They really need to give users a way of identifying non-paying members, such as a flag or label that makes it obvious. I can’t believe match charge extra for the privilege of knowing whether your email was read! So I have no way of knowing if the person ignore my email, or simply couldn’t read it.

Oh the frustration! At least I know that internet dating works. I’ve had success (in the sense of getting a relationship, even though they were brief) on two other websites with three different women. I thought I had a match jinx, because I’d been on there for 18 months and no girlfriend!

That changed in January, but she dumped me this week! ((

I think the platinum move will cause a lot of women to join and not pay in hopes that a knight who can afford the shining armor comes to pick her up. What’s sad is that she could be just as happy (if not happier) with a regular knight, but she won’t be able to communicate with them.

Seems to me, as others have noticed, that this is going to result in any woman that understands how this thing works cancelling her pay subscription. What’s more intriguing is whether any women at all would pay for platinum. Let’s face it, the pay aspect filters out a bit of the noise women usually get from these sites, so what’s their motivation in opening that floodgate to all the free members? I don’t see it.

But Match.com is a business, so I guess we’ll find out how successful it is by how long it stays.

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At least Match doesn’t charge you for viewing profiles :-/

Semi-related though: I wonder if the economy problems will have a positive or negative effect on online dating?

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