NY man sues dating website Match.com for deception

A.) Use okcupid.com -- much better site. B.) I agree that match.com should probably identify which members actually are capable of responding, and it might increase signup rates if it notified non-paying members when they received a response and then allowed them to see what they'd missed once they paid. But imho, online dating is inherently "humiliating and disappointing."

Match.com is pretty lazy about retaining members and encouraging interaction and seems to prefer to focus on marketing rather than improving its core product. Okcupid is superior in almost every way. Match.com has made a few attempts at upgrading their services but they seem to have been mostly cosmetic or invisible/infrastructure changes. When I left, "recent views" was still questionably accurate, the send-email page still had no link back to the original profile (just a partial text dump of it), and generally poor use of screen space. Not as bad as eHarmony, but okcupid is better and free.

I met a few cool women through match.com, but finally got fed up with it. I don't care enough to sue but I have no sympathy for match.

Charging for the ability to send messages is pretty standard practise on most dating sites. It's how they make money.

Unsurprisingly, this is just another typical American greed lawsuit.

As a sidenote, Match.com does engage in some slimy practises too. For example, your subscription will get automatically renewed, and your credit card charged.

If you ask about this, they'll say it's because they want to provide you with "uninterrupted service", which is, of course, a load of bullshit. In the event that your subscription runs out, you can have it back up in like two minutes.