Sure, we're spending billions on holiday season shopping, but food is expensive in NYC and incomes aren't rising. Which is why there are enterprising individuals like one 23-year-old who used Match.com to find men to take her out to fancy restaurants five days a week. more ›

While we never expected that our efforts to showcase the awesomeness of Staten Island would seep through the stubborn skulls of New Yorkers overnight, it appears that we underestimated the city's prejudice. According to yet another super scientific dating website survey, only 8 percent of 1,000 Match.com users from Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens are willing to cross the water to Staten Island for a date. But a story in the Staten Island Advance may hold the key to understanding why the borough is given so little respect: the people who live there don't like it either. more ›

Where's a registered sex offender supposed to look for love these days? Not Match.com, which has decided to filter customers through a national sex offender registry. In a statement issued last night, Match.com's president said the "improved technology and an improved database now enables a sufficient degree of accuracy to move forward." The company says it has been considering such a move for a while now, but had been holding back because of background checks' "historical unreliability." A spokesman also says the company decided to take the step in part due to publicity generated by a lawsuit filed by a California woman who used Match.com and got raped. more ›

Here is the sad story of Joan Romano, a 53-year-old Long Island divorcee who works as an office manager for a rheumatologist, and in her spare time cares for her disabled brother and elderly mother, both of whom live with her. She's lonely and vulnerable, and turned to the Internet for succor, finding a connection on Match.com with a man who said he was a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan. But people suck, and the Internet makes them ten times worse: Romano's longing for companionship was exploited by a grifter who took her on a $25,000 ride. more ›

Internet trolls who live with their parents just got a knock to their sterling reputations, as John Egan, a 32-year-old sports fan who lived with his parents in Stuyvesant Town, is now the subject of a Manhattan DA's office investigation after scamming rich divorcees out of their fortunes. But how can you blame them for falling for a mug like this? more ›

Ladies, pay no attention to this unflattering mugshot. (The lighting makes his neck look fat!) 57-year-old Solomon Nasser is quite the catch: He is a multi-millionaire with a private jet, he graduated with a PhD from MIT at age 22, he was a former CIA agent and advisor to President Bush, as well as a Navy admiral and an inventor with 80 patents. And look at that lush head of hair! Some lucky young lady's going to snatch him up any second unless you act now and help him out of his messy divorce. He just needs $125,000 or so. Any takers? more ›

Nice going, commenters. We were all having fun with Sean McGinn's $5 million lawsuit against Match.com, but as usual you had to go and push things too far, and now he's dropping the suit. Because of you. You'll recall that in June McGinn had sued Match.com—despite actually finding romance through the dating site—for "creating the appearance that inactive members are active" and causing him "profound personal anguish." But according to a recent court filing, the "sensationalized media coverage subjected [McGinn] to hundreds of reader comments" on the Internets and "caused no end of personal distress for Sean and incited a firestorm of rancorous Web commentary that Sean found literally unbearable." According to his lawyer, some cruel wags even "mocked" the 37-year-old TV producer as "lovelorn." Others, like Gothamist commenter Rocknrope, noted that McGinn "actually does look like a human incarnation of Comic Book Guy with short hair and glasses." It's hurtful words like that that drove McGinn to give up on his $5 million dream. Happy? We all owe Sean an apology in the comments. more ›

A Brooklyn man filed a $5 million federal lawsuit against Match.com yesterday, accusing the dating site of teasing users with profiles of "canceled subscribers or [ones who] never subscribed at all." As a result, Match sparked an inferno of "humiliation and disappointment" for 37-year-old user Sean McGinn, whose lawsuit argues that "Match's policy causes severe emotional distress and anxiety for some [subscribers], including those who keep writing e-mails to one member after another and never hear back because he/she is writing to people who've canceled... Because the writer has no way of knowing this, he or she may experience profound personal anguish, suffering which is easily preventable by Match." more ›