Quote: (03-13-2013 01:35 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
Quote: (03-13-2013 12:46 PM)Goldmund Wrote:
Couchsurfing used to be a goldmine for very pretty foreign girls looking to have a good time. But then it went kinda mainstream when the media started doing stories on it. Now its filled with bozo guys and boring girls.
Yeah, the decision for them to switch to a for-profit company destroyed CS. My guess is that from about 2006-2010 it was a gold mine. Unfortunately just as I was starting to get active on there the plug was pulled. The quality of surfers has gone down hill and there's a lot more freeloaders and drifters. The admins only seem concerned about increasing membership numbers to impress their shareholders, not the quality of the members. The site sucks now.
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The option that allows the people hosting to search for those looking for a couch has allowed guys to scoop up any of the hot ones right away.
I've heard some stories of attractive girls getting literally hundreds of guys hitting them up on there. And most girls are too lazy to read profiles, so they all just post open request now and even mediocre-looking chics have guys literally competing to host them, offering to pick them up from the airport, shuttle them around and all kind of shit. Pretty lame. Back when you had to contact hosts to find a couch, at least you'd know if a chic read your profile and took an actual interest in wanting to meet you. Now they don't care who hosts them as long as it's free. One girl I hosted, after she left, she forgot to log out of her account and it was still open on my laptop. I was looking at some of the messages guys were sending her, it was hilarious. One dude was trying to convince her not to stay with me and to stay with him because "he'll show her an even better time", lol.
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Two/Three years ago I used to get messages every day from girls and would just sift through until i found a good one. Now I might get one message every month or so. From a monster.
Same here. A CS admin explained to me what happened. They changed the search algorithm so that is that experienced hosts now rank lower when people search for a host. CS used to work like Airbnb. The more you host and the more good references you got, the higher you would rank in the couchsearch. After many complaints from newbs that weren't getting requests, CS decided that was unfair because the experienced hosts were getting all the requests and the new people were getting hardly any. So they just decided to make it so that new people go straight to the top of the list and hosts with high numbers of references will rank far down the list. If you don't rank within the first few page clicks of the search you might as well not even be on the site as few people are going to drill down more than a few page clicks.
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I just hosted my first girl in a year this past weekend. Our first night out and she said "i told myself i would never have sex with a couchsurfer" I told her that was a really limited way to go through life. Other than being only semi cute, she was also extremely boring and got scared when I brought her to a party. Lame experience overall. Dont think i will be doing it again for a while.
Yeah, Ive had quite a few duds like that too and couldn't wait till they left.
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I owe a lot to CS though, I used it when I was first getting into game and it helped so much because my biggest problem was initiating conversations with girls. CS brought them right to me.
My CS bang percentage is 70% btw. I hosted over 50 girls in two years and surfed on 8 couches around the country. 15 flags.
70% is incredibly good for a guy that had problems even having conversations with girls. I doubt most guys on there even have anywhere close to that ratio. But I could see that during the site's goldmine years. I doubt any dude would be getting that ratio on there now.
I'm just curious if you don't mind. What was your strategy? Did you go aggressive with them quick? Take it easy? How many of them initiated it first and made it obvious they were looking to hook up?
It was pretty easy to tell if a girl was open minded and looking to have a great time that included sex by looking through the profile and sending a few messages. I would never agree right away but would screen and ask her if she was ready to have some fun and willing to go to some parties with me. If she responded enthusiastically I would invite her to surf. If she said she was going to spend time with others or didn’t want to go out at night, I would deny her requests.
My early difficulty with game was just initiating the first conversation, getting the girl to open. I never had problems being a conversationalist and the seduction always came natural. Just those first moments to build some trust were difficult for me. CS instilled some trust for me, especially with glowing positive references.
When they got to my place, I gave them the tour right away. My couch is actually a pretty uncomfortable place to sleep so I would show them that and then show them my huge soft bed and room with plants and flowers in it. The differences between the two were so drastic, it was pure comedy.
Then I told them I would give a tour of the neighborhood and take them to some really nice bars where the bartenders know me (another plus was the girls usually paid for all my drinks) and then to see some music at a small club. Thats when I made my move...she would start dancing and I would dance with her, hands on, smell neck…game on. It was very important to make the move outside of my house. Only 2 bangs resulted from waiting until I got home. Great thing is, there was never any resistance back at mine after we had been fooling around, the bang was assumed.
Just one made it obvious she wanted to hook up by saying how cute i looked in a couple of pictures...and she was a dumb Canadian. The rest were very European, feminine and usually quite shy...before I got them in bed.
The greatest times were with a fewvery warm, pleasant girls who stayed with me for a couple of weeks after we became lovers. They would cook, clean, pack me lunches, buy me shit, fuck me and then be on there way back to Europe after our time was up. I still see a handful of them either when I visit or they come back here. Another perk is that they tell their friends about me, and when the friends come visit I fuck them too.
Ahhh...the good old days. Times i will tell the grand kids about.