Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

Jump to first unread post Pages: < Back | 1 | 2 | 3  [ show all ]
OfflineCrystal G
I'm a teapot


Registered: 06/05/07
Posts: 19,584
Loc: outer space
Last seen: 8 months, 6 days
Re: Match.com [Re: Niffla]
    #24008776 - 01/14/17 03:04 AM (7 years, 16 days ago)

Quote:

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.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSyzygisticSoul
Shroom Yawner


Registered: 04/19/16
Posts: 1,696
Loc: Between dimensions
Last seen: 6 years, 9 months
Re: Match.com [Re: Crystal G]
    #24008783 - 01/14/17 03:08 AM (7 years, 16 days ago)

POF app will get you laid in no time.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleNiffla
Male User Gallery


Registered: 06/09/08
Posts: 46,494
Loc: Texas
Re: Match.com [Re: Crystal G]
    #24008804 - 01/14/17 03:22 AM (7 years, 16 days ago)

Quote:

Crystal G said:
Quote:

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


--------------------


HAIL OUR NEW OTD KING


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineCrystal G
I'm a teapot


Registered: 06/05/07
Posts: 19,584
Loc: outer space
Last seen: 8 months, 6 days
Re: Match.com [Re: Niffla]
    #24008818 - 01/14/17 03:35 AM (7 years, 16 days ago)

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.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisibletrees
 User Gallery

Registered: 02/08/09
Posts: 9,194
Re: Match.com [Re: Niffla]
    #24009620 - 01/14/17 11:40 AM (7 years, 16 days ago)

Well did you give tinder a go Niphla? I wanna hear some more personal stories  :crankey:


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineMoonbeam
Loner


Registered: 09/25/11
Posts: 201
Last seen: 6 months, 14 days
Re: Match.com [Re: moonrockmushy]
    #24010063 - 01/14/17 03:25 PM (7 years, 16 days ago)

Quote:

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.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: < Back | 1 | 2 | 3  [ show all ]

Shop: Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* .
( 1 2 3 4 ... 35 36 )
AnonymousRabbit 50,791 707 03/11/11 01:45 PM
by StaleShrooms
* OkCupid woes. Amber_Glow 559 1 01/06/10 06:13 PM
by ShockValue
* OkCupid... I'll be damned
( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 all )
Gumby 9,101 147 05/21/12 09:46 PM
by DeathSpider
* Best and Worst Dates from OKCupid
( 1 2 all )
Crystal G 2,574 37 03/20/13 03:33 PM
by g00ru
* OMG some bitch from okcupid just threatened me with black magic
( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 all )
Humility 5,368 122 08/10/11 03:13 PM
by realfuzzhead
* okcupid (revival?)
( 1 2 3 all )
pfxtc 3,423 58 03/21/11 12:11 PM
by trekie
* Help me write an okcupid message
( 1 2 all )
I_was_the_walrus 2,246 22 06/15/13 01:49 AM
by Powdered_Toastman
* Awesome meeting last night with an okcupid chick
( 1 2 3 all )
Fungal-one 5,771 54 01/12/11 09:59 PM
by tiny_rabid_birds

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Entire Staff
786 topic views. 1 members, 36 guests and 46 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.025 seconds spending 0.009 seconds on 14 queries.