Posted by: Brad
As many reader’s here know, I met my wife using the dating service Match.com. We’ve been married for 5 years now and are entering the next phase of our family: expecting our first child.
We decided to have some fun with finding out the sex of our baby by having a gender reveal party. If you’ve not heard of this it goes something like this:
I had heard that Match.com was going to try to introduce some more “traditional” dating opportunities through singles’ events. These events, call Stir Events, are basically parties/get-togethers organized by Match.com where they bring a bunch of singles together and see what happens. Match.com recently had an event for my area and sent the following:
In some ways, the Stir events ...
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For some reason, I’ve never written a review of Match.com here…even after all the years that I’ve been running this website. I guess this is odd because I actually met the woman I married using Match.com!
At any rate, I felt like it was time to give my review of Match.com. I’ll admit, I have a bias for the service since I had success with it, but I would argue I have a favorable bias for a good ...
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On December 30, 2010, Match.com had a a federal lawsuit filed against it that alleges that the majority of profiles belong to scammers or are inactive members. Check this article out for the details. From the suit itself:
Continue Reading →While Match purports to have “millions” of active subscribers, well over half of the profiles on its site belong to inactive members who have cancelled their membership or allowed their subscriptions to lapse and/or are fake and fraudulent profiles posted ...
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Match.com in the UK is offering all 3 days free this January, 2011.
Continue Reading →Meetings like this don’t happen all the time, but at match.com, we’re proud to say that 160 of our members leave every day as couples.
So if you are looking for ...
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How should I use Match.com? What’s the best way to approach using this service?
First, there is no perfect approach. However, I think that Match.com has some strength that its users can take advantage of to help improve their experience with the service.
Below, I’m going to discuss the communication process at Match.com and how I think you can use it to its fullest potential. If you are just signing ...
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The Match.com free trial offers 7 days for free to new members and is one of the few services of its type that does so. By “type” I am referring to the fact that Match.com allows you to contact any member that you want.
Free trials and events are more common with the matchmaker type of service, such as eHarmony or Chemistry, where the members that you can ...
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Earlier this week (July 21st to be exact) marked the last day that any user of Yahoo! Personals could switch to Match.com, the service that will be taking over all the accounts that previously existed within the Yahoo! service.
Yahoo! Personals is the first service I ever paid for when I started dating online. I never had success with this service and as I discuss in my online dating guide, I think it may have ...
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The Match.com cost of subscriptions is not too expensive compared to many online dating services. The subscription prices are all based on different time ranges you sign up for. The longer you sign up for, the lower the price you pay per month of using the service.
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It has been recently announced that Match.com will become the official online dating site for Yahoo!. As a part of this change, Yahoo! Personals will be offering its current members the opportunity to move to a new co-branded dating service that will be called “Match.com on Yahoo!”.
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