Big Five German Failures in the Online Dating Industry.

The Germans had tried to conquer the International Online Dating Industry with 5 proposals.

1) Parship. Nobody knows its brain, Dr. Hugo Schmale. Copycatted as eCift in Turkey
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/will-elitepartner-parship-merge.html

2) Be2. 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/the-power-of-word-of-mouth-killed-be2.html

3) FriendScout24 BQcheck. (BeziehungsQuotienten-Check ) Prof. Dr. Manfred Hassebrauck is the brain behind that test.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/iac-iaci-bought-european-online-dating.html

4) eDarling/EliteSingles, copycats of eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-affinitas-gmbh-silly.html

5) ElitePartner
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/will-elitepartner-parship-merge.html

and those 5 proposals were / are HOAXES and big failures.

Those 5 failures are / will be cases of study for "Stupid Investors' series"


Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/two-silly-conferences-for-online-dating.html
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry. 

Rocket Internet's CEO Oliver Samwer on Q1 2016 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3978925-rocket-internets-rokt-ceo-oliver-samwer-q1-2016-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single

https://www.rocket-internet.com/sites/default/files/investors/160531%20RISE%20Q1%2016%20Results_0.pdf

https://www.rocket-internet.com/sites/default/files/investors/160531%20Detailed%20Q1%202016%20Results%20For%20Selected%20Portfolio%20Companies%20-%20Appendix.pdf

https://www.rocket-internet.com/sites/default/files/investors/pressrelease_Q1_31_05_FINAL.pdf

Rocket Internet verringert seine Verluste
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/rocket-internet-q1-2016


Rocket Internet SE and Global Fashion Group: They fell from three billion to one. Investors react in panic. 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/rocket-internet-se-and-global-fashion.html

All European countries fit in Brazil, Russia, Africa or Australia.

It means: If you want to replicate a big success in Brazil, it will be as hard as the same to replicate it in all European countries, but in this case with 1/8 of population and the majority of the persons DO NOT own or WILL NOT use a credit/debit card to buy online! They will prefer to research online and then buy offline.

Many if not most, USA, Canada or European businesses models are unfeasible in Latin American countries, African countries, Russia or even Australia. (transportation costs could be 10 times bigger than Europe)  All the domino should fall ...  when they run out of money! 

Myspace hacked? Same as ever. Nobody cares.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/myspace-breached-by-hackers-before-memorial-day-weekend-1464700772

Next big data-leak will be from Match Group's sites, perhaps. Who knows?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/next-big-data-leak-will-be-from-match.html

ALERT Russian-speaking hackers breach 97 websites, many of them online dating ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/alert-russian-speaking-hackers-breach.html

Several online dating sites, like PlentyOfFish and eHarmony HAD BEEN ALERTED IN ADVANCE, since 2009 about security holes, but they had not paid the attention it deserved.

EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) Silly Global Rebrand WITH NO INNOVATION!

http://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/05/31/elitesingles-pushes-global-rebrand-with-launch-of-revamped-australian-site/

Please be alerted EliteSingles in only a copycat of eHarmony. Nothing more than that! eHarmony, is a 15+++ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.

A prospective client will not perceive eDarling/EliteSingles sites as better, superior or different than eHarmony's ones. 

EliteSingles USA redesign. Went green. And EliteSingles new dating app.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-redesign-went-green.html
EliteSingles USA: distribution ADULT men over 6' 6" tall (198.12 cm)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-distribution-adult-men.html

My bet:
Match Group (MTCH) nor Oakley Capital are going to acquire Affinitas GmbH.
 
Affinitas GmbH. will run out of money and close soon. They had closed in Turkey and Italy, and many of Affinitas GmbH.'s sites has little or no traffic at all by Alexa. Its Management Team can not innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
Like Match, eHarmony, Zoosk, OkCupid, EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) copycat of eHarmony, Tinder and others.   
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html 


Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/two-silly-conferences-for-online-dating.html
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

Two Silly conferences for the Online Dating Industry

iDate, Los Angeles 2016
http://www.idate2016.com/agenda-la-2016.php
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/photos-from-43rd-international-internet.html

GDI 2016 Amsterdam Conference
http://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/05/20/watch-video-of-gdi-amsterdam-conference/
http://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/05/20/watch-video-of-gdi-amsterdam-conference/


Year over year regurgitating the same statistics, talking the same rubbish. 
Year over year the same scratched disk!!!
They DO NOT want to INNOVATE!


Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.

“Top 45 Top Scientific Papers For The Online Dating Industry”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/top-45-scientific-papers-for-online.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/2012/02/top-45-top-scientific-papers-for-the-online-dating-industry.html

 
 
It is not mobile, it is multi-platform; comScore reports 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/it-is-not-mobile-it-is-multi-platform.html  

Mobile Engagement in Deep Crisis ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/mary-meekers-internet-trends-2016.html

 
I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.


 
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html 

The next wave of innovation!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html
 
What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.  All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.

Man confesses to brutal murder of 12-year-old girl - Facebook Argentina

via Buenos Aires Herald
http://buenosairesherald.com/article/215235/man-confesses-to-brutal-murder-of-12yearold

A 12 years old girl killed by a 26 years old former convict - Facebook Argentina
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/a-12-years-old-girl-killed-by-26-years.html

12-year-old girl met her killer on Facebook
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/788332/12-year-old-girl-met-her-killer-on-facebook


The murderer had passed for a girl of the same age on Facebook
http://news.newsdirectory2.com/the-murderer-had-passed-for-a-girl-of-the-same-age-on-facebook/


Facebook and other sites should conduct ID verification to each and every of its members.

A 12 years old girl killed by a 26 years old former convict - Facebook Argentina

A highly publicized murder case involving Facebook Argentina.

A 12 years old girl - Micaela - had several profiles in Facebook Argentina.
Her parents live separated. She was living with her mother.
Her mother was aware only of one of her profiles, where she was her friend there.
But Micaela had other profiles with over 600 "friends".

A 26 years old former convict with several fake profiles pretending to be a 12 years old girl contacted Micaela, who had previously had a quarrel with her mother, and convinced her to leave home and meet "her" in person. Micaela was killed almost immediately and her family took 35 days to discover what really happened.
http://www.lanueva.com/la-ciudad/866859/marcha-por-micaela--la-familia-siempre-estuvo-cerca--dijo-la-profesora-de-patin-de-la-nena.html
http://www.lanueva.com/la-ciudad/866833/repercusiones-en-los-medios-nacionales-por-la-muerte-de-la-nena-de-12-anos.html
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1903634-hallaron-muerta-a-micaela-ortega
http://www.clarin.com/policiales/joven-asesino-Micaela-Ortega_0_1585641447.html
http://www.clarin.com/policiales/autopsia-revelo-Micaela-murio-estrangulada_0_1585641509.html
http://www.lanueva.com/la-ciudad/866876/yonii--desesperado--quebrado-y-encerrado.html
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1903666-crimen-de-micaela-difunden-imagenes-de-la-menor-con-su-presunto-asesino


Facebook In Argentina Fined Over Fake Profiles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/facebook-in-argentina-fined-over-fake.html


(IAC) (MTCH) Privacy Issues Could Kill Match Group (via OPW)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/iac-mtch-privacy-issues-could-kill.html

Facebook and other sites should conduct ID verification to each and every of its members.

the Jana Claudia Gómez Menéndez case
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/04/jana-claudia-gomez-menendez-case.html

biased ARTICLE and PAPER: "Here's how to read someone's personality by their online profile picture"

http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/28/heres-how-to-read-someones-personality-by-their-online-profile-picture-5910095/

A recent study "Analyzing Personality through Social Media Profile Picture Choice", published in the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ) Digital Library, combined thousands of Twitter pictures with personality analyses
https://sites.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/danielpr/files/persimages16icwsm.pdf
but .... unfortunately the Big Five normative personality test is obsolete, it has been proven as an incomplete and incorrect model of personality. The HEXACO (a.k.a. Big Six) is another oversimplification.  Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.
The Big Five normative personality test is the biggest mistake Psychologists made since several years ago.
The Big Five is also known as the Five Factor Model theory of personality traits, a psychological model based on research by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/new-book-personlichkeit-auf-der-suche.html
 
Please see:
Artificial intelligence: Can Watson save IBM?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/artificial-intelligence-can-watson-save.html

Personality-Based Recommendations: Evidence from Amazon
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/personality-based-recommendations.html

IBM will analyze Twitter data and turn it into something actionable for the enterprise.
http://vator.tv/news/2014-10-29-twitter-teams-with-ibm-for-business-analytics

IBM Deciphers Personality Types From 200 Tweets ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/ibm-deciphers-personality-types-from.html

PAPER System U: Automatically Deriving Personality Traits from Social Media for People Recommendation
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/paper-system-u-automatically-deriving.html

  
PAPER Predicting personality traits related to consumer behavior using SNS analysis
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/paper-predicting-personality-traits.html

All normative tests like Big Five, HEXACO, 16PF5 or similar like 15FQ+ to assess/measure personality should be used with the correct norm.
You should have the norm for each country where you operate
and
You should use the norm for each country where you operate.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-redesign-went-green.html

Silicon Valley’s big unicorn: Snapchat

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/unicorns-are-starting-to-fade-vator.html
http://vator.tv/news/2015-08-19-leaked-snapchat-docs-show-company-bleeding-money-in-2014
Holy smokes: Snapchat just raised an incredible USD1.8 Billion!
Leaked documents also show Snapchat with USD33 Million in revenue in Q4, and 110 Million Daily Active Users
http://vator.tv/news/2016-05-26-holy-smokes-snapchat-just-raised-an-incredible-18b


There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose.
Many technology companies, without having a concrete business model (supposedly will generate revenue from advertising and premium subscription accounts) receive millions of dollars in funding to offer something free, acquiring fastly a large mass of captive users as if they had made them addicts, and then, the exit strategy (for investors) is to get someone to buy the company at a staggering figure, as did Blogger, Fotolog, MySpace, YouTube, Skype, Bebo and others. They are like continually inflating balloons and they need to find a buyer before they explode. If they can not find a private buyer for the entire company, the investors had the strategy of going public, to start trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, they turn those pieces of paper (shares) in real money, they get thousands of buyers purchasing lower small parts (shares).

Suggested USA FTC investigate Instant Chemistry Inc. and Gemetrics for SCIENTIFIC FRAUD, misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.

Please see:
about new online dating site: A Smell-Based Dating Service Lets Your Scent Do the Talking 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/about-new-online-dating-site-smell.html



HOAX ALERT The Genetics of Love: Designing the perfect match through DNA 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/hoax-alert-genetics-of-love-designing.html

ANOTHER HOAX "Pheromone Parties"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/another-hoax-pheromone-parties.html

Basisnote / free online test (DiscoverYourScentType)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/09/basisnote-free-online-test.html

More about DNA matching Instant Chemistry and SingldOut partnership
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/more-about-dna-matching-instant.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/executive-interview-jana-bayad-ceo-of.html
about DNA matching Instant Chemistry and SingldOut partnership
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/about-dna-matching-instant-chemistry.html

Genetic Matchmaking is mainly  based on the T_shirt Experiment that only proved:
normally cycling women (not pregnant and not taking contraceptive pills) are (temporarily) attracted by the perspiration scent of clothes used by men with a Major Histocompatibility Complex MHC more dissimilar to theirs,
and not proved: women attracted by those men for long term mating with commitment.
and
2 Scientific Papers debunk their claims.
1) "Human oestrus" Gangestad & Thornhill (2008)
"Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"

2) "Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?" Alvergne & Lummaa (2009)
".. whereas normally cycling women express a preference for MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) dissimilarity in mates, pill users prefer odours of MHC-SIMILAR men, indicating that pill use might eliminate adaptive preferences for genetic dissimilarity."
................
"...., Roberts et al. attempted to eliminate these potential confounds by adopting a within-subject design in which women's mate preferences were assessed before and after they began taking the pill. Women starting the pill showed a significant preference shift towards MHC SIMILARITY compared with three months before the pill was taken, a shift that was not observed in the control group of normally cycling women."

Please remember personality = temperament + character
Personality is composed of two basic types of traits:
traits that an individual acquires, dimensions of character;
and
traits with biological underpinnings, dimensions of temperament (Cloninger 1987)

Suggested USA FTC investigate ElevatedCareers by eHarmony for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.

ElevatedCareers by eHarmony / It is a HOAX, a FRAUD, it only overpromises.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/elevatedcareers-by-eharmony-will-fail.html 

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/elevatedcareers-by-eharmony-part-1-of-3.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/elevatedcareers-by-eharmony-part-2-of-3.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/elevatedcareers-by-eharmony-part-3-of-3.html
ElevatedCareers by eHarmony delivers job matches as a machine gun shooting flowers (good for nothing, useless).

Who independently validated and independently certified the "personality test" used at ElevatedCareers?
It is home grown! It is not peer reviewed or published in any Scientific Paper.

Or is it based on the normative Big Five? Please remember normative tests can not be simply translated, because you need the norm for those tests, and that norm is actualized each and every time Census Figures are released. 
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
The Big Five normative test had been replaced by HEXACO or Big Six test.  

Please see also:
Suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises. 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html 

ARTICLE: How do I flirted again with a machine / Wie ich einmal mit einer Maschine flirtete

http://www.bento.de/gadgets/fake-profile-auf-facebook-wie-ich-mit-einem-social-bot-flirtete-584991/


Haben Sie Erfahrungen mit animierten Fake-Profilen?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/haben-sie-erfahrungen-mit-animierten.html
fake profiles for online dating sites
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/fake-profiles-for-online-dating-sites.html


EliteSingles USA redesign. Went green. And EliteSingles new dating app.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-redesign-went-green.html
EliteSingles USA: distribution ADULT men over 6' 6" tall (198.12 cm)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-distribution-adult-men.html

"These sophisticated scammers were able to hijack the PlentyOfFish"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/these-sophisticated-scammers-were-able.html

EXCLUSIVE: MATCH GROUP hacked? Leaked internal docs will reveal they create fake profiles from inside?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/exclusive-match-group-hacked-leaked.html

Complaints about Match dot com ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/complaints-about-match-dot-com.html


*** Only way to sustain that huge revenue is creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. *** ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html

Match Group Announces USD400 M Senior Notes Offering (2024)

Match Group plans to use the proceeds of the Offering to repay certain existing indebtedness.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/match-group-announces-senior-notes-offering-300273814.html

Suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html
Match Group Inc (NASDAQ:MTCH) overpaid USD575 Million in cash for it, past its prime and in decadence!
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.pof.com


The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, FriendScout24, OurTime, HowAboutWe, PlentyOfFish and many more and all of them are past their primes, reached operating ceiling and they are in decadence.  The Match Group is not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.

"These sophisticated scammers were able to hijack the PlentyOfFish"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/these-sophisticated-scammers-were-able.html

EXCLUSIVE: MATCH GROUP hacked? Leaked internal docs will reveal they create fake profiles from inside?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/exclusive-match-group-hacked-leaked.html

Complaints about Match dot com ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/complaints-about-match-dot-com.html


*** Only way to sustain that huge revenue is creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. *** ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html

Suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.

Like Match, eHarmony, Zoosk, OkCupid, EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) copycat of eHarmony, Tinder and others. 

Even some of them could be creating fake profiles from inside, like AshleyMadison to entice prospective customers to subscribe.
EliteSingles USA redesign. Went green. And EliteSingles new dating app.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-redesign-went-green.html
EliteSingles USA: distribution ADULT men over 6' 6" tall (198.12 cm)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-distribution-adult-men.html

 
The Online Dating Industry is selling elixirs, tonics, snake oil liniments and other patent medicine and performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created where any player can make any claim without any credentials.
I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation. No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.   

"These sophisticated scammers were able to hijack the PlentyOfFish"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/these-sophisticated-scammers-were-able.html

EXCLUSIVE: MATCH GROUP hacked? Leaked internal docs will reveal they create fake profiles from inside?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/exclusive-match-group-hacked-leaked.html

Complaints about Match dot com ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/complaints-about-match-dot-com.html


*** Only way to sustain that huge revenue is creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. *** ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html

 

MyIPMS says EliteSingles USA version has only 9,760 visitors per day

https://myip.ms/info/whois/104.94.61.160/k/141135158/website/www.elitesingles.com


and eHarmony USA 38,200 visitors per day


EliteSingles USA: distribution ADULT men over 6' 6" tall (198.12 cm)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-distribution-adult-men.html

Please see also:
EliteSingles USA redesign. Went green. And EliteSingles new dating app.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-redesign-went-green.html


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/elitesingles-uk-tallest-men-in-world.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-new-bunch-of-screenshots-from.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/myipms-says-elitesingles-uk-version-has.html

EliteSingles USA: distribution ADULT men over 6' 6" tall (198.12 cm)

6' = 182.88 cm
6" = 15.24 cm
6' 6" tall = 198.12 cm

Please see:
Census figures year 2000: Cumulative Percent Distribution of Population, by Height and Sex 1976-1980 - 1988-1994
http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/230_cumulative_percent_distribution_of_population_by.html

and
http://investing.calsci.com/statistics.html
http://investing.calsci.com/statistics2.html

Adult men in USA 100,000,000 (100 Million)


Please see also:
EliteSingles USA redesign. Went green. And EliteSingles new dating app.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-redesign-went-green.html


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/elitesingles-uk-tallest-men-in-world.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-new-bunch-of-screenshots-from.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/myipms-says-elitesingles-uk-version-has.html

EliteSingles USA redesign. Went green. And EliteSingles new dating app.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.com
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/affinitas-gmbh-2014-financials-revenue_30.html
EliteSingles LLC
874 Walker Rd. Ste C
Dover, Delaware 19904

Upper limit for height is 6' 11", but see one suggested partner (for a dummy woman profile) with height 7' 3" (221 cm)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/new-logo-for-elitesingles-uk.html
List of tallest people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_people
List of tallest players in National Basketball Association history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_players_in_National_Basketball_Association_history

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/elitesingles-uk-affinitas-gmbh-versus.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Fingleton
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/affinitas-gmbh-local-lawyers-in.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/some-articles-about-rocket-internet.html

Please remember:
eDarling/EliteSingles powered by Affinitas GmbH. are only copycats of eHarmony.
A prospective client will not perceive eDarling/EliteSingles sites as better, superior or different than eHarmony's ones.
They both are HOAXES, FRAUDS because The Big Five normative test they use to assess personality of daters, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model of personality. Now it is OBSOLETE.
 

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/serious-patterns-of-anomalies-at-6.html

My bet: 
Match Group (MTCH) nor Oakley Capital are going to acquire Affinitas GmbH. 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/affinitas-gmbh-wanting-to-be-acquired.html 
Affinitas GmbH. will run out of money and close soon. They had closed in Turkey and Italy, and many of Affinitas GmbH.'s sites has little or no traffic at all by Alexa. Its Management Team can not innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

 eHarmony Inc. is 3+ bigger than Affinitas GmbH. (in dating products)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/eharmony-inc-is-3-bigger-than-affinitas.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html

Also normative tests can not simply be translated, because they need the norm for that test, and that norm is actualized each and every time Census Figures are released and the cost of doing that is in the range of USD100,000 per language and norm.

All normative tests like Big Five, HEXACO, 16PF5 or similar like 15FQ+ to assess/measure personality should be used with the correct norm. 
You should have the norm for each country where you operate

and

You should use the norm for each country where you operate.
Example:
* English for the United Kingdom and the Norm for the United Kingdom (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of the United Kingdom).
* English for Ireland and the Norm for Ireland (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Ireland).
* English for Australia and the Norm for Australia (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Australia).
* English for New Zealand and the Norm for New Zealand (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of New Zealand)
* English for Canada and the Norm for Canada (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Canada).
* English for South Africa and the Norm for South Africa (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of South Africa).
* English for United States and the Norm for United States (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of United States)
* French for France and the Norm for France (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of France).
* French for Canada and the Norm for Canada (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Canada).
* German for Germany and the Norm for Germany (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Germany).
* Spanish for Spain and the Norm for Spain (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Spain).
* Italian for Italy and the Norm for Italy (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Italy).
* Portuguese for Portugal and the Norm for Portugal (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Portugal).
* Portuguese for Brazil and the Norm for Brazil (sample of individuals with the same demographic characteristics of Brazil).
etc, etc

No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.
Astonished to see how eHarmony / eDarling / EliteSingles and others are conducting a big human experiment with unprecedented consequences.