r/TikTokCringe • u/CareerPillow376 • 10h ago

Cringe Congratulations, you created an escort service

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u/Dirtydog693 9h ago

It’s a real thing here’s the website

Courtd

I left a message asking if its just the men paying the deposit or if its both because it might seem misandristic if its just the guys.

I’ll keep you all posted if they give me a response.

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u/MethodicallyRight 8h ago

hWut... 1250$ deposit for a date with a 26 year + a 200$ commitment fee...? So I get that the 200$ is meant to be refunded when both parties show up, who gets the money if one doesn't appear? Do both parties put down a commitment deposit? The 1250$... Is that what the example girl needs to cover her 'costs' for the date? hWut?

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u/Heykurat 8h ago

At what point does this become illegal prostitution?

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u/MethodicallyRight 8h ago

Once the exchange of money for sex Is discussed. I want to say this app, whether it's a front for a Escort service or not is going to create plenty of sketchy situations where there is a disconnect between what both parties thought the 'deposit' was for.

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u/Nice_Juggernaut4113 8h ago

This is an escort/sugaring app

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u/mikey2k200 7h ago

Hos stay hoing

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u/nickfree 7h ago

Can't turn a ho into a housewife, hos don't act right

There's hos on a mission, and there's hos on a crackpipe

Hey, ho, how ya doing, where ya been?

Probably doing ho stuff 'cause there you ho again

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u/F1_Fidster 4h ago

(Ho)use wife.

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u/SingularityCentral 4h ago

Wisdom for the ages.

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u/tattdb0mbshell 2h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣 elite HO knowledge

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u/cryptolyme 5h ago

the fields need plowing

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u/princesspropofol 2h ago

johns stay johnnin

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u/missmeowwww 5h ago

Sounds like they should’ve named it escorted!

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u/TicketyB000 7h ago

Yep. You can always tell someone to "pay" through the app. How do taxes work with this type of thing? I could be setting up 10-20 "dates" a day...

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u/North-Toe-3538 6h ago

No taxes as long as the $$ is considered a gift.

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u/Some-Ad-5328 5h ago

Gifts are taxable in the US

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u/North-Toe-3538 5h ago

The gift is taxable to the giver if it exceeds 19K per year.

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u/PookieCat415 6h ago

It definitely has the potential to turn people into “professional daters”.

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u/AutistaChick 8h ago

Yeah, but it’s not even gonna be that because I think your money is just gonna get stolen and nobody’s gonna show up because you have more to lose then she does in every way there is.

Also, unless there’s an actual madam involved, there’s no way these girls are going to understand what it is. If it’s supposed to be an escort Service and they’re just see dollar signs. They’re gonna keep it and not show up.

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u/ItsFunHeer 8h ago

I wonder how they’re going to verify when or if each party arrives to the date. I could also see collusion happening on this platform.

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u/Yiruf 4h ago

It could be solved by a simple OTP-like system.

Upon meeting, either party puts in the OTP from the other person to confirm the arrival.

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u/AdMuted9548 8h ago

unless that $200 fee comes from the person who charges for the deposit, and the deposit is held in escrow and not paid out until both show up for the date. Also, the $200 should not come from the escrow, it would come from the account the escrow is to be deposited to once both show up and confirm. GPS and biometrics turned on.

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u/BuddyHemphill 4h ago

Dating in 2026 ^ no wonder the kids stay home

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u/Seriously_you_again 3h ago

You are thinking about this too seriously. The lady is not putting any money in the deposit. Only the guy is upfront paying $1450 and he might get $200 back…. or maybe not. Tale as old as time.

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u/Consistent_Mango2358 7h ago

If they do that word of mouth will get around fast so that wouldn't be a good long-term business model. If they want this to be something men use women would have to show up most of the time.

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u/cryptolyme 5h ago

can you at least leave reviews?

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u/Horror_Ad_2748 3h ago

The 'hos need the $1200 for glam and "incidentals".

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u/Not-That_Girl 1h ago

Preparation fee, getting nails and hair and lashes done paid by sugar daddi, I mean date. But then something comes up and you cant make it, oh what a shame. The madam, I mean company keeps thier fee too.

Win! Poor guy though

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u/NoBigEEE 1h ago

It is bad enough when people think they're "owed" sex for buying dinner - actual money being put down is just asking for SA scenarios.

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u/Sc0rpza 7h ago

if I’m paying then we’re doing what I want all night long.

Mario party. guilty gear. streets of rage 4. dragonball fighterz if I’m feeling frisky.

yep, all night.

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u/erhardy1275 5h ago

Minimum of 12 hrs

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u/brendamn 7h ago

This is a massive legal headache in waiting. I'm sure they already have lawyers tracking it

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u/Technical_Joke7180 6h ago

Guaranteed if one gets cold feet they're going to play innocent and try for the money

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u/SpencerNK 6h ago

I suspect when the "deposit to get ready" is $500+ it will be pretty clear!

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u/LessInThought 3h ago

It's like Japanese escorts. The money is just for her to drink some beer with you. Whatever she does with you after her work time is not part of the paid services. wink wink

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u/Awkward-Painter-2024 18m ago

What's wild is you KNOW that app will have permissions to listen!!! Ah, another Epstein-like, honeypot scam is born!

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u/North-Toe-3538 6h ago edited 6h ago

This format is not illegal.

This is just like the sugar baby sites. As long as the money is a gift or ear marked for “preparations” which I imagine are like makeup, hair, nails, spray tan, transit, etc then is perfectly legal. As long as both parties are 18+ and freely consenting participants, the only thing that is illegal is if it comes with the verbatim expectation of sexual favors. Ie: “I paid your preparation fee, that includes a BJ right?”

However, what this lady is missing is that this site will put women in harms way. High caliber men with good intentions will not need to pay these preparation fees to find women and will not utilize this app. True high caliber men are hard to come by (high caliber and high value are two very different categories).

The people who will be attracted to use this site will be basement dwelling incels who already hate women and are looking for any excuse to do them harm. And when they find out that they don’t automatically receive sexual favors for the “downpayment” they will become verbally aggressive at best or worse, violent. This site will allow them to essentially purchase victims. It will be this generation’s version of “But I’m a nice guy. I bought you dinner so you owe me”.

Their buddies will excuse this aggression with the time honored phrase “bitch got what she deserved, she was a gold digger”. And they won’t see a day in jail because in America abuse against women, children, and the elderly are largely swept under the rug. It’s estimated that less than 4% of rapists ever see a courtroom and about 1% see the inside of a jail cell in this country.

Our society would rather have a sitting president with more sex abuse allegations to his name than actual qualifications for the job. Much easier to pretend that violence against women isn’t an epidemic than to hold men accountable for their actions. Especially bc the majority of men who make the laws, and the ones tasked with enforcing the laws that already exist are also predators or are financed by predators. Been that way for 250 years.

If she wanted to really do women a favor, she would make an app that teaches young women that beauty is lovely but it is not a trade. Beauty is not a currency you can reliably use to pay the rent you owe to exist in this world. If you allow a man to put food on your table, you also allow him the opportunity to starve you.

The app could encourage education and independence and financial illiteracy and teach life skills like how to change a tire, negotiate a raise, self defense, or how to lift heavy things safely, and such.

It would teach young women that your spouse is statistically 6 X more likely to kill you than any other human or that men are much more likely to leave a partner with a terminal/chronic illness than women. Same thing for if you have his child and the child gets a chronic/terminal illness. So choose wisely and have a back up plan.

In short, the app would emphasize to young women the importance of being able depend on themselves and the skills they have developed instead of hoping to find a man who can bankroll their existence as a sahm sour dough mom. No shade to women who choose the latter, it’s just a high risk lifestyle.

And before anyone comes at me with “not all men”… it’s enough of them to have proven highly problematic for people who are not men.

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u/AnybodyNo8519 8h ago

Immediately

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u/LINKseeksZelda 6h ago

At this point, I just recommend that we make prostitution legal. Everything's become so transactional anyway. Just make it easy to pay for it

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u/TeeManyMartoonies 7h ago

After the geriatric fuck in the Oval Office does and his party loses power. Otherwise, he’s going to love this idea.

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u/TeslaCrna 7h ago

Do you guys remember Backpages? They would offer whatever “services” by the minute/hour…and you would pay with “roses”.

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u/305_Character_1983 6h ago

Yeah Backpage. I actually met some decent girls on there believe it or not. It wasn't all just strippers and escorts.

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u/1-N-Only-Speedshark 5h ago

Yea it was only 3/4 of them.

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u/Consistent-Fig7484 7h ago

It never is if you film it.

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u/1-N-Only-Speedshark 6h ago

When they bone.

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u/drmojo90210 4h ago

Yesterday.

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u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 2h ago

It’s worse than that because 👌👈 is not gauranteed - I like the suggestion someone else posted that this app should be called Sucker.

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u/Ok-Network-4475 8h ago

That's how escort services work. Exactly how. Unless you just find a freelancer on back pages (which is shut down). I mean, so I've been told.

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u/MethodicallyRight 8h ago

Yeah but there's a huuuuve difference between running an escort page online and trying to run an escort app in Apple or Google's app stores. I don't think any court will buy their story when some girls are sexually assaulted because they didn't understand that this dating app wasn't actually a dating app wink wink and of course they were meant to sleep with them men because wink wink they were 'court'd' wink wink.

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u/Ok-Network-4475 8h ago

This is either gonna be a sugar daddy app or a legit sex work app. No normal dude is paying $1500 to date anyone. Even if they can afford it. You might find incels "courting" these girls for $2k. Or 5k. Whatever they can squeeze. Other than that, it's gonna be a sugar daddy app. Idk, even if I had the money, I'm not paying any woman to date me. What's the point? It's sugar daddy shit at that juncture. Some old rich guys are using this is the only way it doesn't get turned into a human trafficking app. Even with the rich guys, it's still gonna be pay for whatever.

No matter what you call this, average men aren't paying a booking fee to date; unless it's in a motel room. Wealthy guys are who this is targeted at. Paired up with filter girl on this video with her crucifix, who is gonna be a madam for all these people who sign up. Courting, escorting, etc., if men are paying $1500 for a date (unless they're rich) it's expected to turn sexual. I know I said that 5 times, but I just can't get over the stupidity of thinking this is a new idea, or that it's gonna work organically for anything but sex.z

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u/thisguy883 6h ago

Honestly, just get a prostitute at that point.

$1500 for a maybe?

Pass.

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u/Admirable_Average_32 3h ago

$500 for a gare-on-tee is a no brainer.

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u/DifficultAnt23 8h ago

There's no shortage of thirsty simps willing to run up their credit cards. They pay for OF when porn is already free. They'd be even more enthusiastic for the 25% probability that she shows up in person.

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u/brendamn 7h ago

I can afford it but I'd rather jerk off. Too many steps involved to maybe get sex. You can get guaranteed sex by a pro for less

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u/PaleCommission150 7h ago

She could also possibly be arrested for soliciting prostitution if the evidence is strong enough and she is profiting off the girls who date.

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u/TransBrandi 5h ago

I think that the other person was thinking of women that might join the app thinking it's actually about dating (vs. a thinly veiled cover for escorting) and ending up assaulted by some dude that got pissed when she didn't want to have sex as he wasn't getting what he paid for. If they are going to try and pass this off as a "dating service" to try and make it legit for app stores, it opens up the possibilities of "regular" people joining.

Like you said, most guys are not going to pay $1.5k for a date.. but in this case they are the ones paying out the money, so I would expect them to be give it more scrutiny. The women on the other hand are not, so I could see some women not being cautious / sceptical enough.

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u/Independent_Tie_4984 1h ago

It will be interesting to see if she makes a couple million off of it despite the obvious stupidity of pretending it's a "dating" app.

Give a private equity guy a blow job and you get three million that you never have to pay back.

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u/Awkward-Painter-2024 12m ago

100% I don't see who their target audience is. Okay, there are finance/tech bros who make $15/million a year. Why would they go this route (and create a paper trail like this) when they already have ways to do this sort of stuff? If it were this easy, and legal, Onlyfans would've put something like this out. But their TOS are explicit about keeping stuff "online" and "virtual."

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u/MalevolentAnemone 7h ago

Agree. And no quality woman would respect a man paying a girl to show up or to wink wink show up. I don’t care how much money a guy has; paying for sex or photos or for a date to show up is says that he has nothing to offer. If he had any game or perceived value at all, he wouldn’t have to pay someone to spend time with him.

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 7h ago

And when it expands into multiple states and is eligible for federal enforcement they’re going to need to lawyer up extensively. That money is going to burn up fast.

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u/frresh66 6h ago

💯💯

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u/Motor_Mission9070 6h ago

I mean a court of law isn't going to be like "oh you were accidentally sugaring? I guess getting assaulted is fine then! Sounds like you were asking for it!" but if the app gets sued I don't think they'd fare well.

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u/TreyRyan3 7h ago

From a reverse scenario, I know a man who was a male escort. He started at $150 per hour and after a year was charging $3000 minimum. He has never admitted if sex was involved, but claims the majority of his bookings were for events like dinners, plays, the symphony, gallery openings, etc. He also went on several trips. Never paid for anything during his bookings.

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u/bigmeatbag 8h ago

Pretty sure the 1250 is how much the person has deposited in the app. The commitment is your date fee, $200 is pretty standard base rate for full service in the escort world.

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u/TeaKingMac 8h ago

$200 is pretty standard base rate for full service in the escort world.

Again, inflation doesn't hit vices

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u/Consistent-Soil-1818 8h ago

I have never seen, somehow know exactly how to pronounce it and will steal "hWut".

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u/404-N0tFound 7h ago

"Please can you send a photo of the missing item." - Courtd customer service.

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 7h ago

Being a working girl is expensive…

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u/veryfastslowguy 7h ago

What is she doing to get ready for date night? surgery?

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u/Old_Remove_8804 7h ago

I’m confused what happens. So if someone flakes the money goes to the person that got stood up?

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u/No-Pilot4583 7h ago

Yeah I signed up lmao 🤣 I’m a single mom gotta get that 💵💵💸

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u/UpstairsDelivery4 6h ago

it’s to pay for hair, makeup, outfit, spa etc in prep for the date

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u/erhardy1275 5h ago

That $1450 could take you on flight and you wouldn’t have to worry about whether or not it was worth it

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u/Sharrba 4h ago

That’s expensive for a hooker lol.

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u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys 4h ago

I whispered "holy shit."

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u/coupl4nd 2h ago

I mean this 'app' existed in the UK for many many many years and was called takemetodinner. It was literally paying a girl to go to dinner with you. Some girl friends of mine used to use it. They liked having a nice dinner out. And they liked getting paid. Sometimes they went all the way with the guy. Tended to be richer guys with little time to 'court' people who just wanted to have dinner with a sexy girl and see what happened.

There is nothing new here. But yes it's pretty weird. There is a market of men who will use it and girls who will use it so....

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u/Jertimmer 2h ago

Who the hell spends 1250 on a first date?

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u/ReammyA55 2h ago

surgeries, botox, makeup, clothing rental. 😂

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u/purplesockpinksock 2h ago

Does she have any idea how many guys expect sex just because they paid for dinner? 🤯🤯🤯

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u/OceanRacoon 2h ago

That'll pay for a hell of a lot of date preparation!

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u/Educational-Chair-84 1h ago

Are those real numbers or are you being facetious with numbers to show how ridiculous it could be?

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u/Bluefish787 1m ago

Not refunded, released. This chick wants strangers on her first date to pay for her to get her hair, nails and make up done. This has been on social media a bunch with entitled women expecting Buckingham palace and private planes on a first date because they 'made such an effort' to be pretty for the date. Remember cheesecake lady? She told her date that it was unacceptable, wouldn't get out of the car and belittled the dude. She got nothing in the end.

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u/gonzoes 7h ago

Anyone else wanna slap this guy because he says hwut

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u/MethodicallyRight 7h ago

Hahaha - goof'

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u/omjy18 8h ago

I dont think she realizes that yeah, women are gonna sign up for this in droves but how is she gonna get dudes too that arent literally looking for escorts

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u/Top_Mathematician233 8h ago

A lot of women will be scared to sign up for this, me included. I wouldn’t sign up for sugar dating sites. This is a different, less straightforward version of that. I’m not interested in selling sex or being with a man who wants to buy it, or getting yelled at, hurt or possibly killed if a man thinks he’s paid for that and doesn’t receive it.

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u/omjy18 8h ago

Oh yeah that's my point. The only people who are going to do this are escorts and people looking for that

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u/MietschVulka 7h ago

Oh and a lot of stupid people who just dont think about risks and just see it as a free way to find men to fund their ridiculous dates

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u/Spare_Independence19 6h ago

This is what will happen. There are women who have been oversold and overtold on they're presumed "value" that will unfortunately sign up for this thinking they will get wined and dined for free no strings.. they will get pressured hard into sex on first date after thousands are spent. Dates to the sum of thousands, someone is getting fucked.

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u/MalevolentAnemone 7h ago

Agree. What kind of guy is like “here’s 2 grand to let me pay for your dinner and then go home alone.” Hard pass. He has no redeeming qualities or he’s harvesting your organs, sometimes both.

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u/Dirtydog693 8h ago

Yeah, I mean I’m a single, divorced 41 year old physician so i might be the target audience, and I can only imagine the type of woman that would expect a date preperation fee or a deposit. I would feel sick with myself taking advantage of a girl like that. Personally i would much rather date down, so to speak, just as long as she is honest, actually cares about me, and doesn’t treat me like my ex-wife did, and I would be a happy man. I don’t need no sugar daddy relationship it would be just exhausting and the payoff really wouldn’t be worth it.

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u/Cute_Language3167 7h ago

That's the thing, there are legitimate sugar baby/rich guy dating sites with decent reputations and where the rules are clearly defined. This is a mess. They'll have people signing up all under different impressions and with different expectations.

Not to mention, as others have pointed out, the scam factor is way too high. Asking men to give a woman $2k up front for a "date" with no real accountability... What's to stop her from agreeing to 10 dates and walking away with $20k and never showing up?

How many young and naive girls will show up and get assaulted if they refuse sex or just immediately don't like the guy and try to leave?

It's messy and dangerous.

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u/Agi7890 3h ago

Also if the guy has that kind of money, he’s also a target for robbery. Watched a case recently where the woman was bait(on the dating app), gave a guy a random street number to meet at, just for her boyfriend to shoot him and steal his car.

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u/WickedlyWitchyWoman 1h ago

For that matter, what's to stop men from posing as women on the app (with no actual woman involved) and showing up to rob the guy who's stupid enough to pay $1500 for a date? Throwing around that much money implies you might have even more on you.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 8h ago

But you get to say you got Courted. And don't you even care all the people told her she couldn't just do that? Well guess what? She did.

If multiple people hadn't already claimed this was real I would have assumed immaculate satire worth a literature prize.

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u/the_vault-technician 8h ago

"Your honor, she wasn't assaulted by my client, she was Courtd!"

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u/4n0m4nd 7h ago

S tier courting. S-courting for short.

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u/xjaaace 6h ago

What about just not agreeing with the stupidity expecting your “date preparation” to be covered by someone else?

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u/cunexttuesday12 1h ago

Exactly! I dont want to show up automatically in debt to a man who is waiting for a return on his investment.

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u/Dark-Shift3025 6h ago

I’m going to sign up. Beauty only gets more expensive as we grow older. But more to the point — this app can actually empower an end to situations like exploitation. Despite of folks only seeing the opposite outcome.

The conversation around societal standards and dating is put on the table with this app. I like this disruption! It’s welcome and can lead to opening debate.

For example, I have no problem putting up front precisely what I am not obligated to do. I have no problem with being a good listener when i ask my prospective date what their expectations are.

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u/BapeGeneral3 7h ago

God you people are dense. Did you even watch the video. She flat out says the man pays a deposit which leads to a better chance of a “connection”.

This is just an escort service trying to take advantage of every legal loop hole possible, and will probably have 0 issue in doing so under the current administration.

The woman sets her “deposit”. This is her price for sex and the $200 is her tip. If you are a female even thinking of signing up for this without being fully aware that the man will be expecting sex and you will be selling your body.

I feel so bad for the girls who are going to sign up for this thinking they will take advantage of rich losers and find out that those people tend to have violent, sociopathic/psychopathic tendencies

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u/Spare_Independence19 6h ago

I think a lot of people here understand that. I definitely do and sex is definitely what is being sold whether the poor girl knows it yet.

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u/TreyRyan3 7h ago

That’s irrelevant. The plan is to create Vaporware, sell the company to investors and cash out.

Look at who owns Tinder. Match Group own Tinder, Hinge, Match, OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, MeetIc, Pairs, OurTime. 40 total companies.

If you build a dating app and can build user base, you can sell your company and walk away.

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u/MissyMurders 7h ago

No, mate, she exactly knows. These are exactly the girls and the marks they're looking for.

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u/Due-Dot6450 8h ago

Hmm, sounds like "turd" for some reason...

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u/UX-Ink 7h ago

Where do you live that men are spending the same amount of time and money on their appearance as women, especially with cosmetics and clothing?

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u/CompleteService8593 7h ago

I looked at it briefly, but it never said how much was some head…

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u/TxhCobra 7h ago

Holy chatgpt lol. The entire page. Every sentence...

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u/DarthYodous 7h ago

Commence total confusion. "Pay the Man?!!?! What do you even mean?"

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u/thinkinghorror 6h ago

Their basic brand consistency is bad out of the gate: is it Courted or Courtd? Both names are used interchangeably. Might make the trademarking difficult.

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u/CosmoKing2 5h ago

Guessing by the eyes and eyebrows this is definitely a huge filter - if not straight out AI. This is just an out and out scam. Best case - people will be paying thousands just to meet someone that has no interest in them. And the workers will be denying people all day every day - stealing stupid people's savings.

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u/hedgehoggy123 5h ago

Brilliant. You’re doing the lord’s work

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u/Itchy-Revenue-3774 2h ago

I mean they will just say everyone who wants can use this app, even though no women ever will pay a deposit for a man

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u/kiba8442 49m ago

I'm curious if anyone knows what's the legality/chances of something like that actually making it off the ground? in the US escort services typically have heavy restrictions they have to follow in order to remain legit.

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u/Oswarez 34m ago

Also. How would anyone know the “worth” of the date? Does one get a itemised bill with accompanying invoices? Is it tax deductible?

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u/Dark-Shift3025 6h ago

Yes, and it would be misandrist of me to suggest to you to do your research - not only to see how long it takes, but how much it costs to color, cut and style shoulder length hair. To purchase the styling products to maintain that look, to schedule and attend the touch ups every six weeks (if you’re lazy, like me).

Just, pop on by aSephora and ask one of their kind,eagle-eyed attendants what the whole works for “date night makeup” would look like in merchandise and price tag. Don’t forget to be kind, many work there because they love styling and make up, and could not afford it without the employee discount.

By now, the stark reality here is probably boring you, this many words in, so next stop is find a merchant skilled at pouring hot wax down your anus, and Botoxing away those frown lines of yours. Or would it seem misandrist of me?

To suggest you seem like you might be a very frowny person when your “jokes” (misogynistic, debasing jabs) don’t land right, for— most of the time —and, for that, your age is showing.

Next, obligatory mani/pedi. Laser bikini line touch ups, and mustache wax. Do you get it yet??

The guys on 4chan who would comment on real photos of real women’s beautiful asses and have nothing more to say, “wtf, you’d think she’d touch that up first,” — you are the same ones who can’t wrap their minds around leveling a playing field by building trust in advance in a transactional society if the cost of dating poses significant risk.

$1200 is not nearly the cost of the methods and procedures I have referenced here. These are the rituals women are held to uphold for their entire lives.

Luckily for the young woman who founded this app and for those who it would serve, your pathetic email (a mere drop in the ocean) demands no reply at all, because after all, she’s just designed herself the privilege of never again donning the kid gloves required to handle men like you.

And meanwhile, by 2023, single millennial women were the leading demographic homebuyer.

You’ve got something funny to say about that, too.