Talk:Seeking.com

Latest comment: 4 months ago by 2601:188:CB82:7CD0:558C:B4F4:5FF8:DDC4 in topic what IS the site FOR

talk history edit

(UTC)SeekingArrangement.com was founded in 2006. The dating website and service was founded by MIT graduate, Brandon Wade in San Francisco, CA. Wade currently serves as the company’s CEO. 24.234.146.235 (talk) 22:50, 18 February 2015 (UTC)wording for flow.Reply

24.234.146.235 (talk) 22:50, 11 February 2015 (UTC) Bling2bling (talk) 21:43, 22 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Sim Veronicasilvaoliver (talk) 04:51, 7 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Estou em busca de aventuras Veronicasilvaoliver (talk) 04:51, 7 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

talk business model edit

The SeekingArrangement business model is based on a membership system. Sugar Babies create profiles and join the website free of charge. Sugar Baby members who register with their university email address automatically qualify for a Premium Membership status. 24.234.146.235 (talk) 23:01, 18 February 2015 (UTC)flow Sugar Daddies and Mommas are able to register for site services free of charge, which provides them with a limited number of messages. After the trial period has expired, members have the option to either purchase credits for expanded messaging privileges on a monthly basis or on an annual basis with the Diamond Package.Reply

SeanHoade (talk) 23:22, 18 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

24.234.146.235 (talk) 23:01, 18 February 2015 (UTC) SeanHoade (talk) 22:57, 18 February 2015 (UTC)corrected Daddies and MommasReply

updated business model info Bling2bling (talk) 21:58, 22 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

talk membership edit

Members join for free, and can currently access the site from 192 countries with translations in ten different languages. The company headquarters is presently located in Las Vegas, NV. There are additional offices located in Ukraine and Singapore.

Drhees (talk) 00:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Member Types edit

Sugar Baby Members edit

Currently there are a combined 2.8 million Sugar Babies active on the site -- both male and female. Bling2bling (talk) 21:53, 22 January 2015 (UTC) Genericsn987 (talk) 23:27, 25 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

In 2010, SeekingArrangement.com began offering free Premium Memberships to students who register using their university email addresses. The company expanded its offering to college students in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and other parts of Europe. Genericsn987 (talk) 23:27, 25 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

In 2014, over one million students were registered on the website in search of Sugar Daddies and Sugar Mommies. Requests from Sugar Babies varied from assistance with college expenses to monthly allowances for living expenses. Bling2bling (talk) 21:43, 22 January 2015 (UTC) Genericsn987 (talk) 23:27, 25 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Sugar Daddy Members edit

Although membership is free for Sugar Babies, Sugar Daddys (and Mommys) must pay for a monthly premium membership or pay for a 1-year Diamond Package. Bling2bling (talk) 21:43, 22 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

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talk TCLogiQ edit

SeekingArrangement offers optional background checks for its members through a third party source: TC LogiQ. However, background checks are mandatory for Diamond Tier. Background checks include providing screening services for site members reviewing user records for flags such as: sexual predators, assault/battery charges, domestic abuse filings, and indicators of the like. There is a one-time fee associated with the member background check process charged to the account holder. Bling2bling (talk) 21:48, 22 January 2015 (UTC) Esain88 (talk) 22:58, 4 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Users who successfully become background verified are indicated with a badge on their site profile. Bling2bling (talk) 21:43, 22 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Perfect Arrangement edit

In 2015, SeekingArrangement.com added matchmaking services as an option to clients. The PerfectArrangement slogan is “A Different Kind of Matchmaking.” The service caters to both alternative and traditional relationships based on client-specified preference and need. Bling2bling (talk) 21:48, 22 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

HoadeSean (talk) 22:41, 4 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Mobile Application edit

SeekingArrangement is available for mobile application use on Android-compatible phones and tablets. SeekingArrangement is not currently available in the iOS store.

inserted mobile app info Bling2bling (talk) 21:58, 22 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

talk controversy edit

SeekingArrangment.com has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Cosmopolitan, GQ, and various print outlets. The site has also been featured on television's ABC 20/20, ABC Nightline, CNN This is Life, Showtime’s Seven Deadly Sins and other television programs worldwide.

University Students Seeking Sugar (2013) edit

In 2003, SeekingArrangement.com began offering premium memberships to Sugar Babies who enrolled with a .edu email address.

In 2013 SeekingArrangement organized a list the Top Sugar Baby Universities based on colleges that have the most Sugar Babies signed up.[1] Genericsn987 (talk) 23:14, 4 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Bling2bling (talk) 00:48, 23 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Google Executive's Death - Alix Tichelman Trial (2013) edit

Google Executive Forrest Hayes was found dead on his yacht November 2013 by his captain. Surveillance footage from the yacht shows Alix Tichelman, a woman he met on SeekingArrangement.com, injecting what appears to be heroin into her arm, then shooting the substance into Haye’s immediately after. Hayes died later from an apparent overdose.

Alix Tichelman was arrested in July 2014, pleading “not guilty” to charges of manslaughter and prostitution. A trial date has not yet been set. Bling2bling (talk) 00:44, 23 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Republican National Convention Site Boost (2012) edit

When the 2012 Republican National Convention took place in Tampa Bay, Florida, SeekingArrangement.com plausibly saw a 25.9% increase of site users stemming from this geographic area. This increase translates to the average of 1,823 daily users increasing to 2,295 accessing the site at this reported time.

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Huffington Post quotes “politicians in the Republican Party had more than just politics on their mind.”[3]

Huffington Post continued to state that further evidence suggests that of the 200,000 Sugar Daddy users, 42.1% are Republican opposed to 34.9% claiming to be Democrat.[4]

SeanHoade (talk) 21:48, 11 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Anthony Weiner "Sexting" Scandal (2011) edit

In 2011 former New York U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner posted a photograph of sexual nature via his Twitter page. Six women would come to light admitting that they had engaged in sexually charged phone relationships with the married representative. Sydney Elaine Leathers, one of the six women Weiner had extramarital contact with, admitted to meeting Weiner on the SeekingArrangement site. Leathers has since admitted to using similar sites since the age of 19. 24.234.146.235 (talk) 21:44, 11 March 2015 (UTC) Bling2bling (talk) 00:44, 23 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

New York Times Feature (2009) edit

The New York Times featured the in-depth piece “Keeping Up With Being Kept” revealing the complex world of Sugar Dating. Multiple aspects were covered including the allowances Sugar Babies typically requested, gifts received and the age ranges involved. The article highlights that pairings seemed to likely tip towards older male- younger female partners.

More intimate details describing the ‘needs’ of men are surfaced. Sugar Babies state the Generous members they interact with wish to feel affection or offer mentoring advice to a willing individual.

Reasons Sugar Babies are drawn to this alternative lifestyle include needing to pay rent or covering the costs of an education. Some actually sought encouragement or financial advice. In these instances, sex was not discussed and the agreement became exchanging companionship for an opportunity of self-improvement. In other cases, sex became an integral piece of the agreement with Generous members and limits are clearly described by interviewed Sugar Babies.

Past Events edit

Bling2bling (talk) 22:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Year Party Location Weblink
2010 New York Party New York, NY, USA
2011 New York Party New York, NY, USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ggSXtwPmA
2012 London Launch Party London, G.B., UK http://www.channel4.com/news/hard-up-students-seek-help-from-sugar-daddy-website
2012 Fifty Shades of Grey Los Angeles, CA, USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN0jHNfIEXM
2013 New York Party New York, NY, USA
2013 Fire and Ice Ball Toronto, ONT, CAN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K2rUy-vAeg
2014 N.Y. Grad Mixer New York, NY, USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMEJFN69YKk
2014 L.A. Rouge Party Los Angeles, CA, USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0GyD08CwcY

Dubious edit

The SeekingArrangement.com link appears to redirect to spam - I've nowiki'ed it out.Jonpatterns (talk) 13:25, 20 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ "Huffington Post Blog". Huffington Post. Tyler Kingkade. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  2. ^ Gray, Emma. "Sugar Daddy RNC? SeekingArrangement.com Claims Traffic Boost From Republican Convention". http://www.huffingtonpost.com. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  3. ^ Gray, Emma. "Sugar Daddy RNC? SeekingArrangement.com Claims Traffic Boost From Republican Convention". www.huffingtonpost.com.
  4. ^ Gray, Emma. "Sugar Daddy RNC? SeekingArrangement.com Claims Traffic Boost From Republican Convention". www.huffingtonpost.com.

It now properly links directly to the secure version https://www.seekingarrangement.com website and the server TLS certificate by DigiCert is authentic with a valid SHA-1 digital fingerprint. So I am removing the <nowiki> markup code and the {{dubious}} template from the infobox. - Becksguy (talk) 23:22, 5 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

an ad, with a few footnotes edit

I note that 22 of 59 citations are to SA or SA-owned accounts. Seeing as Wikipedia is a place neither for free corporate self-promotion nor for mainstreaming do-it-yourself prostitution, I'll probably remove some of the excess, beginning with the surfeit of three-sentence sections.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 03:08, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

I've also removed the Events section, seeing as there is ZERO mention of ANY such events in the article body. But even if this had been discussed, I can't see how (unless there was a lawsuit or someone died or Big Name Celebrities performed) this would further the encyclopedic nature of the page.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 03:42, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

This has to be the most poorly-written page I've ever found on Wikipedia edit

I have no vested interest in this page so I am not in a hurry to clean it up myself, but my God, what a pile of garbage. It is extremely repetitive, poorly written, and full of extraneous content that adds nothing to the page and is only tangentially about the subject. It seriously needs cleaned up. If I learn there is a tag to flag it for such action, I will add it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brakoholic (talkcontribs) 10:17, 23 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

what IS the site FOR edit

this doesn’t even say what the business model is 2601:188:CB82:7CD0:558C:B4F4:5FF8:DDC4 (talk) 00:02, 21 December 2023 (UTC)Reply