What Extras Raya Sells on Top of Membership

Raya sells three paid extras on top of the membership: Skip the Wait, Direct Requests and Extra Likes. Its App Store listing offers Skip the Wait and Direct Requests one at a time or in small bundles, and Extra Likes as a pack. They are paid through your Apple account, and Raya's terms say any you have not used are not refunded when your membership ends. So buy one only when you have a use for it in front of you, which is a sound rule for paid add-ons on any of the dating apps.

Each extra solves one specific problem, and the name tells you roughly which.

Skip the Wait is about the gap between the sets of people Raya shows you. Reviews of the app describe a wait for more member suggestions once you reach the end of a set, and Skip the Wait as the paid way to see more now instead. Those same reviews treat it as a purchase for members inside the app, not a way to speed up an application.

Direct Requests, as guides to the app describe them, let you reach a member you have not matched with, instead of waiting for the two of you to like each other.

Extra Likes top up the likes you can send.

The purchase screen in the app describes each one before you pay. Read it there, because what Raya offers can change.

Raya's terms say unused in-app purchases are not refunded when a membership ends. That one rule should shape how you buy.

A bundle can look like the better deal. But a bundle you only half use, followed by a membership you let lapse, means you paid for the other half and got nothing for it. Unless you are sure you will use the whole bundle while your membership is active, buy the single.

Skip the Wait only helps if more people to look at is what you are actually short of. Before buying, check two things. Are you up to date with the matches you already have? And do you have likes left to spend on the people it brings?

If a woman who already liked you is waiting for a reply, answering her is worth more than a fresh set of strangers. If you have used your likes, more suggestions leave you with nothing to do with them.

The good case is narrow: a free evening, likes to spend and nothing waiting for a reply. Outside that case, the wait passes on its own for free.

A Direct Request is the extra most likely to change how a woman sees you, for better or worse.

a dating coach is wary of paid features that single a woman out before she has shown any interest, such as the super like on other apps. His worry is not only that they can look desperate. Even when one works, the conversation starts with her on a pedestal, because you have announced that you chose her as special. That makes everything you write afterwards a little harder.

A Direct Request carries the same risk. If you use one, write it the way you would write any good first message: short, relaxed and about something specific she shared. Do not apologize for reaching out, and do not make it a declaration. Save them for the rare woman you would genuinely regret not contacting.

Extra Likes make sense for one kind of man: the one who regularly runs out while there are still women left he would genuinely want to take out.

They do not make sense for the man who runs out because he likes everyone. a dating coach's advice to that man is to stop liking women he would not actually want to meet. His view is that the apps tend to treat a man who likes less often as more selective, and may show him more attractive women in return. Buying more likes to spend the same way only buys more of the same results.

If you want to know whether an extra is worth it, buy the smallest amount of one and use it at a time you can follow up. A week later, look at what it produced: a conversation, a plan, a date, or nothing.

Keep buying the ones that turn into dates. Drop the ones that only turn into more people you never hear from. Most weeks the membership alone is enough, and the money is better spent on photos that make your likes come back.