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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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[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No that's Platinum and also new but the $500 USD per month one is called VIP and also you need to be invited/selected to even be able to get it, which of course is just a ploy to get the selected to feel special and buy it to flaunt that they got invited.

[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

It's also age dependent at the lower levels. Over 35 or 40 and you'll pay more than someone young. Or at least that's how it used to be.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You say no like it doesn't say it in the screenshot that you can send messages to people you're not matched with.

[–] coolcat1711@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

It has a subtitle though that it lets you attach a note to super likes. I don't think it's blanket, "Message anyone freely" like the VIP tier implies.