The Erotic Highway
As mentioned in recent posts, there are many new profiles coming on line, usually referencing the virus as a reason to sign up. That could mean lots of POT's who are totally new to sugar and are not very experienced in arrangements or how to navigate SD vetting on the site.
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My over all approach has always been a soft-sell strategy, meaning I generally don't initiate contact first. If she messages or favortites me, I can reasonably assume she at least glanced at my profile and saw my pics. Note that there are POT's (usually the scammers or pros) who do a search and go down the list checking the favorite box without looking at profiles. My assumption is they are tagging any profile that shows a certain income, net worth, or age. But let's not consider those for this discussion.
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So my strategy does not work well with new profiles, say less than a week old. The hottest POT's are usually slammed in the first 24 - 48 hours with incoming messages from creepy guys offering "$$$$ for anal," or some other unrealistic deal, or lame one line or one-word messages ("Hey") that get ignored. If I send a message during that time, it will likely stay unread or be quickly dismissed as from another creep.
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Waiting for a while does two things. First it lets me see that her profile lasted more than a few days and wasn't presumably deleted by SA as an obvious scam or pro. Second, it gives her a chance to sort through the mass of "noise" in her mailbox and get a better sense of who the worthwhile POT SD's might be. Or it means she hooked up and bailed before I ever had a chance to make a pitch. I'd say I get a response to flagging a new profile as a favorite about one time in 30. Not a very good conversion rate.
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So what do the rest of you do to get noticed by a newb without being cast as another creep?
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Life is good.
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The Cat
It will be interesting to see what happens in the coming months/year. Maybe there will be more competition on the site and the ratio will grow in the SD's favor.
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When the crisis finally subsides and businesses start to reopen, the colleges and trade schools will also open their doors to the new semester/quarter. As wise SD's, we already know that new school enrollment season generally corresponds with an increase in new profiles. As students leave their summer jobs, or move out of their parents homes to be closer to the campus, they often turn to the sugar bowl to get supplementary funds.
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But what will happen when the crisis ends AND the new school enrollment period starts at the same time (perhaps June to August-ish)? The same students who would normally look for sugar for help with housing, tuition, fun money, etc., could be joined by those students who were not able to work during the summer or who's parents had to blow some of the college funds on family housing and food during the lockdown.
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Motivated by desperation or just a desire to have more fun after being secluded, we could see a huge new supply of POT's in the fall. And with that increase in supply, perhaps a drop in prices without a drop (maybe even an increase) in quality?
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I did a back of envelope math exercise several months ago that looked at population demographics by age. My unscientific (thank you, Google), very rough estimates were that in a state the size of California there were around 2,500 females turning 18 EVERY month. That is a potential sugar pool of 30,000 18 year olds a year. Add in the possible increase of 19-35 year olds who also jump into the bowl for post-crisis reasons and I'm sure you will agree, that...
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Life is good.
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The Cat