| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:12:59 PM | | I was on yahoo's site for a while, my profile may even still be up for all I know. I noticed an increasing trend of professionally done photographs accompanied with 1 or 2 sentence profiles with sexual overtones. I'd say up to about a third of the profiles that I saw were like this. I'd say a good rule of thumb, on these internet dating sites, is unless there is definate personal content and more than 1 unprofessional/real picture, don't waste your time. Lavalife and seaoflove to it too. | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:13:04 PM | | GREAT, THAT IS A DISCUSTING WAY TO MAKE MONEY OFF PEOPLES EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS BUT MUCH, MUCH WORSE THEN EITHER OF THOSE SITES IS TRUE.COM PERSONALS THEY DO SO MUCH STUFF LIKE THAT THEY'D MAKE THOSE PERSONALS SEEM LIKE PROFITS OF GOD. NOT ONLY DO THEY DISCRIMINATE AGAINST MEN LETTING WOMEN HAVE FREE ACCESS TO ALL ON THEIR SITE AND MAKE THE MEN PAY BUT I BELIEVE IT'S LIKE BEING IN IN A PERSONALS PRISON, THEY READ YOUR MAIL, BLOCK PHONE NUMBERS, BLOCK HOME EMAIL ADDRESS, THEIR THE HIGHEST PRICED PERSONAL I HAVE EVER SEEN FOR PERSONALS, THEY HAVE EMPLOYEES SEND OUT FAKE EMAILS TO YOU HAVING YOU THINK THE EMPLOYEE IS INTERESTED, AND DECEPTIONS CRAP JUST GOES ON AND ON WITH THEIR DECEPTION AND IRON FISTED WAYS. DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT AS THIS IS ALL BASED ON MY OPINION AND THEIR HISTORY WITH ME WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN HERE. IN MY OPINION NO PERSONAL ON EARTH SUCKS MORE THEN TRUE.COM MATTER OF FACT I BELIEVE THEY SHOULD BE CALLED---> DECEPTION-STRONG-AMRED-PERSONALS@THIEVS.BUMS | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:13:29 PM | They are in it for the money. I got mysterious winks when I was gullible enough to sign up with them - and funny thing - after I did - I sure got a heck of a lot of spam in my email the next day - wonder if they are taking the emails and selling them to companies?
I quit with them before I signed on here - but the spam is getting worse - so I don't even use that email anymore. | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:16:04 PM | Hmm...now this has really got me thinking....you know I was on Lavalife for quite sometime....off and on...not a paying member. Met a few people....but seemed overall like prying teeth to get anyone to "smile" at you...let alone send a message. I just shrugged it off though and never thought much about it...then I came across Date.ca....again...not a paying member....same pics I had on the other site....and boom...I was Miss Popularity! Still didnt put much thought in it though..as most of my suitors were from the States or somewhere else far away. Then someone told me about POF....so I thought cool...least now I can send a message without someone having to message me first. Well you know I barely had time to get back to people let alone initiate anything....cause I went from feeling like Miss Popularity to Miss Canada!! I was bombarded here ( back in the days I had my pic posted publically ;) )
So Im thinking now...with this news coming to light....that there may indeed be something to be suspicious of with Lava. Could be many other reasons for it mind you...like this site is way better in terms of how many pics you can show of yourself etc....but still makes me wonder now....hmmm hmmmm hmmmmmmmmmm!!!!! | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:18:59 PM | I most certainly agree. This practise that some of these dating sights do, are exactly that and they aren't even smooth about it! I read thru it the first two months of a paid subscription I was involved with. They will send maybe 3 or 4 potential dates a few days bofore the end of the month to your mail. It's like I'm 40 and thier will be women 18 , and 19 yrs. old asking ME for a date! lol Now THAT'S funny!
So I'm all for it, and wish you the best of luck exposing them! Could someone please tell me the name/names of the dating sights that MATCH.COM represent? | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:26:41 PM | | Well what about Lemontonic, Its a free subscription that does nothing because you can only send winks and only respond to people who message you. You cant email people on that site unless your a paid member so it really sucks. Plus they went on about an instant messanger on the site, which I never found until long time after I joined cause they told me that it was down and all that bull. Needless to say I got really tired of that site, really fast and found this one after I heard it on the radio. I always thought that wasnt right but meh, nor did the admin dept do much when it came to reporting people you would usually just see that same person doing what they were usually doing. Ie once trying to solict you for sex another time wanting to do naked stuff on cam with out even knowing you. Just things that are really kinda disgusting to a degree. Thats my beef, have a good one | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:28:35 PM | It has been brought by a Florida man
It wasn't me. But, I have been a NON paying member of both sites. I thought the same thing and bolted. I tell you what too....a particular un-named adult type, kinda sex and swinger site is bad too. And I was on there for years. At $30 a month on the visa. I/we met some people and had some fun. But, the bullshit was incredible.
I've met more good women/lovers/friends/dates on pof since feb.....than I have all the other sites combined since Al Gore invented the internet. lol
 thanks admin, brainstorm | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:29:35 PM | | I have been going to different sites to check them out, There are a few sites out there that say free,, Infact what they should say is ( If you want to be Riped off than join today! ) How can any site advertise a personals website and say it is free unless it is truly free. I for one will not pay for a website's services, I will not sign up to a web site if it says what type of credit card do you have. Most dating sites use alot of false advertising perks just to get people to read the web page. | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:32:23 PM | | Another sneaky site is other fish in the sea www.otherfishinthesea.com funny how they picked a name simular to this eh? I was stupid and signed up with them a while back, for only two months - but same thing - when I hadn't gone into it for a long time, all of a sudden all these 'smiles' were sent to me - and near the end of my subscription - all of a sudden 10 emails in my inbox 'so and so is interested in you - to read your emails, please update your subscription' | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:36:12 PM | Match.com is owned by IAC Interactive.
http://www.iac.com/
some interesting info in their latest 10K form
A lot of other dating sites are "partnered" with Relatinship Exchange which is itself owned by http://www.vintacom.com ( Vintacom is owned by CGI Holdings now renamed Think Partnership) | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:36:21 PM | | As far as I can tell, this is the only free site. The others all indicate that they are free, until you try to do something .... like send an email, et cetera. Legal loopholes, they can state they are free (to join) and then suck you in and deceive you. I am glad someone is taking action .... its about time! Hopefully the court actions will close some of the loopholes too! | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:36:52 PM | I've never paid for any personals service, and never plan to.
I'm certain Yahoo is guilty because a while back when they did their little "upgrade" to their personals, I was sent three winks on the same day. One was from an actual friend of mine who denied the act and had winks from random people as well. And the other two were from profiles that were shown as being inactive for over a month? Yeah... something was up there.
I haven't used Match.com in years though, so can't say much on that. But there are a ton of online services that try and do this. Amusingly I believe many of them allow bots to do most of the work just to try and hook people, but a trained eye can spot those profiles easily. | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:40:27 PM | I think a class action suit should be filed aginist all paying sites. I joined imatchup.com and sent out some e-mails to other members but never heard back from any of them. So I canceled my membership when it was due and all of a sudden I got 10 to 15 e-mails.
So I renewed my membership so I could read the e-mails but didn't hear from anyone. I then joined thier sister site hotmatchup.com..thier adult site and nothing there..again I canceled my membership and I started getting e-mails left and right. So once again I renewed my membership and all of a sudden the e-mails vanished..and the members who sent them could no longer be found on the site...thus I stopped paying for adds...
I was a member of yahoo and excite when they were free and enjoyed the e-mails I recieved. I even met some really nice people off both yahoo and excite..and to this day I still stay in touch with three of four people I met..we are the best of friends...
When it went to be a paying site I never sent in any money because by that time I had come to realize you got e-mails to entice you to become a paying member.
I've kept the recites of all the sites I joined because I knew one day they would come in handy....but as far as being a particapate of a lawsuit I think it will be just like the one againist the Cheverolet and GMC company on the gas tank being on the outside of the frame and exploded on impact...after it was all said and done I was sent a letter telling me I could claim either a $1,000.00 credit off the purchase of a new car or truck or a $100.00 in cash..I selected to take the $100.00 in cash and to this day I have yet to be paid....
However I do think something should be done to stop the false e-mails and anyone who has proof they had a paying membership during the time in question should get thier choice of a full refund or a free trip for two for seven days/six nights to Russia to meet the thousand and one brides in waiting that send out their e-mail addy's in their first intro letter on the paying dating sites.......lol | |
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| Should include "True.com" in the class action as well!!
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:45:19 PM | 11dave11,
I've experienced that with True as well - getting winks from people that never winked at me. I know better. I'm not that popular!! I'm guessing that was there way of connecting people, but so wrong as it's their way of tricking you into subscribing!!
I once subscribed to another site for a one month free trial because I thought people were interested and then upon subscription, I didn't get any "interested" people - it's as though people dropped off the face of the earth. As soon as I cancelled this, the flutter of
"interested" people came back... either it was a full moon or some dating site full of crap! | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:48:26 PM | Count me in too!
I was a member of Match.com for about a year and can 'confirm' that their message system is not reliable. When I called them on it, one operator admitted there was a problem, gave me only 1 month of credit, then they send me nasty messages for having 'conducted tests' on their system. I had sent a test message to another paying match.com member who happened to work in my office -- she never got the messages I had sent - nor did I ever get hers that she sent to me as part of the test.
At the time I was a co-host for a radio program here in Maine and I called them sighting 'facts' that their system was 'broken' and Match.com refused to comment.
I hold stock in the corporation that owns Match.com - I called shareholder relations and they never returned a call.
If someone is starting a lawsuit count me in. I would even be happy to provide testimony of my direct experiences.
I gave match.com more than ample opportunity to 'work with me' - basically saying give me credit in the form of service for the year that their system was 'broken' but they would not budge.
Incidentally -- I saw several people in Maine go to Yahoo personals from Match.com after my radio report aired.
Respectfully - Mike in Maine | |
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| Fictitious potential clients on yahoo.
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:49:20 PM | | I have noticed this practice going on for some time now but did not fall for these fake "members" who lived in my city. They were always very pretty but you could never contact them in any way without joining. And no one here ever knew any of them. They did make one desire to join to contact them, but if one carefully checked them out he/she would find they were staged. StolenHorse | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:51:21 PM | Yeah, I can definitely see them doing that... I had issues with yahoo personals when I tried the 7 day free trial and when I went to cancel it before the free trial was up my request wouldn't go through so I ended up being charged $19.95 on my credit card... They deserve whatever happens to them!  | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:55:00 PM | Flirt.ca is pulling the same stunt.
I opened an account there ate the same time I joined PoF, and never used it. My profile there is pathetic...even for a troll's standards.
This week, I was clearing out my old hotmail account, when I came accross the old info, and decided to check it out.
Within the last 30 days, I received 133 emails...all using the same writing style, spelling errors, and sometimes even the whole sentences were identical.
I checked every single profile, before opening the mail they sent...every single one was a non-existant acount. "This user does not exist"
Lots of scams out there, people.
Which is why I don't understand why people abuse the one that isn't a scam. | |
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| Class action against Yahoo Personals and Match.com for fraud
Posted: 11/19/2005 5:56:41 PM | yeah I agree with everyone, I tried yahoo, and its just like they say, well hey if you pay us $20 a month you can read this e-mail sent to you by someone who wants to know more, so I will be interested to see what happenes, but the best part, POF does beat the pants off of yahoo. POF does ROCK!! | |
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