Nice to meet you. I’m Iron Man, and this is my sixth year as a member.

I’m a BB7 male member. I think the “Sounds Great” feature was introduced about a year ago. Thankfully, even someone like me has received quite a few “Sounds Great” messages, and I’ve met four or five women. We usually hit it off from the start, saying things like, “I never thought you’d make me an offer,” or “I never expected you to send me a ‘Sounds Great.’” Some of those connections continued. It’s simply nice to receive them, and I’d love to make an offer to everyone who sends me one. But I’m a bottom-tier member, so I can’t make offers to everyone, which makes me feel bad. If the offer fee were cut in half, I’d make two or three times as many offers. I wouldn’t lower the allowance, though（笑） Lately, I’ve been receiving fewer “Sounds Great” messages. I wonder if fewer women are sending them, if it’s because of COVID, or if more attractive men than me have started making their profiles public…

Maezawa from the Business Planning Office here as well. > What if you offered women who received a “Sounds Great” from you a discount on the setting fee? > Wouldn’t that also increase the club’s revenue? When the “Sounds Great” system was introduced, I believe we ran a “Reverse Offer Campaign” that cut the setting fee in half. (We’re not running it now.) Even if the fee were cut in half, would the number of offers really triple? You might think doubling them would be enough, but if offers doubled, we might not have enough staff, which could lead to a decline in service quality. So if we had to hire more staff, I don’t think we could call it a success unless the number of offers increased by roughly three times. That said, I don’t think there are many people who would make three times as many offers as they do now. When you look at it that way, the only ways to make the women happy would be to significantly reduce the number of female members or greatly increase the number of male members. But with the former, I think the number of men would also decline if there were fewer women. And with the latter, if it were easy to increase the number of male members, there would already be many more dating clubs.

I’m Meg, a female member. Iron Man? I feel like I’ve seen that name somewhere before. That was back when I had just joined. I diligently filled out my profile and even tried targeting gentlemen in their 60s or older who lived in Kansai, sending them “You’re lovely” likes. Maybe? Of course, I got absolutely no offers. It ended up being a total swing and a miss. And that’s the end of the story♪ These days, it’s a fond memory (staring off into the distance…).

I’m Date◎Yume, a male member. I think that’s a good point. I don’t have a public profile, so I never get messages saying, “You seem wonderful.” But if you do have one and receive comments like that, it means women want to meet you, so I’m envious. Even if I made my profile public, I doubt I’d get any “You seem wonderful” messages. Being in my 60s, one of the less well-off members of the dating club, and having graying hair… I think I’m out of the running（笑） For those who are confident in their appearance, this should be good news.

I’m Hikōki, a male member. That’s great! It’s amazing that people are liking your profile! I’ve never received a single like, and my profile has continued to get zero views. I don’t even know whether my profile is publicly visible. If members eventually have to make more information public and it turns into some kind of competition, I’ll probably leave pretty quickly. I get the impression that most male members would prefer not to have any of their information made public, though…