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Originally Posted by EliteWebmaster
eharmony is the closest thing of a successfull model along with Match. POF is full of dead weight. It's basically a glorified craigslist for hookers, rapists, fat girls, 40year old virgins, and murderers hangout. Markus needs to clean his site up.
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The paid dating model is still very much alive. A good way to market paid dating sites is to point out the major pitfalls of free dating sites. A lot of people who register on POF aren't serious about online dating. They pretty much register on there for the same reasons they register on myspace.
On the other hand, the quality of users on paid dating sites is way higher. Since it's more focused on actual dating and the users who are serious about it have to actually pay for the service.
Not saying anything bad about the owner of POF though. He's a very smart man who is worth more than 99.9% of us will ever be. Of course he's going to brag about his business model while putting others down. Just like all the other business giants do, (Steve Jobbs, Bill Gates, etc).