Match.com (Volume 6)

[Steve vRS]

Right. Is March.com worth paying for? I've put up a full profile and am getting loads of views and winks and messages which of course I can't see. If I cough up £30 odd quid for the next 3 months, is it the experience of others that this interest disappears?

Are the subscriptions auto renewing or easy to cancel?

I've had a few bites on Tinder in the last few days but was wondering if a paid service was worth it?

By the way, I had a wry smile when my ex wife was on tinder. I swiped right out of mischief.

Still not sure my selfie pics do me justice. I feel I need a softer focus and longer lens

[davek_964]

Steve vRS said:

Right. Is March.com worth paying for?

I've used it in the past (years ago - before POF existed) and found it OK. However, these days I wonder if it's worth it when there are free sites anyway. I think you're less likely to get targetted by scammers but they are easy to spot anyway.

POF seems to be as successful for me as Match was before. In just under 3 weeks, I've met 4 ladies and am getting on well enough with a 5th that I'm pretty sure we can meet if I want to.

[Steve vRS]

What makes me wary of Match is that the emails they send me saying someone has viewed my profile or sent me a message are all from the middle of the night (2 am, 4 am etc. ) making me think they are fake. They obviously hope I cough up the money to see the 'person' who the email relates to.

Getting plenty of matches on tinder in the last few days, but getting replies to messages is the tricky bit!

Something I must share is that the fittest woman from my office building popped up last night on Tinder! I swiped right of course but of course, no match. However, I now know she available so I may have to try the more old fashioned method of talking to her!

[lemmingjames]

Steve vRS said:

What makes me wary of Match is that the emails they send me saying someone has viewed my profile or sent me a message are all from the middle of the night (2 am, 4 am etc. ) making me think they are fake. They obviously hope I cough up the money to see the 'person' who the email relates to.

Getting plenty of matches on tinder in the last few days, but getting replies to messages is the tricky bit!

Something I must share is that the fittest woman from my office building popped up last night on Tinder! I swiped right of course but of course, no match. However, I now know she available so I may have to try the more old fashioned method of talking to her!

Tinder also reuses old profiles and keeps alive profiles that the user thinks have been deleted when they delete the app

[feef]

I've also been trying Bumble, which is like Tinder but where the woman has to make the first move.

However, out of the matches I've made, only a couple have done that, the rest have timed out.

[Shore]

It's so easy to cheat on your wife these days. A few wee dates and all is good

[johnwilliams77]

Shore said:

It's so easy to cheat on your wife these days. A few wee dates and all is good

What is good?

[kowalski655]

Shore said:

It's so easy to cheat on your wife these days. A few wee dates and all is good

I think for THOSE sort of dates, you want a more specialised website than Match!

[davek_964]

kowalski655 said:

Shore said:

It's so easy to cheat on your wife these days. A few wee dates and all is good

I think for THOSE sort of dates, you want a more specialised website than Match!

Actually, I don't think that's true. It would be very easy to cheat on your wife using POF / Match. However, I doubt they cause people to cheat - they certainly make it easy but if you're the kind of person who cheats then chances are you were going to anyway. And in my opinion, cheating is fairly binary - if you do it once, that's it.

[Echo66]

davek_964 said:

kowalski655 said:

Shore said:

It's so easy to cheat on your wife these days. A few wee dates and all is good

I think for THOSE sort of dates, you want a more specialised website than Match!

Actually, I don't think that's true. It would be very easy to cheat on your wife using POF / Match. However, I doubt they cause people to cheat - they certainly make it easy but if you're the kind of person who cheats then chances are you were going to anyway. And in my opinion, cheating is fairly binary - if you do it once, that's it.

Back in the day POF had its casual meet ups/ FwB option. Got binned a few years ago mainly cos of the reputation the platform was getting. SOme right fookin mingers parading their stuff. Anyone who rooted one of them should have been given a medal......& a decontamination sesh!

[Gretchen]

davek_964 said:

Actually, I don't think that's true. It would be very easy to cheat on your wife using POF / Match. However, I doubt they cause people to cheat - they certainly make it easy but if you're the kind of person who cheats then chances are you were going to anyway. And in my opinion, cheating is fairly binary - if you do it once, that's it.

The internet makes it very easy to be caught too.

[davek_964]

Gretchen said:

davek_964 said:

Actually, I don't think that's true. It would be very easy to cheat on your wife using POF / Match. However, I doubt they cause people to cheat - they certainly make it easy but if you're the kind of person who cheats then chances are you were going to anyway. And in my opinion, cheating is fairly binary - if you do it once, that's it.

The internet makes it very easy to be caught too.

Every cloud....

[lemmingjames]

Echo66 said:

Back in the day POF had its casual meet ups/ FwB option. Got binned a few years ago mainly cos of the reputation the platform was getting. SOme right fookin mingers parading their stuff. Anyone who rooted one of them should have been given a medal......& a decontamination sesh!

Wheres council baby gone?

[Rh14n]

[Blown2CV]

overunder12g said:

Well guys, as that seems to be to majority here. I have been married for 40 years
( I was 11 when we married) Not true obviously.
When I read this thread I cannot believe how traumatic this mating game has become. Some posts read like speccing a car! Must have .....etc etc.
Do you guys ever meet real people in real non on line life?
I may be totally out of touch as to how things are these days, but, if that is so, then I can only rejoice.
My wife and I met in a real life situation, courted, (strange, I know) Married, had kids, both now adult and fantastic adults.
Daughter getting married this year, so, repeat formula I guess.
Seriously, I feel for you guys, everything seems so more difficult for you.
Maybe get off this internet thing and go and meet real people and relate to real people?
Observation over..... Awaits flaming

Anyway good luck guys and ladies. .

sorry fellah but glad you are happy and all that, but you don't hold some magic secret, you just got lucky with who you met, and when. The last thing people who are single and looking need is someone coming along and telling them that it's easy and they just need to go out and meet people. I am sure you weren't trying to be a dick, but it's like telling someone with depression to just cheer up. Not helpful at all. Before you start on me, my second wedding anniversary is this week, and i met my wife online, so it does work just fine. The Internet IS a way of meeting people. Meeting 'in person' is NOT the only way to do things...

[Shore]

Woman these days are so active when in reality they belong in the kitchen

[Steve vRS]

I joined Bumble last night and I was amazed! The first half of the women were stunners. Really, 7 out of 10 easily. Then they started to fall and tail off. For a site that claims to be woman friendly, it felt really strange as if the algorithms in the site software were ranking the women some how.

[Saleen836]

Blown2CV said:

overunder12g said:

Well guys, as that seems to be to majority here. I have been married for 40 years
( I was 11 when we married) Not true obviously.
When I read this thread I cannot believe how traumatic this mating game has become. Some posts read like speccing a car! Must have .....etc etc.
Do you guys ever meet real people in real non on line life?
I may be totally out of touch as to how things are these days, but, if that is so, then I can only rejoice.
My wife and I met in a real life situation, courted, (strange, I know) Married, had kids, both now adult and fantastic adults.
Daughter getting married this year, so, repeat formula I guess.
Seriously, I feel for you guys, everything seems so more difficult for you.
Maybe get off this internet thing and go and meet real people and relate to real people?
Observation over..... Awaits flaming

Anyway good luck guys and ladies. .

sorry fellah but glad you are happy and all that, but you don't hold some magic secret, you just got lucky with who you met, and when. The last thing people who are single and looking need is someone coming along and telling them that it's easy and they just need to go out and meet people. I am sure you weren't trying to be a dick, but it's like telling someone with depression to just cheer up. Not helpful at all. Before you start on me, my second wedding anniversary is this week, and i met my wife online, so it does work just fine. The Internet IS a way of meeting people. Meeting 'in person' is NOT the only way to do things...

I agree, meeting people online is mostly how it works these days, I had a discussion t'other day with someone who insisted they would never meet anyone online as the person at the other end could/would tell you anything, they couldn't or wouldn't understand the person they met in a pub/club etc would ever be able to do that.

[Shnozz]

Steve vRS said:

I joined Bumble last night and I was amazed! The first half of the women were stunners. Really, 7 out of 10 easily. Then they started to fall and tail off. For a site that claims to be woman friendly, it felt really strange as if the algorithms in the site software were ranking the women some how.

I found Bumble a sack of ste. Happn and Tinder probably gifted me 40 - 50 dates I wouldn't have otherwise had if I had stuck to "real world" efforts and it was generally a good load of fun, even if its akin to online shopping. I think I did in fact put the apps in my shopping folder on iOS next to amazon.

[overunder12g]

Blown...Not having a go at all. As I said, sounds hard for you guys. I certainly don't think there was any magic involved here.
Congratulations on your 2nd anniversary. Way to go boy!

In all seriousness, I wish you all the best.