I've tried Tinder and my account was deleted for no reason I could see, and I've never been able to get back on.  I've tried SB, gave up, returned, purchased credits, and had zero success, only frustration and annoyance at how badly the site works. I've tried Feeld as well with zero results.  Yes, SA is a pita, especially if you remember the "Golden Age" of SA, pre-pandemic, pre-Sesta/Fosta, when finding PYTs for BCD fun was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. Even here in Semi Siberia!  But for me at least, SA is still the only hookups site that has ever worked.  And I've also experienced the dreaded account suspended, account deleted situation and had to fight tooth and nail to get reinstated.  But it's still definitely worth it imo.  It does still work, even if the time and effort required is so much greater than in years past.  But I do love hookups with girls 50 years younger....

I’ve had some decent luck on SugarDaddy.com.  It’s a pain buying the credits, and there are the usual scams and GPSer’s, but it gets easier to navigate with practice.  I met with four new SB’s in the last ten days. Not all great, but they aren’t all keepers on SA either. A few months ago I hooked up with an 18 year old stripper who is fantastic, so there are some opportunities to be found there.

Tinder has worked exactly twice, and both well worth the minimal time wasted.  Two 9’s on both hits.  I don’t fool around below 8, just me.

SA is a full time job, but clearly works if blast the hell out of it.

SB worked. A few offsite, and I BCD, but as mentioned, hot as hell but crazy as it gets.  Mostly horror shows in the verification videos.

Do TInder gals come right out ans ask for P4P or are they just hookups?
I've had some responses on Hinge and Bumble but nothing ever came of those.

I remember the pre-pandemic SA when $300 got you a long way. I have had my SA account suspended, gotten it reinstated, lost it again, had a burner device and account, but it is gone again and I am out of work arounds. You can no longer pay with a prepaid card, so that limits options.

I played on SB for a while, but it was a credit eating scam (at least in my area) with bots sending you messages to eat your credits. I complained, got my money back, but was banned from SB as well.

Just started playing with SDM for the past month. I came across a group of AA semi-pros (same allowance, rules, menu) but everything else was a bot or deposit scam…send me $20-$50 for gas for a meet up. I had about 10 profiles text me outside of the site, but within 24hrs they were ghosts, not even sure of what that scam was, unless they have bots with burner numbers just to keep your interest. Sadly I’m closing down SDM as well, the juice is just not worth the squeeze.

Any ideas of how to get back into SA? Is there any other viable option?

It's owned by Brandon Wade, the same guy who owns Seeking. It's pretty bad also. Basically, you offer girls $ to meet for M&G. You need to have game to convert M&G to BCD right away. Otherwise, you are out of whatever you offer. Some will say before the first date that they are willing to go BCD right away if they feel comfortable. I did go BCD with a few of them right after our M&G, but most of them wouldn't do it. After the girls accept your offer, you need to buy credits to message them. Quite often, they never reply after accepting your offer so you lose your credits. Quite a few of the ones who accept your offer are either scammers who want "gas" money and "babysitter" money upfront or content sellers.