Many dating services employ deceptive practices. I had an issue w Chemistry where they automatically renewed my membership, and when you join there’s no option to opt out of “auto renew”, instead you have to cancel but when you do they give you the impression you’ll immediately lose contact w the folks you’re already match with.

My cousin signed up for a personal matchmaking service in NY, only to find out it didn’t live up to is promises (putting it mildly). He then discovered that the NYS Attorney General has guidelines for dating services, i.e. fee limits, etc. and that the folks who ran the service had voilated. Only when he confronted the owner with this was he able to get a refund.

Does this mean people should sue? Probably not, but people get frustrated and these services play on vulnerabilities.

Online dating is much less expensive than a matchmaking service. If enough people grumble states will pass laws so the courts don’t get clogged up with frivilous cases.

LOL! Are you sure those aren’t Nigerian internet scammers?

I don’t know that suing is worth it; first how would you prove it and second, I would think the legal fees would exceed any damages awarded. I can’t imagine any jury would award much of a sum for this.

On my Cupid.Com account I had received e-mails which had been deleted for violation of their Terms of Use. According to the message, “The most common scams are Nigerian scams asking you to send money”.
I don’t know if that’s the name of the site, but I definitely did read that eHarmony lost a lawsuit and was required to provide access for homosexuals.
The lawsuit should have been dismissed for want of a substantial legal question.

The Internet is a big place, and there is no want for web sites that concentrate on the homosexual niche market.

I received two winks on Friday. Neither of the profiles are available today (Monday). The first was from a 31 year old who is searching for men from 35-64 years od. The second was from a 30 year old who is searching for men from 32-53 years old. The first lived over 1500 miles away, the second over 800 miles away (I’m searching within 10 miles). Both women were attractive.

I did get a look at the first woman’s profile before it disappeared. She wasn’t terribly picky. She was looking for any man between the ages of 35 and 64 within 50 miles of Los Angeles. It was a New profile, and the text was rather generic.

Even though I’m clearly not a match for her (by her criteria or mine), she somehow ran across my profile and winked at me. This situation makes me suspicious that it may have been a fake profile generated by Match.com to encourage me to continue using them.

“I’ve dated men who have told me they get emails from Russian women a lot.”

I suspect that a number of these are genuine. The women are genuinely seeking US green cards, and the men are a means to an end. I know a middle-aged gentleman who is traveling to the Ukraine next week to meet three women whom he has been corresponding with.