Plenty Of Fish Starts Charging Members

[COD]

WELL it had to happen, the free site now wants to cash in on its popularity. It had an old slogan about how it would never charge a fee, why pay for a memebership, blah blah blah..............NOW its "experiementing" with GET NOTICED campain---highlights, gold dots for "SERIOUS MEMBERS". For an additional fee U got some gold sticker like dots next to your profile.........and are 9 X more likely to get your profile read, responded to yada yada yada.

Well if U fall for this stuff.........although the stats are true (9 times more likely, increased responses)...........U are wasting your money.

There are other things which are free that can increase your response/get noticed ratio BEYOND 9 X when combined.

Nothing to do with a picture or writing something cute and funny in a profile, not even writing a clever challenging email either..........


Anyways just thought you should know there are a few other FREE dating sites besides POF......and to not fall for this tactic to spend more money.

Lets not go off on another thread about social net working sites or thats why online dating blows flames.

 

[TheBucketOfTruth]

Have any of you guys had much luck with that site anyway? Spur of the moment I made a profile, but I quickly decided to abandon it. It seems like most attractive women don't need to go online to meet guys, and guys seem to start off at an extreme disadvantage. Is it even worth trying out?

 

[ohsnap]

The only decent thing I've tried, where I've actually met attractive women in person (and a few of them, at that)... is posting in personal sections of trade websites. Free to use, the girl responds to your ad, which goes to your email inbox (hotmail, isp email, whatever). You take it from there. Given the girls are responding to YOUR ad, they are not receiving 1000 emails from dorks whose best pick up line is "wanna fk tonight honey?". I leave an ad on Gumtree and update it once every couple of months or so to bump it back to the top of the page.

 

[Dust 2 Dust]

Whenever I see that gold circle in a woman's profile it looks more like "I'm desperate" rather than serious member. There's no way I would ever pay to be on that site.

 

[DonGorgon]

Well duh.. you have 50.000 desperate men looking for women on there you may as well get all you ca out of them..lol exploiting desperate men in any way is a very lucrative business practice.. ask any strip club owner or porno shop owner..lol

 

[HardTimes]

Haha wow, that site is already crappy (for me). Why in the world would you PAY for something that was already crappy for free?

 

[DonGorgon]

Haha wow, that site is already crappy (for me). Why in the world would you PAY for something that was already crappy for free?

Desperation... they have calculated and found that enough men will pay for them to start charging..

 

[IcedT]

The thing is I'm seeing enough girls paying as well, and these aren't like ugly chicks either. What do you guys make of that?

 

[HardTimes]

The thing is I'm seeing enough girls paying as well, and these aren't like ugly chicks either. What do you guys make of that?

They aren't paying. They are either gay men pretending to be women or the women are having men pay for their account.

 

[Michele l'Arcangelo]

the women are having men pay for their account.

Explain yourself, zealot!

 

[HardTimes]

Explain yourself, zealot!

Huh?

 

[Solomon]

It's not worth paying, if you are a good looking dude it's easy picking
If you are average its nothing but fatties and babymomma's

no thanks

 

[Dust 2 Dust]

The thing is I'm seeing enough girls paying as well, and these aren't like ugly chicks either. What do you guys make of that?

Right now they're giving out free trials to the upgrade to random members. I had the opportunity to upgrade to serious member for a 1 year free trial, but declined.

 

[Michele l'Arcangelo]

Huh?

I don't mean anything in a bad way, it just seems like a typical sosuave.net thing to assume women get EVERYTHING handed to them on a silver platter, like a guy paying for "their" "girlfriend's" dating site account.

Do guys really pay for womens' accounts on a dating website or is that the typical sosuave.net zealot speak...?

That sounds ridiculous.

 

[Gangster Of Love]

Whenever I see that gold circle in a woman's profile it looks more like "I'm desperate" rather than serious member. There's no way I would ever pay to be on that site.

Sure, but those stars you see on women's profile were given to them for free, since women don't need to pay to get attention. The "upgrated" women at random, to create the illusion that women are paying for this. That is why you see a lot more women with "Serious Member" profiles than men.

 

[Raikojo17]

After learning about how shady most internet dating sites are. i get real suspicious about sites where you have to pay

I tries it last year. i paid for about a month to contact "gold members" who i never heard from, ever.

I think the whole thing's a scam

stick to myspace if you really want to do the internet things. I've had tons of success with that

 

[nismo-4]

F**k Internet Dating!

 

[DonGorgon]

The thing is I'm seeing enough girls paying as well, and these aren't like ugly chicks either. What do you guys make of that?

They are "planted" to make you think that many women are willing to pay...lol its so easy to trick desperate men , hence the term "tricking"