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Oh, America, land of the bravely effeminate lawsuit. Brooklynite Sean McGinn is getting in on the national pastime -- suing Match.com for unspecified damages. His reason? Not telling him whether or not somebody maybe kinda likes him. Non-paying members of Match show up in a search as potential dates, but can't initiate contact if they don't pay a subscription fee. Sean alleges that this is legally a "deceptive practice," and thinks that showing members matches whom they can never know would reject him causes "humiliation and disappointment."
We sense that if he loses this case there will be even more "humiliation and disappointment" in his future. If you don't know that the subscription fee is a good way to weed out The Poors, may we suggest you switch to the ever-helpful, "Do you like me? Check One" note?
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Thursday 11 June
By jcotton372
I have been subscribed to Match.com. After the subscription is up, you get emails that someone has emailed you or regarding matches, but cannot read them unless you re-subscribe. Which means, your profile stays on there even after your subscription is up and people can email you, but you cannot read it or respond until you re-subscribe which means someone on the other end is sending an email or showing interest ,not knowing and possibly feeling rejected because the email they sent cannot be read/replied to by that person. In other words, unless the person subscribes or re-subscribes someone else is showing interest in someone that might never be known ,let alone returned. The profile just sits there and unsuspecting subscribing members are emailing/showing interest.
Maybe that doesn't seem fair?
Please feel free to reply to this comment if you've had personal experience, because whoever wrote the article was unfortunately ignorant or some young kid.
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Thursday 11 June
By Annie
@jcotton372
I have a friend who is having a similar problem. He's finding people he's interested in, sending them messages, and then never hearing back, presumably because they are not subscribers. I think the guy in the article has a legitimate complaint (the site prevents you from knowing who has the ability to read messages and/or reply, thus potentially you are wasting your time contacting non-subscribers), but the reason the site does that (I assume) is so once people get notified they got a message, they'll decide to pay up to see who sent it to them.
I think the complaint is legit, but I think a suing the site is a bit extreme, and the site will never change it because it probably won't "lure" in as many subscribers with that notice of waiting messages.
Thursday 11 June
By Annie
@jcotton372
I have a friend who is having a similar problem. He's finding people he's interested in, sending them messages, and then never hearing back, presumably because they are not subscribers. I think the guy in the article has a legitimate complaint (the site prevents you from knowing who has the ability to read messages and/or reply, thus potentially you are wasting your time contacting non-subscribers), but the reason the site does that (I assume) is so once people get notified they got a message, they'll decide to pay up to see who sent it to them.
I think the complaint is legit, but I think a suing the site is a bit extreme, and the site will never change it because it probably won't "lure" in as many subscribers with that notice of waiting messages.
Thursday 11 June
By AnnQ @ averagebutnot.com
Wow....that guy needs to get a grip on life.
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Saturday 13 June
By nateypoo
Many times you get an email from these match making sites saying you have someone interested in you- you can't see the message or their picture or anything else for that matter- and then when you pony up the dough you find out it was someone with a profile but they never email you back.
Sometimes they send you a photo of a good looking person to nudge you along to resubscribing and then when you do you find out that it all BS. These sites are really manipulative that way and I think it's an unfair business practice.
Friday 03 July
By anthony
Weed out the poors? F U dick.
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