Matchmaking for the 10%: sportyrods.com
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This is my review of the website pridesdate.com.
If you use a well-known website such as doublelist.com enough, among legitimate users, you will encounter scammers.
In contrast, with a website such as pridesdate.com, you will be interacting primarily with scammers, and possibly a few random legitimte users as well.
Unlike a website such as seeking.com, where primarily women go to find men who will pay for whatever degree of companionship, the business model of pridesdate.com is different.
The business model of pridesdate.com is like that of:
A woman working a pole at a gentleman's club may or may not actually being using the money to attend nursing school, but given the limitations of the establishment's lighting, you can tell what she actually looks like.
That does not hold true for online dating.
Profiles pridesdate.com combine the theme of the visual beauty of waitresses and exotic dancers with the story telling of professional wrestling.
A significant storyline of pridesdate.com is "sugar daddies".
If only you can spend enough time communicating with them, they will provide you with a lifestyle that you could not afford on your own.
The profiles and communication of users will range from clearly being scams, to some that are so well done, that you will strongly question my conclusion that they are scams.
Indeed, some will be so well done that you will not merely question what I am saying, you say that I am outright wrong.
Credits are the virtual currency of pridesdate.com.
Users have to buy credits to allow them to communicate with other users.
Those credits are very expensive.
One example of pricing for credits is 45 credits for $19.99.
That would be about 44 cents per credit.
An initial email to a user costs 10 credits, and subsequent credits costs... gulp... 30 credits.
Let's say a typical user contacts 10 users, sending 10 initial emails and 10 follow-on emails.
We will work through the following math:
(people contacted)(initial credits)(cost per credit) + (people contacted)(subsequent credits)(cost per credit)
(10 people contacted)(10 credits)($.44) + (10 people contacted)(30 credits)($.44)
100($.44) + 300($.44)
400($.44) = $176 per typical user.
How many such typical customers do they have?
I have no idea.
Let assume that they manage to get 10,000 such typical users over the course of a year.
In that case, annual revenue would be ( 10,000 times $176 ) for $1,760,000
In my example above, I theorized a $176 cost per user.
It is quite possible that the typical cost is far, far higher.
A well known phenomenon in the fields of business and outright scams is the "sunk cost fallacy".
In the case of a website such a pridesmatch.com, the more a user spends, the more he may feel compelled to spend to find a legitimate match in order to justify the money that was already lost.
Again, I have no idea.
Maybe call centers in low-wage countries and/or peope working from home.
It does not take a particularly vivid imagination to theorize that users have contacted real people whose photos were used on the website or whose photos were the inspiration of photos that were used on the website.
If someone is working from Venezuela, he or she may decide to self-identify as surgeon working in Miami, or he or she may keep things simple by saying that he or she is in Venezuela.
It is April of 2026 as I am writing this web page.
The website pridesdate.com was registered in June of 2025.
Domain:pridesdate.com
Registered On:2025-06-06 <===
Expires On:2026-06-06
Updated On:2025-12-01
That registration date is far too recent for the website to have the inventory of users that it purports to have.
My own website is not much older than pridesmatch.com, but I do not pretend to have a huge number of eager users.
Domain:sportyrods.com
Registered On:2025-03-16 <===
Expires On:2027-03-16
Updated On:2026-02-19
I have convinced myself that I want to join the already crowded field of online-matchmaking.