| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/8/2007 12:21:11 PM | | I am a member of Match.com myself and have had a few strange things happen. Firstly I have noticed when my 3 months subscription is coming to an end I suddenley get quite a lot of messages and winks. A few days before my membership is up I cancel it and stop them from taking out further subscription fees. Are the emails fakes trying to entice me back ? Also had quite a few winks and replied saying thanks etc then had no response back as if they never winked at me in the first place. Is this just blokes with bad manners or are they fake winks. Seems a bit of a coincidence that its happened a few times. Oh well I shant be renewing membership again. I always say this to myself and end up renewing eventually anyway/ From what I read on here though I,m better off not bothering. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/9/2007 3:08:28 PM | | OP: Majority of the paysites are like that. They have these bots or pay people to email you to get you lured in, only to your surprise that you have to pay to reply and more than likely, who you are replying to isn't real, will ever reply to you back, or is a foreigner trying to run a scam on you. So everyone need to be aware of this and maybe we should all write a letter to the various newsgroups and get these people exposed. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/13/2007 3:56:33 PM | I read a lot of posts on this thread. I don't see what the big deal is as to being ripped off. I paid for 6 months, about $50. That's about a little over $8/mo. Heck, some people pay that going out for one lunch. I think it's extremely cheap that some people do the 3 days for free and pull out. I find a lot of women do this; sign up for 3 days, post a half a$$ portrait (about a paragraph of somewhat who they are), and give out their personal e-mail address to those they're interested. First of all, there's no depth or insight on who these women really are - how is a guy going to be interested? Sure, there's the guys who will go after anything that has a hole with fur around it - so that's what these women will find by being cheap. The one's I'm interested in are paying members which are committed to finding someone. The foreigners and so called "scammers" are a given; so easy to figure out - you find that on any dating site, including this one.
There's a lot of good looking professional women on Match. They have a lot of depth and know the value of looking for those that are similiar.
I find some of women on POF deceitful and full of anger. I decided to remain anonymous because of them. Sorry, the rotten ones don't represent all the decent women on this site. To be safe, I'll just stay in here for the Forums. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/13/2007 6:33:25 PM | omg - the sites that charge - charge. Take it or leave it. I get free coffee at home, also get it free at friends, when I go to Tim Hortons I pay, I don't complain that I have to pay - it is their policy and I know it when I go in, they also advertise things like donuts! OMG!! should they be allowed to do that? ya I know, I hate sarcasm too, but what is the point of this thread? I checked out match.com, etc. , their policies are quite clear, nothing to complain about. And no, I didn't join - it doesn't suit me. Complaining about something that won't change its policies * esp. when they Are clear makes no sense to me. And using "cheat tactics" wow, these forums are an excellent tool for finding out a persons true character.
Thanks for the info!
Cin | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/14/2007 4:59:04 PM | somespamsite (not that I will join it) has to be the worst. They advertise almost every god damn where, and coincidentally enough, the site contains a phishing Trojan to allow well,
a lot of your details to be recorded. So, with those details they "sell" them to other so called
"matching up sites"...and more and more spam with your deatils...**stards. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/14/2007 4:59:28 PM | Adult****finder (not that I will join it) has to be the worst. They advertise almost every god damn where, and coincidentally enough, the site contains a phishing Trojan to allow well,
a lot of your details to be recorded. So, with those details they "sell" them to other so called
"matching up sites"...and more and more spam with your deatils...**stards. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/14/2007 10:08:33 PM | It doesn't matter which site all of them have the spammers and the scammers. There is many members who are on many sites at the same time. What I have found to be of interest is how they vary in what they are looking for from site to site.
It also must be remembered that in the fine print on many paid sites is that by agreeing to enter the site you are agreeing to the fact that the profile and any pictures posted to that site will become property of that site. When you delete your account what you are actually doing is removing your ability to extend any control to that account. Often that account remains in the search able database, complete with computer generated responses. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 9:09:56 AM | | hello. just wanted to say thanks to everyone gor the helpful hints about match.com. i was seriously considering joining the site at one point, but now after hearing all the tips,HELL NO! now does any one have any tips on chemistry.com? | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 9:11:42 AM | most of the paid sites are pretty much the same you will find.
of course your mileage may vary. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 9:11:44 AM | | hello. just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the helpful hints about match.com. i was seriously considering joining the site at one point, but now after hearing all the tips,HELL NO! now does any one have any tips on chemistry.com? | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 10:32:29 AM | Never heard of the chemistry one, but I will say this about match.
I was a member a while ago, and was contacted at my personal email by someone claiming I'd emailed them, remember our conversation, sorry they took so long ot follow up... whatever. I had NEVER contacted them or had any conversation with them, and certainly never gave them my email, and when I searched their contact information it turned out to be a scam contact advertising some fly-by-night ISP or something. From that experience (and I know several others who had similar stuff happen,) I would say their site is NOT secure, and I cancelled my membership when the term was up. Surprise! After weeks of nothing, suddenly lots of interest just as my membership was about to expire. Something stinks over there, for sure.
Although the guy who tried to sell me on the pyramid scheme on our "date," he wasn't thier fault. He was just a jerk. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 10:53:14 AM | | Chemistry.com is just match.com for more money, same company--for what it's worth I have met some nice people there (match) so you pays your money and takes your chances, careful, it's a wide weird world LOL | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 11:35:51 AM | | By far the worst is JDATE.COM..........they are everything you say and more....I signed on for a month....they kept taking off my card for 3 months....and in u.s. funds.........so they screwed me over twice....then when I called them...they stopped and then they send send you phony messanges to try to lure you back on....screw them all...viva POF.........Peter. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 11:52:09 AM | | Match used to allow you to respond for free. Then they made you pay to reply, but you still got to see WHO sent you the mail so you could decide whether you were interested enough to subscribe. But now they just say 'someone sent you mail'. Thats just going a bit too far if you ask me! And the editing the email out of the mail - seems like they can't shouldn't be able to mess with the content of a mail message! argh!! | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 12:18:47 PM | I have tried all the dating sites or sites to meet new people and they have all turned out to be very bad places for such. Match was sad i had it for 4 months and not even a single interest shown towards me. Yahoo was alright but i had that for 5 months and never anything.... American Singles i registered and after the 3rd day never returned there again. True.com now thats my biggest problem, never have i received so much spam mail, fake matches, fake messages, and misleading offers. I can not believe how misleading and desperate they are. I unsubscribed from them a month ago and i still get messages such as so and so would like to meet you.... w/e lolz.
Now i will say that the two sites that i actually thought would suck and not generate anything at all were HotOrNot and PlentyofFish.
HoN is a very affordable site and i have actually met up with at least 10 women from that site who have all turned out to be great friends. And PoF is a awesome site as well. I havent met anyone yet most likely because there isn't a lot of people who live around me in my age group to choose from but i've still met a lot of friendly people that i will enjoy talking to for a very long time.
I am simply amazed at how the sites that advertise so greatly have let me down and the sites that hardly advertise and have cheap or free memberships have amazed me so greatly. With all this said i would like to truly thank plenty of fish for having such a great , great, great, great, and great site!! | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 12:53:06 PM | My time ran out on Match.Com on 2/5/7 I also removed my profile at the same time. I am still getting emails from Match telling me that someone has looked at my profile and would like to meet me. Pretty hard for me to understand that one with the removal of my profile.
There messenger system is probably the worst in the singles business that I have been on to this point.
I had been a member on Yahoo for quiet a long period of time and then I stop using it as well. When I tried to rejoin I couldn't do so because of not having my old P/W. Then couldn't change to a new P/W because I still didn't have the old P/W, I did conatct Yahoo and they gave me all of these examples to choose from however I still needed my old P/W. Guess what I finally just gave up with the whole thing including the messenger system.
I did meet some nice ladies on both sites and am still email friends with a few of them although I have never met some of them due to the out of state long distance thing.
Thanks Coach B | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 1:05:55 PM | pretty hard for me to understand that one with the removal of my profile
It is a fairly safe bet that your profile is still in the researchable database on Match. That is one of the sites that you really need to read the fine print on. Any profile created there and any pics uploaded to that profile remains the property of that site. By deleting your profile the only thing you did was to relinquish any control over that profile. On many of these sites the best thing to do is to merely enter some fake txtspk and magazine pics right before you give up control. In that way you would have removed your pertinent info and identifying pics, The site does allow you to do that while you are still in control of your profile.
This also explains why you will see so many profiles with different names and the same pic. People get off of that site thinking they deleted their profile and later on sign up again. Only this time they have to use a different name and since they still have that pic of themselves they go ahead and use that one. Most of the time they never even consider the fact that there might be another profile with that pic.
It is just one way to inflate their database that they use for adverting purposes. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 1:35:15 PM | | dude dating sites that require you to pay are scams half the time , and most of the pics are fake , however i wont say which sites though . | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 2:07:32 PM | | if you don't mind paying 20 a month for 6 months love happens is a good site and after the 6 months its free for life now i think its a good deal and its not a bad site either | |
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| Read the Wall Street Journal article on Match.com
Posted: 2/15/2007 2:56:56 PM | Everyone is allowed their oppinion. Mine: POF is fun and good forums. Match.com is for meeting some - "especially" is you're over age 50. That has been my experience... may dates and fun from Match.com - and appartently, "Wall Street Journal" agrees. Doesn't make one right, or one wrong. Just what works. Ladies who I wish to meet (50 above) use Match.com. Best to all! Rock on!!!!   | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 2/15/2007 3:38:11 PM | I'm puzzled.
The company is in business to make money. How will they make any if customers don't pay??From what I understand the paid sites don't get advertising money like the free ones do.
I subscribed to match.com 3 years ago and was not particularly thrilled with the site so I didn't resub when my 3 months were up. Ditto for American Singles, Yahoo Personals and Senior something or other. I was new then and tried the paid sites first. Now I wouldn't bother. | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 2/15/2007 3:43:27 PM | Actually, a non-member used to be able to receive an email from a member on Match, and if the member was smart they were able to hide their email address in the email. But now you can't even read the email. Yes, you could probably figure out who sent the email by doing detective work, but you wouldn't be able to send them an email in response. And, they don't know non-members can't read emails, so they probably think the person is just rude for not responding.
It can be a drag because there are lots of people I want to talk with, but I don't know if they don't respond because they're not interested or not members. I agree it would help if you were able to tell if the person was a member or not. That's what singlesnet.com does. They allow you to email back and forth if one person is a member. They also clearly show who is or is not a member which is nice. The thing I don't like about that site is that if you look at someone elses profile they get a message saying you're interested in them. So far I'm loving POF the most. I love the forums and all the people I've talked with so far are cool. I also like that you can meet people for dating, or for freinds. I'm just looking forward to more people from my area finding it, because so far there aren't many from around here on POF. | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 2/15/2007 4:49:42 PM | | Wow.................. Hey, I'm not cheap, but come on. Ninety-nine percent of the folks on POF believe they have a right to free service. You want to play and meet someone. Pay. If not, read forums and watch TV. POF great forums for kid. Match best for older daters... H has spoken.... | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 2/15/2007 4:53:50 PM |
H has spoken
speak all you want. I am glad that it is working for you. It obviously did not work for me and many other posters. | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 2/15/2007 4:57:40 PM | I was a paying member on match for a few months last summer. I didn't really have any complaints while I was there, I met some great guys and have made a few really great friends... but, I have been told by a few still there that their credit cards were hit quite a bit earlier then they were suppose to be for renewal. One guy told me he was going to cancel, and match hit him up for 6 more months and pulled a sneaky.
I have been on a few other sites, and the only thing that really sucks is when you ARE a paying member, and have no way of knowing if someone else is or not. As a paying member, I felt like I should be able to contact anyone on the site (and that they should be able to reply.) If a site won't allow non-paying members to reply, at the very least it would be nice to know if someone is not a member.
I have another site that keeps e-mailing me with photos of men who they say have winked/e-mailed me etc. and I'm asked to join so I can reply. Hmmm, then in small words at the bottom it says... *Images are for demonstrative purposes only and do not reflect actual members. On top of that, I never completed my profile on that site...
Anyway, as someone else stated before me, we have the choice to pay or not, most have their rules listed, and that is cool, as long as they abide by their own rules and don't try to send false e-mails or hit the credit card before it is due. And yes, as one other has posted, some sites do send e-mails from those who are not really members to intice you to sign up...that is dishonest...but, we must use common sense. (Hmmm, I was gonna use the "shit happens" icon, but I don't see it!)
~Pam~ | |
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