Don't want to pay the extra money? Make a fake Facebook account where your age is under 28 years old, it's as simple as that. I am interested in how they determined the age cutoff for the price increase. The other important thing is that they've limited the amount of swipes a person gets without paying for the premium services, which might actually be a good thing for some people. But they're doing it to push people towards paying for their service. I haven't had Tinder on my phone for quite some time now and this is as good a reason as any to keep it that way. This isn't anything new for the online dating world, I don't think, as OKCupid has done some screwy pricing based on age as well.
You have to pay for OKCupid now? Oy vey. Its success rate chunked when I was single. It's not like paying for food delivery or online access to a newspaper. There is no guarantee you'll get a date, but you'll have to pay anyway? It's like they just want people to join activities in the meatspace and meet the old-fashioned way.