Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the category archives:
In recent years, a certain percentage of scumbag men have taken it upon themselves to import women from foreign countries and then sell them out as prostitutes and do whatever god-awful things crazy people do when they can’t get a date here in the US and they have to basically buy and then kidnap some [...]
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TechCrunch says:
Apparently, a division of the Phoenix company’s People2People Group called Tele-Publishing filed the complaint in US District Court in Boston last Wednesday, alleging that Facebook’s “computer network and method of creating and sharing a personal page’’ is covered by one or more claims of a patent issued by the USPTO in June 2001.
The company, [...]
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It’s June, which means it’s time to catch up on who’s suing, settling and making money off of online dating companies.
First up, we have the expert witness resume for Matchmaker.com founder Patrick Michael O’Leary. Patrick now owns ExpertWitness.com, part of a $7 billion industry.
My former company, MatchMaker.com in 1990 addressed just about every area of [...]
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In recent weeks I have been talking with a major US newspaper in regards to a story about dating site legal issues. Today I see that a New York man sued dating website Match.com on Tuesday for misleading members by posting profiles of prospective dates who are unable to respond to any interest in them [...]
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A reader is looking for an attorney to assist with contract revisions. They want someone who knows the online dating industry cold. Contact me or leave a comment and they will get back to you.
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A reporter has been asking questions about various lawsuits that have been brought against online dating services.
I’d love to have some customers comment on whether their individual complaints are motivated more by emotions (disappointment, frustration re: dating) than by a desire to seek monetary redress (i.e. get their money back)? Is this more true when [...]
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Reader Brad bring up a good point.
PlentyOfFish site still says it’s 100% free still on the site. Shoudl this be considered false advertising since there is an upgrade option?
I would think there could be issues if the badge is tied to features only available to paid members. Currently badges show up in the search results [...]
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Facebook is again running into serious problems when it comes to clearly explaining their take on ownership of member data. This is a work in progress and they are going to need many iterations to get it right. It’s easy to talk about portable profiles, social graphs and all the other concepts that create the [...]
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Dating sites get sued all the time. Match, Yahoo and plenty of free dating sites spend a portion of their time on class action lawsuits and people upset off because they didn’t get a date.
Longtime readers know that I’ll put up with a certain amount of unsavory practices from the usual suspects, but True is [...]
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‘Tis the season to sue the stockings off the online dating industry. I received this from a law firm which is looking to start a class action lawsuit against Singlesnet.
We have received complaints from people who sign up for free and list their profile. After signing up, the clients receive e-mails indicating that they have [...]
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