Online dating industry in crisis as shares fall and nearly half of all users report negative experiences on the apps

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    3 months ago

    Get hardly anyone to notice me on okcupid, so I cancel my subscription, and within a day or two I get 25 people interested in me, but I can’t see their profile unless I pay, so I resubscribe only to see they’re all in the Philippines and Africa. The whole service is a scam.

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        3 months ago

        It’s set at a 50 mile radius, I have no interest in dating people on the other side of the world, I’d prefer someone I can interact with in person without having to hop on an airplane.

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        3 months ago

        OkCupid only checks the swiper’s radius, not the swipee’s. So you can set your radius to 1 mile, but you’re still going to get swiped on by the scam accounts in Singapore, and OkCupid will use that fact to lure you into buying a subscription.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, all of the Match.com owned services have done that for ages. Okcupid used to be truly a unique service, but it got transformed into another match.com zombie. Yay for late capitalism consolidation efficiency, or something…

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      Had it happen to me too. They’ll refund you for this. Just be polite when asking for it.

      My review on the Play Store: “Premium is a scam. Hides likes which come from all over the world (clickfarms?) even though I set my radius to 5 km. But of course they only show you the fake likes (all of them) after one pays for premium.”