Do you guys think it is ligitimate to actually come out and say something like: "I don't mind it when a girl pays, it shows that she is here to see me, not to get a free drink or whatever".

I dont think there is anything wrong with women paying their way...

I do think its a bit cheap and a bit afc to start talking bout money in any shape or form...

the best way to get drinks out of girls is to bet them... play games and make challenges so when she buys drinks its out of obligation to the game, rather than anything u have said directly.

Altho the other day I was with a 2 set, my wing and my girl... the girl in the set said to me, "so are you getting the shots in?" I said "no but mines a jagger"
She laughed and walked off, 5 mins later she comes bk with a tray of shots for every1 lol

Try the question game. Tell her that you're going to ask her 5 questions and all she has to do is answer them incorrectly, but if she answers them correctly she loses. Explain that there are no trick questions, and to make it interesting let's put a wager on it...usually a shot or a beer or whatever you think is fun and fair to make it interesting.

question 1. What's the name of the bar
question 2. What color are my eyes
question 3. What's the name of your favorite song

you should be making a deal each time you start a new question, make some sort of impact to signal that it's time for the next question. When you go for question 4 do not signal, tilt your head and look a little confused, change the tone of your voice and ask her...shit how many questions was that? most of them will think for a second and then say 3. You got them, for the quick and smart girls they'll make up some random number. If they do laugh and say 'Oh you've played this game before!' To which chances are she will say 'no!'....Then you got her and the drink is yours.

So far in the past week it's work 4/4 with different girls and I haven't paid for a drink since.