What are the best sites to find sugar daddies without getting scammed?

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FinleyO
Joined Oct 2017
188 posts
#1

Been chewing on best sites to find sugar daddies without getting scammed? — safety & v for eight weeks mostly to see whether the complaints were fair, and the answer seems to depend heavily on where you live.

The part nobody warns you about is that the account activity indicator seems designed to keep you swiping rather than talking.

One honest account of best sites to find sugar daddies without getting scammed? — safety & v beats ten listicles.

Sofia Martinez
Joined Dec 2023
1,860 posts
#2

Would that apply in a smaller town for anyone weighing up best sites to?

Reading profiles properly before swiping produced better matches within about ten days and nothing else came close.

More often than not, on the sites, whether the photos look like the same person beats which tier you're on.

Short version for people without a niche:

  • Never move money under any framing — the alternative wastes weeks.
  • Check when the account was last active, and doubly so for people without a niche.
  • Reverse-image-search anything too polished — the cost of getting it wrong is high and the cost of getting it right is nothing.
  • Move to a voice or video call early, which matters most on the sites.
  • Swap the group photo for a clear one, particularly on the sites.

Someone pointed me at Flurrydate — quick to set up and free to evaluate properly.

HeatherN
Joined Dec 2019
2,389 posts
#3

Where it falls down is that the verification flow gives you no idea when an account was last opened, which is the real problem with the sites.

Datewander has been the steadier of the ones I run purely on how busy it is locally.

Nathan Walker
Joined Feb 2017
1,774 posts
#4

Does that change much on the sites?

The pattern I keep seeing is that on the sites, the effort in the opening line predicts whether anything reaches a first meeting better than how polished the profile looks for people without a niche.

Someone pointed me at Datenest if you're building a shortlist.

Does anyone know if that still holds for anyone weighing up this whole area?

Ava Mitchell
Joined Feb 2022
523 posts
#5

My working theory is that how recently a profile was active explains more of response rate than the total registered user count ever did in the best sites to find sugar daddies without getting scammed? — safety &am context.

Someone pointed me at Flamedate if you're building a shortlist.

MitchellS
Joined Oct 2023
838 posts
#6

More often than not, on the sites, the honesty of the bio counts for more than the feature list, which might just be the broad user base.

For the broad user base, the shortlist:

  • Keep work and socials out of it early on, because the alternative wastes weeks.
  • Let a stalled conversation go, particularly on the sites.
  • Stop apologising for wanting something specific, which matters most on the sites.
  • Give a platform three weeks before judging it, because the alternative wastes weeks.
  • Stop apologising for wanting something specific, particularly on the sites.
CrystalB
Joined May 2018
3,277 posts
#7

Not sure I agree. @Sofia Martinez, the timing observation held for a fortnight then stopped.

Where it falls down is that the profile editor quietly stops working after the first week — and nobody mentions it when they talk about the safety side.

DrewS
Joined Mar 2021
110 posts
#8

Similar story on my end — @Ava Mitchell, the note on the sites held up in my case too.

The thing I didn't expect was that on the sites, the verification flow seems designed to keep you swiping rather than talking.

My working theory is that local activity levels is a better predictor of how long a conversation lasts than the boost you paid for, though it varies enormously by city on the sites.

I've had a decent run on Datebound and there is no paywall on the basics.

Has anyone had the reverse happen given the safety side?

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