I may have been booted from SA, but likewise I needed a more reliable payment method. I bit the bullet and got a cheap android tablet and installed the SA app and Google pay, so now it’s totally a burner. It seems like the app is a much different experience than the website, and it’s only $13 a month…what did I screw up?

And for me it costs the same $$$.

Update on this. Had my numbers wrong, it was $19.99 a month, using Google Pay through the app. If you went onto the website you had a premium membership. The screwy thing was that there were only 2 girls within 25 miles that were active in the last month (this may be reality). I am in a top 10 metro area...I always wondered how many fake profiles they had on SA, guess I figured this out.

Are you saying that the SA app on the Android removes the fake profiles?

I  have  a premium membership which I created on a desktop PC years ago.  I also access it on my android phone, so maybe it's not the same thing as the "app" you are talking about.  But I get the same search results on both devices.  And I pay quarterly, roughly $1000 per year.  It sounds like you have some kind of a limited access, especially if you are only getting a few hits in a metro area.