- Can anything be achieved at the free level, or is it hopeless?
- How about the different paid levels?

Thanks in advanc

Free account is worthless.  Guys can not read or send messages so you really have to get a paid membership to do anything.  That's just the way it is brother.

You need a paid membership to communicate and connect.  But before you pay, you can hone your profile, search for SBs, and favorite/bookmark them so you can contact them after your pay.  Don't have the 30-day clock start ticking until you are ready to go.

so unless you just want to get your jollies "reading the menu" but not being able to order, it's a waste of time.

OTOH, I think the new "Diamond" membership sends exactly the wrong message to a POT SB, I think it shows you have more money than sense, even though in the grand scheme of things, a couple of hundred bucks a month really is, or should be incidental. Personally, I still refuse to be suckered into giving SA an additional couple of grand a year to "prove" I am legit

I opt the paid membership and have elected to pay every six months, rather than monthly, It saves me a few bucks, and the hassle of renewing every thirty days.

I agree with those whose have already implied that the free SA membership for POT SDs is as useless as tits on a hog!

Where I use the provisions of a free membership to my advantage is through my "fake" SD profile. I have discovered that some of these POT SBs who take an interest in you (as a POT SD) do also stalk to get an idea as to how much time you spend on SA indicating your proclivity for serial sugaring. Of course this does not apply to the P4P and the PPM SDs / SBs whose motivations are different than that of mine and those like minded. I have discovered that a using my fake ID set up through free membership couples itself very nicely with my paid and real ID, when I intend to surf SA without giving away my real online status by being online all the time. When I find someone whom I like to communicate with, I make a note of their moniker and the sign in with my real paid ID on another browser.

A little more work but I am the sort who relishes in out gaming the game

Hi Prince, You have stated this idea before, namely that some SBs "stalk to get an idea as to how much time you spend on SA indicating your proclivity for serial sugaring."  I don't quite see why that's a problem. I guess if you are willing to accept an exclusive arrangement with one special SB then you could include that info in your real profile.  And if they discover you are very active on the site, it might just mean that you are very selective and haven't found "the one" yet.  

Personally, I am a devoted serial SD. If a SB asked me to be exclusive with her, and several have, I'd have to decline.  I always make sure they understand that I will always have other women in my life, just as I assume they will have other men.  Most of the women I've met here joined SA in the first place at least partly because they did not like BFs who tried to control them and keep them captive to one relationship. They seem to like it that I am poly with my arrangements and they want to be poly as well.

I keep my profile hidden. I contact the girls I like. The ones I don't like never see my profile.  also I hide my last activity. This might not be all that important. I have noticed though that if your profile is available for search then it will show up in order with other profiles so hiding last activity in that case is useless.  
I think a lot of SB assume they are the only one. If they ask directly, I'll tell them.  Actually, I made a mistake recently with SB #5 and mentioned to her that I see another girl. I thought I had told her that in the beginning but I now remember that was with SB #4.  So SB #5 freaked a little bit but seems to have gotten used to the idea. I dumped SB #3 as she now has a boyfriend. She still wanted to see me but I just don't need drama from him. So now I'm down to 4.  
I'm thinking the definition of serial SD is a guy who sees a girl for a few months and then dumps her every quarter or so and moves on to a new girl. I have 4 right now but they are at 2 years, one year, and the 2 newest are 2 months. The one with the new BF was over a year. That's poly not serial?! Lol

It is not always the best policy when it comes to certain target age demographics. I have found out that in the age range which I target (or had targeted) there are more sensitivity issues toward monogamy or there lack of, although most of the SBs are definitely full of sh*t about their desire for exclusiveness from the very beginning. I never lead them on at the outset that I am looking for exclusivity and monogamy as I am often quite evasive about the subject matter at the outset but I also state that is something that I am willing to consider once the relationship withstands the trials and the tribulations of its attrition period.  

By the same token, I can also comprehend the proclivity of some of the younger POT SBs (19-22 range) toward something polyamorous in nature. All in all, my method definitely suits my own tempo and idiosyncrasies best as I often find women's logic to be mostly visceral in nature, which of course makes me to want to distrust the words which they utter out of their mouths! I close my thoughts with these words: you often hear from women that most of the "good guys" are often taken when it comes to LTR and marriage. However, the very same women do not mind at all to go a few rounds with the "bad boys" whom they have no intentions of building a long term rapport with (unless they are extremely whacky themselves). Same applies to Sugar Bowl, i.e, if you are of a "keeper type " material , then they would wish to lock you up!

I have had several SB's who claim to want "only one" SD, but who even after we have started having sex together still log into their accounts several times daily. I don't "stalk" their accounts, but in a market with as few options as mine, and considering I sort profiles by "most recently active" it's tough not to notice when they log in.

I have also had an SB try to berate me for "looking for another SB" while I was seeing her after she "caught me" logging into my accounts several times. I am sure you can guess my response to her. lol

EOM.

Free membership is good while you are taking a break with enough on your plate, once you see enough new blood on the site and your thirst for something new is up again then go premium again!

I do like the idea of second fake account as it helps you see if someone blocked you or when you are pretending to be exclusive with someone.