EasyDate scam

FTW

CupidPlc wrote: »

Hello Sausage...!

You should try to contact the head office. Here is the link http:// www. cupidplc. com/ about-us/contact-us
You`ll find contact form to send a message and contact phone numbers there. Or you can use this phone number 0845 869 7509.
All you have to do is to explain the situation ( the best way is to copy+paste your first post ).
Please be sure you will get your refund.

Respectfully,
CupidPLC.com

If that number's not persistently engaged, which it probably will be.

GordonH_2

Just found this article from an online search and thought I would pop in and say hello.

I got an email from them because a female friend had signed up with them (and I have to declare an interest here - I am researching and writing about online dating and am deliberately responding to such things). I clicked on the link and appeared to become automatically registered with a free account. I didn't fill out any information or upload a photograph, but within fifteen minutes I had received a message from someone which I could not read without paying them money. Over the past two days I have received a steady stream of these. All apparently very local to me.

It simply does not add up. Academic research that I have looked at and my own empirical research (interviews mainly) has shown that women are more reticent than men about making contact on these sites and will rarely do it if there is no photograph or information on the profile. Certainly not that quickly and not grouped as locally.

I found a number of comments about Cupid.com which suggests that I am not alone:
www_dating-service.com_review_bouken_cupid.com

These may be automated fake messages from fake profiles. This is not unheard of in the dating industry. If this is the case then this company is breaking the law, but its unlikely anything will happen as nobody is likely to make a complaint against them in their own jursidiction (Scotland).

I suspect this is not the last we have heard about this because they paid £7M for the cupid.com domain name last year and need to recoup the cash.

For them to clear their name they are going to have to prove that they are not using misleading tactics or false profiles and messages.

We could do with a whistleblower from the company to resolve this mystery.

Interesting info from an OKCupid.com (unrelated company) press release:

96% of eHarmony alleged 20 million profiles are dead.

You're 12x as likely to get married in a given year if you *aren't* on Match.com

eHarmony, whose whole purpose and message is to help you find a spouse, fails to do so for 94% of the people who try.


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