What would you estimate your rejection rate is?

GoodMan32

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Its really not alarming. Its human nature. Here are a few ways to look at it:

-How many times does a guy on the street have to give his sales pitch before someone signs up? I bet the rejection rate is pretty similar.

-When I sold my last house, I had over 20 people come look at it. Three made similar offers, and I only accepted one of them because they brought more cash to the table and were less dependent on financing.

-When I walk into a public place I always scan the crowd for attractive women. Its very rare that there are more than 10% of the women there that I would even consider dating based on attractiveness. So on looks alone I have rejected 90% of the women there.

-Do you think a landlord accepts anyone that walks thru the door and wants to rent his property? For every 10 people that call, he won't even bother showing a property to half of those. Out of the remaining 5 there will be 2 or 3 suitable prospects that he thinks will pay rent on time, pass a credit check, and take care of his place. So 70-80% got rejected.

-According to google, a car salesman gets rejected by 70-80% of the people looking for cars.

The more you interact with the public, the more you understand rejection is actually pretty common.

ps. And this singles meet you went to you only asked one girl for her number and she declined. And you left mad after talking to the fat girl. You aren't even putting in the work it takes. I hope what I've shared puts things in perspective and you realize you are looking at this all wrong. Rejection is part of it.
The last straw that drove me to slam the doors wasn't the rejection from the skinny broad (or the fact the fat chick never offered me her digits). The last straw was the fact all the other broads I wanted to shoot my shot on were already getting chatted up by other men.
 

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If I were to consider my swipe app rejection rate when I was on swipe apps, my soft rejections in real life, and my hard, direct rejections, my rejection rate would be over 90%.

Most leading PUAs have mentioned their rejection rates. Roosh used to mention how he took a ridiculous amount of rejection. Tom Torero used to say that daygamers would need to approach 75+ women to find sex. Mostly every approacher has gotten rejected a lot. The highest volume approachers take the most rejections.
 

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If I were to consider my swipe app rejection rate when I was on swipe apps, my soft rejections in real life, and my hard, direct rejections, my rejection rate would be over 90%.

Most leading PUAs have mentioned their rejection rates. Roosh used to mention how he took a ridiculous amount of rejection. Tom Torero used to say that daygamers would need to approach 75+ women to find sex. Mostly every approacher has gotten rejected a lot. The highest volume approachers take the most rejections.
If you exclude swipe apps, what would you estimate your rejection rate is (asking because my cited rate doesn't include swipe apps)?

I totally believe a guy looking for sex through cold approaches might have to approach 75 broads before getting sex.

As far as getting a date, on the other hand, I wonder how many approaches a man would have to make (as a woman is more likely to consider a mere date through a cold approach than jumping straight to bed through a cold approach)
 

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Some guy on here was telling me 90% of men get rejected 90% of the time.

I'd say the topic warrants a thread of its own.

Although I admit I could be wrong, I have my doubts about his claim. As a man who's been rejected over 90% of the time (and has extremely low self-esteem because of it), I was under the impression a lot of men have rejection rates closer to 50/50.

So I'd like to hear everyone's input.
"Rejection" implies that someone else's behavior is PRIMAIRLY responsible for our hurt fee fees. Not so: Our own (frequently distorted and insane)INTERPRETAIONS of events dictate how much, if any emotional pain, we experience over them

Talking here "She rejected me" vs "I approached this girl in the produce aisle, and she threw a pineapple at me, instead of doing what I would've preferred.... Drop her jeans and thong right there in the shop, and invite me to go to town on both her poonany and as-hole"

In the latter, you're taking accountability for your own thoughts and emotions, rather than giving someone else most of the power
 

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While I've done random approaches, I've also expressed interest in my fair share of broads I already knew. Yet I still have an over 90% rejection rate.
Again, it depends on your approach. Some guys won't make a move unless they're very sure of the results. I know some guys here wait until they've put in the work, and gotten sufficient IOIs back to know that they'll accept a date, or hangout, or whatever it is you kids do these days.
 

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On the general topic of rejection vs success, a female coworker gave a clue she finds me attractive today.

She sent me a message on our work chat asking me why I added my middle name to my email signature.

I answered her question.

She then said "There's an employee here whose first name is your middle name. He isn't attractive at all. You don't want anyone to mix you up with him. I recommend you remove your middle name from your email signature"
 

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If you exclude swipe apps, what would you estimate your rejection rate is (asking because my cited rate doesn't include swipe apps)?
Around 90%, but more of my rejections are soft rejection than hard rejections
 

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Around 90%, but more of my rejections are soft rejection than hard rejections
I must ask: How do you continue trucking along, knowing you're far more likely to fail than succeed?
 

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I cant speak for OLD concepts because I don't dabble with it nowadays.

But as for cold approaches; I keep accurate stats on it, so I can tell you exactly what my success/failure rates are.

First, you have to set realistic expectations and goals for yourself.

My aim is to have at least a 30% smash rate.

That is, out of every 10 women I approach, I expect to be able to successfully provide my phone number (and have a short, meaningful conversation with at least 3 of them afterwards).

And of those 3, I need to smash at least one of them.
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I conduct my approaches in increments of 20, until I reach 100...and then I start over, although I keep the overall results (in ratio) of every 100 filed.

I keep stats of every increment and monitor the trends.
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I am currently on my second increment of 100...but my first increment of 100 goes a little something like this...

I approached 102 women (went over by 2 for that one).

Out of 102 women of whom identified as single and accepted my phone number, and of whom called me and expressed interest..

39/102
Success percentage: 38%

So, I exceeded my expectations.

However, I'm not out of the woods yet, because just because they called me and we had a short, meaningful conversation; doesn't mean that they will be receptive to my direct, bold approach.

So, of those 39 women, how many did I engage in physical, intimate contact after my approach?

Well..

8/39
Success percentage: 20%

Failed to meet expectations of at least 30%, and should that trend continue, I'll have to tweak my methods a little, and I know just what to do. :cool:
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But yeah, I've always been a stat head, especially with sports.

I keep stats to monitor my progress and it pays dividends.
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I even keep tabs on my monthly compliments that I receive on my body game..averaging at least 6 compliments per month...which is about 1.5 per week.

Crazy, I know.
 
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