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Tinder and Bumble
« on: April 13, 2019, 07:58:35 AM »
Hello, I recently retired from my government job at age 51 since my pension wasn't much less than my salary. Originally, I planned on spending a lot of time in the FSU. Unfortunately, I got a blood clot in my leg and won't be traveling for several months until it is resolved.
  In the meantime, I wondered if Tinder or Bumble are worth my time until I can return to my FSU dating. I have been on POF for several years. I had some success in finding some good relationships on POF over the years. But most of the time it is pretty dead for me on POF with few attractive profiles or attractive women replying. Has anyone experienced that trying local women on Bumble or Tinder gives you more options than POF? I live in a smaller city in central PA.

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Re: Tinder and Bumble
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2019, 08:15:08 AM »
It’s funny.... Tinder is know as a hook up site, but I found a great woman on there (yoga teacher 😉), who was looking for a committed relationship and my last experience with the more relationship orientated site POF, I met a woman who wanted an open relationship. She couldn’t handle it when I took the most advantage of the situation she instigated.

In my experience you can find whatever you want on tinder... from hookups to marriage. I definitely chatted with more women on tinder than POF.
« Last Edit: April 13, 2019, 08:20:25 AM by Davo »

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Re: Tinder and Bumble
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2019, 08:30:34 AM »
This is probably more info than you want, but some bits might be useful.

http://graziadaily.co.uk/relationships/dating/55-dating-apps-arent-tinder/

This article has tons of info and lots of  charts showing usage by country, age gender, ect.

http://www.businessofapps.com/data/tinder-statistics/
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Re: Tinder and Bumble
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2019, 05:18:42 AM »
Thanks for the replies. Sounds like Tinder can be hit or miss but maybe more profiles since everyone is on their phones.

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Re: Tinder and Bumble
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2019, 11:53:23 PM »
I have a little experience from Tinder in Ukraine and can verify that there is an extremely wide range of women on there... most of them want something other than a serious relationship... although some do.  The good thing is that most of the women I have talked to speak English very well.  If you are looking for a one-night hookup, Tinder is the place to go.  There are also a TON of escorts on there.  They will chat it up with you for a little while, then ask for your WhatsApp number. Once off the site, they immediately tell you they want to have Alex with you, but would appreciate a small “gift” or taxi fare for their time. Prices range from 1000 UAH to €350 an hour.  Some girls are on the just to offer massages (with happy ending) for as little as 800 UAH. I have also met girls who are there to advertise their services as tour guides.

So yes, there is a lot of crap you have to sort through before you can meet a “normal” girl, but if you have time, it might be worth it.  My advice is to keep your search age range a little higher because the escorts tend to be younger.  The women over 30 or 35 seem to be more legitimate.

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Re: Tinder and Bumble
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2019, 12:37:22 AM »
I have a little experience from Tinder in Ukraine and can verify that there is an extremely wide range of women on there... most of them want something other than a serious relationship... although some do.  The good thing is that most of the women I have talked to speak English very well.  If you are looking for a one-night hookup, Tinder is the place to go.  There are also a TON of escorts on there.  They will chat it up with you for a little while, then ask for your WhatsApp number. Once off the site, they immediately tell you they want to have Alex with you, but would appreciate a small “gift” or taxi fare for their time. Prices range from 1000 UAH to €350 an hour.  Some girls are on the just to offer massages (with happy ending) for as little as 800 UAH. I have also met girls who are there to advertise their services as tour guides.

So yes, there is a lot of crap you have to sort through before you can meet a “normal” girl, but if you have time, it might be worth it.  My advice is to keep your search age range a little higher because the escorts tend to be younger.  The women over 30 or 35 seem to be more legitimate.
The real prices are more around 800/2000 UAH. 350€ is just a scam because they know that they are talking to a foreigner, a local man would never pay such money and will kick her ass.
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Re: Tinder and Bumble
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2019, 09:08:03 AM »
I tried Tinder while in Lviv and had no joy whatsoever. I'm guessing it lacked even the escorts there, though I would never go with one anyway. From what I read up about on the internet it mainly works in the big cities, like cities the size of New York. Kiev you might have  a few contact you but probably more likely in Moscow which as a huge population. Bounder a Canadian used it there and had some success.

A guy who was in St. Pete's used it and got a girl who took him to a club and he got scammed in a big way with some overpriced food, etc. It was a bad experience for him.

Also remember it tends to work better for the more photogenic film star looking amount us. If you just look like an everyday guy to most girls or worse it's unlikely to bring up much. You can download autolike apps from Google Play and have them do the work for you. You just click one and it will like a load of girls for you. If you pay a few quid it will do a load for you. Idea is that it likes all new girls in your target city, then those that like you also you can then choose which ones to contact, i.e the ugly ones you don't have to contact, lol. It's a good idea that makes sense of the mayhem and conceivably helps get to results rather than a lot of people liking and not liking back. Off course if too many people used autolike apps then we would be back to square one.

Now Tinder charge a fair old whack for not looking in your home city, probably not an issue for you civ but in my opinion it is over-priced, near extortionate really. I never really got the impression that people use a lot of tinder clone apps there or in general. Personally, particularly if you are not over there I think you are better of using FSU International Dating sites. Girls aren't really likely to understand if you are contacting them on tinder and not really there. Mamba has a click on like or not picture thing just like tinder alongside it's traditional online dating profile stuff. For someone your age though civ I wouldn't use Mamba's traditional online dating setup, the age groupings are no good if you are after a girl often even 5 or so years younger, 10 years and a lot of girls on there put on a limit. You see after the age of 40 the age categories go up in tick boxes of 10 years on there instead of 5 years.

So other than that just the usual fdate, etc is probably going to be of best use to you.
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Re: Tinder and Bumble
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2019, 11:26:34 AM »
I know a N.American who lined up date after date in Moscow using Tinder..

Could it be that Trench is not the person to listen to re which dating site /App is a useful tool?

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Re: Tinder and Bumble
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2019, 02:29:01 PM »
I know a N.American who lined up date after date in Moscow using Tinder..

Could it be that Trench is not the person to listen to re which dating site /App is a useful tool?

Probably Bounder as I mentioned. Yes I said Moscow is a good place to use it, probably the best place in the FSU as it's huge 12 million population dwarfs that of Kiev or any other FSU city. As said the bigger the city the better it apparently tends to be.
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Re: Tinder and Bumble
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2019, 03:13:06 AM »
I will tell you more about Tinder later, when i will be in FSU.

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