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Crystal G



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Re: Match.com [Re: Niffla]
#24008776 - 01/14/17 03:04 AM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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Niffla said: So I brought match.com up in a conversation with a coworker recently, and he told me he had tried it about a year ago
Said that when he signed up for the free part, all of a sudden he was getting notifications in his email inbox left & right about chicks "liking" his profile, and then shortly thereafter emails from girls
Thing is, in order to see who was sending him these emails (and clicking on his profile, which I guess it shows who does if you're a paid member), you gotta plunk down for a full membership.
Which he did.
Surprise, surprise...all of a sudden after he paid in full, and went to check who supposedly emailed him -- those accounts had been suspended. The chicks who emailed him weren't even there anymore. And then he went from getting daily clicks/likes/emails from chicks to getting zero. Overnight. After his membership was up, which I believe he said he did the minimum of 3 months, then all of a sudden his email inbox started getting flooded with emails again from "girls" (I put that in quotes because it's pretty obvious, or at least it seems to be, that no girls were ever really emailing him)...man that's shady as fuck. I mean that's straight up, full on scam type shit.
Yeah, it's actually a pretty commonly known tactic for paid sites to use bots to lure in subscribers.
First, you get an influx of messages from all these hot girls or guys, but of course you can't read the messages until you pay.
Then once you actually pay for a membership and read the messages and reply to them, you never hear a response from them again.
They lure you in with fake bait.
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Niffla



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Crystal G said:
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Niffla said: So I brought match.com up in a conversation with a coworker recently, and he told me he had tried it about a year ago
Said that when he signed up for the free part, all of a sudden he was getting notifications in his email inbox left & right about chicks "liking" his profile, and then shortly thereafter emails from girls
Thing is, in order to see who was sending him these emails (and clicking on his profile, which I guess it shows who does if you're a paid member), you gotta plunk down for a full membership.
Which he did.
Surprise, surprise...all of a sudden after he paid in full, and went to check who supposedly emailed him -- those accounts had been suspended. The chicks who emailed him weren't even there anymore. And then he went from getting daily clicks/likes/emails from chicks to getting zero. Overnight. After his membership was up, which I believe he said he did the minimum of 3 months, then all of a sudden his email inbox started getting flooded with emails again from "girls" (I put that in quotes because it's pretty obvious, or at least it seems to be, that no girls were ever really emailing him)...man that's shady as fuck. I mean that's straight up, full on scam type shit.
Yeah, it's actually a pretty commonly known tactic for paid sites to use bots to lure in subscribers.
First, you get an influx of messages from all these hot girls or guys, but of course you can't read the messages until you pay.
Then once you actually pay for a membership and read the messages and reply to them, you never hear a response from them again.
They lure you in with fake bait.
if it were proven that that's indeed what they're doing (which I have no doubt it is), could they be held legally on any level?
that just seems straight up out of bounds
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Crystal G



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Re: Match.com [Re: Niffla]
#24008818 - 01/14/17 03:35 AM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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I don't believe they're breaking any laws by doing such a thing.
Businesses do that all the time, especially anything related to sex. Just like how ads for fast food burgers look nothing remotely close to what you actually receive.
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Re: Match.com [Re: Niffla]
#24009620 - 01/14/17 11:40 AM (7 years, 16 days ago) |
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Well did you give tinder a go Niphla? I wanna hear some more personal stories
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moonrockmushy said: It's not that I don't want to use tinder as much as I would specifically like to avoid the kind of people that tinder is going to attract, no offence to anyone but it isn't for me.
Honestly, you'd be surprised. All sorts of people use it as it's the mainstream way of meeting people online. I've seen people I've met through school, work, friends, clubs, and parties on there. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of superficial people as well, but it is not exclusive to them.
That being said, one of the greatest ways for success is not taking it too seriously. Just treat it as a way for getting in touch with cool people you otherwise wouldn't cross paths with.
I've had a few successes with both tinder and OKC. On both you'll get plenty of matches with no outcomes or even responses. I think it's just vital not to prioritize it or use it as an excuse not to meet or talk to people in person.
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