Dating Service

[ThomasR]

Has anyone used an onLine dating service?

Are they worth the time?

Do you get a good match?

Are they better for long term or short term encounters?

Would you recommend a specific service or are they much the same?

When your career requires short stays in many places are dating services able to meet these limitations or are they good only for people fixed in one location?

 

[7B2]

www.thehun.com

it's free and there's always a good match to your needs

 

[siucavflight]

This one also works.

 

[MarineGrunt]

www.thehun.com

it's free and there's always a good match to your needs

The only link you will ever need...

 

[MarineGrunt]

Has anyone used an onLine dating service?

Are they worth the time?

Do you get a good match?

Are they better for long term or short term encounters?

Would you recommend a specific service or are they much the same?

When your career requires short stays in many places are dating services able to meet these limitations or are they good only for people fixed in one location?

Seriously though, the best place to meet women are: church, coffee shop, fitness club (my fav, where I met my wife, you know the babes are in shape), or just some local laid back pub. Girls are down to earth in places like those.

My 2c.

 

[jetexas]

Don't do match.com. Lot's of psychos or snobs looking for money.

 

[Dash8]

buzzed post (two BIG beers with dinner)

Don't do match.com. Lot's of psychos or snobs looking for money.

i'll have to second this...i was on match(paying) for a few months, nothing worthwhile that i found, a few girls that went crazy after a few dates, and several that 'misrepresented' themselves physically, with either descriptions or out of date photos, tried yahoo and just didn't find much there yet (but not paying for it), but have a friend that had good luck with yahoo's personals.
its best surmised with
caveat emptor

no photo? 9 times out of 10 theres a reason for it that doesn't bode well for meeting someone (yes i know that sounds shallow, but i'm a pragmatist, and if theres' no physical attraction, its exceedingly difficult for anything else)

i've also found some other curiousities, now while i personally think that 'average/curvy/few extra pounds' in my estimations are acceptable physical generalizations for me.
now this is prolly more a sociological issue/discussion at this point.
but, my experience has shown that those clasifications aren't always used correctly. i'm sure many of you can figure out where the majority of the catagory sliding occurs to, but also there seems to be many perfectly normally proportioned girls that call themselves 'few extra pounds' or more.

oh bloodyheII i've been rambling...

oh yeah, lotsa crazies out there.... of both genders i'm sure, so be careful.
i've personally given up on the whole dating scene thing for awhile

 

[Stifler's Mom]

OK, time to crack out this link once again.

Online Dating

 

[navigator72]

match.com

Match.com worked for me..... While I normally wouldn't sign up for online dating services. My friends convinced me to put my profile on Match.com. I had a few psychos contact me. I also met a great girl on Match.com who I have now been dating for almost 8 months. I think it is alot easier to meet people in the non-internet dating world.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Not sure how intimate you guys are, but have you ever seen "The Crying Game"?

Just kidding, glad it worked out for you.

 

[AA717driver]

Stiffler's mom...

Man, you gotta warn us before you post a link like that. I da*ned near turned to stone... TC

 

[avoidingmyboss]

Now there's 3 hrs of my life I'll never get back thanks to thehun. Now I feel like punching the clown? Meet someone the old fasion way....in a bar.

 

[350DRIVER]

www.love-is-in-the-air.com

Free and by far the best in my opinion...

enjoy and good luck

3 5 0

 

[FlyChicaga]

I decided to try out match.com for a while, just to see how it worked. With my flying schedule and the fact I'd use my days off to travel all over the place, it didn't leave much time to meet anyone. At first I thought the site sucked, but I ended up meeting this very cool (and hot) farm girl from not-too-far away, and things are going great. She's definitely a keeper. It's worth a shot, and much easier to weed out the freaks when you're sober, unlike the bar scene...

Who cares if you met someone on the internet? All that matters is being happy. Welcome to the 21st century.

 

[BoDEAN]

I've used match/yahoo personals a few times.


Whats you "catchy" headline on match.com ? heh

So can be so interesting

 

[mudkow60]

The Yahoo Personals have been good to me... met some cool chicks, some hot chicks, some psycho chicks, and all others in-between... and all for about $20 a month.

 

[Pilot124]

www.americansingles.com In my opinion the best. Good looking girls, and allows you to see how much they weigh. I am proud to say that I have drilled for oil three time with three different girls. But would like to find a keeper...

 

[NuGuy]

Hiya Tom,

I've tried a couple of the services.

Whatever you do, avoid any free service. I hate to say it, but you want some sort of filter in place, and so far, actually having to pay for the service weeds out alot of the wackos.

I did the match.com thing for a while, and I have to agree with some of the other posters. Pictures tend to be old and/or doctored or were the ones that came with the wallet, and the system allows the participants to be suspiciously vauge. That said, I had serval dates from match, and all of them were pretty decent.

My crashpad roomie used eHarmony, and I was really impressed with the results he got. Their system doesn't allow for the vaugeness that match does, and he had several dates with very nice girls. The system wont show pitcures until after a pre-set amount of interaction, and I think that does a good job of tempering expectations.

I've now flown with two guys that have used Great Expectations (and I went to check it out). This is your classical dating service, where you go leave a tape and so on. They also do background and credit checks on all of their participants. It is VERY spendy, and they have a high pressure sales pitch. If you can dodge the sales pitch and act like you arn't sure, there is a pretty good amount of negotiating room on the fees.

The two guys that I flew with both found their spouses through their program.

After all of that, I wound up finding my spouse the old fashioned way...we met on a double date with friends who set me up.

I don't know your age, but the dating dynamics change significantly once past 30, and again past 37 or 38 or so. Use caution.

Best,
Nu

 

[Dash8]

I don't know your age, but the dating dynamics change significantly once past 30, and again past 37 or 38 or so. Use caution.

Best,
Nu

it changes??? i still haven't figured it out for the 20's, but now theres' differnet ones for 30's? *sigh*

that love is in the air is kind of limited in available profiles (At least as far as the gals are concerned)

tried eharmony, said i was 'unmatchable' not that there were no available matchs (like the message my roomie got) but specifically 'unmatchable'
but i think its because the site seems to slant towards the theistic types, many many questions dealing with faith, which for persons like myself, aren't applicable..so, so much for that doofy jerkoff on tv and his 27 specific matching criteria

 

[jetexas]

it changes??? i still haven't figured it out for the 20's, but now theres' differnet ones for 30's? *sigh*

Yeah, dating women in their 20's tends to center around trendiness and what "friends" of theirs think. What the cool clubs are and what frat you are/were in in college. They tend to play more games. The good thing is there are more single gals around.
By the time you reach your 30's you are dealing with more single mothers and single gals pickins kinda get slim. The good thing is that women in their 30's tend to be more concerned about the person than the presentation.
Just a generalization but based on personal experience.