If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it's not a glitch — it's the app's expensive new subscription plan.

If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month.

That landscape, in fact, is largely populated by apps owned by Tinder’s parent company: as Bloomberg notes, Match Group Inc. not only owns the popular swiping app, but also Match.com, OKCupid, Hinge, and The League.

Match Group CEO Bernard Kim referred to Tinder’s subscriptions as “low-hanging fruit” meant to compete with other, pricier services, though that was before this $6,000-per-year tier dropped.

  • averagedrunk@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know what the going rate is but I assume that if you just want a throw you could probably get a mid tier prostitute almost once a week for that price.

    • mycatiskai@lemmy.one
      3·
      1 year ago

      Probably 3 times a month for in a western country. If you are in a long term relationship that is probably around the same amount of times you are getting laid.

      The problem is that the people that would pay 500 to tinder are not the kind of people capable of a long term relationship. Even their fleshlights pray for manufacturing defects so they can get out of long term service.

      • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        This is such a disgusting way to think about relationships, I don’t wonder why people are lonely.

      • RadioRat@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Three times a month for a long term relationship seems really low to me. Over a decade married and ~3-5x a week.

        • Swallowtail@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/how-often-do-happiest-couples-have-sex-it-s-less-ncna828491

          Once a week or so is the average. I’m at about the same amount of time in a relationship as you and we’re about once a week. Personally I feel like sex is nice but it takes time and effort and I’m not always in the mood to spend time pleasing someone else (and I’m not going to initiate unless I’m willing to do that). I could see myself having sex a little bit more often if I had a better work-life balance where I felt less pressed for time. This gets me thinking that I should check in with my partner about this topic though!