Tinder Launches $499 USD-Per-Month "Tinder Select" Membership

This is all absurd, obviously, but:

The new subscription can be stacked with a Plus, Gold or Platinum subscription for access to more features, the company notes.

$499 and you don't even get everything there is to get? You still have to pay for more? What in the fuck?

I can subscribe to a hooker for less and have more sex

If you are at the point where paying $499+ a month looks like the only way you'll ever have a significant other or even just sex just invest that money in therapy or drugs or a super high end sex doll or a high class hooker but not in fucking Tinder. Jesus.

I'm guessing the only purpose of this is to show you have fuck-me money. Which sounds like it might work very, very well.

That plan better deliver hoes at my address

The ability to direct-message others without matching.

So basically your privacy only goes as far as how much other people are willing to pay

Remember: Tinder doesn't make money if you find love, because then you'd stop using the app. Tinder's goal is to keep you using the app as long as possible by dangling the possibility of success without ever delivering.

If dating apps were barred from collecting any payments besides a one time entry fee perhaps they'd stop all these anti customers practices.

Well that's not dystopian at all

Can we start a fediverse dating app?

I'm currently visiting the Ambien walrus writing this so forgive me if this idea is screwy, but I'd love to create a new space.

I'm glad I was, continue to be and plan on being married to miss this nonsense.

The "I'm that desperate" batch.

It just sounds like identifying rich sucker's to be plucked like apples and slaughtered like fattened calves by the trickier woman of tinder.

women are going to start saying they won't match with guys who aren't subscribing to this. I guarantee it.

For 500$ it better work as a ma'adam in a brothel.

This reads like a subscription to bang.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The news was first reported by Bloomberg, and follows parent company Match Group’s earlier confirmation that Tinder would expand its membership options to include a new, high-end product catering to Gen Z users sometime this fall.

Tinder says that less than 1% of users will be allowed to gain access to this premium product, and members can choose to display their status with an exclusive SELECT badge on their profile.

Inspiration for this members-only club within Tinder comes from Match’s July 2022 acquisition of another high-end dating app, The League, which could cost users up to $1,000 per week.

In addition, Select members’ profiles will be shown unblurred in the Like You grid in the app for up to seven days, even if they don’t pay for Tinder Gold or Platinum subscriptions.

The company doesn’t detail how this technology works or how it rates these so-called “exceptional connections,” but one might imagine they include other Select members or those other users liked the most.

To apply for Tinder Select, users must have at least four photos, five interests, a bio with a minimum of 15 characters, show a relationship intent, be photo-verified and, importantly, have way too much money to spend on dating apps.

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Local Asian massage parlor is like $150 plus tip for full service.

i can't wait until the app bubble implodes

members can choose to display their status with an exclusive SELECT badge on their profile.

Now I ain't say she a gold digger...

IAC/Match Group owns this space and at this point the cash grab is so openly brazen. I hate it. Part of the reason i've folded on online dating and dating in general.

There are people so desperate for a fuck that they will pay this money. Will it solve the problem that the number of (real, existing) women on such platforms is lower than the demand? Probably not.

As someone who's never used it, what features are there that get paywalled? I have a very naïve idea about what it is like.

This has to be a joke right? Right?

It's sad that there are people lonely enough to pay for this.

Fuck Tinder

Why do I remember this exact thing existing in like 2016?

It's to keep those filthy poors out

Well, that's as good of a reason as any to delete the app.

The most pathetic thing is that there are enough lonely dudes out there that some would actually consider this service.

So corporations were thinking why should women be the only ones who can extort a bunch of money from lonely dudes... why not us too?

For most people their choice of life partner is the most important career decision they will ever make. 500 bucks could be a smart investment if it improves the odds of hooking up with the right person.