The conversation started at a weary 5.30am and by mid-morning had become very explicit.
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Two strangers connected through mobile phone dating app Tinder exchanged pleasantries before thoughts turned to sex and how much it would cost for 20-year-old "Brittany" to meet up with her new 34-year-old friend.
There was some small talk about what he would get for his money, before the man agreed to meet Brittany in a car park near Lake Macquarie's Morisset Pool about 5pm for their rendezvous.
But when he arrived and walked towards the girl he thought was named Brittany, he didn't get what he expected.
Instead, a young man called Jack Anthony Croucher and another male were waiting to rob the gullible victim of his cash - about $290 - as well as a bottle of Wild Turkey he had bought at Brittany's request and his mobile phone before using a 50cm-long steel pipe to smash his car's windscreen.
The victim quickly went from Tinder success story to the tale that every online dating participant should know about.
Tinder is a popular dating app used on smartphones.
Users view pictures and read profiles of other users in their area, and they flick the screen to register interest.
If there is mutual interest, it results in a "match", allowing the two users to chat within the app.
Facts tendered as part of the brief of evidence say that the victim matched up with Brittany at 5.32am and sent her a message.
By 7.42am , Brittany replied and by 9.36am she asked him "you wanna f--- me" followed by "it's gunna cost ya".
Negotiations quickly got under way about what services could be given and how much it would cost before a price of between $250 and $300 was all but agreed.
The conversation on Tinder, which was contained in the evidence brief against Croucher, also shows how the victim said he was not into "party drugs" before agreeing to meet Brittany at 5pm.
When he arrived, he saw two men sitting in a parked car only metres away.
Brittany rang, told the victim she was there and asked if he could get out of his car so he could "hug" her.
But court documents reveal that as the victim approached Brittany, Croucher got out of his car armed with a long steel pole and threatened him.
He was then robbed of the $290 in his wallet, his iPhone and the $27 bottle of Wild Turkey he had bought for the rendezvous.
And when he declined to hand over his credit cards, Croucher smashed his windscreen with the pole before he, Brittany and another man walked off.
The victim drove to a service station, got his car towed away and headed to a police station to report the robbery.
Croucher, 20, of Bonnells Bay, was committed on Wednesday to be sentenced in Newcastle District Court next month of the armed robbery.
The girl purported to be Brittany has also been charged.
