Lotsa good food for thought here.  My personal pet peeve is when they post a bunch of head shots, but no body shot!  We all know that the descriptors such as slim, average, curvy, mean different things to different people.  I've seen some very chunky monkeys who call themselves slim!  So I wish they'd all post at least one really good head to toe photo that shows their figure! No baggy clothing either.  Doesn't have to be a bikini shot, although they are the best.  Any profile with only head shots is big yellow/red flag.

I've been dabbling with Seeking's sister site Whats Your Price (WYP) for the last 10 days.  WYP tweaks the model a bit in a few key ways:  

 
1. Generous (male) members offer an "incentive payment" to Attractive (female) members to accept a platonic date. Offers might range from less than $100 to well over $400, but the typical amount is usually $100-$150.
2. If the offer is accepted by both sides the generous member must spend some credits to unlock two-way messaging.  Credits cost between $0.25 and $0.50 each depending on the quantity purchased. And credits spent to unlock messaging increase with the offered amount (20 credits at $100, 25 at $125). Once messaging is unlocked, additional messages between the two are free.  
3. The presumed model is that at the 1st date a decision can be made to schedule additional dates outside the system if both parties agree.  
4. WYP does not have a searchable field for sugaring, but females are not prohibited (or even noticed) from stating a desire for an SD/SB arrangement.  

 
Background: I logged in after several months of inactivity, refreshed my profile text and pics and started looking at local profiles.  As I've bitched about many times in the past, profiles that list a location of "Los Angeles" are problematic as LA is simply HUGE.  A pot can easily be a 30, 40, 60, or even 120-minute (if traffic is unusually heavy) drive from me and still be in "LA."  So it's important to ask a POT early what part of LA she is in.  

 
Story for the day: I found a profile for a 28-yr old hot blond (at least an LA 8) in LA. Her pics had yellow flags all over them: Well-dressed without being slutty, upscale locations, and posed. No selfies or "hanging out" pics.  Out of curiosity, I made a low-ball offer of $100. Most profiles of women this hot, especially over 28 and living in an upscale area were suggesting they want an offer of at least $150-$300.  I expected her to counter with some absurd amount well over $250, but instead she accepted.  I spent the credits to connect with her and after opening her message, asked her what part of LA she was in.  She replied with a small neighborhood name I've never seen before. Looked it up on Google Maps and replied to her: "Not sure this will work, as you are at least a one-hour drive away from me with light traffic. Are you ok travelling to my area?"  She told me she was ok with it and that she had a car.  I was quite doubtful that a woman this hot would drive for an hour just to get $100, but no harm in continuing, for now...so w switched to text...  

By text, I sent her a recent pic of me and asked what she was looking for - the usual SD/SB qualification questions.  Her text responses were sometimes slow - as much as 2 hours - but we eventually settled on a day, time and location to meet for our paid date, and set the date agenda on working out arrangement details. Note that she had not sent a pic to me by text, which I consider unusual (another yellow flag). The day before I texted confirmation and the address for the restaurant. She confirmed. The day of (today) she sent me a text at 6:00 am acknowledging the address. I replied after 8:00 am and told her I was looking forward to our lunch.  That's when she blew it, and not in that wet, sloppy, "Daddy, fuck my face hard, please" kind of way that we all love so much.  

 
She sent two pics. Both were in what looked like a hotel room, both in a green cleavage-revealing swimsuit on the bed. I zoomed in on the 1st pic. No, not on her tits! I looked at the power outlets on the wall next to head of the bed. They were definitely not US outlets, more like European outlets. I made that observation within about 20 seconds of getting the pics. And at 25 seconds she sent this:  

 
Her: "I need $50 now, to get my nails done."  
Her: "I need to look good for you and for myself"  
RED FLAG ALERT activated.  

Here's the rest of the brief chat:  
Me: "I'm sure you look beautiful now. I will have your $100 incentive ready for you at the restaurant."  
Her: "I need like $50 now, to get my nails done. I don't want $100 incentive because this is our first date."  
RED FLAG ALERT activated again.  
(The whole point of WYP is that women get paid to eat. Over the years I have met many "professional daters" on WYP, They try to get 3 to 5 dates a week for $100-$300 per date. This works out to around $800 per week, or $3,3,60 a month, or $41,600 a year for letting simps watch her eat salads.  No attractive member EVER forgoes the incentive payment.)
Me: "(Her name), I never send cash in advance. Shall I cancel our date?"
Her: "Ok. Yes you should cancel our date." I think she thought she was calling my bluff, and I would backtrack fearing losing my "chance" to meet a hottie. But obviously I was not bluffing.  
Me: "Ok, Good luck in your search."  

 
If she had not sent those pics I may have assumed she was just new and trying to follow some Reddit thread's bad advice. I might have tried to talk her back from the cash advance.  But there was no need for a  Hail Mary pass here.  I won't bother reporting her to WYP for the same reasons I don't report or block POT's on Seeking.  

 
Fortunately, as I was texting her (if it really was a "her") I got an offer accepted from a local POT who's pics and profile were easily verified. I know who she is and she's looking for an arrangement. I messaged her today with my text number and am awaiting her message.  

 
Life is good

 
The Cat