{"id":11095,"date":"2023-08-07T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/tinder-wants-to-sell-a-500-a-month-subscription-can-they-justify-that-nancy-jo-sales\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T13:37:24","slug":"tinder-wants-to-sell-a-500-a-month-subscription-can-they-justify-that-nancy-jo-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/tinder-wants-to-sell-a-500-a-month-subscription-can-they-justify-that-nancy-jo-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinder wants to sell a $500-a-month subscription. Can they justify that? | Nancy Jo Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tinder\u2019s users say long-term relationships are their number-one goal.<strong> <\/strong>Yet dating apps are failing at finding people love<\/p>\n<p>Romance scams are among the most common type of online fraud, with losses in millions of dollars. Scammers prey on people\u2019s need for love and connection, which can make them vulnerable to manipulation. \u201cThere\u2019s no end to the lies romance scammers will tell to get your money,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/data-visualizations\/data-spotlight\/2023\/02\/romance-scammers-favorite-lies-exposed#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20nearly%2070%2C000%20people,hit%20a%20staggering%20%241.3%20billion\">warns<\/a> the Federal Trade Commission.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t help but think of this when I saw that Tinder has just announced it is moving ahead with plans to launch a new <a href=\"https:\/\/robbreport.com\/gear\/apps\/tinder-500-a-month-subscription-1234826397\/\">\u201chigh-end\u201d membership<\/a> for as much as $500 a month. Tentatively called Tinder Vault, representatives of the company have said that the new service will provide an \u201ceven more fun experience\u201d and \u201cquality matches\u201d for \u201cexclusive\u201d users.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Jo Sales is the author, most recently, of Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/aug\/07\/tinder-dating-app-subscription-long-term-relationship-love\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ac62f5c034c525d983ebe6852c46585208cbddf5\/0_121_7360_4415\/master\/7360.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cd7755828c6f9c21020033ecbf6b288b\" title=\"Tinder wants to sell a $500-a-month subscription. Can they justify that? | Nancy Jo Sales\" \/>Tinder\u2019s users say long-term relationships are their number-one goal. Yet dating apps are failing at finding people love<br \/>\nRomance scams are among the most common type of online fraud, with losses in millions of dollars. Scammers prey on people\u2019s need for love and connection, which can make them vulnerable to manipulation. \u201cThere\u2019s no end to the lies romance scammers will tell to get your money,\u201d warns the Federal Trade Commission.<br \/>\nI couldn\u2019t help but think of this when I saw that Tinder has just announced it is moving ahead with plans to launch a new \u201chigh-end\u201d membership for as much as $500 a month. Tentatively called Tinder Vault, representatives of the company have said that the new service will provide an \u201ceven more fun experience\u201d and \u201cquality matches\u201d for \u201cexclusive\u201d users.<br \/>\nNancy Jo Sales is the author, most recently, of Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tinder\u2019s users say long-term relationships are their number-one goal. Yet dating apps are failing at finding people love Romance scams are among the most common type of online fraud, with losses in millions of dollars. Scammers prey on people\u2019s need for love and connection, which can make them vulnerable to manipulation. \u201cThere\u2019s no end to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/tinder-wants-to-sell-a-500-a-month-subscription-can-they-justify-that-nancy-jo-sales\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tinder wants to sell a $500-a-month subscription. Can they justify that? | Nancy Jo Sales<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}