irc333 Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Well, here ya go....you've all been HAD. Muahahahahaha! Company Seeks Chicago Writers To Professionally Woo Women On Tinder, OKCupid: Chicagoist
preraph Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Some woman is going to sue them for that, and I hope they win.
Scales Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Suddenly I'm tempted by a new exciting career path 2
Eivuwan Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 They might as well call themselves scam artists. 1
HappyLove Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Wow they are really going in the gutter! They just recently admitted to faking the percentage of how perfect a match you are! Another reason why OLDing sucks. Isn't it bad enough that you meet flakes and untrustworthy people on there constantly, now the website itself is a liar!
sillyanswer Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Well, here ya go....you've all been HAD. Muahahahahaha! Company Seeks Chicago Writers To Professionally Woo Women On Tinder, OKCupid: Chicagoist Are you sure your topic is correct? From reading the article I didn't get the sense that it was OK Cupid doing this hiring, but a different company. 1
WesternWizard Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Must be losing their touch, if they're not trying to hush it up. The middleman is trying hard to convince us we still need him.
PegNosePete Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Isn't it bad enough that you meet flakes and untrustworthy people on there constantly, now the website itself is a liar! Did you actually read any of the article before taking yet another random unsolicited pop at OLD? This is nothing to do with OKC or any other dating site. It's a company who offer to take over your profile for you, find you matches, do all the communication and arrange a date. It's not anything new, this kind of thing has been around for years. In fact the company in question registered its website virtualdatingassistances.com in 2009. 3
Author irc333 Posted August 11, 2014 Author Posted August 11, 2014 Regardless. .it is still deceitful. Did you actually read any of the article before taking yet another random unsolicited pop at OLD? This is nothing to do with OKC or any other dating site. It's a company who offer to take over your profile for you, find you matches, do all the communication and arrange a date. It's not anything new, this kind of thing has been around for years. In fact the company in question registered its website virtualdatingassistances.com in 2009.
ascendotum Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Some woman is going to sue them for that, and I hope they win. If she is not paying anything to use the service then there is no breach of contract. I find it a little strange they are hiring people to write to women and not the other way around due to the gender imbalance on dating sites. I know a number of sites early on to gain market share used bogus female profiles and AFF still does it to keep the male punters signed up. In my country a site got busted for hiring women to back up dummy profiles with correspondence back to men. It was a $ site so it was fraud.
PegNosePete Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Regardless. .it is still deceitful. Regardless, it's nothing to do with OKC. Your post could be considered libelous.
HappyLove Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Did you actually read any of the article before taking yet another random unsolicited pop at OLD? This is nothing to do with OKC or any other dating site. It's a company who offer to take over your profile for you, find you matches, do all the communication and arrange a date. It's not anything new, this kind of thing has been around for years. In fact the company in question registered its website virtualdatingassistances.com in 2009. OKC has admitted to faking percentage matches and using hopeful daters as experiments, so my position stands!
PegNosePete Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Regardless, it's nothing to do with OKC. Your post could be considered libelous. I find it a little strange they are hiring people to write to women THEY AREN'T! Did anyone read the actual article rather than the inaccurate title of this thread? 3
ascendotum Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Regardless, it's nothing to do with OKC. Your post could be considered libelous. Just saw - its not quite as pitched in the thread title. too late to change my post.
PegNosePete Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 OKC has admitted to faking percentage matches and using hopeful daters as experiments, so my position stands! How does that have anything whatsoever to do with this thread? Your post is off-topic at best.
HappyLove Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 How does that have anything whatsoever to do with this thread? Your post is off-topic at best. Do you really think OKC didn't sign off on this latest experiment? Why wouldn't match & eharmony and all the others not have been included? Not off topic AT ALL!
PegNosePete Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 What experiment? It's a company called "Virtual Dating Assistants" offering a service to guys who are too busy/inept to write to women themselves. OKC don't get anything out of it, why would they secretly be behind it? 1
Author irc333 Posted August 11, 2014 Author Posted August 11, 2014 This isn't the first time something like this happened. Some Time ago Yahoo Personal s was sued for something similar. You can Google "Yahoo Personals Sued" about how members whose membership s were running out were goaded in renewing by fake messages from people
PegNosePete Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 You can Google "Yahoo Personals Sued" about how members whose membership s were running out were goaded in renewing by fake messages from people That may be true but it's TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to this article. This is about a private company who hire out their services to individuals, to communicate with women on dating sites and get dates for them. How is that even remotely similar to an expiring member being sent fake messages by the dating site itself? 1
MidwestUSA Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 (edited) All I see is a company offering writing services to men (assuming women too) who aren't so good at writing a profile. What wrong with that? Has no one ever had someone do homework for you at any point in your life? Maybe some of the losers here should try it rather than whining. Talk about comparing apples to, well, pork chops. I've helped male friends wrote profiles. Is that deceitful? Edited August 11, 2014 by MidwestUSA 5
somedude81 Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Sounds like a service I should use when I start getting serious about OLD. Though I don't like the idea of somebody completing writing my messages for me. It reminds me of the movie Her.
Author irc333 Posted August 11, 2014 Author Posted August 11, 2014 Sorry my fault. ... though it wouldn't let me edit it. On a phone [ QUOTE=PegNosePete;5847359]That may be true but it's TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to this article. This is about a private company who hire out their services to individuals, to communicate with women on dating sites and get dates for them. How is that even remotely similar to an expiring member being sent fake messages by the dating site itself?
Cinder_ella Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 Well, here ya go....you've all been HAD. Muahahahahaha! Company Seeks Chicago Writers To Professionally Woo Women On Tinder, OKCupid: Chicagoist I'd like to apply. I could create the best profiles. ------------- On a serious note, I think that's so wrong and the paying customers should get together and form a class action suit.
HappyLove Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 All I see is a company offering writing services to men (assuming women too) who aren't so good at writing a profile. What wrong with that? Has no one ever had someone do homework for you at any point in your life? Maybe some of the losers here should try it rather than whining. Talk about comparing apples to, well, pork chops. I've helped male friends wrote profiles. Is that deceitful? Really so people who have no luck OLDing are now losers? Some would say people who meet OLDing are losers but I don't really think that's fair either. The only problem here is that it's NOT just helping someone write a profile. You are paid to woo the person. From the ad "And we'll pay you to write profiles and messages for our clients while sitting at home in your underwear."
somedude81 Posted August 11, 2014 Posted August 11, 2014 I'd like to apply. I could create the best profiles. ------------- On a serious note, I think that's so wrong and the paying customers should get together and form a class action suit. Who should should file a suit against whom?
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