Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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Online Dating Insider delivers cutting-edge insight and commentary on all aspects of the online dating industry. Topics include industry news, site reviews, emerging trends, analysis of dating site features, discussion about safety, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Startups directory, useful to anyone running dating or social networking [...]
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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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Now that I’m done admonishing Spark Networks for their lifeless Facelink meta-search, I need to give them big props for adhering to the Internet Dating Safety Act guidelines.
Someone in the Spark legal department has a unique sense of 12-point bold font humor, I love this legal disclaimer on the bottom of the Facelink home page.
THANKS [...]
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