ami1uwant is offline ami1uwant Post #1  September 23,2010, 3:49pm
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I am curious ...what would be your limit on what you pay for a service?

If we say the baseline for eharmony or match is $20/month---for the sake of argument please.

Given what youve experienced....

Ideally what would you like in such a service that you would be willing to pay extra for?

What would be too much?

If they offered you an honest money back guarentee to find someone special for you...if they cant find you someone then you get your money back would you take them up on their offer? What I mean in finding is that you actually get a real relationship (no poofers allowed)


Personally I would like to have something that just consisted of those that were seriously looking and not just playing around.

I would pay a little extra so that I can see who is alive and breathing vs who is dead in the profiles.


If you could dream up something...would would it have??????
 
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I think the best model is actually a free dating site. On any paid site, there are so many unpaid profiles that it is almost futile. Free dating sites may have many people just checking it out and looking around, but if you see a profile you really like, you know that if they want to, they could respond to you.

The only feature worth "paying extra" for on paid dating sites would be making it so that unpaid members can read and respond to your messages. Really though, this should be included for all paid members, just as "seeing who is alive and breathing" is included on most dating sites.
 
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I'd pay quite a lot for a result. A site which provided a person I would marry, I'd probably pay at least $10,000, in a one-time payment, upon completion.

I'd pay a fair amount for quality meetings with good suitable partners - over $100 / month indefinitely, provided the site did not provide the junk experience that online sites currently do.
 
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To be more clear:

The matches have to be real people, active on the site.

They have to be honest in every data point.

The site needs to include additional data points.

The site must allow accurate screening, sorting, and filtering on the data points I desire.

The site must be easy to use, free from junky advertising, and generally a technically proficient site.

The payment should be a pay-for-performance model. For instance, a meeting with mutual desire to meet again is worth $25. Pay for the meeting, not the month.
 
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I would pay almost anything for a dating site that did the following:

Not allow free users, they take up space and cannot communicate freely, a true waste of time.

A minimum log in to occur before you are marked as an inactive profile, but you would be active if you logged back in again. Also have that clearly marked for all users. Match.com is decent for that.

Do not allow new matches till you closed out your current ones. Say you could get 10 matches per day, if you left 8 open for communication, you could only ever get 2 per day now. Might make those who are active either close people out or actually talk to them.

More screening, and stricter rules about matching. I don't want less people, but like eHarm, say you cannot have a profile that doesn't have everything filled out, or at the least 90% complete. When you send it in for review actually have someone critique it for you, not just an "optional fee" system.

More options of answers. Say like eHarm, you have 2 questions for Kids, do you want them and do you have any that live at home. I have a daughter, but she doesn't live at home cause she lives with her mom, she stays with me on weekends, but the question makes people believe you do not have kids, so you have to say it in the profile itself.

A monthly organized meet and greet for major cities. (harder to do, but would be awesome).
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D_Lion wrote :
To be more clear:

The matches have to be real people, active on the site.

They have to be honest in every data point.

The site needs to include additional data points.

The site must allow accurate screening, sorting, and filtering on the data points I desire.

The site must be easy to use, free from junky advertising, and generally a technically proficient site.

The payment should be a pay-for-performance model. For instance, a meeting with mutual desire to meet again is worth $25. Pay for the meeting, not the month.
That would be great but how could the site reliably collect the money from you? Presumably, after you're in contact with someone, you can communicate by phone, email, or other means outside the site and can arrange meetings as you desire without the site knowing. While some people might pay on an "honor system", many would not. Developing a viable performance-based business model for an online dating service could be interesting and potentially quite profitable

That being said, a service that really delivered a lifelong partner would definitely be worth a significant amount of money. Heck, one might say that $10,000 would be a bargain.
 
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I want a site that delivers at least 1 quality match a week--this being, a match who is truly interesting to me, and to whom I am truly interesting. A real potential match, with a mutual interest in meeting.

I want a site that is easy to navigate.

I want a site that is fun, or constantly has something new I can be doing in addition to searching for matches.

I want a site that doesn't have barriers to communication.

I want a site where nearly everyone I look at has checked their profile in the last 2 weeks (or more recently).

I want a site where everyone (or nearly everyone) has at least one picture posted of himself/herself.

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And I wouldn't pay anything for this, because I am already getting it for free over at OkCupid.
 
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I want a site that delivers at least 1 quality match a week--this being, a match who is truly interesting to me, and to whom I am truly interesting. A real potential match, with a mutual interest in meeting.

And I wouldn't pay anything for this, because I am already getting it for free over at OkCupid.

For real?
 
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D_Lion wrote :
I'd pay quite a lot for a result. A site which provided a person I would marry, I'd probably pay at least $10,000, in a one-time payment, upon completion.

I'd pay a fair amount for quality meetings with good suitable partners - over $100 / month indefinitely, provided the site did not provide the junk experience that online sites currently do.
I just signed up for a local exclusive dating service - minimum fee is $5,000, and that guarantees five matches.

Once you think about it, it's an absolute bargain for men in this modern dating climate, if it results in a good, healthy LTR or a marriage.

(This is not a dating site; it is a personal one-on-one matchmaking service.)
 
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Raw_Truth wrote :
I just signed up for a local exclusive dating service - minimum fee is $5,000, and that guarantees five matches.

Once you think about it, it's an absolute bargain for men in this modern dating climate, if it results in a good, healthy LTR or a marriage.

(This is not a dating site; it is a personal one-on-one matchmaking service.)
I would love to hear your results.
 
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