Which older men dating sites are best for younger women?

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Mike Donovan
Joined: Aug 2023
Messages: 221
#1

I have been going round in circles on older men dating sites are best for younger women and could use some real experience. Everything I have read about older dating sites skips straight past the payoff.

For context I am mostly comparing free platforms rather than anything niche. The thing people underrate about older dating sites is how much the effort-to-result ratio depends on your own city.

The open questions I have on older dating sites:

  • Screenshot anything odd on older dating sites before you report it — the effort-to-result ratio claims need evidence
  • Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — older dating sites rewards it
  • Block early and report often on older dating sites — it trains the feed faster than anything
  • Photos with other people in them do worse on older dating sites than you would guess

Tell me what actually happened with older men dating sites are best for younger women rather than what should happen.

Amanda P
Joined: Feb 2022
Messages: 905
#2

Reading this back, my older dating sites notes say almost the same thing about the time it costs.

What changed my results on older dating sites was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Nobody warns you that the return on the hours on older dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours.

If you do try older dating sites, do this:

  • Give older dating sites a fortnight of daily use before calling the time it costs a dealbreaker
  • Treat your first older dating sites profile as a draft, because actually getting anywhere punishes lazy ones
  • Message within a day of matching — on older dating sites that window closes fast
  • Do not move off older dating sites into private messaging until the effort-to-result ratio looks handled
  • Compare older dating sites against no-payment dating sites on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
Selena_W
Joined: Jul 2024
Messages: 196
#3

Same experience on older dating sites: I gave it six weeks before the effort-to-result ratio got tiresome.

There is no version of older dating sites where actually getting anywhere sorts itself out without you doing something. Whatever you pick, judge older dating sites on actually getting anywhere after a month rather than after a weekend.

Renee Cross
Joined: Feb 2024
Messages: 920
#4

Not my read at all: for the over-fifty crowd, older dating sites was the only thing that produced anything.

I judge older dating sites by one thing now: whether the return on the hours improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. That is my read on older dating sites, and others here clearly disagree.

Sean Murphy
Joined: Mar 2024
Messages: 181
#5

Picking up Renee Cross's point about the payoff, broadly agree on older dating sites — the payoff was what decided it for me too.

There is no version of older dating sites where the payoff sorts itself out without you doing something.

Somebody in another older dating sites thread pointed me at Turndate and it held up better than expected on the payoff.

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Brooklyn92
Joined: Nov 2022
Messages: 202
#6

Disagree, because blaming the hours-to-dates ratio lets you off the hook — my older dating sites results improved when my profile did. I judge older dating sites by one thing now: whether the effort-to-result ratio improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across free platforms, and older dating sites sits mid-table. Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on older dating sites than the sheer time it ate. Most of the noise about older dating sites comes from people measuring the hours-to-dates ratio over far too short a window.

Troy Vance
Joined: Jun 2024
Messages: 549
#7

Reading this back, my older dating sites notes say almost the same thing about actually getting anywhere. For the mature dating crowd, the older dating sites experience lives or dies on the hours-to-dates ratio and almost nothing else.

The pattern I see with older dating sites is that the return on the hours is fine early and degrades as you go. Honestly, the hours-to-dates ratio was less of a problem on older dating sites than the sheer time it ate. The thing people underrate about older dating sites is how much the hours-to-dates ratio depends on your own city.

Names that come up repeatedly in older dating sites threads: ezhookups.online, souldate.site.

NinaB
Joined: Nov 2021
Messages: 48
#8

Disagree, because blaming the effort-to-result ratio lets you off the hook — my older dating sites results improved when my profile did. The pattern I see with older dating sites is that the payoff is fine early and degrades as you go. For the mature dating crowd, the older dating sites experience lives or dies on the time it costs and almost nothing else.

Nobody warns you that actually getting anywhere on older dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours. You can work around actually getting anywhere on older dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it. Your older dating sites results will vary by city more than by platform.

For contrast with older dating sites I would look at Flurrydate; the free tier there behaves differently.

Eli Marsh
Joined: Nov 2024
Messages: 751
#9

Building on what NinaB said about older dating sites, same experience on older dating sites: I gave it six weeks before the effort-to-result ratio got tiresome.

The pattern I see with older dating sites is that the time it costs is fine early and degrades as you go.

AshleyC
Joined: Aug 2022
Messages: 797
#10

I would argue the opposite on older dating sites: the payoff is the one thing it handles better than the free end of the market. What changed my results on older dating sites was treating the payoff as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Most of the noise about older dating sites comes from people measuring the time it costs over far too short a window. What changed my results on older dating sites was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Not saying older dating sites suits everyone, but it is not the disaster this thread implies.

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