Yahoo personals, Match.com being sued for fraud.

[BOZ]

What's wrong with online dating? I met my wife through a match maker who lived in Baton Rouge, I lived in Phoenix and my wife lived in Edmonton.

We have been married 6.5 happy years and have a 1 year old son to show for it.

Sometimes the best matches for people are made by someone else.

i have no complaints from online dating. been married over 2 years now, and our baby girl is 7 months old. although we used the service to post our pictures and profiles, we did all the work of contacting and meeting up ourselves. and, i might say again, yahoo was free back then which made all the difference in the world.

 

[KenM]

It seems rather un-nice to deceive your customers. I'm glad I haven't paid to join.

Thats the core of the law suits. The fact that they tried to have people fake intrest in them to keep them on as cutomers.

 

[drothgery]

Thats the core of the law suits. The fact that they tried to have people fake intrest in them to keep them on as cutomers.

Err... the allegation. I would imagine the personals sites being sued deny this, and since the suit has not come to trial or been settled in such a way that they admit doing it, it's not proven at this time.

 

[jaerdaph]

Match.com supostaly sent a employee out on a date with someone to keep him subscribed.

Well that employee was very foolish for going and Match.com took a huge risk sending him or her out with a stranger.

Remember, you can't spell "strangler" without the "stranger"...

 

[fusangite]

This doesn't surprise me. The standards and expectations of subscribers to these services have been rising unsustainably.

 

[KenM]

This doesn't surprise me. The standards and expectations of subscribers to these services have been rising unsustainably.

IMO its not that, its the fact that some people don't get any responses. So the online severice sends out fake ones. This is wrong. I'd rather have no response then a bunch of fake ones.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

IMO its not that, its the fact that some people don't get any responses. So the online severice sends out fake ones. This is wrong. I'd rather have no response then a bunch of fake ones.

Me too. I get faked out enough RL without getting into this mess.

 

[Aeson]

Me too. I get faked out enough RL without getting into this mess.

You know I make more money than you can spend. I look better than George Clooney and I'm hung.

 

[reveal]

I was never gullible enough to fall for that crap of "online dating services" to start with....

That's not fair. An online dating service is no different than putting your ad in local newspaper except that the circulation is larger. There is nothing wrong with the service as far as people wanting to meet new people. To think it's crap because it's online is just lame.

In Match.com and Yahoo's case, if they did fake this stuff they need to be fined heavily. Playing with peoples emotions is a horrible thing to do.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

That's not fair. An online dating service is no different than putting your ad in local newspaper except that the circulation is larger. There is nothing wrong with the service as far as people wanting to meet new people. To think it's crap because it's online is just lame.

In Match.com and Yahoo's case, if they did fake this stuff they need to be fined heavily. Playing with peoples emotions is a horrible thing to do.

I think the same way about printed personals too.