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The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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Post by xivzgrev »

gonehome wrote: post #7

I thought it would be funny to make a joke site with this idea (even grabbed sadsingles.com a few days ago for it) - it's interesting someone is actually trying it. The dating situation is so bad for single men in their early to mid twenties on the west coast that I'm starting to think it's worth bailing on the area entirely and moving to NYC just for that purpose. (Palo Alto has got to be magnitudes worse than SF wh…

What assumptions / observations underpin your conclusion that "The dating situation is so bad for single men in their early to mid twenties on the west coast"?

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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Post by dnautics »

"Also, not great, as pointed out by another TechCrunch writer: The implicit assumption that all dating is between women and men."

Another possibility is that there's no first-order[0] geographical arbitrage opportunity presented by gender imbalances when men seek men and women seek women.

[0] there may be "second-order" abritrage opportunity, in terms of sub-types of men or women.

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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Post by sneak »

xivzgrev wrote: post #29

Humor is all this is. Open question: where do men here in SF try to meet women? As a man, I have yet to see such a lack of single women in the city that would necessitate a project like this, even when I was dating around for 9 months. Me thinks either standards are too high or don't go far enough out of your comfort zone. I could imagine being wrapped up in a startup, eat, breathing, sleeping it. And yes, not too ma…

As a guy with wickedly amazing success on OKCupid and Craigslist in New York and elsewhere, in SF alone for a month, I can confirm that the usual methods that smart, hardworking, tech-savvy dudes use for finding strangers to date are completely oversaturated in SF.

Offline is the way, obviously, but ain't nobody got time for that.

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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Post by jsumrall »

My issues with this: 1. Whats the goal from the date? Nobody is going to commit to a long term relationship, and I doubt you will convince a guy to leave his job in SF to move to NY from this date.

2. Waste of resources/emissions. Sure, the effect of this is negligible since the planes will be flying anyways, but in principal this just seems like a huge waste of resources.

3. Given 1, it seems that this "date" is really just going to be mostly one-time affairs. Which is cool. But why not just find a date locally or hire an escort.

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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Post by newman314 »

untog wrote: post #12
dfgeheht wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...because like Horoscopes, Magazines telling us what we should eat/wear/say, and the rest, Men don't generally fall for this kind of thing.

Yet they're still funding this campaign to have women sent to them. Which is one of the saddest things I've typed in recent memory. (and if you really think that "men" don't fall for being told what to eat/wear/say you're horribly, sadly mistaken)

Years ago, Dilbert had a hilarious series of strips about mail order brides. But I agree that it is sad.

I'll just leave this here.

http://search.dilbert.com/search?p=Q&lbc=dilbert&uid=7339291...

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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Post by ballard »

sp332 wrote: post #21
ballard wrote: post #3

"It's like Great Expectations but with airplanes." Any service that takes money from people by preying upon their dreams is inherently evil. This doesn't solve dating because it's unsolvable on purpose. Unplanned spontaneous clicking probably won't happen when it's the advertised goal. Joining interest groups on meetup would be infinitely better.

Spontaneous clicking is more likely to happen if you meet a lot more people!

Much less likely if that's the advertised goal. It's better to go about group activities people enjoy, and not let dating become their all-consuming goal.

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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Post by rughgaegteaelt »

jsumrall wrote: post #35

My issues with this: 1. Whats the goal from the date? Nobody is going to commit to a long term relationship, and I doubt you will convince a guy to leave his job in SF to move to NY from this date. 2. Waste of resources/emissions. Sure, the effect of this is negligible since the planes will be flying anyways, but in principal this just seems like a huge waste of resources. 3. Given 1, it seems that this "date" is rea…

Not sure I agree about point three - why do you think they will get more success in SF than in NY? If they cannot get a "date" in NY, I am not sure they would get one in SF. Unless the organisers provide everyone with masks, cover of darkness and free booze!

Re: The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF

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Post by ballard »

rubiquity wrote: post #24
ballard wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the "elsewhere is valuable" "logic." Protip for men: Davis, CA not during summer has the highest concentration of unmarried, college educated, single women of any college town in the US, outside the Boston metro. Thursday night is salsa night at The Grad. Get your silly colored sunglasses and go. The other trick is to have women fly out to meet you, oh wait, that one has an API now. :) Seriously, distance is ano…

> The other trick is to have women fly out to meet you, oh wait, that one has an API now. curl -X POST https://thedatingring.com/api/v1/women -d '{"hair": "brown", "interests": ["me, duh", "froyo", "kale"]}' => {"flightNumber": 1525, "airline": "United", "departureTime": 201403051250, "arrivalTime": 201403051545}

Unfortunately, the one you got lied about her picture. :)
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