Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating « OkTrends
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paying for dates on sites like Match.com and eHarmony is fundamentally broken, and broken in ways that most people don’t realize.
of these 20 million people eHarmony claims you can flirt with, how many are actually able to flirt back?
The most charitable way to interpret this last sentence is to assume their average account life is 6.5 months.
having given eHarmony the benefit of the doubt at every turn, let’s look at where that leaves their site: Yes, only 1/30th of the “20 million users” they advertise is someone you can actually talk to. That’s the paradox: the more they pump up their membership totals to convince you to sign up, the worse they look.
