OPW – Nov 16 – Gráinne Barry & Kevin Greene, the Internet entrepreneurs behind the Irish dating site AnotherFriend.com, have acquired the UK dating site MakeFriendsOnline.com for an undisclosed sum. MakeFriendsOnline.com has been in operation since 2001 and has featured in the UK top 10 dating sites on occasion. AnotherFriend.com currently has 60% + market share of the Irish online dating market.
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Quick update… People are starting to take serious legal action againt the company… and guess what..winning and the owners are backing down !!! Small steps and all that !!! Vive la revolution !!!!
Quick update… People are starting to take serious legal action againt the company… and guess what..winning and the owners are backing down !!! Small steps and all that !!! Vive la revolution !!!!
Well, here we are, 7 March, and the Gestapo are still using their jackboots on members. Posts removed with no explanation, even though there was nothing offensive in them with the members being banned from even reading the boards, some members being ‘struck off’ the site for no reason – the list goes on. With their Irish site, AnotherFriend,the fact that it is based on one small country with a fairly small population and few major towns/cities makes it easy for members to get together. And I doubt that there are many true dating/friendship sites there so they have the monopoly. With MFO it covers from the very north of the UK to the most westerly tip. There are members from Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada etc so the message boards are a good way to cement friendships and some have even travelled to the UK for Meets.
Yesyou can join the site for free: So you can every other dating site in the world for free, but you can’t join in chats etc in many of them unless you pay. The new owners have reversed logic on this – to match AnotherFriend. To even read the boards you have to pay – not good if you want to encourage new members as they can’t see what it is they’re paying for. But they have now opened up the site to all and sundry to send messages for nothing – so the women get mail from the African nations (20 yr olds) and no doubt the men get the Russian and those from the Far East. MFO always managed by way of limiting these people to ‘winks’ so keeping the place fairly safe. Now its just another third rate dating agency – but one of the most expensive. Stay well clear.
Well, here we are, 7 March, and the Gestapo are still using their jackboots on members. Posts removed with no explanation, even though there was nothing offensive in them with the members being banned from even reading the boards, some members being ‘struck off’ the site for no reason – the list goes on. With their Irish site, AnotherFriend,the fact that it is based on one small country with a fairly small population and few major towns/cities makes it easy for members to get together. And I doubt that there are many true dating/friendship sites there so they have the monopoly. With MFO it covers from the very north of the UK to the most westerly tip. There are members from Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada etc so the message boards are a good way to cement friendships and some have even travelled to the UK for Meets.
Yesyou can join the site for free: So you can every other dating site in the world for free, but you can’t join in chats etc in many of them unless you pay. The new owners have reversed logic on this – to match AnotherFriend. To even read the boards you have to pay – not good if you want to encourage new members as they can’t see what it is they’re paying for. But they have now opened up the site to all and sundry to send messages for nothing – so the women get mail from the African nations (20 yr olds) and no doubt the men get the Russian and those from the Far East. MFO always managed by way of limiting these people to ‘winks’ so keeping the place fairly safe. Now its just another third rate dating agency – but one of the most expensive. Stay well clear.
Get this everyone !! … I used to be a Premium Member on AF Ireland (that means I was paying a fee)… AnotherFriend are so “heavy handed” and so ‘unreal’ that they sent a so-called “Warning” to my mail-box because in one of my member-to-member emails I simply asked a Standard Member, who had mailed me, were they going to an upcoming – (and get this, because it is just bizarre) – OFFICIAL ANOTHERFRIEND SOCIAL NIGHT WHICH WAS ADVERTISED ON THE WEBSITE FOR ALL MEMBERS!!! … The “Warning” said that it is (and I quote) “FORBIDDEN” to try to arrange meetings with Standard Members and it could result in “THE CLOSURE” of my account !!
… AAAAND (get this also folks!!) – in this same email I had actually PROMOTED the damn thing telling the Standard Member that it would be a great night and that I had been at the last Social Night and it had be really enjoyable!!
So this brings to my mind a little joke (a touch of the wry Oirish wit, don’t ya know)- Have you heard the one about the Irish Dating Site ??….. (grinnn).
Steer well clear of AnotherFriend.com or any other Site that they own !
Get this everyone !! … I used to be a Premium Member on AF Ireland (that means I was paying a fee)… AnotherFriend are so “heavy handed” and so ‘unreal’ that they sent a so-called “Warning” to my mail-box because in one of my member-to-member emails I simply asked a Standard Member, who had mailed me, were they going to an upcoming – (and get this, because it is just bizarre) – OFFICIAL ANOTHERFRIEND SOCIAL NIGHT WHICH WAS ADVERTISED ON THE WEBSITE FOR ALL MEMBERS!!! … The “Warning” said that it is (and I quote) “FORBIDDEN” to try to arrange meetings with Standard Members and it could result in “THE CLOSURE” of my account !!
… AAAAND (get this also folks!!) – in this same email I had actually PROMOTED the damn thing telling the Standard Member that it would be a great night and that I had been at the last Social Night and it had be really enjoyable!!
So this brings to my mind a little joke (a touch of the wry Oirish wit, don’t ya know)- Have you heard the one about the Irish Dating Site ??….. (grinnn).
Steer well clear of AnotherFriend.com or any other Site that they own !
this site is a con i came off it a few months ago and i have just received a bank statement, only to find they are still taking money from me. so its off to the bank and then to the police
this site is a con i came off it a few months ago and i have just received a bank statement, only to find they are still taking money from me. so its off to the bank and then to the police