OK, I don't need websites like this to get a date, but I thought I would leave a few thoughts for you guys that might be thinking of using them.

I have had male co-workers that tried online dating. They had fairly negative results. I tried it, and had some results, but it was inferior to meeting men the regular ways I had been using. I know a lot of men in my city from way back, so getting dates and leads for dates is no problem.

This is just another online dating site that scams men by having a "gal" send them a wink or email soon after they put up a trial profile. You have to pay to answer the email that was sent by one of the ad writers from the company that puts up fake profiles for the purpose of seducing men to join. It's a form of legal prostitution except the men never get anything but a bill for joining.

A male co-worker recently put up a trial profile on Match.com to show me how it worked. The second day he got a wink from a gorgeous gal of 33 that claimed to be looking for men 43-53. He was 51 and had not even posted a photo yet. The woman's profile was "hidden", which means he could not check it out beforehand. This is another trick that Match.com and others use where it cannot be proved that the men were being baited by a company plant. The profiles are usually written and posted by people hired by the company but working overseas or from home, etc. It CANNOT be proven that the company was behind the posting, but as men NEVER get emails unsolicited from model quality women that are 1/3 younger than the men and when the man hasn't even posted a photo or completely filled out the profile, you can be 99.99% sure the wink or email is fake or the woman is a wingnut or the photo and profile are fake and you are dealing with a fat loser female. The 48 hour timing means my co-worker was given a chance to browse and decide to join on his own, and when that did not happen, the fake winks and emails are sent. The website knows they have about 72 hours to get a man or woman to join, so the fake messages are a last ditch effort by the company to seduce people to join after they have been given a chance to browse. If my male friend had like what he had seen already, he might have joined. The company knows they have to seduce the man or woman with a person a lot better looking than what in normally online in order to get people to commit.

So many people have been burned by online dating that people now just browse and decide not to pursue the membership, so this baiting is at epidemic levels. The FBI should investigate all the online websites with special emphasis on member's mail that just joined or are about to expire.

I am going to post my own female profile without joining just to see what kind of winks and emails that women get. I'm sure it's mostly a scam.

Bottom line: decent American women do NOT need online dating services. Men should be very, VERY careful before handing any money over. Their results are generally very poor as paying women are usually cherry pickers that are looking for something better than what they have in their online profile. I do not need online dating to get a date, but I might use it to get somebody I would comsider way above my league otherwise. Men would do the same if they could.