Becca3
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Joined: 10/22/2006
Msg: 101 | |
| Match.com and others
Posted: 12/31/2006 11:08:53 AM | | Don't bother deleting any of your profiles from any of the major sites. I literally wiped every word off my profile but it is still being viewed and emails coming from true and singleparentmeet. They also sell your profile to other sites. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 12/31/2006 3:08:22 PM | I always wonder why a lot of guys are still on there...I am done paying..and besides..95 percent of them are also on Yahoo.com, Matchmaker, True.com..others..same ones..
I had said hello to them five years ago...they ignored me..and they are still on there...you really wonder about these people? | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 12/31/2006 3:16:28 PM | | The most irresponsible thing is they say: "Free to sign up" on their homepage, but never say what is paid until after you signed in. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 12/31/2006 3:38:49 PM | I had a non-paid match.com membership and received an email, but couldn't see who was from, (or where, age, picture, message, etc.) unless I paid. (I've received several emails, through dating sites, from women that I was not interested in because they lived thousands of miles away or I was disattracted by their picture)
I did not try to put my email on their account, but my profile was rejected 5 times for just saying that I was not a paid member, but could be reached at other dating sites.
Their match (their selling feature?) revealed no matches.
I cancelled my match.com account and now have a low opinion of Dr. Phil who is associated with that web site.
To me, POF has the largest number of available matches (which should be the main reason for chosing a site). It far surpasses all but one other dating site in this regard.
Byron | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 12/31/2006 5:28:18 PM | dr.phil is a joke!
all these sites are infested with
scammers russian nigerian etc.
yes they try to remove these people.
but a lot of them stay on long
enough to do damage.
pof is what it is and
we save our money for better things! | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/1/2007 5:14:54 AM | It's not irresponsible Rob.... The site you mention is like most other dating sites... you can join for free but if you wish to correspond with anyone you have to pay a sub. Of course both of you..... it's the same with most gym's ..... you can join for free but you have to pay the sub to use it!!! It's up to you for how long etc....
Back to dating.... I can only give you an example of another site called Friends Reunited Dating... it seems a very similar story... You can make a profile and search 'free' but if you wish to make contact with a 'full member' you need to become one yourself.... You choose a membership term... ie: one month, 3 months or 6 months... up to you!
Of course you can try to contact people by sending a 'wink' or an ecard.... but you would not be able to write your own message if you were not a paid up member....
this is really irritating if you are a paid up member... getting winks and cards from somone who is not a 'full' member....
put yourself in their shoes......
you have just forked out fourty quid or whatever it may be.. and there is some idiot sending cards with no message other than 'contact me' in the hope that you will give them a private numer or email address ....
(oh and there are ways of getting one through ..... you can write numbers.... dot is a word!!! ...get the picture?)
...... but would one really answer someone who didn't think you were worth the money to join up?
There is the other issue... by the time you decide you will pay up... the other person's membership has expired and now they can't talk to you !!!!! Life's a b**** sometimes !!!!
This site is brilliant..... no membership to run out and the whole world in contact! | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/1/2007 2:22:18 PM | | Speaking of other dating sites . . . I found the same profiles on all of them. So, might as well go with the free ones. HA! | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/1/2007 9:27:46 PM |
I actually tried eharmony.com and after spending about half an hour filling out their extensive questionnaire I was told that I was one of the 1 in 5 people that they couldn't match. Go figure. At least they were honest enough to tell me.
The same thing happened to me. Then after feeling depressed about the rejection for a day I went back and tried again. The only answer I know I did differently was my income (I had been honest about it and had recently been "downsized" at the time). Just like magic I was accepted and the matches started coming in. Of course I couldn't do anything with the matches without paying them and they aren't exactly cheap.
Eventually I tried a $10 for one week deal they emailed to me and I can tell you that their highly touted matching system is a bunch of used food. | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 1/2/2007 12:38:31 AM | Basically they are all in it, because they know how many single people are out there and use a dating site, to me they are scammers, But even if POF ask for small change I think everyone that use this site would be happy to pay, But they dont, thank god there is a free site where you can search for a male/female/friend or whatever it is you desire for free.
If there were more sites like this in Australia I would be happy to be on thier sites rather than some scammer site such as RSVP, match.com and whatever else is out there.
Glenn | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 1/2/2007 12:41:35 AM | | The only thing that bothers me here is POF did what I'd been thinking of doing for years. I always thought that one should be able to make a reasonable amount of money with ads alone and that there's no real need to charge for a dating site. POF has proven me right (and shown me that I should have gotten off my fat rear and done it a long time ago!) | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 1/2/2007 12:43:56 AM |
dr.phil is a joke!
I had to sit through one of his shows recently while visiting my brother. (His wife is addicted to it.) He's very good at manipulating his audience but that's the only thing I found him to be good at. At best it's nothing but a gossip show and I found myself wondering if his victims aren't paid performers. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/9/2007 1:06:30 PM | | Another reason not to join match.com. I'm glad I'm done with that site for good. Match.com sucks. | |
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| Match.com and fairness to members
Posted: 1/9/2007 2:51:19 PM | i sure have to agree with pinebreeze. its a paysite. pay and you can do whatever you are entitled to pay for. If you are on as a non paying member, and certain rights are denied you, well, hey, you got your moneys worth.
By saying this you ignore the unfairness perpetrated upon those members who assume that everyone they contact will be able to read the email and respond to it. Although I realize it is the members fault, in part for not reading the terms of service, I empathize with those members who contact another in the hope that a relationship will develop and have no idea that the non-paying member [npm] is not even aware of the contact.
I also object to the fact that the member may consider the npm rude and may give up on him/her. Perhaps the member later sees the npm in public and fails to approach him/her because of the non-response.
I fully understand that this is a capitalistic society and business does what business does, however, it also seems that a website supposedly dedicated to putting people together should be more responsible to the interests of those people. The paying websites formerly allowed npm's to respond. It's simply bad form not to allow that. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/9/2007 2:52:39 PM | I joined match and made a great friend out of the thing. I did the free trial and meet a girl later on from back east that moved out with her parents.
True is a rip off fifty bucks a month common. And there are four other sites i can name off the top of my head if not more that are free. Just not really as big as pof. You have to understand even with paid sites even the people contacting you can be spammers.
No they wont give you your money back after you join.
Its like the yahell contract I had my old account stolen everything changed over a woman i added clicked on a site and i got an im from her with a link to geo cities.
It is a good idea to put a name with an i m account someone mentioned earlier on this.
I one time logged into someone other man's account on true and copied the url. And actually sent the guy an email. On his own dime telling him what happened.
Paid sites are a waist of time. Most dont even want to meet and hot or not i joined for six months meet a few and most are very young women. Some are married looking on there even. Or women underage claiming to be of age. Some where 14 that contacted me. Makes me wonder what could happen if you where trapped by perverted justice and the profile stated 22. There are ways around paid sites if you know how to do it. If the people reading your profile if they can and have a clue what to do. Its not like an http on a shirt in a picture. I find it funny how most paid sites keep track of what is on men's profile's and not on the women's. Some women have their contact right in plain view. It is totally sexist i think. That would be a good one lawsuit. A website of being discriminating against men. Sex sells i think. Why do you think they make there money.
Usually with online the people you connect with get along with the most live over five hundred miles away or on another continent. Also most sites make up profiles and dont fill everything out on the profile after you join. Buyer beware..
Its funny i saw a match add on this site..
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| dating sites are just fun
Posted: 1/9/2007 3:10:19 PM | Hi everyone:) Im a single guy here on Plentyof fish-- this site is by far the best of them all
also another good one is WAYN.com
ok my opinion is the same like yours re- Match.com--its really full of fake people
so are a lot of other sites too
so if u can really just have fun then u get good value-- not monetary value but heart felt ones
I am on Person.com now as well- free cams talk etc and a good site it is
I once saw a documentary on servicemen in vietnam
they were singles like us and use to write to women in there thru the army newspaper- a kind of moral boosting thing-- anyway to cut a story short- they ended up showing the women on cam who use to write back to soldiers- so they panned out and focused on their faces
it turned out to be little old ladies who got the job of writing to the servicemen to increase their pension-- all govt supported and endorsed--- this was just to get the soldiers happy so to speak-- poor buggers thought they weer writing to some hot chiks
so the moral of the story is----- never believe anything or anyone till u see em face to face
ahh and yeh the scammers are everywhere now---- match me hahahahahahahhaa
see ya all | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/9/2007 11:39:28 PM | | I'm not so sure about that. 90% of the emails I've received on Match.com are fake profiles put up by Nigerians, I'm guessing. When I wrote the management and asked if they needed my help discerning these such profiles, I got no response. I also mentioned that Doctor Phil might need to know just what kind of site he's endorsing, lol. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/10/2007 12:35:48 AM | I tried a couple of these sites a few years ago. Dont waste your money. You sign up for a free membership which means people can look at your ad but you cant contact anyone. What happens when you dont pay for the privileges is they start to send you messages saing you have an email from another member. So fo course you log in and look to see who has sent it and usually you can tell instantly that its fake. It will be a 21 yr old hottie that would obviously be getting hit with a hundred emails a day, and yet chooses to email the older guy that she would, if she were real have a note on her profile saying "Old guys stay away"!
Im not sure who you can complain to but I know a few of these evil dating sites have been in trouble for doing this. Its basically fraud. Claiming someone has emailed you so that you will pay to see the email. then find out that the person doesnt respond or that their profile doesnt exist.
In this case it could be a real email but then you wont know til you pay. I have seen people trying to disguise free methods of contacting them. such as typing with spaces "see me on P l e n t y o f F i s h" or e mail me at a h o t p l a c e .
Basically thats how i ended up on here. Got tired of the scams on other sites. It took me a couple of months on here before i truely realized it is FREE. I couldnt believe it because i had been "told" by every other site that it was free too.
POF is by far the best of them all. Its free and has these forums where I can have a lot of fun reading and posting.
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/10/2007 1:36:51 AM | Rob, you could try dlook.com.au or spiceoflife.com.au or matchfinder.com.au
Not as expensive as RSVP, especially dlook, all Australian and worth a try.  | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 1/10/2007 6:51:21 AM | u do get all kinds of shite from these dating agencies rhrough email its all bullshit  | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/12/2007 5:23:50 PM |
90% of the emails I've received on Match.com are fake profiles put up by Nigerians
Management at match.com doesn't want to remove any profiles. They want big number to make people think they're worth paying for. For them (and Doctor Phil) it's all about the money and nothing else. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/13/2007 2:42:52 AM | Lets all face facts here about Dr. Phil. He kissed Oprah Winfrey's Billionaire butt simply so he could perhaps gain his OWN talk show. And he indeed DID!
This craps all about M O N E Y. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/15/2007 6:32:47 PM | | Yeah, I tried it and wasn't impressed. No I didn't pay, but I was waiting to see if there was even any reason to pay. I tried it for awhile, sent out a bunch of smiles and got zip - no smiles, no emails, no looks. I get the feeling that the majority of the people "on" the site have long left it and not checking anymore. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/15/2007 8:24:41 PM | I will agree with the other posts on here, I was on Match.com for quite a while and guess what, no matches and then the message I am being considered for the membership spotlight, that is supposed to happen after 6 months on there with no responses...after nearly 2 years I sacked it. I came on here shortly after and got more messages in my first couple of months than ever....and on another subscription site...ok i joined for a laugh only 3 months ago but on reaching 53 e-mails in my inbox decided it was time to pay & take a look....out of those 53 there was only 6 that I considered replying to, the rest were deleted...so far I have only replied to 3 of them with no responses back yet.....still doesn't bother me....I can get plenty of messages through my musicians account on another site that is totally free.
I would say at least dating sites should let you see who has sent the e-mail (some dont even do that) and maybe see what the message says...if the other parties are interested then surely they will sign up to reply....thats where they can make their money easily.
POF is a breath of fresh air though compared to all the rest, just wish more people knew about it...........spread the word !!!
Mark. | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 1/15/2007 9:43:11 PM | | Another one is True.com. They also will overload you with their Spam. | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 1/15/2007 10:27:45 PM | | I have been a member here for awhile...just never posted anything. I do enjoy reading others comments. When I came across this subject I wanted to tell everyone of a great "free" site that is very good. DatingNmore.com is very good to be free. This site is virtually "scammer free" and if one does slip through they are immediately banned. The forums are also good to post on and you can learn so much about others by interacting in them. As a matter of fact they also advertise POF in there ads and banners. I agree...paid sites are rip offs. Peace | |
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