I was told by a man that the initial arrangement fee was ¥110,000. I was shocked because that seemed far too expensive.

What makes you think your looks are “platinum-level”? If you’re getting an offer once a month, isn’t that enough? Are you trying to get lots of offers so you can drive up your allowance? Personally, I think you should value the person who’s making you offers now.

Your humble and polite personality may have added to your overall attractiveness. ( ˶'꒳'˵ ) Since you’re probably connected on LINE, why not ask them about it once? Also, men and women may see things differently. If the person in charge of hiring thought you were more than good enough to go ahead, you should feel confident and stay just as you are. (^-^)

That’s pretty unusual. We get overwhelmingly more questions from female members like, “I want to become a Black member, so why can’t I?” The offer fees were set a long time ago. Since they’re fixed prices determined by the club, I doubt they can be revised. When you update your profile next time, you could ask whether your class can be changed because you’d like to receive more offers. That said, becoming Platinum doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get more offers. And papas who can afford Black-level rates are definitely more likely to have money, so it would be a shame to pass up being selected for Black. Women who aren’t selected might even resent you for it. If you’re getting an offer from a Black male member once a month, wouldn’t that already be an excellent result? It almost seems like a waste.

Even so, if you make offers to around ten women, you’ll find one or two you really click with, so I don’t think it’s expensive. If anything, it might even be cheap. Also, it’s “class,” not “rank.”

Even for men, it’s quite difficult to predict how they’ll be classified or how many offers they’ll receive. It’s even harder for women of the same age to judge, so mismatches are bound to happen. If you’ve been a member for six months, I don’t think one offer a month is a bad number. However, if your overall average since joining has been one offer per month, I’d say that may indicate the staff made the wrong choice. Even so, unless you go three or four months without receiving a single offer, I don’t think you’re likely to be moved down a class. If one meeting a month leads to a long-lasting, meaningful relationship, I don’t see any problem with that. That said, it’s strange—and not a good sign—that the man told you something you had no need to know: how much he paid in setup fees.

I don’t know how long you’ve been registered, but wouldn’t one offer a month be enough? If anything, moving down to Platinum would probably mean fewer offers from high-level men. It’s the same as how even identical products become more popular—and command higher prices—when they carry a brand name. Rather than worrying about that, you’d be much better off focusing on becoming someone the men you’re currently seeing really like. That would increase what you earn far more.

Thank you for your question. I’ll answer this as Maezawa as well. The club is funded almost entirely by the money paid by men. Universe spends tens of millions of yen every month on advertising, pays for system servers, hires programmers to make daily program updates and other changes, and employs a large number of staff for interviews and arrangements. I believe it’s precisely because Universe incurs those kinds of expenses that women choose to register because they think Universe is a good club, and men are willing to pay. If you don’t like that, you could use free platforms such as old Twitter, dating sites, or matching apps. Since there would be no arrangement fee, you might be able to achieve what you’re looking for in that regard. > I feel like charging such a high arrangement fee could almost be considered harassment by the club. I don’t really understand that way of thinking. The club has nothing to gain from harassing you. Or did you do something to the staff that would make them want to harass you? > Since the arrangement fee is so high, I only get about one offer a month. So your concern is that you’re not receiving many offers. How many offers did you previously receive when you were getting about one a month? If you’ve received several offers, then if women like you weren’t placed in the Black class, the Black class itself would cease to exist. I think it would also benefit you to meet men who want to meet women like you badly enough to pay the Black-class arrangement fee. If you’d rather meet lots of ordinary men instead of that type of man, you could use Twitter or dating apps. I think you’d be able to meet plenty of men offering allowances of ¥10,000 or ¥20,000. > What should I do? I may have written some harsh things, but that said, the staff are willing to discuss things with you. Try consulting them by saying something like, “I’d like to receive more offers. What can I do? I’m also willing to come in for a new photo shoot.” They might quietly lower you to Platinum when uploading your new photos without telling you. However, keep in mind that even if you’re moved down to Platinum, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll receive more offers. P.S. By the way, ¥100,000 is the arrangement fee, and ¥10,000 is consumption tax, so the government takes ¥10,000. (笑) To be more precise, until recently the consumption tax was included in the listed price. When the tax was last raised, the government received complaints that the amount paid to affiliates had not increased—in other words, that affiliates were being made to bear the tax increase. (Although I suspect the affiliates themselves may have complained to the government.) We were told that this wouldn’t be an issue if the tax were charged separately, so starting this year, the arrangement fee was changed to before tax. (It went from ¥100,000 to ¥110,000.) So the change from ¥100,000 to ¥100,000 plus ¥10,000 in tax was also due to government guidance.