy part was she really wasn't even attractive, and yet she has so many options of high quality men.

Since I am taking economics courses, I like to use the analogy of inflation. The online dating scene has major inflation; too much currency (good looking guys) chasing too few goods (decent women). Causing the inflation of the price/value of the 'goods'.

At least for me here, Tinder isn't too bad. I don't get a lot of matches, maybe 1-2 a day if I'm lucky but at least they are good looking and for the most part open to conversation and going on dates.

Just by changing my location to Bangkok, I've gotten 16 matches in 12 hours. So now I know Tinder isn't being glitchy for me. It's just the West sucks balls.

Fish ain't biting? Find another river.

Same here. In Morocco I had 120 matches in 2 weeks. Back home I have 4 matches in 4 days.

(02-14-2016 07:14 PM)911Turbo Wrote:  I am 6ft tall, fit, reasonably well off. I wouldn't consider myself as ugly. I've been trying to crack to code of Tinder but have falied miserably. For example in Thailand and Philippines I don't even use Tinder because I don't have the attention span to interact with all the matches.
In Brazil I was treated like a local, everyone thought I was a white brazillan, and yet I had much more matches even though I didn't have the exotic factor on my hands like in South East Asia. I've been finding myself agreeing with Brodiaga a lot, we travel thousands of kilometres just to get decent matches. +1 for you bro, I love your avatar too : )

Seeking Arrangement works wonders for me, I kill it there. Okcupid is nice too, no trouble getting dates from there either. But Tinder sucks for me

Being white in Brazil is associated with the upper class. So that's probably the reason you got a lot of matches.

Nor black, brown or white guys are exotic in Brazil, because the population is mixed. But being white can have an advantage, because you're associated with the mostly white elite of the country.

(02-15-2016 09:15 AM)CleanSlate Wrote:  Just by changing my location to Bangkok, I've gotten 16 matches in 12 hours. So now I know Tinder isn't being glitchy for me. It's just the West sucks balls.

Fish ain't biting? Find another river.

Just did that myself in Bangkok and Tokyo. Harder to find hot girls but 20 matches in 5 minutes means something.

It almost makes me want to drop everything and take the first flight out.