Thursday, April 30, 2015

Tinder was hit with a class action alleging its mobile dating app discriminates

Tinder was hit with a class action alleging its mobile dating app discriminates on the basis of age and gender by charging more for men and users over the age of 30 to use its premium service

http://www.law360.com/articles/649279/tinder-app-pricing-burns-men-older-daters-user-alleges


http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2015/04/tinder-discriminates-older-user-claims-class-action-suit.html



My bet: IAC will put Tinder to sleep soon or later. 

Facebook allows minors to use it (people from 13 to 17 years old)
Online Dating is NOT for minors.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/how-tinder-will-collapse.html
The IAC is not going to conduct Identity Verification to screen all Tinder's members.
It seems Tinder is like Chatroulette but it will collapse like Skout.
http://mashable.com/2012/06/13/skout-rape/
When the IAC Personals bought OKCupid (4+ years ago) for an astronomical amount of money, the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission. IAC Personals backed Tinder instead, as the copycat of Badoo. 

And Badoo backed Bumble.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/article-at-sa-iacinteractivecorp.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/iaci-29march2015-report-about-match.html
And
IAC-InterActiveCorp (IACI) Q4 2014 - Earnings Call Transcript 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/iac-interactivecorp-iaci-q4-2014.html
A birdie told me: "I read through the conference call. Lots of excuses and hand waving...they've already thrown in the towel on 2015 and are now trying to say 2016 will be the great year.
Tinder monetization testing is "solid" which is code for "much worse than we expected."
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