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I noticed that the SecretBenefits sugar dating site is now advertising on TAG. It has been around for a few years now but seems to be pretty low profile, at least I have heard little about it to date.

You can find what *appears* to be a legit review of the site online here

https://www.askmen.com/dating/online-dating-sites/other/secret-benefits-review.html

but I have also seen posts claiming it is a scam, full of sakura who get you to pay fees to message them. I doubt TAG would knowingly advertise a known scam though.

So, does anyone have any personal experience with the site or any better info they’d care to share?

-Ww
 
I noticed that the SecretBenefits sugar dating site is now advertising on TAG. It has been around for a few years now but seems to be pretty low profile, at least I have heard little about it to date.

You can find what *appears* to be a legit review of the site online here

https://www.askmen.com/dating/online-dating-sites/other/secret-benefits-review.html

but I have also seen posts claiming it is a scam, full of sakura who get you to pay fees to message them. I doubt TAG would knowingly advertise a known scam though.

So, does anyone have any personal experience with the site or any better info they’d care to share?

-Ww
I registered to 5 or 6 other sites than SA, including this one, and none was even remotely as good as SA.
SecretBenefits lists only 20 female members in or close to Tokyo (including one of your protegees who is actually in Australia :D) so, overall, not much interest.
 
I don’t know if it’s useful, but some of my SB friends in the US have used it and managed to find a legit SD. Never tried it myself.

You can also look up threads on Reddit about it. There’s a subreddit called “sugarlifestyleforum” that has a lot of info about SA, SB, SD4M, SD, etc.
 
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I made an account on there (and then promptly forgot about it)
From the ladies point of view it's pretty much exactly the same as SA only I find the chat system and layout to be slightly more annoying. But from the Sugar point of view, the same kind of guys who are "just looking for a real connection" (i.e want to meet you and have sex, but don't actually want to PAY for meeting you and having sex.)
 
I made an account on there (and then promptly forgot about it)
From the ladies point of view it's pretty much exactly the same as SA only I find the chat system and layout to be slightly more annoying. But from the Sugar point of view, the same kind of guys who are "just looking for a real connection" (i.e want to meet you and have sex, but don't actually want to PAY for meeting you and having sex.)
I also find it kind of hilarious that the advertising and photo's on the signup page are naughty and nude but GOD FORBID you try to upload anything similar to what they have on their own ads. :/
(Or maybe the manual reviewer of my photo's was just a prude, who knows)
 
I also signed up for several Sugaring websites other than SA when I first started including Secret Benefits. I want to stress that my experiences were several years ago and that things may not be the same anymore.

The site seemed mostly legit, although the email marketing I still continue to get from founder, "Herb Rose", are a weird mix of what is sometimes genuinely good advice for an aspiring SD and others something that seems pure fantasy. From the few women I talked to off the site the marketing potential SB's get is along the same lines. A mix of advice for aspiring SBs, and stories of women striking it rich with millionaire sugar daddies and being put up in penthouse apartments while they go to college or similar. The stories may all be true but they are from the very extreme ends of the sugar bell curve.

The number of women in my area of the US was fairly low compared to SA, (this was true of all the other sites as well though), and the messaging system was expensive as I recall. No option that gave you unlimited messages like an SA premium account does and had to spend a "credit" I think it was to initiate a message or read a received message. Seems like it might have also cost a credit to view profile details at the time. This was several years ago however and things may have changed.

I don't think the company are a scam but I got a lot higher percentage of contacts from scam accounts than on SA. You simply won't believe how many "nurses" that live in my area of the US are on UN missions to Africa but want to date me as soon as they get back, but in the meantime can I please send them money Western Union because they have gotten sick eating native food and for some reason the UN doesn't feed them. Oh, could you please send it to this dude named "Habubakar Jakande", because he's her "expedition commander" and since he's a native is much more qualified to handle her own money for her for some reason. (Yes I admit, I actually fell for this scam one time up until the request for cash. These guys string you along with messages for days and even send pics, stolen from random social media from what I can tell, before springing the trap.)

I think I remember they may have given me credits back when I reported scam accounts that I had used a credit to contact if they actually banned it.

Having said all of the above I did manage to contact some legit SB's in my area-ish, of those, I actually met one but we didn't really click. Not the site s fault obviously. Of the others I had lengthy off the site communications trying to work out arrangements but they never really came to anything. Again, not the sites fault. Overall, at that time the percentage of scammers and low quality contacts caused me to deactivate my account. So that's my story with them. Again, I want to stress this was several years ago, things may be very different now.
 
Thanks to all for your helpful replies and info and especially to @wraithfive for the detailed report. (y)

Very unfortunately "the percentage of scammers and low quality contacts" seems to be rocketing up on SA from what I hear (my profile hasn't been active in a while now), quite possibly due to an influx of them following the demise of CL classifieds and BP. So, it makes sense to start looking for alternatives to SA I suppose.

-Ww
 
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Am i the only one who finds that slogan creepy? I think it would put many ladies off from signing up, thinking that the men on there really believe they are desperate and will do “anything”.
 

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Am i the only one who finds that slogan creepy? I think it would put many ladies off from signing up, thinking that the men on there really believe they are desperate and will do “anything”.
True, but I imagine they don't use that slogan for ads on sites where they expect to attract sugar babies from. They probably don't expect a lot of potential sugar babies from the TAG population.
 
True, but I imagine they don't use that slogan for ads on sites where they expect to attract sugar babies from. They probably don't expect a lot of potential sugar babies from the TAG population.

Maybe their ads aimed at SBs say something like, “Sugar Daddies will do anything to spend time with you” or “to date you” or “to have you” or whatever. But yeah, creepy...

-Ww
 
Am i the only one who finds that slogan creepy? I think it would put many ladies off from signing up, thinking that the men on there really believe they are desperate and will do “anything”.
Yeah it makes me think of some sugar babies doing gold smuggling and contract killing on the side to make ends meet.
 
Btw, by experience, I think there is a lot of truth to this slogan
 
Bottom line - the ad is there to get clicks - hopefully, both parties are adult enough to kmow what they want and can find a mutually agreeable arrangement.

And, they did confirm to me that they are venturing into Asia now, so that’s partly why the content is fairly thin.

They would need to make a more attractive platform to become equal to or overcome the reigning king, SA.
 
Bottom line - the ad is there to get clicks - hopefully, both parties are adult enough to kmow what they want and can find a mutually agreeable arrangement.

And, they did confirm to me that they are venturing into Asia now, so that’s partly why the content is fairly thin.

They would need to make a more attractive platform to become equal to or overcome the reigning king, SA.

Truth. And since we are talking about it the marketing is clearly working.
 
Should get a meishi made up with that.



Hanako Yamada

Sugar Babe, Gold Smuggler, Contract Killer.
Yamada is more like a “Fudousan” family name in my perception. Well, almost the same thing anyway.
 
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Yamada is more like a “Fudousan” family name in my perception. Well, almost the same thing anyway.
I would be more afraid if she had the Rea-Estate agent title too!
 
I am convinced that SB is full of “sakura.” I signed up for an account a month or two ago, and since then i have received exactly one message from a different “girl” every single day (though they randomize the times). It’s totally obvious that they are not real.
 
I am convinced that SB is full of “sakura.” I signed up for an account a month or two ago, and since then i have received exactly one message from a different “girl” every single day (though they randomize the times). It’s totally obvious that they are not real.

I hear about this a lot, it's kind of why I very rarely (if almost never) message anyone. I'd rather someone read my profile and decide they like the look of it and message me.
 
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