Match.com and Online Dating Scams

"If after a few minutes you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's probably you"

Just came across this article about a broke broad who uses online dating to get free meals out of dudes. Reminded me of the Black girl from Plenty of Fish that was trying to get a meal out of me, and I had to tell her ass we would resort to washing the dishes before that happened.

Here is the article:

A young New Yorker we'll call Minerva McGonagall (fake name) was tired of dipping into her savings to keep up with her Manhattan lifestyle.

Her $45k salary was not enough and she needed at least an extra $500 a month and sometimes $1,000 to pay her credit card bills and afford her  $1,475 a month apartment in Murray Hill.

Then she discovered Match.com– the perfect site for a broke 23-year-old.  

“Before I barely had enough money to pay for food,” said McGonagall. “After using Match.com I found I wasn’t going into debt anymore.”

McGonagall started eating out five nights a week using a rotation of different guys she met through the dating site. McGonagall kept things simple—no more than five dates with the same guy.
The investment banker types were thrilled to woo her with extraordinary restaurants like the underground taqueria La Esquina and a Japanese restaurant, Megu, in Tribeca. One guy even took her to a champagne bar and purchased a $200 bottle.

McGonagall went from easily spending $500 a month on dinners alone to having someone else dole out an average of $60-plus per night. She also stopped eating lunch and opted for a light breakfast to save even more.

According to our calculations, McGonagall made over $1,200 a month.

Match.com does require a $50 monthly subscription, but the dates more than made up for the entry price.

“I mean, a guy buys me three drinks at $15 a pop and that right there made up for my Match fee,” said McGonagall.

McGonagall's roommates played the money-saving game as well. In fact, McGonagall first learned about online dating after watching one of her roommates go on extravagant outings every night.  
Two weeks later, McGonagall and her other roommate joined.

“We made ground rules,” said McGonagall.

One of them called for making spreadsheets about each guy who took them out for their drinks and/or meals. It included names, photos and details from their Match.com accounts.
The girls also let each other know where they were going for the night. And they never let guys pick them up at their apartment and instead met up at a public location.

After awhile at their escapades, they soon learned how prevalent the online dating scene had become in New York City.  McGonagall commonly ran into people she recognized from the site, and discovered that others using Match.com averaged at least ten dates before meeting her.
It’s no surprise considering New York City ranks as the number one online dating city, according to a survey of singles by SNAP Interactive, a social media site. But as popular as online dating had become, and as much of a great saving tactic it was, McGonagall eventually tired of the scene.

“It was exhausting," she said. "I needed my sleep and I was done playing the game."
McGonagall seems to have retired for good—she currently has a boyfriend.

Full article: http://www.businessinsider.com/confessions-how-she-made-1200-a-month-using-matchcom-2011-11

I knew stuff like this was happening, but would not have thought girls were technical with it all and using excel spreadsheets. Makes me feel better about what I'm doing with my fashion magazine and modeling agency.

"The goal in poker is to find the table where you have a lot of bad players so that the odds are stacked in your favor.  It’s the same with business – choose a market in which you have better odds at winning because you’re playing against less sophisticated players.  If you’re at the wrong table, get up and walk over to a different table"

This just reinforces that online game is a zero sum game
 

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Scouting for Virtual Offices

Awesome quote right here, courtesy of Kanye. This captures the ultimate goal of the Playboy Lifestyle Game I'm working on.

"Bullet proof condom when I’m in these hoes
Got staples on my dick (why?) fuckin’ centerfolds
And I swear to God they so cold
Got a nigga in Miami wearin' winter clothes" - Kanye West

Haha, straight fire! On to the post.





Asian Happy Hour

Went to an Asian happy hour with my fellow BBC wing John Panam, and the organizer douche was mean muggin' us the entire time, since we were two black dudes, and I always stiff him whenever they ask us for donations at the door. 

Keeping it short, only notable thing was escalating fast on this Half-Asian broad to a point I didn't know what to do since things happened so fast. Opened her by asking about her elephant necklace, did a cold read about her having traveled to India, and was spot on. She was immediately in a trance, went deeper by mentioning Japan, and she had been there too. I tell her she's awesome, and link arms with her. Next thing you know we're locked arm-in-arm and she's giving me the doggy dinner bowl look.

I can tell she's ready to be kissed, and all of this happened in less than a minute. The sexual tension is so thick you could cut it with a knife. This was some 60 YoC type shit, escalating right from the opener. But I proceeded to fuck up. I felt like it was too fast to makeout with her, especially in front of everyone. I also felt it was too early to isolate, I was talking to her for less than a minute. 

The BBC Crew Broadcasting Live!

I start spinning wheels, and kill the sexual tension by going back to regular talk. Some Asian dude comes up to her and asks her what the hell she's doing haha. I think he was some chode that brought her there trying to make a move on her or w/e, I turn around and let them talk, and pretend to be busy with my phone. The chode leaves and we go back to talking.

I talk to her for a while, but eventually some other guy gets into a conversation with her. I was a pussy and didn't go back in there to claim the prize I had earned. FML!

Takeaway: It's never too early to escalate or isolate. I should know this since I got a 10 second insta-date a while back, the proof is in the pudding. If I'm not comfortable making out with a girl in front of her friends, it means I should isolate her away. But in order to do that, I should know my isolation spots before I start talking to girls.

Scouting for Virtual Offices

After doing the modeling photo shoots and interviews for a while, I figured that I need to get legit offices. I'm loosing a lot of models because they smell bullshit when I tell them to meet me in a coffee shop or a public place for the shoots. I know if we had legit offices, our credibility and posture would be on a whole different level.

Being of a follower of the rational author and businessman Robert Ringer's Theories, I take his "Posture Theory" to heart:

"It’s not what you say or do that counts, but what your posture is when you say or do it" - Robert Ringer

One thing I've been great at so far has been posturing my model game to be more credible. I dress up in suits, Prince P has a corvette, getting real photographers and designers, all the shit has been on point. But I can't stop there, gotta keep on pushing things to new levels. I think getting offices will do just that. The only problem is we don't have money to throw into this lifestyle game, we want to do it by spending as little money as possible.

Peep this:

I do some research, and find out that you can rent offices by the hour, they call it "Virtual Offices". I am floored...you mean to tell me I can rent out swag and posture by the hour. Yes sir!!! I'm in.

I find a place with virtual offices for a reasonable amount of $165 on K Street. For those who don't know, K Street is infamous as the street where all the top lobbying firms and lawyers in DC reside. It's less than 5 blocks from Obama in the White house, the world bank and the IFC. Talk about swag!!! I am thrilled at the potential. Here's what the price gets us according to their site.

This plan includes all the fundamental components to have fully functional office support. Your phones will be answered by our courteous receptionists, we collect and sort your mail and you have prepaid access to sixteen hours of conference and meeting rooms per month, with additional hours available and billed at month's end. You have access to all the office equipment which includes fax, copiers, mail machines and computers. Evening and weekend use is also available.

I decide to check it out the very next day. The video at the beginning of this post is of me being given a tour of the facilities. After taking a tour of the facilities, I am impressed for the most part, but have to now deal with the issue of money. They have cheaper packages, that start at $55 for five hours of using the virtual offices. I spoke with Prince P and Mr. Hurgle about it, and they're interested. Going to seriously consider this, perhaps for our next porn casting call haha.

International Happy Hour

I head to another couch surfing happy hour, and this time do better than last time. Last week I did well, but didn't bother getting any girls numbers. This time I did, got a three numbers and got a lot of practice in. I've noticed the last couple of weeks, my breaking rapport, or flirting if you wanna call it that, has gotten really good. I've also been doing a lot of sexual tension shit, did some more of that this week. Kudos to Dave for giving me some pointers on being physical, such as playfully punching girls. It's been working well with my style.

Just need to remember to isolate and keep on progressing the interactions, will make that my goal for next time. Didn't bother recording any video since I almost got busted last time and have yet to figure out a way to hide the flashing lights on my gum camera when in bars.

Peruvian Broad

There was this Peruvian broad that I number closed from a couch surfing language group. She flaked when I invited her for a happy hour, I deleted her number. I meet her again a few weeks later and she's surprised that I deleted her number. I get it again and invite her out, she shows up this time, but isn't down for the cause when I try to bounce her to another bar, we leave without her. 

She chats to me on facebook, and we plan to go biking together. I flake on her b/c I was doing a porn casting call haha. I invite her out for salsa a while later, she flakes but chats to me on facebook. I see her randomly on the street with another cute Peruvian friend of hers when I'm out with Dave. We bounce them to a bar for drinks and chill for a bit. I talk to her cute friend and eventually they have to go. I invite her out for our happy hour a few days later, she doesn't even bother responding to my text. I delete her number again since I see that she has never been down for the cause, and is merely leeching me for my social value whenever she wants to. 

I'm in the process of finishing Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, and have been re-evaluating my moral code. One of the principles I have not been living up to is only interacting with women who live up to my standards of value.


One of the values I despise are time wasters, aka the "may be" girls.  I understand that women will be flaky till the end of time, but what I refuse to tolerate are the women who do not even bother to let you know that they won't be able to make it, or reschedule, they go cold on your phone calls or texts. 

If a woman is truly interested, she will have the courtesy of responding to let you know she can't make it, if she doesn't she will learn otherwise. Tit for tat, I am merely conditioning the women that I interact with that if they deal with me in a manner I value, they will be rewarded with my interest, if they do not, they will receive no interest.

So fast forward, a few weeks later I get a text from some random broad asking where we're hosting salsa lessons. I find out it's the Peruvian girl, and ignore her texts. Later at night she sends me chats on facebook surprised that I deleted her number again, I ignore her ass. I do not need to deal with this shit, I'm fuckin' having drinks with swimsuit models that kiss my ass, I don't need mediocre girls wasting my time if they're not down for the cause as Solo says.

I'm done with her, and hand her off to Prince P, who has been sweating her for a while. I already knew he was trying to setup a date with her behind my back, but now that I'm done with her, we put shit in the open and he can have her.

Peruvian Broad's Friend on Facebook

Ironically, one of the reasons I didn't care for the Peruvian broad was that I was try to switch up, and make a move on her friend. She was more "Americanized" and I was peeping some interest on her part. While talking to Prince P on the phone, whose telling me that he's meeting with the girl I ditched that week to help her with finding a job, I'm chatting to her friend on facebook. Here's the chat log:

Superman:

salsa today!!!

you should join us!

Her:

hola! i cant today 

rain check for next week

Superman:

cool

hows life

Her:

have fun tonight!

life is good, can't complain

how have you been?

Superman:

amazing!

partying a lot, saving the world

Her:

niiice

hahahha great motto to live by

Superman:

yea, what are you up to for thanksgiving

Her:

spending it with the fam. and working black friday 

Superman:

haha. I'm ready to get some deals

you should live it up

Her:

are you going shopping at 5am?

Superman:

nope, online on my couch lolz

amazon.com

Her:

perfect

avoid the crowd

Superman:

did you tango yet?

Her:

i went to check it out, but did not take the class

Superman:

we're planning on doing more dancing events. tango, and also looking into karaoke 

Her:

both would be super fun

Superman:

no way! you karaoke???

Her:

i havnt, but i want too

i hear its such a fun time

Superman:

yea I haven't done it either. I wanna sing some michael jackson hits lolz.

what song would u sing? 

Her:

hmmm maybe katy perry or some kesha lol

Superman:

haha I am totally judging you now!

Superman:

all this karaoke talking is getting me pumped up

Her:

lol

Superman:

lets go karaoke!

Her:

yeaaa

Superman:

when do u get back again?

Her:

i live in the area

Superman:

cool, I'll see if some of my friends are around as well and let you know

Her:

ok sounds good!

Superman:

whats the best way to get in touch with you, I'll be away from fbook for while

Her:

text mssg works

Superman:

alright I'll text you, whats your phone

Her:

*** her number ***

Superman:

got my text? (I text her a joke)

Her:

hahhaha yess

Superman:

yes you are going down!

you cheated last time during trivia

Her:

how??

Superman:

lol we can talk about it later. hey I gotta run to the post office before they close at 5, talk to you later

deuces!

Takeaway: Karaoke seems to be a really good day 2 idea. That's the third girl that gave me a number to do karaoke in the last couple of weeks. Interesting!

That's it for now, happy thanksgiving y'all! Get that turkey, and smash that gravy!





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