“What’s Your Price?

I tripped over an on-line dating service and the concept caught my attention. You register with a picture & brief description of which of your characteristics would make others interested in you. I registered without using a credit card and within hours startied to receive “bids” for dates. The first was from an attractive woman who envisioned her first date as being dinner, conversation, and a plan for a second date if wanted. She bid $150.00. The second was from a 20 year old from a nearby seedy city who also bid $150. She envisioned the first date as “dinner in a real fancy restaurant and then get a hotel room I guess”. One bidder started at $450. The more bids I received the more I thought 1/2 were hookers and 1/2 looking for a relationship. The theory is you can reply to the “bidder” and negotiate a price ( for their time I guess).
Venturing into the unknown on-line makes me nervous. I’m too much of a sucker for a good sales pitch. So I tried reading the fine print to learn how the website earns their money, just what you’re negotiating for, basically how the whole thing works, but reading it would put Perry Mason to sleep. So I did find out how to delete my “membership” and did so, but am still curious. With Backpage and other sources gone it’s hard to find relatively local escorts and am wondering if any of you have used this or any similar “dating service”?