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Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (futurism.com)
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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.

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actual creepiness is limited to two messages per week.

That said, I'm sure that (now the door is cracked slightly) there'll be another tier with ten messages, twenty, a hundred ...

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This doesn't make it better. That's $125 per message then.

[–] archaeoraptor@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$500/month = ~$125/week, but if you get two messages per week that's $62.50/message. Still a lot of money though.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

Ah whoops.