Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Don't Trust 'Free' Registrations
Looking at some new sites. CupidNights at least looks professional, but they don't let you look at the profiles before you go into the site. This, in our experience, is a bad sign. Different sites attract different kinds of people and you need a chance to look at these people before you actually give over any information. These guys want a 'free' registration before they will let you see anything. Once you do that, they've got your email.
Buyer Be Ware
New users to dynamic world of Internet dating should be aware of a few things.
Firstly in almost all sites we have seen the subscription payment you agree to will be renewed until you cancel the service. This is a fairly standard Web Bunsiness model, imagine having to renew your Internet contract every six months our your online banking services. But it is good to be aware that you will almost certainly have to take steps to stop being charged.
If you don't like a site t is essential that you send an email cancellation on your account, which might mean you will need remember you login and usernames, or to login in a good to a section where you can cancel.
Information of this kind can be always found on on either the faq link or the or the terms of use link at the bottom of the front page. Remember too always look through what is on the bottom of the page before deciding to give it a try.
If you can not find the prices listed or the means for ending the service after taking a good long search you should consider not using the service.
Firstly in almost all sites we have seen the subscription payment you agree to will be renewed until you cancel the service. This is a fairly standard Web Bunsiness model, imagine having to renew your Internet contract every six months our your online banking services. But it is good to be aware that you will almost certainly have to take steps to stop being charged.
If you don't like a site t is essential that you send an email cancellation on your account, which might mean you will need remember you login and usernames, or to login in a good to a section where you can cancel.
Information of this kind can be always found on on either the faq link or the or the terms of use link at the bottom of the front page. Remember too always look through what is on the bottom of the page before deciding to give it a try.
If you can not find the prices listed or the means for ending the service after taking a good long search you should consider not using the service.
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Price check Dating Direct vs Match.com
Dating Direct Memberships.
6 Months (180 days) £59.99
3 Months (90 days) £39.99
1 Month (30 days) £19.99
7 Days £9.99
3 Days £4.99
Match.com Memberships.
6 months £69.12
3 months £48.36
1 month£24.15
Rates were does taken from the web sites on 2 May 2006, sites offer a free plan and prices are only subscriptions, prices may change over time.
6 Months (180 days) £59.99
3 Months (90 days) £39.99
1 Month (30 days) £19.99
7 Days £9.99
3 Days £4.99
Match.com Memberships.
6 months £69.12
3 months £48.36
1 month£24.15
Rates were does taken from the web sites on 2 May 2006, sites offer a free plan and prices are only subscriptions, prices may change over time.
Match.com Offers a Guarantee in the UK
In the feedback we get here at .Dating we often hear doubts about the chances of finding anyone on an online dating site. That is why we were happy to see Match.com off a guarantee in the
But the guarantee has terms attached. The first term is a great condition and one we greatly support, the user must produce a truthful profile with picture and keep it open to the public. This will promote honesty and we are very happy about.
Also to be eligible for the 6 free months if you fail you must respond to or initiate communication with 5 or more people each month. That is 30 tries. It’s our experience that it never takes 30 attempts to find an interesting date on the internet.
The one thing the conditions don’t define is what Match.com means by “someone special”, but given that you will have to try with 30 people over 6 months its hard to imagine that you won’t, if you try, find someone special.
So perhaps it’s not much of a guarantee technically. But if it encourage people to try and keep trying it may do a great deal to increase acceptance of internet dating.
This offer ends June 30 2006.
Match.com has at present a three level pricing system. You must buy Match.com 6 month subscription of £11.52 a month billed at once. Match.com also has 3 months for £16.12 a month and one month for £24.15 a month.
Nigerian Email
I never would have thought it. On a lark I signed up for the dating service on the Independent. It was free and I figured what harm could come? The first three emails I got were from lonely women in Arkansas and Nebraska (I kid you not). But the best came from ForYou064. ForYou064 describes herself as an African woman age 26 living alone in Paris. Naturally she does not provide a photo. The text was one of those 508 scams. Sadly I can't get it off the site at the moment. Their servers have been down all day. More to come soon....
English Reticence
One thing I've noticed about profiles I read here in the UK. Lots of times you see people writing: 'my friends say....' This strikes me as peculiarly English. In a country where anyone blowing his or her own horn can expect to have the piss taken immediately from all directions, this kind of statement seems inevitable. Certainly no one thinks this makes the statement more valid. After all, hon, that's what your friends say to you, not necessarily what they say.
A Few Days Off
Took a few days off for the holiday weekend. A few days off from what are now a long series of ignores. I did a bit of re-branding and re-wrote the profile. New photos will soon go up as well and then I will re-start emails. Results to follow.
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