This short video is the reason I'll never do cold approaching

[dutchmaster]

If you're a high value man, the approach isn't so cold. Chances are she was already checking you out before you walked in

 

[ohrein]

These seem fake. I've done a bunch of cold approaches day and night and those hardcore bytches are RARE. Don't believe everything you see on the internet.

 

[Vivacity]

If you are attractive and have your $#!7 together, cold approaching will work. When it comes to dating/relationships, nothing works 100% of time. It's about managing your expectations, i.e., approach with a mindset that you will be rejected. I have cold approached with reasonable success, but only after spending 10 to 15 minutes of time at the scene of cold approach with the girl/woman I cold approached, giving her an impression that I am not desperate to get to know her or get her number.

"You can't lose what you don't have." Give it a shot; if it works, it works, and if it does not, who cares. Heartbreaks are for novices and rookies in the field. If you get rejected ten times, you would care less about any future rejections.

 

[3agle 3yes]

There is nothing wrong with cold approaching, you either do it or you don't, however by not cold approaching you miss a whole load of opportunities.

Here's the deal, you CAN cold approach and NOT look desperate or "unnatural". However, most guys (in general) have a mentality that makes it very hard to do this.

Most guys have what I call "premature relationship bias". This means most guys are inclined to think about having a relationship when he meets an attractive women. He will soon jump into a relationship with a woman on the slightest possibility and it comes across when he communicates.

The best way to deal with women (not just approaching, but in general) is to have no attachment...this means when you approach an attractive woman DON'T think about her in terms of relationship material, DON'T even think about getting her to like you. She's just a RANDOM girl in the street/bar/station etc, she's proved NOTHING to you...until she does.

Don't think about getting her number, you need a REASON first.

Cold approaching is really about:

1) Engaging in interesting and fun conversation (this doesn't have to be just verbal).
2) Vibing.

That's it...if SHE passes this test, then it's on, if she doesn't, move on.

Because cold approaching is really just about feeling whether she is a prospect.

She won't be sold right away (rarely anyway, and even if she is, she will rarely show it) and neither should YOU.

 

[MatureDJ]

Here's the thing about women doing cold street approaches (bar approaches are OK) - unless she is at very low Sexual Market Value (i.e., fat pig, etc.), the target will presume that there is something fishy going on (e.g., she's a prostitute, she wants to drug him and take his money, etc.), or at the very least, she's a complete nutcase. I had a similar cold approach in an eastern European country, and just came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth the chance of her ripping me off. I also had a similar cold approach at a gas station in Colorado (she gave me her number), and I considered following up, but then came to the conclusion that the only type of woman, especially in the USA, who would do a cold approach like that must be a loon and/or she must have been rough looking (the interaction was too short of a period of time to get a good look at her, although she didn't seem roly-poly fat).