A brooklyn, NY man has sued match.com for $5 million, accusing the most popular online dating website of fraud for posting profiles of eligible singles who can't be reached at all.
According to Sean McGinn, who is 37, he hated meeting women in bars, although it may be a nice choice for some guys to meet new singles. Online dating seemed the right and nice option for him. So he carefully constructed his profile, worked hard to include all his great characters in the profile. Let's see: "Last Reads" .... Eat, Pray, Love, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Love in the Time of Cholera. "Likes" ... Leather jackets, the movie Cocktail, Caribbean steel-drum music, oh! And Lisa Kudrow in The Comeback! "Smoking?" ... No way! "Interests" .... NO DRAMA.
Things were not going well for him. All the women he tried to contact got back to him. So he made some adjustment and improved his profile: "Interests" ... Wine tasting! "Pets I Like" ... Lions! Ha ha! "Body Type" ... Average Cuddly, but Toned! "Turn Offs" ... Skinny dipping. "Turn Ons" ... Thunderstorms. Again, he got no response after a long long waiting. Finally, he got the result: None of the women he was contacting were real. And his emails might not be read at all! He had been sending hundreds of carefully crafted, artfully capitalized messages into space. He was humiliated and fooled by the dating site at the very beginning. And he paid for nothing. Then Sean McGinn got mad. Really mad. And called his lawyer.
This dating story turns out to be a mess. It's not proper to say someone is right, while another one is wrong. But we should keep an deep eye on the problems. Match.com is one of the largest international dating site. But is it the best dating site for everybody? On match.com, unsubscribers (free members) can do nothing. They can't send emails, and they can't even read emails from other members. In their own words: "if you want to email, if you want to read email, you must subscribe. If you don't subscribe, you can do nothing". When you send an email to another member, you don't know whether your email will be read. If you want to know that, you need to subscribe more.
Are all the dating services working this way? Of course not. If you don't like the 100% free dating sites just because of their profiles with hookers and frauds, you are still able to find a number of dating sites which don't restrict messages. MillionaireCupid.com is one of them. Members can join them for free. But only paying members can initiate email messages. Free members, on this site, can view and reply to emails without subscribe. Compared with the paying to read emails on match.com, it's more humanized. At least, the members you contacted has the ability to read your emails and reply to you without restriction. Sounds much better? Actually it's easy to find other sites with similar features.
As to online dating, a correct choice at the very beginning is very important. There is no need to trust the words which dating site is the biggest or the largest... just like you don't need to marry the more beautiful or the most handsome, you just need the dating site that works for you. Online daters, make your choice wise!
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