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Online Daters Sue Matchmaking Web Sites for Fraud
BBCWatcher writes "According to Reuters, Match.com and Yahoo! are the subjects of separate class-action lawsuits from 'frustrated online daters.' Yahoo! Personals is accused of advertising fictitious profiles in order to make the service look more popular. In the Match.com case, 30-something professional Matthew Evans contends that Match.com sent a female employee as 'date bait,' hoping he'd tell others about the attractive women they could meet. 'The relationship went nowhere, according to his suit,' which claims Match.com violated the RICO Act."
So now you can sue when a girl doesn't like you?
If the allegations are correct, at least somebody will get screwed.
If they can afford to send employees out on dates they must be charging way too much.
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Match.com has millions of people on the service
Of which about 99% are horny guys.
"Actually, I just work for ."
Some of those singles in the class action suit should exchange phone numbers.
Dude! You can't call dupe for an article that was posted on a different site. If that were the case then everything on slashdot would be a dupe. Oh, wait...
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The litigant was responding to the profile of a girl who shared a remarkable resemblance to his idol, Kate Moss. He sent her over two dozen messages in a 3 week span, expressing his undying love and admiration, to which she finally replied and agreed to meet him. To the litigant's dismay, upon meeting the subject-in-question, he found that not only was she _not_ Kate Moss, nor even her twin. The subject couldn't even fit into the front seat of his Yugo, and needed two safety belts to secure herself in the rear. Scarred emotionally, and physically (she tried to sit in his lap), the litigant is suing match.com for mental anguish and his $25 monthly fee...
Note: the above post is a shill.
This happens every time Slashdot has a post on this topic, someone posts articulartly saying how much success they've had with the service, the timing is very convenient.
Women date YOU!!
Yeah, I'd agree. I met your girlfriend on Match too, and she IS hillarious. She's great in bed too, isn't she? :)
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Well that's good, because the second time you read it, it reads the same as the first.
17-18 year old girls want to chat dirty with anyone
Are you sure about that girls part?
"In the game of life, someone always has to lose. To me, if life were fair, that someone would always be Oklahoma." -DKR
Well...we don't want to give the impression that all of the male geeks are serial killers.
I met my wife on Yahoo Personals. All I ever met on Match.com were totally whacked out women. Pretty, yes, but psychotic. I'm psychotic enough - I don't need the competition.
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Heh. "Stick to the ugly women," "Lower your expectations" ... you must be great with the ladies yourself. You're so flattering and smooth. "Hey baby. All the bikini girls are taken, but I've lowered my expectations, so... how about a drink?"
This would be outstanding. I would love to see the clusterfuck that would ensue.
Don't you mean "Beowulf Cluster Fuck?"
What's going to happen to the 'relationship' when you bring home 100 metres of CAT5 and start stapling cable all over her flat? Or when you install linux on her computer? Or when you spend $1000 on new hardware in a day? Geeks routinely do things that non-geeks would have trouble living with (I've done all of the above in that last month, btw... albeit it's my flat too as I'm married).
...... :)
Well, if its someone you love and you are only using CAT5 cable
Michael
There is no cryptographic solution to the problem where the intended receiver and the attacker are the same entity.
Speaking as a geek, at $30 a month, even fake dates may provide enough entertainment and possibilities to be worth it :-)
Match.com: If they won't screw you, we will!
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Would we be able to moderate the profiles +1 Interesting or +1 Funny? If so, I could get behind this.
You don't need to go to match.com to find unstable women. I have met them through friends, at bars, and many other places. I don't know why, but I am apparently a magnet for them and have had to move a number of times, twice to another state breaking off contact with anyone who knew both of us, and have had to get three different restraining orders. The crazy ones are out there, you shouldn't have to search the web for them.
" I met my wife on Yahoo Personals."
I met your wife on there too.
it was "common knowledge" that ticketmaster people could pick up a little extra on the side doing extra curicular work for match.com.
well, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for ticketmaster people to go on dates for money, I suppose...
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I'm a gorgeous, athletic, and brilliant 20-year-old woman. I'll go out with slashdotters, but only subscribed slashdotters whose subscriptions have expired.
I've come to the conclusion that all women are whackjobs, it's just a matter of degrees...
I dunno about that.
My ex had a bachelor's degree, but she was still a headcase.
My sister is a highschool dropout, and she's completely batshit-fucking-loco.
Don't see how the degree makes a difference.
I got lots replies when I used one of these guys for my profile picture. Seriously, the reply rate compared to my normal picture was like 10:1. There's still some chick in Austin that's pissed that I won't return her email.
the good ground has been paved over by suicidal maniacs