March 6, 2009

Circumventing the system

Internet dating sites are a business, thereby they charge you a fee to belong. They do let you 'browse' for free. On many you can even put up a profile for free. If you want to communicate with the other members you need to be a paying member. Now that really does not seem unreasonable does it? The fees to join? Well, usually a six month membership is a bit less than a nice dinner date. You have options to even pay by the month or quarter. Again, not unreasonable. After all, they are selling 'true love' here!

There are some men (they get picked on because I'm not on the site looking at the woman's profiles) who place a lot of effort to getting around paying this fee. They put up their profile and act like paying members, but somewhere in their profile, they tell you that they are 'currently not able to respond on this website', but you can reach them at blah, blah, blah @ blah-blah, if you are interested. This is where they get creative and give you their email, in a cryptic fashion. So, you have to figure out their email, then contact them, etc... just to find out they are a user and probably a cheapskate to boot.

My advice when you see that, grab your wallet and run for the hills.

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