"Sugar Babies" and "Arrangements"

[TheLife1]

About to meet this one. Anyone have any dealings with her?

[Member #6517]

Relating to privacy on SA, how hard is it to find someone's name with actual cell phone number? Someone in the past found me using facebook's phone number search. That was back when they had shitty privacy. I use textnow, which is ok for now. I don't trust them either, though.

What's your average PPM these days? Some chick is asking for 300, which is below what I dream with LKatl. When you negotiate a PPM session, how many hours do these girls usually expect to stay?

Sorry for noob questions. New in this hobby. I'm younger than usual daddy profile so there is that lack of experience. Other venues of dating are too risky for me. However, given the discussion here, seeking sounds worse than actually getting caught on a dating app -since it has a pay-to-play context.

[Peter Johnson]

https://members.seeking.com/member/1...5-fced4fd64b7f

Has anyone talked to this girl? That is a top shelf piece of ass. I'm not even going to message her, as there's just no way she is in my price range.

[Peter Johnson]

I agree with this. When adult friend finder was hacked some years ago, many users' names and email addresses were published on the internet. I don't want friends, family and potential civilian dates to see my name listed as a Seeking user if it is ever hacked.

Yes exactly. I was going to bring that up too. It's not a good look to be outed as being on a quasi-prostitution website, or at least as being on a site where "creepy old men try to groom innocent young girls", etc. You know how that twisted, bullshit narrative would play out. I just don't need my real name / identity associated with that, if it was hacked (or if the gov't decided to subpoena all their records, which is another possibility, however remote).

Not to mention, we all know many of these girls are batshit crazy and don't need to make it extra easy for them to find me if they claim sexual assault, or worse. Of course it is just limited protection, but better than nothing, on top of all of the other risks.

Fair point.

There are risks to any site you put your personal info into and I get why one would be cautious but the risk applies to your entire online footprint not just the dating sites. If you're being discreet with Seeking but plugging all your info into the McDonalds app, you're still taking a risk.

Yes, but a much, much lower risk, of course. And btw, I don't use my real name in the McDonalds app either. It's probably does have some spyware aspects, from what I've read. I don't even like having it on my phone, but the $1 Large Fry offer is too good pass up.

Anyway, it's all about limiting risk, and each person has to decide how far they want to go with all of that.

[NewAnonymousName]

It matters to me if Seeking.com has my real name, address, etc. It matters a lot. I don't need my real identity linked to what is essentially a prostitution site, not to mention the other risks involved. I don't blame anyone who just doesn't care, but to act like there's no reason anyone would possible care. Is kind of absurd.

I agree with this. When adult friend finder was hacked some years ago, many users' names and email addresses were published on the internet. I don't want friends, family and potential civilian dates to see my name listed as a Seeking user if it is ever hacked.

[Sgt Soros]

If you don't have a significant other or you do, but they don't have access to your credit card statements it shouldn't matter much to use your actual credit card.

Very true, I use my credit card and then immediately cancel my membership and delete my credit info from the site. My membership is still in effect for a month and no auto renewal from my credit card.

[FarFarAway]

It matters to me if Seeking.com has my real name, address, etc. It matters a lot. I don't need my real identity linked to what is essentially a prostitution site, not to mention the other risks involved. I don't blame anyone who just doesn't care, but to act like there's no reason anyone would possible care. Is kind of absurd.

I don't agree that SA is only for escorts, but undoubtedly there are escorts and their customers using it. Those are the people who get banned. If you are like me and looking for an arrangement, either shorter or longer term, you should not have trouble with that. Of course, I have a SO, I can't take any chances of getting my membership being exposed. I take all precautions. There used to be a lot more posting on here about all of the precautions to take. The Richmond VA sugar thread is a great resource, with a fantastic archive of all the good how-tos you could want.

Anyone who says it doesn't matter has forgotten the Ashely Madison hack. That one exposed personal info of a lot of users, names, email addresses, credit cards, you could go to a web page and look people up. That was used in extortion attempts, lame ones though. Just emails that appeared in people's inboxes. If you were lucky the SO would never know that happened and you could just lay low for a while. However, in a few cases, the hack led to people getting exposed, and sad consequences ensued, obviously.

[SolarFun]

Yes, Textnow locked a couple of my accounts for no reason, so I just bailed on them and didn't look back. Now I used https://mysudo.com/ on my phone and I'm not crazy about it, but it allows multiple numbers for something like $15 a month. It is billed as a "All-in-one Privacy App", which seems absurd, because it still uses SMS.

Mysudo works fairly well, but it is buggy sometimes with sending and receiving photos and have to send them one at a time or sometimes they don't go through at all. I don't highly recommend it, but it's what I use.

I know a lot of people use Google Voice #, but Google is terrible with privacy, so that's not really a good option for me.

I know you were asking about TextNow appeal though, and I vaguely remember getting an account of mine temporarily reinstated. But I"m not sure.

I use an app called Hushed. It costs around $70/ year. For me, it just shows as an apple charge on my cc statement. I generally text through it without issues however its wi-fi voice calls can be hit or miss.

Hushed is also based in Canada so USA privacy is better in terms of USA LE.

I also have a free app called "text free" also seems to work good. Never had a problem. On that one, you must use the free number once a month or risk losing it.

[Wleakr]

It matters to me if Seeking.com has my real name, address, etc. It matters a lot. I don't need my real identity linked to what is essentially a prostitution site, not to mention the other risks involved. I don't blame anyone who just doesn't care, but to act like there's no reason anyone would possible care. Is kind of absurd.

Fair point.

IMHO, all dating sites double as prostitution sites. Goal should always be to move someone you connect with offsite ASAP. Even folks that take as many precautions as possible can end up banned and having to circumvent to get back on the site.

There are risks to any site you put your personal info into and I get why one would be cautious but the risk applies to your entire online footprint not just the dating sites. If you're being discreet with Seeking but plugging all your info into the McDonalds app, you're still taking a risk.

[Peter Johnson]

If you don't have a significant other or you do, but they don't have access to your credit card statements it shouldn't matter much to use your actual credit card.

It matters to me if Seeking.com has my real name, address, etc. It matters a lot. I don't need my real identity linked to what is essentially a prostitution site, not to mention the other risks involved. I don't blame anyone who just doesn't care, but to act like there's no reason anyone would possible care. Is kind of absurd.

[Peter Johnson]

So somehow my text now number has been disabled due to " A violation of the terms of agreement. " All I did was check on a few sugar babies to wish them a happy Thanksgiving. I submitted an appeal and asked what the violation was so I'll await their response. If I'm unable to log back on, that's a ton of numbers and conversations I'll lose. Anyone else had this happened?

Yes, Textnow locked a couple of my accounts for no reason, so I just bailed on them and didn't look back. Now I used https://mysudo.com/ on my phone and I'm not crazy about it, but it allows multiple numbers for something like $15 a month. It is billed as a "All-in-one Privacy App", which seems absurd, because it still uses SMS.

Mysudo works fairly well, but it is buggy sometimes with sending and receiving photos and have to send them one at a time or sometimes they don't go through at all. I don't highly recommend it, but it's what I use.

I know a lot of people use Google Voice #, but Google is terrible with privacy, so that's not really a good option for me.

I know you were asking about TextNow appeal though, and I vaguely remember getting an account of mine temporarily reinstated. But I"m not sure.

[LoriTruck]

So somehow my text now number has been disabled due to " A violation of the terms of agreement. " All I did was check on a few sugar babies to wish them a happy Thanksgiving. I submitted an appeal and asked what the violation was so I'll await their response. If I'm unable to log back on, that's a ton of numbers and conversations I'll lose. Anyone else had this happened?

[SeekingHead]

Thanks for this post. It's good information. When the junior was in charge, I made a mistake of opening a profile with my actual card. How bad is it? I'm usually careful about these things, but like I said, junior was ruling the waters back then.

I have a blurred photo in my main. Some chicks request access to private photos immediately. It's a red flag for me, but some of them are really good looking.

I have my profile hidden, seeking isn't a dating site & you really have nothing to gain from having a public profile. All of my photos are private also. Every time I make first contact with the girl if I am interested in, I message her, introduce myself, make a comment on her profile & then make my private photos available to her.

[NuGuy36]

If you don't have a significant other or you do, but they don't have access to your credit card statements it shouldn't matter much to use your actual credit card.

I use my credit credit and immediately cancel my membership and delete my credit card info on the site after signing up.

[NewAnonymousName]

I just renewed the the discount code that someone else posted a few messages down, but I also just got an email with 33% off offer, so try this link as well.

http://links.email.seeking.com/ctt?m...MAS2&mt=1&rt=0

Thanks for this. It worked on the 3 month auto-renewal membership option too. I squeezed 3 months onto a single $200 visa gift card for an average of about $65 per month.