Man sues after realizing he can't date some Match.com "models"

Sean McGinn alleges that Match.com posts photos and profiles of people who no longer subscribe to the service and, thus, "Match's policy causes severe emotional distress and anxiety for some [subscribers], including those who keep writing e-mails to one member after another and never hear back because he/she is writing to people who've canceled." (New York Post)

Comments

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

I hope that's not the picture he used.

[Torgo]

He really wanted to date a crunchberry.

[kevy]

Torgo scores again!

[ReginaFilangee]

Okay, I'll confess. I have a profile on Match.com, but it's currently hidden. The profiles you view TELL you when the person was last on there. So, if you are writing to someone who hasn't checked their profile in months or even a year, who do you have to blame but yourself? I'm not saying it's not possible that Match might "creatively" tweak that information, but from what I've seen there, it's not likely. Either way, I prefer PoF. I've met some interesting people there...both male and female (although only interested in females platonically.) PoF is free, as well....and has interesting forums that are lacking on Match.

[Tank]

Wow. A case that seems ridiculous at the outset becomes completely f'ing asinine when you read the article.

Unless Sean is suing for "humiliation and disappointment" because he "met someone he's happy with through the site" (and more than a few married men would support that position) he's got no case at all!

[Phranqlin]

*insert sound of world's smallest violin playing*

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

"McGinn declined to comment, but in an ironic twist, his lawyer said McGinn "met someone he's happy with" through the site."
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Match should then settle the suit contingent on her dumping him for a Pilates instructor.

[Sisterblonde]

What a loser.. maybe he should check out the library.

[Dick C. Normas]

I got kicked off eHarmoney.

They ask me what I liked in a woman and I said, my dick. I guess it was the wrong answer.

[buddy]

dar, duh dar check one up fer texas har nar har

[kestrelmas]

I'm a pretty private person... my sister set me up with a PoF account last Thanksgiving and I was livid. Within ONE DAY my email's junk mailbox was flooded with hundreds of these guys looking for a "hookup."

I hate dating sites.

[nellagain]

Let's see..what was that?... something people used to have...it attracted other people...began with a "D"...desirableness? No, not that...

Oh, yeah.

Dignity.

[nellagain]

Kestrel!

Your sister put *your* email address on a dating site?!?!?

Yikes!

Um, not that I need to know or anything, but, umm what did you do with the body? Was there any problem with the empty seat at christmas dinner? Probably not, I mean surely your family would thank you.

[lynn]

i agree, that i hope he used a better photo than that poor man's elvis costello thing.

some how the people at "tagged" got my e-mail addy and i get this "men that have said yes to lynn" e mails.
fortunately, lynn has always said "NO NO NO" to them all.

lol at nell

[twerp]

LMFAO@DICK!!!

[thomas]

nellagain;
When a young lady tells me I look dignified, I feel everything BUT attractive.

[nellagain]

thomas, thomas, thomas,

Obviously hanging with wrong kind of lady.

[ReginaFilangee]

kestrelmas, I'm curious how your email box got filled up like that? Because I never get any emails sent to me at mine....I have to log into the site and check the email box that's in my profile there. If I don't log in, I have no idea how many have been sent to me or what they say. Sad that your sister did that to you, but if you word your profile right, you don't get all the trash. Less than 5% of the emails I get are asking just for "hookups"....most are good-quality, well-written letters from men who have obviously read my entire profile (yes, it's very long) and have something nice to say, even if we don't have terribly much in common.

I was TOTALLY skeptical, until I had met several people IRL who were happily married to people they'd met online. Their marriages seemed stronger and longer-lasting, in fact, than many others I knew. Deeper connections. I figured that was probably because they actually got to KNOW each other through correspondence....just like the old-fashioned way of falling in love through letters back in the 1800s. So I thought I'd give it a try myself, since I meet very few eligible single men in life. To each his own, I suppose.

[ReginaFilangee]

I agree, thomas.....dignified is GOOD. :-)

Unless you're looking snobbish, and that's altogether different.

[MidtownCoog]

Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.

[jojo]

Let me get this straight...'Silent Bob' had trouble getting women so the websites's failure humiliated his aching heart. Yet he's willing to have his face plastered on the New York Times as the biggest loser on a webdating service? Oh yeah, being dissed in private by an empty inbox is so much worse than being publicly displayed as a pathetic, unlovable loser!

[goodforthebeercan]

Dick- Thanks for recycling that failblog joke as your own. Recycling helps the environment!

[lynn]

@ thomas---it is all in the way we say "you look sooooo dignified." ;)

and jojo -- had not thought of that. maybe he is hoping to get lucky this way.

[jdotglenn]

I thought that Elvis Costello was the poor man's Elvis Costello...

Midtown, the resemblance is canny.

[Dick C Normas]

goodforthebeercan,

It was the first thing that came to mind. Sorry if I bored you. I'll try harder.

[kestrelmas]

I forgave my sis... but yeah, I was pretty ticked at her for awhile. She used a picture of me from when I was going with a friend to a "Goth" club, and admittedly, I was showing a bit of skin in the outfit I was in. Plus evidently I have a "pretty face."

I wrangled the password out of PoF and deleted the profile when I found out about it, 24 hours later, my junk mail stretching 10 pages long (I keep it clear, normally). I never responded, or read, any of the emails after seeing some of the subject lines. Yhick.

...and she wonders why I don't date.

[goodforthebeercan]

@ Dick - Trying harder is good for the environment as well :)