Lawsuit of the Day: Class Action for Those Not Getting Action
Dating is a mix of exhilaration and dejection, depending on your success or failure. It can be tough on the ego if you make a move and get rejected.
Some say it’s easier online. You wink, poke, or send a message. If not winked, poked, or messaged back, you can move on to the next strategically photographed person whose profile reveals their love of music, movies, and traveling. It’s all anonymous, so the rejection doesn’t sting like it does when it happens in person.
Or maybe it does sting. Maybe it stings enough to warrant a $5 million-plus class action suit.
Match.com makes the promise that if you use their site, you will “Find Love. Guaranteed.” But there’s something that’s not guaranteed: That the person to whom you’re reaching out is actually active on the site. From the New York Post:
A Brooklyn man sued Match.com yesterday for inflicting “humiliation and disappointment” on lonely hearts “who feel rejected when their e-mails get no reply.”Sean McGinn alleges the popular matchmaking Web site dangles phony date bait by posting profiles of people who no longer subscribe to its $39.99-a-month service.
As a result, lovelorn singles have been “defrauded” out of millions of dollars and countless hours spent sending heartfelt missives in vain, the 37-year-old TV producer says.
Most members of Match.com — which claims 86 million searches a month in the United States — are actually unavailable because they “are canceled subscribers or never subscribed at all,” according to his suit filed in Manhattan federal court.
McGinn is not alone. Fifteen other disgruntled Match.com users will join the case, says his attorney. And he’s not alone in love either. He’s currently in a relationship, thanks to Match.
Eric Turkewitz says the humiliation McGinn suffered through unreturned winks “will be nothing compared to being known as the guy that sued Match.com for humiliation and disappointment.”
But we think there’s something satisfying in being able to sue a tease.
DOT-COM HAS ‘DATE’ IN COURT [New York Post via New York Personal Injury Law Blog]
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fiiirst to say this guy should not be embarrassed
Is there any reason why an attractive girl would ever go on match.com? Isn't she getting too much attention as it is?
2: if she's a lawyer with poor social skills, she might. i know many like that.
Match.com is a great place to get laid if you know how to work it. Firstly, only search profiles that are "Online now". Those are all real. Secondly, neg the target almost always, and you will get IOIs 8/10 times. Move it to the phone, meet, fuck, profit. When you tell them you're a lawyer and sound relatively intelligent, so many of the artistic or uneducated broads there will think you're a catch as long as you're not heinous looking.
Not a lot of 10s on that site, but there's a boatload of 7s, and a smattering of 8s and 9s.
Better than paying for a hooker, anyway.
4 - Don't forget to ask her opinion about getting a pet Wombat.
I do all my NYC e-dating on Casual Encounters. Very few w4m ads are sicko tvs looking for pictures of my johanisburg.
4 -- I disagree. High end prosties are still the best way to get laid quickly.
Holy shit Kash, it turns me on to read such words from you. You're so fucking hot and sexy. I finished a bottle of wine tonight. I'm so glad Elie didn't write this one. I'd barf. Instead, here's to you...
Poke me Kash
Poke me Kash
Poke me Kash
poke me Kash
poke me Kash
poke me Kash
Elie should lead the class
Elie should lead the class
Elie cleans ass
If you want females, just move to Atlanta.
Mystal's brown eye winks too much.
The minute I read this title I knew this post was not by MysTTTal
THAT FAT, DISGUSTING BUCKET OF LARD
The minute I read this title I knew this post was not by MysTTTal
THAT FAT, DISGUSTING BUCKET OF LARD
2 - While it's true that attractive girls get lots of attention, it's hard for gals to find single guys that aren't either (i) losers or (ii) not interested in a relationship.
It's fine meeting some guy in a bar if you're happy being married to some prole pulling down a cool thirty-six five a year, but ladies need to make an effort if they're going to meet a guy who can afford a reasonably affluent lifestyle.
he looks like he would date online
http://www.spookytruth.com/staffbios.php
Where's your match.com profile, Kash?
Interesting trivia tidbit of the day: The Cape Cod local Craigslist site is the ONLY one with a W4A personals section and Kash is the only one who ever posts on that section.
It's pretty obvious to anyone who has used match.com that many of the more atractive profiles are "phony profiles" that are set up to entice to people to join.....remember you can browse the profiles for free, but you have to pay to send messages etc....and contact them.
It's a classic bait and switch and not an unreasonable lawsuit.
24: you a furry? hit me up
4,
At what point do i need to be able to answer what animal I'd like to be resurrected as in my next life? Is that the phone call or the second date?
what's going rate for Mystal's bukake slamdance?
Can we sue adultfriendfinder too?
Zug Zug.
This is why God invented Rule 11. Too bad courts never enforce it.
If this guy wants some love, he should come see me. I got somethin for him.
At first I thought this class action lawsuit was ridiculous.
But when I read they treat dead profiles as live ones I realized he has a real case. Especially in light of their over-aggressive advertising.
I just love how they use paid actors in their ads pretending they are real couples. Does anyone fall for that?
He definitely has a legitimate cause of action if there are fake or canceled profiles on the site.
My unit has had a couple of investigations of Match.com end up in our sights. The company, based in Dallas, has a lot of disgruntled customers that claim to be defrauded. They probably were, for all I know. I didn't pursue prosecution because I don't really care, you know? What I do know is that I had a 2 1/2 hour lunch break today, because me and some of the guys went to Saladworks and got so engrossed in girl watching, that we forgot it was a weekday. Very low productivity today. I ordered a Jim salad with BBQ ranch dressing, btw, in case anyone was wondering.
I banged probably 25 different girls off match.com, all reasonably attractive, most on first date.
Just star gazing today
36 is right. It is unbelievably easy. Watch out for fatties trolling as normal sized /slender girls. Happened to me a couple times. I just got a *bit* more drunk than usual.
If you don't want to date guys at work/guys in your social circle/guys at singles bars match is great. To the wanna be PUA-most men who do well with women are out banging them right now, instead of talking about it using pathetic acronyms. And anyone who bangs you after you insult her either has issues or is so hard up for sex she doesn't mind screwing some jerk.
I wonder if Suzy Wilson is a plaintiff?
22, your prose could use some work. The end of that sentence should read ". . .it's hard for gals to find single guys that either (i) aren't losers or (ii) are interested in a relationship."
Double negatives are a no-no.
Militant Grammarian.
People who use these types of sites are total losers, as in without any hope at all. If you can't score without a computer, then you might as well cut you dick off.
fourty-third!!!
41: This isn't 7th grade. Sometimes double negatives are necessary. "He has not been found not guily" is not the same as "he has been found guilty."
The problem with 22 is that she used a double negative to mean a negative. It's not ungrammatical; it just does not convey what she intended to convey. But it's also an anonymous posting on a blog, which she can't edit. So get over yourself.
Of course, that should be "[h]e has not been found not guilty." See also the end of my prior comment.
--44
44:
Actually, if read carefully, I believe it does convey what she intends to convey. However, it does so in a way that is unnecessarily confusing for the reader.
Double negatives are SOMETIMES necessary, but not often. In your example, a simple "he has not been acquitted" would be a MUCH better way to phrase that sentence.
-41
So, then, when you said they were a "no-no" and called yourself a "Militant Grammarian." (why the period?), you meant they're perfectly fine as a matter of grammar, but should be avoided when possible as a matter of style?
I can see why you feel annointed to self-righteously police the prose in blog comments.
--44
33
The actors they use in their advertisements are just homely enough to believe they would need help finding love. I think it’s pretty savvy. Match.com lost my respect when they caved in to that stupid lawsuit claiming discrimination for not hosting dating services for teh gheyz. When they settled that suite, they left the door open for a host of nuisance lawsuits like this one.
35, carry on. We need to replace some dead wood schticks like restatement 90 guy and PE.
48
I think that was E harmony.
I use match.com to "hook-up" with unemployed law grads, works like a charm.
-Ignorant nesl student.
44/47:
Because I have previously corrected other posts, usually for grammatical errors. It is more of a sign-off than a way to indicate what my goal in that particular post was. Regardless, this is a stupid argument.
And by the way, it benefits everyone to point out poor writing and how to correct it. There are enough shitty writers in this profession as it is; any little difference that I can make is worth enduring morons like you who take offense to what was not at all self-righteous or condescending.
"There are enough shitty writers in this profession as it is; any little difference that I can make is worth enduring morons like you who take offense to what was not at all self-righteous or condescending."
Well done! Hard to wrap that much cognitive dissonance into a single sentence.
--44
44:
Whatever you say buddy. Keep using "he has not been found not guilty" in your work, I'm sure you'll rise to the top soon.
54: Because you know so much about my career, right?
55:
About as much as you know about my alleged "cognitive dissonance."
lol at the basement virgin saying there are a ton of 7s and a good amount of 8s and 9s on match. of course he's following it up with "PUA" lingo that he learned while furiously jerking off to david d'angelo's book and mystery's hat.
22 - Totally agree. A followup comment, if I may...
And why on earth would a minorly socially challenged, nerdy lawyer breakup with his/her girlfriend/boyfriend? They're giving up GUARANTEED SEX!!
I met my wife on a dating site and she bore me a child. Now she's acting like a child and is a complete bore, and slowly but sure surely, she is starting to look like a boar. So I say, stick to masturbation and you'll never have an argument with the opposite sex. Nor will you ever have to consult with a slime ass divorce lawyer, deal with an incompetent matrimonial judge, pay out alimony to a lazy spouse, wonder why during middle age, all of your assets have evaporated and never have to question whether you can make that 8:16 AM tee time at Bethpage Black on Saturday the 4th of July.
This is true at all of those dating sites. If their advertised numbers reflected real active members, it would mean that every single adult in the country were on one or more internet dating sites, which ain't true.
This is a suit that's been waiting to happen. In fact, I thought it already had.
This is true at all of those dating sites. If their advertised numbers reflected real active members, it would mean that every single adult in the country were on one or more internet dating sites, which ain't true.
This is a suit that's been waiting to happen. In fact, I thought it already had.
This is true at all of those dating sites. If their advertised numbers reflected real active members, it would mean that every single adult in the country were on one or more internet dating sites, which ain't true.
This is a suit that's been waiting to happen. In fact, I thought it already had.
This is true at all of those dating sites. If their advertised numbers reflected real active members, it would mean that every single adult in the country were on one or more internet dating sites, which ain't true.
This is a suit that's been waiting to happen. In fact, I thought it already had.
This is true at all of those dating sites. If their advertised numbers reflected real active members, it would mean that every single adult in the country were on one or more internet dating sites, which ain't true.
This is a suit that's been waiting to happen. In fact, I thought it already had.