spending hundreds of dollars to get a girl is horrible advice. If you start dating you'll have to spend the rest of your relationship trying to top that first gift. You'll be expected to spend that much or more on all gifts.
You spend $200 on a gift before you're dating you'll be expected to spend even more on her birthday, valentines day, anniversary, and christmas. You'll effectively be shooting yourself in the foot, because each year girls will expect the gifts to be slightly more expensive.
Trying to look like a baller within the first month of a relationship will cause you to be broke within the first year. Thus once you become broke, you'll be called either broke or cheap by your gf to all of her friends for not wanting to spend every penny of income that you make.
Moral of the story is go into a relationship appearing to be broke. If she sticks with you then you know she's not after money, and when you buy gifts you won't always have to be trying to outdo the first gift of $200+ dollars