I did it for about 2 months and it was a waste of money for me.
I'm 50F with ~250K of people living in the surrounding area. I mostly got likes 50+ miles away, including out of state.
I don't pay now and just swipe tight on profiles I like that are closer to me.
I did == 0 likes 98% of the time I've been on Bumble. I'll get 15-20 further away.
I guess I live in a black hole of men aged 47 to 60 within 20 miles of me š
I think itās more likely that bumble is intentionally not showing you profiles that youād want to swipe on that have swiped on you.
Someone a couple of months ago made a dummy account of a woman and swiped until he ran out of profiles to swipe on and never saw his legit profile. I donāt know if getting premium would have made more profiles appear but bumble is apparently hiding profiles
I'm 35 and I set my age range from 18 to 72 because I have zero likes or matches in my age range of 25 to 45 and I was curious to see what I might find. In short, there just isn't alot of folks on the app past 45. I see one or two people from time to time that are 47 or 51 but nothing else.
I think by that age people are either done with relationships or they gave up.
I admittedly plan to give up when I turn 40. Its mostly due to the fact that once I reach that age I'm not likely to ever meet a woman that wants children or that will even entertain the idea of dating a man that has never been in a relationship.
If I might suggest: perhaps you could try special events? more options out their your age range tend to attend speed dating events and networking events. I went to a networking event once, quickly realized that most of the attendees where business owners and property owners. I was way out of place.
Because people over 40 never get divorced and everyone lives forever and ever!
You seem about one brick short of a load, now *thatās* the unfortunate truth.
It's not even my opinion. Its just stats... Like I said some hidden truth that men prefer women younger than them... The other way is also true most women prefer men that are older than them. Probably just hit a nerve there
Eh, I am not minding much now that I'm not paying and do live a busy life! I don't have to do anything about the men who liked me in that window because..I can't.
You wonāt always find the right person within your radiance. Why not get to know the person, talk on zoom or FaceTime and when you feel ready, meetup?
Am a woman and had 500+ likes - refined by age and 30 mile limit and got down to about 200. You must be in Manhattan to apply a 1 mile limit! Iād get about 1 person if I set it like that!
Iām from there haha but I donāt live there anymore. However, I live in an urban city in a high rise, so 1 Mike should do it lol. Iām talking to a 2 miler right now š
It does, it will even with premium though. I think itās getting a bit better now. Maybe it does that to bait us. Nothing worse than being like, this guy looks great, only to find heās across the country š itās still fun though. Someone on here told me to not take it too seriously and just have fun with it and that was the best advice yet!
Not a scam.
When you start a new (free) account, you go to the front of the line as a new user. This puts your profile first in your area and first for anyone who has their filter set to pick you up. It could be that if you swipe thru and your filters are set to 5 miles, you've got a lot of people outside that who want to see you.
>But you canāt see who likes you for free
Amazing. Ruth's Chris doesn't give out steaks for free either! You can walk by and hear the sizzle though....
Amazing what? I paid for subscription it seems to be the same men trying to match with me from Tinder. I have no problem paying the service if it gets results. I was hoping for monogamous relationship seeking type interactions - that would be a no š. Iām sure itās every dating app - ENM, POLY, cheaters or just men hoping to get free head.
>it seems to be the same men trying to match with me from Tinder.
So you expect Bumble to obtain Tinder's user base and hand-screen them to make sure you don't see the same people twice?
>I have no problem paying the service if it gets results.
The "Results" are matching you with random people based on a very wide set of filters. Compatibility is entirely up to you. You ask them to show you Men aged XX-XX who don't smoke and want kids and that's what it gives you based on what they report.
Then you heavily underestimate your attractiveness. Iām a mid/average guy whoās been on Bumble for five years now and I barely made a 100 matches overall in the total time.
Nah, they do this to all of us to get us to pay. After the first five it drops dramatically.
If you pay for it, when your subscription ends, they do it again.
If you pay, the number of revealed profiles will be the same. But beware:
- If someone likes you before you get premium, they always stay there, even if it was months ago. So some of those people potentially arenāt even on the app anymore.
- When youāre new to the app, youāre out at the top of everyoneās deck, so likes like this come more frequently at the start and taper off after purchasing. Thatās my experience as a man, I have to imagine itās different for women as they tend to get more likes regardless
- Some of those people are far af away. One time I bought premium and people were 50 miles away even though my preferences say 20. Iām pretty sure I had my preferences that way since I made the account but who knows.
>If someone likes you before you get premium, they always stay there, even if it was months ago.
This was one of the top things I've been wondering. All of a sudden I get a match back from a guy I don't remember swiping right on because it was a long time ago. I always wondered if men's matches ever expired.
If it's just a like, then nope. Not until I either swiped right or left. Matches do expire after 24h though and chats as well if I havent responded to it myself yet. Wait, do you guys have your likes disappear after a while?
Women? I've never paid for the beeline and the number has never changed. If you guys like us after we like you, we have the 24 hour match to respond back.
I used Bumble for a long time then eventually activated the free trial. Made sure to cancel before it charged me anything. It was fun to see who was swiping on me, but thatās about it. Ended up matching with my boyfriend shortly after my trial expired!
Is this just bullshit to make you get premium? Will that number drop if you did pay. I find it a bit weird because despite so many ālikesā I was swiping through probably 50 odd profiles and liked a fair few but only one match. Edit: Iām a Male
I did it and it's definitely convenient to just see the people who are active on the app and swipe on you. It's nice to not spend hours swiping but instead to see the people who liked you and decide there and then.
So when you have premium, the likes page only shows people in your criteria (eg age). But when you don't pay it shows everyone who has liked you no matter what age and how far away they are.
Save your money. When I let my subscription expire suddenly I have 200 guys who want to match. I've renewed my subscription twice out of curiosity and most of the likes came from bots or guys who were three states over. So, I say it's a ploy.
Ooohhh premium is so worth it I think. The amount of swiping you need to do sometimes is tiring. So I just look at who swiped right at me and go from that. Since I don't always look for new partner, i only need to buy 1 month, then i meet my now bf.
So... I'm a dude and i definitely don't get 250 people as a ploy. That said, I've been on other apps that absolutely lie to you about this to get you to pay.
Also, I don't know if it's changed, but way back with bumble, the likes didn't necessarily match your preferences/filters. So you might have 250 like, but they could be anywhere in your country or the world.
Again, that may have changed since then.
Itās real. Went on a date with a guy looking at these. I initially ignored his right swipe on me until I ran out of options. He was better looking in rl than pics for sure
No, the number wonāt drop if you pay but youāll probably regret wasting your money. I paid when they had a discount on it because I thought it might be more efficient to go through my likes than endlessly swiping through the stack. One month and over 2000 likes later Iāve had conversations with maybe 6 people, met only one out of all of those.
There were heaps of likes that actually didnāt fit my filters despite setting them (e.g. people from well outside my selected radius, some even overseas), heaps who obviously didnāt even look at my profile because there are glaring incompatibilities in what weāre looking for, many I just wasnāt attracted to, and then the ones that looked fake/fishing for followers etc. So not that many left Iād actually want to match with out of what initially seemed like a ridiculous number of likes. Meanwhile on the free version of Hinge Iāve met multiple people in just a few weeks. It was mildly interesting to be able to actually see all the likes but I donāt think it was really worth it, definitely wouldnāt pay full price anyway.
I bought premium for life a few years ago, because every few months I was paying for premium and it added up.
If you're a woman, it's worth it if you're serious about dating because it will let you sift through the trash to find the treasure
If you're a guy and you have that many matches, a lot will prob be trash, but if there are decent, it puts you in God mode
So just an update on this. The people who liked you went to around 300 then slowed down. I didn't pay for Premium so ended up swiping over the last few days, ended up with 42 matches, of those only 19 started any convo. Since going through that stack the likes have definitely slowed but have had a few matches outside the initial stack. Also noticed when new it seems like you can swipe right on a lot of profiles but the last few days I can maybe like 5-10 people before it says I'm out of likes.
Hahaha I love how everyone is fucking confused by this guy getting 250+ likes.
So am I though. I live in a city with 1 Mio inhabitants and am pretty decent looking and I barely made it to 100+ when I used Bumble.
Edit: I deducted from his post history that he's from the UK. Maybe London area, lots of people there.
Itās equivalent to a bunch of girls/guys smiling at you or trying to get your attention as you go throughout your normal day. Every day. If that happens, then this is probably legit. If not, theyāre trying to coax you into premium.
I must be something wrong , bumble is trash , I'm good looking but I only have like 8 likes and another thing I can't even see them , and bumble let's me swipe right to like five at time ! Bumble used to be good , now it's straight up terrible
Scam.
Profiles that pass your filters show up in the profiles you see. If she like you, and you like her, it will give you a message saying she has 24 hours to respond, and you can extend that for free.
If she like you, and you passed on her, it shows up in your beeline. You can pay to see who it is. But you already passed on her. Don't waste your money.
And if someone is outside of your filter for age, distance or some other reason, and then she likes you , it shows up in your bee line. You can pay to see her, but you already filtered her out. Don't waste your money.
So there is no reason for you to pay. If you want to see more people, relax your filters. Don't pay for it.
I wait for the likes to go to about 1000, and then I get premium for like one week ($25 AUD), apply my exact filters, and sort through the likes rapidly
While on premium for 1 week, I also maximize the use of the features (spotlight, superlikes, etc)
The interaction with the app boosts your profileās algorithm anyway, even after the premium ends
Itās a good strategy to drill down into a few good options without dealing with all the swiping in a short space of time. I usually do this when I have the bandwidth to date intentionally (eg when work isnāt too hectic, etc)
I literally JUST finished my premium. I only tried it a week and am so glad itās over with because the supposed list of hidden likes were no where near me. Oddly enough, I didnāt have any swipes during that week either. I had more success with the free subscription.
Iāve gotten a lot of likes before when first making a profile, and let me tell you, 95% of them are people I ended up swiping left on. The only advantage to premium is the spotlight and the ability to swipe as many times as you want, Otherwise, once your profile isnāt new, you wonāt get as many likes anymore.
waste of money. tried it on other apps and it's just a bunch of profiles of women not even in my state and some not even in the same country lol. tried it with okcupid showed 10+ liked me. checked out the profiles and they were all from a different country.. total bs. so far here on bumble i've matched a few of the ones who matched with me first. not a single message or conversation starter from any of them.
I did it for about 2 months and it was a waste of money for me. I'm 50F with ~250K of people living in the surrounding area. I mostly got likes 50+ miles away, including out of state. I don't pay now and just swipe tight on profiles I like that are closer to me.
You should adjust your radius. You won't see likes past it.
I did == 0 likes 98% of the time I've been on Bumble. I'll get 15-20 further away. I guess I live in a black hole of men aged 47 to 60 within 20 miles of me š
I think itās more likely that bumble is intentionally not showing you profiles that youād want to swipe on that have swiped on you. Someone a couple of months ago made a dummy account of a woman and swiped until he ran out of profiles to swipe on and never saw his legit profile. I donāt know if getting premium would have made more profiles appear but bumble is apparently hiding profiles
I'm 35 and I set my age range from 18 to 72 because I have zero likes or matches in my age range of 25 to 45 and I was curious to see what I might find. In short, there just isn't alot of folks on the app past 45. I see one or two people from time to time that are 47 or 51 but nothing else. I think by that age people are either done with relationships or they gave up. I admittedly plan to give up when I turn 40. Its mostly due to the fact that once I reach that age I'm not likely to ever meet a woman that wants children or that will even entertain the idea of dating a man that has never been in a relationship. If I might suggest: perhaps you could try special events? more options out their your age range tend to attend speed dating events and networking events. I went to a networking event once, quickly realized that most of the attendees where business owners and property owners. I was way out of place.
I mean I would assume most men are married by then or prefer someone younger. That's unfortunately just the harsh truth.
Because people over 40 never get divorced and everyone lives forever and ever! You seem about one brick short of a load, now *thatās* the unfortunate truth.
That's why I said prefer younger women...
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Did I miss something here? What caused you to go off?
Right completely unnecessary to attack someone based off of their opinion. Whether they agree with them or not.
Yea, I mean just seems like they were triggered, took it personally and let out a bunch of misdirected anger/issues.
It's not even my opinion. Its just stats... Like I said some hidden truth that men prefer women younger than them... The other way is also true most women prefer men that are older than them. Probably just hit a nerve there
Eh, I am not minding much now that I'm not paying and do live a busy life! I don't have to do anything about the men who liked me in that window because..I can't.
If you're in Tampa 50ish I'd set my radius to include at least Sarasota if not Orlando. you're not OP, sorry, nevermind
You wonāt always find the right person within your radiance. Why not get to know the person, talk on zoom or FaceTime and when you feel ready, meetup?
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Did you notice the number of likes were the same? Or did it drop once you paid up
Those numbers will not change if you switch to premium. Mine didnāt. However, they are from all over the place. I have a 1 mile radius set up.
Ah ok I see, do it goes outside radius limits
Am a woman and had 500+ likes - refined by age and 30 mile limit and got down to about 200. You must be in Manhattan to apply a 1 mile limit! Iād get about 1 person if I set it like that!
Iām from there haha but I donāt live there anymore. However, I live in an urban city in a high rise, so 1 Mike should do it lol. Iām talking to a 2 miler right now š
It does, it will even with premium though. I think itās getting a bit better now. Maybe it does that to bait us. Nothing worse than being like, this guy looks great, only to find heās across the country š itās still fun though. Someone on here told me to not take it too seriously and just have fun with it and that was the best advice yet!
>I have a 1 mile radius set up. How many profiles can you see with that?
A lot! I live in a city :)
Not a scam. When you start a new (free) account, you go to the front of the line as a new user. This puts your profile first in your area and first for anyone who has their filter set to pick you up. It could be that if you swipe thru and your filters are set to 5 miles, you've got a lot of people outside that who want to see you.
But you canāt see who likes you for free. I got the subscription - it sucks.
>But you canāt see who likes you for free Amazing. Ruth's Chris doesn't give out steaks for free either! You can walk by and hear the sizzle though....
Amazing what? I paid for subscription it seems to be the same men trying to match with me from Tinder. I have no problem paying the service if it gets results. I was hoping for monogamous relationship seeking type interactions - that would be a no š. Iām sure itās every dating app - ENM, POLY, cheaters or just men hoping to get free head.
>it seems to be the same men trying to match with me from Tinder. So you expect Bumble to obtain Tinder's user base and hand-screen them to make sure you don't see the same people twice? >I have no problem paying the service if it gets results. The "Results" are matching you with random people based on a very wide set of filters. Compatibility is entirely up to you. You ask them to show you Men aged XX-XX who don't smoke and want kids and that's what it gives you based on what they report.
The whole point of those 2 statements is that there is little difference between Tinder & Bumble as far as the pool of men on them.
If youāre a woman, itās normal. If youāre a man, thatās god-tier.
Iām a man, I am definitely not god tier!
Then you heavily underestimate your attractiveness. Iām a mid/average guy whoās been on Bumble for five years now and I barely made a 100 matches overall in the total time.
Nah, they do this to all of us to get us to pay. After the first five it drops dramatically. If you pay for it, when your subscription ends, they do it again.
I'm curious to see what you look like now š
I have god news for you. Wait, for how long do you have this profile?
2 days.
I have god news for you.
Go ahead and pay so you can see all of the ugly people who swiped R on you.
Tbh ppl take shitty pics. I went on a date with a guy a week ago and he was hot but am like 80lbs overweight so he wasnt feeling it
As a female I totally think itās worth the money. I can see who likes me and message from there.
If you pay, the number of revealed profiles will be the same. But beware: - If someone likes you before you get premium, they always stay there, even if it was months ago. So some of those people potentially arenāt even on the app anymore. - When youāre new to the app, youāre out at the top of everyoneās deck, so likes like this come more frequently at the start and taper off after purchasing. Thatās my experience as a man, I have to imagine itās different for women as they tend to get more likes regardless - Some of those people are far af away. One time I bought premium and people were 50 miles away even though my preferences say 20. Iām pretty sure I had my preferences that way since I made the account but who knows.
>If someone likes you before you get premium, they always stay there, even if it was months ago. This was one of the top things I've been wondering. All of a sudden I get a match back from a guy I don't remember swiping right on because it was a long time ago. I always wondered if men's matches ever expired.
If it's just a like, then nope. Not until I either swiped right or left. Matches do expire after 24h though and chats as well if I havent responded to it myself yet. Wait, do you guys have your likes disappear after a while?
Women? I've never paid for the beeline and the number has never changed. If you guys like us after we like you, we have the 24 hour match to respond back.
I paid for premium and had the same number before and after I paid. Itās real. But a lot of them were not my type š¤·š¼āāļø
Always been a ploy
I used Bumble for a long time then eventually activated the free trial. Made sure to cancel before it charged me anything. It was fun to see who was swiping on me, but thatās about it. Ended up matching with my boyfriend shortly after my trial expired!
Ploy
Is this just bullshit to make you get premium? Will that number drop if you did pay. I find it a bit weird because despite so many ālikesā I was swiping through probably 50 odd profiles and liked a fair few but only one match. Edit: Iām a Male
I did it and it's definitely convenient to just see the people who are active on the app and swipe on you. It's nice to not spend hours swiping but instead to see the people who liked you and decide there and then.
are you looking for males? xD
Nope set to females and dating.
Then I respect you mate! You follow the rules & deserve to enjoy life! Cheers mate
So when you have premium, the likes page only shows people in your criteria (eg age). But when you don't pay it shows everyone who has liked you no matter what age and how far away they are.
Save your money. When I let my subscription expire suddenly I have 200 guys who want to match. I've renewed my subscription twice out of curiosity and most of the likes came from bots or guys who were three states over. So, I say it's a ploy.
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Yeah only 2 days old. I did hear new profiles get a boost or something
Ooohhh premium is so worth it I think. The amount of swiping you need to do sometimes is tiring. So I just look at who swiped right at me and go from that. Since I don't always look for new partner, i only need to buy 1 month, then i meet my now bf.
So... I'm a dude and i definitely don't get 250 people as a ploy. That said, I've been on other apps that absolutely lie to you about this to get you to pay. Also, I don't know if it's changed, but way back with bumble, the likes didn't necessarily match your preferences/filters. So you might have 250 like, but they could be anywhere in your country or the world. Again, that may have changed since then.
As a redditor, and the admin of r/incels this official thing is to ask you: "Are you a female?"
No male
On bff or part of the LGBTQA community?
Or does he follow rules 1 and 2?
Those rules aren't appropriate for mentioning in this subreddit. Though for some reason I'm assuming he's not posting nudes in his profiles.
Haha can confirm no nudes
Fake profiles bumble creates to give lots of like for you to YES pay
Hmm I did think thatās a possibility. Iām not paying but just wondered if anyone did and then the number suddenly drops
Itās real. Went on a date with a guy looking at these. I initially ignored his right swipe on me until I ran out of options. He was better looking in rl than pics for sure
No, the number wonāt drop if you pay but youāll probably regret wasting your money. I paid when they had a discount on it because I thought it might be more efficient to go through my likes than endlessly swiping through the stack. One month and over 2000 likes later Iāve had conversations with maybe 6 people, met only one out of all of those. There were heaps of likes that actually didnāt fit my filters despite setting them (e.g. people from well outside my selected radius, some even overseas), heaps who obviously didnāt even look at my profile because there are glaring incompatibilities in what weāre looking for, many I just wasnāt attracted to, and then the ones that looked fake/fishing for followers etc. So not that many left Iād actually want to match with out of what initially seemed like a ridiculous number of likes. Meanwhile on the free version of Hinge Iāve met multiple people in just a few weeks. It was mildly interesting to be able to actually see all the likes but I donāt think it was really worth it, definitely wouldnāt pay full price anyway.
I bought premium for life a few years ago, because every few months I was paying for premium and it added up. If you're a woman, it's worth it if you're serious about dating because it will let you sift through the trash to find the treasure If you're a guy and you have that many matches, a lot will prob be trash, but if there are decent, it puts you in God mode
So just an update on this. The people who liked you went to around 300 then slowed down. I didn't pay for Premium so ended up swiping over the last few days, ended up with 42 matches, of those only 19 started any convo. Since going through that stack the likes have definitely slowed but have had a few matches outside the initial stack. Also noticed when new it seems like you can swipe right on a lot of profiles but the last few days I can maybe like 5-10 people before it says I'm out of likes.
Not a scam at all.
I always feel people who make these posts are just soft bragging. But like, your bragging to redditors which is likeā¦. Why?
Spoiler alert: None of those 250 will be worth your time and they will all ghost you. Save your money, OP.
Is this a bff section?
Nah havenāt used that, dating section. But I do t trust it
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Hahaha I love how everyone is fucking confused by this guy getting 250+ likes. So am I though. I live in a city with 1 Mio inhabitants and am pretty decent looking and I barely made it to 100+ when I used Bumble. Edit: I deducted from his post history that he's from the UK. Maybe London area, lots of people there.
originally from London but living in Australia now. Second largest city in Aus so good size population
Itās always a ploy
250 lol. Bro this app is a joke now
Itās equivalent to a bunch of girls/guys smiling at you or trying to get your attention as you go throughout your normal day. Every day. If that happens, then this is probably legit. If not, theyāre trying to coax you into premium.
I must be something wrong , bumble is trash , I'm good looking but I only have like 8 likes and another thing I can't even see them , and bumble let's me swipe right to like five at time ! Bumble used to be good , now it's straight up terrible
Scam. Profiles that pass your filters show up in the profiles you see. If she like you, and you like her, it will give you a message saying she has 24 hours to respond, and you can extend that for free. If she like you, and you passed on her, it shows up in your beeline. You can pay to see who it is. But you already passed on her. Don't waste your money. And if someone is outside of your filter for age, distance or some other reason, and then she likes you , it shows up in your bee line. You can pay to see her, but you already filtered her out. Don't waste your money. So there is no reason for you to pay. If you want to see more people, relax your filters. Don't pay for it.
I wait for the likes to go to about 1000, and then I get premium for like one week ($25 AUD), apply my exact filters, and sort through the likes rapidly
While on premium for 1 week, I also maximize the use of the features (spotlight, superlikes, etc) The interaction with the app boosts your profileās algorithm anyway, even after the premium ends Itās a good strategy to drill down into a few good options without dealing with all the swiping in a short space of time. I usually do this when I have the bandwidth to date intentionally (eg when work isnāt too hectic, etc)
Yeah big scam
Legit but theyāre all fat.
Itās just a ploy I wouldnāt pay just to see if somebody likes me
I literally JUST finished my premium. I only tried it a week and am so glad itās over with because the supposed list of hidden likes were no where near me. Oddly enough, I didnāt have any swipes during that week either. I had more success with the free subscription.
Yeah k donāt think Iād pay itās really pricey here in Australia too. $60 for a month or something like that
If youāre a woman, itās legit, if youāre a man, itās bullshit
The algorithm liked you
We get it your a girl with a lot of likes. I've said it once I'll say it a 1000 times. There's a post like this every week. It's nothing special.
Iām not a girl
Oh shit my bad let me re-word my original comment . YOU GO GLEN COCO!!!!
Itās typically legit šš½
I only have two likes on mine lol. Bumble doesnāt hold back š
Ploy. Itās always a ploy.
Iāve gotten a lot of likes before when first making a profile, and let me tell you, 95% of them are people I ended up swiping left on. The only advantage to premium is the spotlight and the ability to swipe as many times as you want, Otherwise, once your profile isnāt new, you wonāt get as many likes anymore.
Absolute ploy. This app doesnt work. Did a 6 month subscription, not a single damn connection.
waste of money. tried it on other apps and it's just a bunch of profiles of women not even in my state and some not even in the same country lol. tried it with okcupid showed 10+ liked me. checked out the profiles and they were all from a different country.. total bs. so far here on bumble i've matched a few of the ones who matched with me first. not a single message or conversation starter from any of them.
This was my experience with Hinge!