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The article states: "Remember when I said that certain dating businesses can print money? This is one of them. A 2006 reveals that the company was then bringing in about $45 Million of revenue a year." I'm wondering what the missing word is after "2006". Any clues? Where did the revenue figure come from?
The article states: "Remember when I said that certain dating businesses can print money? This is one of them. A 2006 reveals that the company was then bringing in about $45 Million of revenue a year." I'm wondering what the missing word is after "2006". Any clues? Where did the revenue figure come from?
I never saw any "Single?" signs, but I do wonder about all the signs I see around here offering cash for diabetic test strips... I'm guessing those are given out free by some program and then sold, but don't you kind of need those if you are getting them?
You also need your blood plasma, but I have plenty of friends who sold theirs in college for some extra money. Economic privation makes people do sad things.
This was a fascinating read! I was pretty blind to these signs until recently when my 5-year old son started asking me what they say. There are a number of "We Buy Houses (xxx)-xxx-xxxx" signs where I live. I bet it's a similar type of operation.
There's also a handwritten sign for a dating site in my city I've seen a couple places now. It's not obviously hyperlocal so I imagine it's someone's actual "I'm going to be the next Zuckerberg" project.
I never saw any "Single?" signs, but I do wonder about all the signs I see around here offering cash for diabetic test strips... I'm guessing those are given out free by some program and then sold, but don't you kind of need those if you are getting them?
My assumption with the diabetic strips is that well insured people can get large quantities from their doctors at the expense of the insurance provider and then sell them for a profit for cash. Alternatively, people in the medical supply supply chain likely have good sources for large amounts of test strips they could offload at a profit. This is purely my guess having seen the same signs and wondered the same things…
This was a fascinating read! I was pretty blind to these signs until recently when my 5-year old son started asking me what they say. There are a number of "We Buy Houses (xxx)-xxx-xxxx" signs where I live. I bet it's a similar type of operation.
I’ve been seeing those signs for 20 years.
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Who is going to miss WHOIS? I'm not. If it was opt-in I bet nobody would even reveal their details at all. At worst, you're just accidentally doxing yourself and setting yourself up for a social engineering attack. For example, name, email, and (wrong but close) address were enough to get someone into this guy's Amazon account: https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backd...
Many interested in mitigating abuse.
Doing something with WHOIS info sounds more like a cloak and dagger fantasy.
In reality, having your personal info in your WHOIS sets you up for abuse.
When I used to be into SEO there was a theory going around about owning multiple sites and linking them together. Different IPs and locations 'looked' better to Google than all these sites linking to each other from the same IP address. Maybe this theory motivated the different servers.
I fully believe there are a lot of desperate low-info lonely people out there who would try a dating website from a random lawn sign. And I believe that there are a lot of desperate wealthy people out there that would pay 3-15k for a dating service. But I really doubt these sets intersect at a high enough rate to make this a profitable endeavor. And the people willing to pay 3-15k are not looking to pay a random lawn sign caliber company.
Most likely the majority of their revenue comes from reselling the info they acquire in various shady methods.