Smooci Review: Revolutionizing the Escort Industry

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1. Ken F says

   November 24, 2022 at 3:55 pm

   To be honest, I REALLY wish that more Thai freelancers would use this site rather than misrepresenting themselves on Internet dating sites in order to find prospective clients (their very presence there is a misrepresentation). Of course, there have always been a few prostitutes trying this, even back when Internet dating first began in the late 90’s. But back then they were a rarity on such sites. Today however I would estimate that at least 50% of the even remotely attractive women on Thaifriendly are prostitutes trolling for customers. And if you are only searching in cities like Pattaya or Patong that percentage goes way up. And then of course, on top of the freelancers you also have to contend with the financial scammers wasting your time (and if you are a complete idiot, your money as well). You also have to deal with a lot of Thai women who seem to think it's okay to ask you for money within a few minutes of first chatting with you.
   
   Anyway, I probably would not mind the freelancers being there so much if they would at least identify themselves as such. But I would estimate that only about 5 percent of them actually do so. Although some will use code words like “not looking for serious” or “just here for fun” or "not looking for a boyfriend" – as if this is seriously supposed to tip a guy off that a girl on a normal legitimate dating site is a prostitute. And you cannot tell from the photos either. Some freelancers will have a single photo up that is about as innocent looking as a high school yearbook photo, while some nice “normal” girls will sometimes have some fairly provocative photos up. You cannot even trust the educational level because some freelancers will put that they are college graduates or even that they have a PhD. The bottom line is you end up wasting A LOT of time contacting women who turn out to be freelancers. And let’s face it, Internet dating was already tedious and time consuming enough before the freelancers starting flocking to these sites in droves. In fact, I often compare Internet dating to panning for gold in a panned-out stream – tedious backbreaking work with little or no payoff. And the older you get the less gold there is available to you in that stream. This is especially true these days with many of the dating sites allowing women to filter out both the profiles and the messages from men who are outside of their chosen age range. This means that it no longer really matters how young you look as they will never even see your profile or your messages to them. In fact, if you are my age you can spend hundreds of hours on these sites and still come up empty handed - although frequently getting your hopes up for what turns out only to be fool's gold. And what really bothers me is that now some of the freelancers on Thaifriendly have adopted this attitude like they are the ones who belong on the site and that the guys looking for actual dates do not. In other words, some of these girls view Thailfriendly like a dance club in Pattaya where it's common knowledge that 98% of the girls in there are freelancers and so only an idiot would go there expecting to hook up with a normal girl. And at this point they may just be right about that. In fact, if I were still into that sort of thing, Thaifriendly is probably the first place I would go to find a hot freelancer today.
   
   That being said, I did manage to find my last four Thai girlfriends on Internet dating sites, and they were all stunningly attractive and they all liked me for me and not for my money. Of course, to find my current girlfriend alone probably took at least 500 hours of tedious online work while facing loads of constant daily rejections and both freelancer and scammer encounters. It also meant chatting with a lot of seemingly great prospects only to find out within a day or two that they were actually totally f#cked up in the head (deeply insecure, emotionally immature, and highly irrational and volatile at times). Anyway, that 500 hours of work eventually led to real world dates with 9 women and the last one of these became my current girlfriend.
   
   By the way, having such a high percentage of prostitutes on Thaifreindly has created a very sticky situation and so you have to be very careful how you word your messages to people. First of all, the regular girls are totally fed up with guys either asking if they are freelancers, or worse, just assuming that they are and asking “how much”. So, you have to be careful how you go about finding out who is who. And if you write politely saying that you are only interested in getting to know the girl if she is not a freelancer, some of the overly sensitive freelancers will actually get extremely pissed off at you and think you are being rude to them. So, you really have to walk a tightrope on Thaifriendly. These days if a girl's profile does not specifically say that she is looking for a relationship I will write something to the effect that I am interested in getting to know her but only assuming that she is using the dating site for its intended purpose and is not there to sell anything. But even with this I would hear back from many freelancers and some would even get me to add them to my Line contacts and even chat with me there for some time before telling me that they are freelancers. The whole thing is just a big mess. I have nothing at all against freelancers but they should only be on sites (apps) that are specifically designed for the services they are selling.

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   Nov 24, 2022 at 3:55 pm

2. Gey Lang says

   November 18, 2022 at 9:17 pm

   Thank you sharing for this great post.

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   Nov 18, 2022 at 9:17 pm

3. Ethan says

   May 4, 2022 at 9:41 pm

   How the agency on smooci work? Like, does the agency have profiles for each girl or you click on agency and then work directly with agency on smooci?
   
   So curious about this and if its better to book through smooci agencies or independent companions on smooci

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   May 04, 2022 at 9:41 pm

   • TheThailandLife says

     May 5, 2022 at 12:04 am

     Smooci enables you to contact with the women directly, without going through an agency. Some of the girls are represented by an agency, because they belong to one, but once booked you are connected with the companion directly.

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     May 05, 2022 at 12:04 am

4. Riyan says

   November 29, 2018 at 2:42 pm

   you get beautiful girls from GoGo bar etc
   not much options available on streets at one specific point to choose from.
   few here few on other locations from freelancers. all though it can be more cost effective with negotiation for short time.
   
   and when it come to be more choosy like with couple or lesbian, many on streets feel shy and say No.
   
   so this platform is good for couples to choose easily the right option from good looking options.
   
   again photo specially with candy cam type software can be misleading
   
   This is a good options specially for open minded couples looking for threesome.

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   Nov 29, 2018 at 2:42 pm

5. Mr Panty says

   March 20, 2018 at 8:14 am

   I've used this service twice now on my visits to Bangkok. I recommend it especially if like me you don't like the go go bar scene and street girls. The girls were attractive and willing. My recommendation is not unqualified however. For some reason premium membership was unavailable when I last tried to sign up. Not everything is done on line. You get a call to verify your genuine. You pay cash to the girl. My understanding gleaned from conversation with the girls is that they pay a hefty commission about half if my recollection is correct. Would use again. Great for day time companions

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   Mar 20, 2018 at 8:14 am

6. Ben says

   December 26, 2017 at 10:11 pm

   Hi I really want to try this out in Bangkok but can I check with you if most of the girls in smooci are clean?Some of the escort sites I checked claim they do health checks on the girls but seriously I felt uneasy that most of them are willing to do bbbj which has risk of infecting our body....Man I really want to try it out but I am also scared of this.

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   Dec 26, 2017 at 10:11 pm

   • guywithaquestion says

     December 31, 2017 at 4:05 pm

     why bother coming to bangkok for sex if your afraid of stds, just use a condom, bbbj have some of the lowest risk for stds

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     Dec 31, 2017 at 4:05 pm

   • Mr Panty says

     March 20, 2018 at 8:18 am

     BBBJ is a good way of spreading disease. Cover up or avoid.

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     Mar 20, 2018 at 8:18 am

7. Ken F says

   September 27, 2017 at 3:04 pm

   Well, for girls who are already advertising their services on various web sites, or considering doing so, this particular site certainly seems like a very good choice. Still, I can’t imagine that these kinds of escort services account for even one percentage of all sex for hire transactions conducted in Thailand. Lets face it, most men who avail themselves of these types of services in Thailand would much rather go out to the bars and clubs and select a girl in person.
   
   Escort services in Thailand on the other hand are basically only going to appeal to one of two types. The first type is the traveling businessman who simply doesn’t have time to go out and find a girl on his own and so he finds it easier to have her come to him. And the second type simply does not want to be seen consorting with bar girls in public. Well, I suppose a Thai escort would also appeal to those types who are too shy and socially awkward to approach freelancers and bar girls. I have actually run across a few of these types before. They will hang out in the bars and you can tell that they desperately want to go with one of the girls but they just cant bring themselves to pull the trigger, or even to talk to the girls for that matter. At first this seemed incomprehensible to me, but then I realized that getting rejected by a prostitute would be particularly devastating for someone who already has very low self-esteem. And since many of the better looking bar-girls can afford to be picky there is always the chance that one could refuse to go with you. And in any case, if a guy is very shy he is going to be very intimidated by a good looking girl even if he knows that she is for sale.
   
   By the way, I have to disagree with you that theft is “common” in encounters where women are picked up from nightlife areas – at least in Thailand. Only an extremely low percentage of Thai bargirls or freelancers would ever even consider flat out robbing a customer. There are plenty of them of course who will take advantage of the more naïve and vulnerable guys out there and proceed to bleed them dry. But even these types are not representative of the majority. And I’m not just talking out of my ass here. For a time, prior to 2007, I was pretty heavily into the Thai bar scene myself, yet not only was I never ripped off or taken advantage of in any way, but I actually met some really good friends who worked in the business. In fact, I know quite a few current or former bar girls who are more honest, ethical, and downright genuinely nice than many of the prim and proper Thai women that I have dated over the years.
   
   Of course, even back when I was hanging out with bargirls I don’t think I ever would have considered using an escort service. The thing is, since I would typically spend anywhere from 24 hours to several days or more with these girls I wanted them to be fun to hang out with. And the only way to gauge this of course is to get to know them before you actually take them out. Not something you can do from looking at a photo or reading a bio. Still I went to the Smooci site today and tried to put myself in the shoes of a potential customer and here’s what I thought.
   
   The first thing I noticed was that you have to be a paid member in order to see photos of the girls who are offline. And you cannot even find out how many girls in total are currently active members on the site. Many online dating sites will do the same thing and it sometimes irks me that I have to pay just to find out if they even have any girls on their entire site that might interest me. I did actually find one or two girls on Smooci that I found reasonably attractive and a few with great figures as well (not always together on the same person though). I also noticed something odd about the women on this site however and that is that a lot of them seem to have eerily similar facial features – long oval face, long straight nose, and very similar eyes and lips, etc. They also all have very light skin of course. Women’s faces normally come in a variety of shapes. For example Selena Gomez is round, Megan Fox is an oval, Olivia Wilde is a square, Scarlet Johansen and Vanessa Hudgens are diamonds, and Reese Witherspoon is a heart. I can’t quite figure out what Jenna Coleman is but I do know that I would swim the Atlantic and then proceed to walk the rest of the way across hot coals just to be with her. And as for Asian women just give me someone who looks like Jamie Chung, only a bit more curvaceous.
   
   Anyway, the women on Smooci Bangkok just look like they were selected by some computer algorithm which measured them against some preprogrammed mathematical formula which is based on some very narrow Thai standard of beauty. The trouble is that I just like a lot more variety than this, and quite frankly it kind of creeps me out a bit seeing so many women who all have such similar features.

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   Sep 27, 2017 at 3:04 pm

   • TheThailandLife says

     November 23, 2017 at 10:52 pm

     Hi Ken, sorry for the delayed reply - I missed this one.
     
     I think "common" was perhaps the wrong word, but it certainly does happen - I'm always seeing news reports on these incidents. Though you're right, not so much bargirls but more the street prostitutes such as those that hang out along Sukhumvit road between Nana and Asoke of an evening. That said, the majority of robbery reports do tend to be ladyboys.
     
     Anyway, as for Smooci, I am in favour this platform because I feel it gives the women more autonomy over their work. I'm not so sure this will apply to women of 35+, but certainly younger, more tech-savvy women will be able to utilise the digital age to run their business from a website/app and not be tied to a bar with all the control in the hands of the owner and mama sang.
     
     Oftentimes, when starting out, the women are indebted to the bar for travel and accommodation costs, and they have to meet a minimum number of hours per week, etc. Using Smooci a woman doesn't have to deal with the noise and somewhat seedy atmosphere and clientele of the bar, nor have to be there every night, 7-days a week.
     
     As there are women who work in this way but don't like the bar setting, there are many foreigners who don't enjoy the bar scene but do want company, be it for a business trip, holiday or for the evening. Some want the feeling of a proper date too: dinner, conversation, laughs...
     
     The digital age is changing so many areas of industry, and I think Smooci will change the goal posts for some, not all, workers and customers. Whether it will make it safer remains to be seen.

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     Nov 23, 2017 at 10:52 pm

     • Aaron says

       January 20, 2018 at 1:06 am

       If this were only all true. I’ve spoken to a couple of different girls working through smooci and they have the same harassment and quota issues as girls in a bar. Being forced to pay for time off a very common issue among others. A lot of these agencies do all the booking through smooci and act as pimps. That’s the reality I’m afraid.

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       Jan 20, 2018 at 1:06 am

       • TheThailandLife says

         January 20, 2018 at 11:08 am

         I see. But don't the women you spoke to have the option to use the platform themselves? They don't need to go through an agency; they can join and verify themselves through the platform. Going through an agency, I assume, would mean the agency handles the bookings/admin for a commission?

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         Jan 20, 2018 at 11:08 am