| A trick I have used, with a lot of success, is a 'good cop'/'bad cop' strategy with a wing. I might make a post on this soon, because it's not material I've seen anywhere else, but it's working great for me and me mate. (Both of us are reasonably good looking guys, early 20s). We get 2 or 3 # closes per night when we go out.
Basically, we'll come to a venue. Say I'm wing, and he's lead. I sit one seat away from a girl and totally ignore her, talking to him, or on my cellphone. He comes in and has to sit next to her. He then criticizes me for being awkward, blabla. I apologize to the girl, thus bringing her into our set. Then I'll both neg and DHV the lead, while he continues to AMOG me smoothly, but subtly. Sometimes I'll even pretend to be pissed off to get her to give him his number. "Well if you two will continue your cute little bonding later, because I've gotta roll" (which he then responds to smoothly, and AMOGs me for the comment). I give her his phone, he'll say "who said I wanted your number" (neg), she'll say "what?" (IOI), he says "well ok, but you'll have to be good" or something similar.
Universally, almost always, it leads to the girl disliking the wing (on alternate nights it's me, sometimes it's him, sometimes we just go natural. We always enjoy good success), and liking the lead.
But yeah, number close isn't a big deal at all. Very easy to pull off.
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