Match.com has used an ad blitz in the last year touting that 1 and in 4 relationships start online. I wasn’t able to read the small font size on the chyron in the commercial, but I want to challenge that stat. Match.com is a price gouging entity owned by Barry Diller’s IAC – InterActiveCorp. That same parent company owns the infamous price gouging entities known as Ticketmaster and Livenation. Those two entities would explain why Match.com would want to lure people with their obscenely priced service.
They claim to have their service at “$29.00 a month” but if you get the 6 month plan, times that then you have to pay upfront that $175! Its a misleading statement, because its unfair – especially for someone whose ether unemployed, someone who has fixed income, or is low income, and/or lives paycheck to paycheck. Match forces you to pay the $35 monthly cost if you can’t afford it.
It should be free!
Wait, they own Okcupid I think. You know my experiences with that site.
They also claim to have to give you 6 free months more if you can’t find someone in 6 months. But there is a catch! You have to message at least like 5 to 10 people every month to get this offer. Well again the world revolves around women, and as I have said from time to time, how they are skeptical, that they view men as sex addicts, and their own mixed messages of what they want, and so on and so on and so on. How are you suppose to challenge a CRM* agent that you had bad luck trying to get a girl because they are a girl? Depending if you email or call them, whichever way, they’ll figuratively laugh at you!
*CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management – a computer system that is used for call centers or customer service sectors. CRM gathers the customer’s billing or service history and often these systems is where you get an “automatic reply” from such contacts, when it really is someone cherry picking various prompts to speed up service request. If you didn’t understand that gibberish, the bottom line is that boldface word contradicts the abbreviation.
Now how come the standard is forcing everyone to use the World Wide Web to find that S.O.? And what if you don’t have money for pay for an obscenely overpriced website? They say that people with autism communicate easier electronically, but the opposite can happen too.
Life has really changed since 1995. It used to be that people met at the grocery store, there’s been stories how someone found their future love as a waiter at the local restaurant, even a turnpike toll collector met someone of their dreams. But don’t take the preceding seriously. Because in this mean age of the New York Minute spreading to every developing nation, the ideal of having your eyes at the ground, and looking down at the ugly people, and to shun the “loser” because “he lives in his parent’s basement” and other degrading things against men has been enabled by society!
I have been taught to play it safe, and any slight risk is one too many.
Any claim coming from a company owned by Diller, should raise questions. I wished his company would be forced to be taken apart. The rich bastard could care less about the working people who are forced to unhappiness because of this obscene monopoly!
I love to see more about the 3 in 4 people who start a relationship outside the packet (or “cyber”) world.