nt service that legitimately helps them
achieve their aims, you CAN and eventually WILL profit and grow. The damage in
investors betting on companies like WooMe is that 1) they scam bunches of
online daters and turn them off from the whole industry, they disappoint and
lie to people 2) other entrepreneurs see big investment and media coverage for
a company like WooMe and think they should chase after that model and mold
their businesses to what investors want rather than what users want. 3)
ultimately, investing in WooMe doesn't create any long term value and is a
waste of time/money and starves other legitimate businesses of opportunity.

Just because a company is getting investment $$, press, meteoric growth, etc
does NOT mean it is actually delivering anything of value and/or helping its
users achieve their goals. There is always opportunity to win against ANY
competitor by doing those simple things.

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jonursenbach
It's this kind of stuff that always gets me fired up about one of my previous
employers and the cadre of clones that they run.

What WooMe is doing is nothing different than any other adult "dating" website
in that they send messages to users with the hopes of getting them to sign up
with a recurring charge (that the company hopes they forget about) and then
immediately cut off almost all of this instant contact that the paid user just
received. Then about a week later they'll send out a mass mailer to a set of
demographics with more fake messages just to string that person and get them
to continue forgetting about that recurring $24.99 charge.

Don't even get me started on upselling.

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getsat
It's really unfortunate that this is the norm and not an exception. That said,
users of these kind of sites are probably most susceptible to this kind of
trick as love, lust and infatuation are probably the strongest emotions.

I know of a few people who scrape profiles off of dating site A, create new
profiles using that data on dating site B then message users on site B asking
them out. A require