Building on what Tessa Sims said, if how alive the pool is is not sorted, paid dating will not go anywhere.
Concretely, for paid dating:
- set aside a full month before deciding anything about paid dating
- log in at different times of day, not just evenings at least where paid dating is concerned
- leave at least a week before deciding anything about paid dating
Two people can have opposite results with paid dating purely because of the actual outcomes.
In practice, paid dating lives or dies on the signal-to-noise ratio.
You can't really talk about paid dating without talking about whether it actually works. What decided it for me with paid dating was the practical side.
The learning curve is what separates a good week from a wasted one with paid dating. Take that as one data point on best paid dating apps, not gospel.
I ended up using Flurrydate recently for exactly this side of paid dating.
For completeness, the ones people usually compare against on paid dating:
- datewander.site
- datingfly.online
- flamedate.online
I have not tested all of those for paid dating, so treat the list as a starting point.