Dating Site Pet Peeves
Ok, maybe I shouldn’t have pet peeves about other dating sites but I’m human after all. There’s a big one that just cheeses me off every time someone writes to me about it. Creating fake members so people will buy a membership.
I’ll start by saying that we created our site for people like us - we were a bit older, we’d been around the block a time or two and we were adamant that our next relationship would include intimacy on all levels. We never went into this for the money, but we always figured that if we put the members’ success first, then there would be enough money to keep the site going. So far we’ve been right.
Anyway, back to my pet peeve. I was reminded about it this week when someone wrote on his blog that he felt that anyone on our site that was under 30 was a “plant” by the site to get people to buy to contact them. It’s just not so. I know there are sites out there that do that. One in particular, we tested. I won’t mention names, but they know who they are. My husband joined.
Now he’s a wonderful man and I love him to bits, but he’s 50, grey hair and beard and lives in Australia. Within 15 minutes of joining this other site he received 7 emails from women in their 20’s who lived in the US and Canada. The scheme is that women can write to anyone but a man has to buy a membership in order to reply. The next day he received 17 emails and one woman was over 40. So we joked about it and I asked him to buy a membership and see what happened.
You guessed it. He bought his membership and he wrote to every one of the women that had written to him initially. Yep, only the one woman over 40 replied to him. So we moved on and forgot about it. His membership was due to renew in 30 days and sure enough, on day 29 he got more replies from young women. Really sexy ones. One sent him a trio of really explicit photos. He missed the mail and his membership automatically renewed. He wrote to the women again, and not one replied to him.
Now this is what they’re comparing US to and it drives me up the wall. We’ve never tried a get rich quick scheme. We’re happy to grow our site slowly by providing really good service and features to help people find someone sexy to hook up with. Sorry to rant but sometimes you just gotta do it.
