Review Detail

Packaging got 4 stars, because though I like the idea of having 3 recorded phone calls to hear Todd's "amazing" phone game (he states that he wants to get them on the phone because he has good phone game--I didn't notice anything special, it was pretty lackluster), unfortunately they couldn't figure out a way to record a phone call so that you could clearly hear both parties. This is an audio issue on their part, and is something that I could and have done before when coaching a few guys--and I'm not an audio expert.

Effectiveness got 1 star because I was doing very well online BEFORE using any of Todd's advice,
and after using many of his tips, my success decreased.
Maybe you're asking why I would get this program. Simple. I want to know everything regarding game, and especially online game (since I find it so easy-- I regularly have girls arriving at my doorstep and kissing me before hearing my voice). I am always looking for new ways to do things.
I have read many other books and programs on online dating, maybe most of them.
This includes Gentlemen's Guide to Online Dating, GoodLookingLoser's guide, Scott Valdez's Click Magnet, Net2Bed (this was over 10 years ago), The Post-it Note Hack by Andy Yosha, Window Shopping for Women by Race dePriest (this one had the BEST pre-selection photos and other photos in general...AMAZING....all other programs showed terrible preselection photos, way too obviously contrived).

I wish this were still fresh in my mind, but I can give a quick example.
Todd's main profile starts off in a (try-hard) cocky way. I say "try-hard," because in my opinion,
my own profile (which women frequently tell me is the best profile they've ever read, that they have a crush on my writing--or if I write them first, they tell me that they were going to message me but they thought I was out of their league)... my own profile is cocky. WITHOUT overtly writing, "I am cocky." (Todd does this in his profile). Then, to balance out the cockiness (which he simply told her instead of showing her--you should not TELL her that you're funny, you should SHOW her),
to offset this cockiness, he then goes on poetically claiming that "I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC," and then goes on comparing love to a "shooting star." (throw up) This violates his advice in Chapter 2 to avoid cliches. "I'm a hopeless romantic," is not only a cliche, but I'm pretty sure it's not true of Todd, and worse, he never demonstrates it on the date (there is video of his 1st date, which I like, but it certainly is not romantic.. they just met in a shopping mall; not saying it's a bad date idea, but it's not romantic).

I'm not saying that no girls like romance and poetry. But it's just so incongruent, so jarring in his profile.
He goes from the headline, "Life's too short to dance with fat chicks," to claiming that he is cocky twice in the first paragraph, to then writing, "I'm a hopeless romantic, and I believe that love is like a shooting star."

It's like Todd wrote the headline and the first paragraph, then Adam Gilad wrote the second paragraph.
Either one MIGHT work (even though they suffer from being cliches and from overtly stating what could be shown), but combine them and it looks really weird.

He also states in his profile that he's "good in bed." Something like, "do you want a boring guy, or an adventurous guy who is good in bed?" Again, there are a few problems with this. One, it is overtly telling her what you should be SHOWING her. There are at least 3 places in my own online profile where I make it clear that I'm good in bed, without saying, "I'm good in bed." In those 3 or 4 places, I reference something specific that only a guy who IS good in bed would write or know about. This brings me to a second problem with saying, "I'm good in bed."
The 2nd problem with it is that it's vague. It is so try-hard, so trying to impress her, that it will turn off as many women (if not more) than it turns on.

The above examples are characteristic of most of Todd's textual communication with women. In the examples, I kept finding myself improving it in several ways. Often, Todd's responses didn't even make sense. For instance, she would write one or two sentences about herself, and Todd would write a 3 word, poorly punctuated sentence that had nothing to do with what the girl wrote.
Todd's writing style is stilted and overly formal, as if he's trying to appear intellectual; but it comes across that way. For example, "Perhaps I'll tell you all about it over a libation when I get back." Another time he used "beverage" instead of "drink." The word I'm most bothered by is "Perhaps." Is he an Englishman in the 1940's now? Aside from the awkward word choice--going from "cool guy" to London gentleman wearing a monocle and smoking a pipe--I would argue to discard "perhaps" or "maybe" or any of those womanly qualifiers before making a statement or request. It sounds needy.

Todd recommends against mirror selfies, on the grounds that "many women he asked has said she hates these kinds of photos." Women may SAY that, but they also say they hate shirtless pics, and c_ck shots, but when I use a shirtless bathroom selfie as my main profile photo, it triples the messages from women in my inbox. Their message has nothing to do with my profile photo--they comment on something in my profile-- but like clockwork, I post a shirtless pic, and I get at least triple the messages. And I won't get started on mentioning how many girls have come over only because of my c_ck shots (yes, they admitted that this was the reason).
Todd's main profile photo does NOT stand out. Standing out is the #1 of online game, according to Todd.
There is nothing interesting in his photo. He's simply looking straight at the camera. There is a lot of evidence now that a man looking at the camera is NOT the best profile photo. Men whose profile photos are of the man looking AWAY from the camera get more responses. If your profile photo is of you looking at the camera, you WILL PULL FEWER GIRLS. Disregard all the "experts" telling you to look at the camera and smile like a dumbass. They are wrong.
Todd's profile photo looks like it could be a high school senior photo. Boring. Nothing to write home about, and nothing to write Todd about. "There's a man in a suitcoat looking at the camera."

There are many videos in the program in which Todd talks about game. Principles and tactics of game, in general. Those are good. Not specific to online game, but good.

One of the things Todd stresses is to test. Test your profile against itself, in different regions of course.
Test photos, and test profiles.
That is good advice.

One thing that bothers me (of all people) is that one girl has in her profile that she does NOT drink.
Todd uses his go-to line, "How do you feel about a drink and some witty banter this week?"
She answers, "i do not drink sorry."
Later, he's on the phone with her, and again suggests to go for drinks.
She again tells him that her profile says she does not drink.
I don't recommend reading every stranger's profile before messaging them--that is a huge time sink,
and you'll waste hours of your life reading profiles of girls who won't reply to you or are not even active on the site anymore.
But at least read her profile once she has responded.

What puzzles me is how Todd is successful with women? After going through this program, reading his messages to girls, hearing him on the phone with 3 girls, and seeing him on a date, I actually asked myself this question. What is it about Todd that makes him successful, if he is? It's certainly not his writing, or his profile, or his texts. Of course they could be worse, but it wasn't what I'd call excellent.
He has a good photo--not great, but good--, but it's not interesting or noteworthy.
He has slapdash profile. His correspondence is clunky. His voice, both on the phone and in videos, is monotone; and sounds strained. He is not good-looking (I could get very colorful with my description here, but I'll leave it at that). When you watch interactions between him and girls, you can detect some game, but not much. His body language isn't great--he's peckish, leans in a bit, his head is always turned towards her (like when he's sitting beside her in the mall).
Honestly, I don't know. Maybe it's simply on account of his vast experience, which has given him insane calibration (which cannot really be taught in videos or books).
He's a rich world-traveler, and mentions that a lot. Pretty sure it's true, so it's not a fake DHV story, but I think he does throw that in deliberately. When asked by one girl what he does, he answered, "I'm a motivational speaker." That was in his daygame program. In this program, when asked by a girl, he answered, "I am a public speaker and entrepreneur." This may be something to do with his intuition about what the girl wants to hear (even though they are pretty much the same thing).

There are numerous grammatical errors on his part. They are not on purpose.
I know because the girl will write in all lowercase, sometimes not using punctuation,
and you can see Todd's response is capitalized properly, with punctuation (though he is a bit confused about the comma for direct address).
A specific example is when Todd writes,
"it sounds like we're both rather curious about one another, so perhaps we should meet up soon."
The above is a combination of weirdly archaic phrasing ("rather curious," "perhaps"),
mixed with modern, relaxed phrasing, "meet up soon."
This is correct, "It sounds as if we're both curious about each other-- we should meet up soon."
The "Sounds like," becomes "Sounds as if." I'm not saying you should write this way to a girl,
but it seems to me as if Todd is trying to go for a Mr. Belvedere vibe.
Additionally, "curious about one another," should be "curious about each other."
"One another" is used when there are 3 or more. "Each other" is used when there are 2 or more.
Don't criticize my usage and grammar now that I've criticized Todd's.
I'm not SELLING this review. This is for charity. Todd makes money from 3GAD, so I can criticize what I want.
And if you think girls don't care about usage and grammar, you are right; but only SOME girls.
There are a lot of hot girls that I've made orgasm before they ever met me--over text. This makes escalating in person VERY EASY.
Having a sure hand when writing to a woman--and knowing how to talk dirty, romance novel dirty--are valuable assets.

In conclusion, despite all my above complaints,
3GAD is probably the 5th best program I've seen on online dating.
I'm not going to mention what my top 4 are,
for 3 reasons:
1. You may think this review was written by a competitor of Todd.
2. I'm an asshole.
3. (See 2.) With online dating guides, there is more of a danger that a girl has seen your profile before, or has seen something similar. Same with your first line to her. In my Daygame Diary, I had publicly posted a qualification question which I felt was perfect. It was funny, it made her think, it was screening. And I came up with it, so no other guy would have asked her it. A year later, my 6'3" blonde GF or FWB showed me a FIRST MESSAGE from a guy, who simply asked that question. The question itself is specific enough that he must have gotten it from my diary. She showed it to me because she had remembered MY asking her that question. I was pissed that this other guy was using my brilliant question in MY city.
The point is, this 3GAD (and other guides) is a heavily marketed program.
Probably thousands of men will be using it.
If I google a portion of the main profile (and I have),
I can see in the top 3 links some boneheads who copied and pasted Todd's entire profile
and used it for their online profile (Todd recommends that you not do this-- in fact he provides 2 profile examples, and leads a class of men to collectively build a profile).

My own student and I drove to Chicago to practice daygame.
We planned to get a hotel. However, on the drive there,
I used Okcupid to secure a VERY NICE place for us, free.
We were in Sky55, on the ~60 floor.
After seeing the ease with which I gamed online,
he asked me to help him with online game.
I looked over his profile, and it was obvious he had not written it.
We live in the midwest, US.
There was a reference to hating cats.
I asked him, "Do you really hate cats?"
He told me he didn't. Almost as if he hadn't even read this profile.
There was something about First Date: "How about I pull you into a restroom and give you a rogering."
I said, "What's this mean here.. a rogering?"
He couldn't answer clearly.
I looked it up. It's British slang for anal sex.
This guy is very inexperienced, neediness drips from every sentence in his texts with girls,
and I knew there was no way he was going to succeed with this copy/pasted profile (from Krauser, turned out).

So guys like that--the LEAST experienced-- copy and paste these examples.
Even if a girl loves the profile, once she starts corresponding with the guy,
she'll quickly realize that this is a different guy.

My point in saying all the above is that, the reason I'm not going to mention the #1 or #2 guide to online dating, the best one I've ever read, is because I want it all for me. I'm already cornering this market, and I like my corner. If it were a book of principles, then by all means, I'd give a public recommendation.
But with books like these, it's too easy to get a thousand rich, needy, desperate chodes copying and pasting everything and saturating the market.