I found a strange press release from a billing company talking about meetic. It seems that meetic has out sourced all billing to a third party ? Can anyone shed any light on what exactly this is?
As for the match meetic deal, details of the transaction are here.
“Meetic SA to buy Match.com International Ltd. from IAC/InterActiveCorp. for $110 million
Boulogne-Billancourt, France-based online dating service provider Meetic agreed to acquire Match.com International, known as (Match Europe, the UK-based European operations of Dallas-based online dating service provider Match.com. The seller is IAC/InterActiveCorp., the New York City-based E-commerce group, which is paying $16.9 per share for 6,094,334 new shares, along with promissory notes of $6.64 million, in a transaction that will give IAC a 26.8-percent stake in Meetic and 21.1 percent of its voting rights. The transaction is expected to close no later than June 30.”
I wonder what be2, parship and eharmony will do this year…
February 28, 2009 at 9:21 pm |
Markus – Perhaps a little off-topic, but when I try to go to http://www.plentyoffish.com, I am getting an error message stating “bad request. Invalid hostname”. You might be aware, but if not, I wanted to let you know.
Regards.
Rob M.
February 28, 2009 at 9:35 pm |
Markus,
I was able to get on the site last night from 11-2am but I’m now getting the same error message as Rob M.
Error Message: Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
I hope that you are working to fix, because I made plans to go on a date tonight and I need to access the site to find out what time.
Hope it’s an easy fix.
Thank you for the site. I can’t thank you enough for creating such a great site and for your time in keeping it running.
February 28, 2009 at 9:42 pm |
Hi Markus,
First and foremost I’d like to thank you for your GREAT dating site! It is a wonderful resource for meeting people in my area and I LOVE the chat feature….it helps weed out the riff-raff!
As stated above, I’ve tried several times over the last couple of hours to log in and receive the same error message.
Question is: Are you okay? I know you run this site out of your home and I’m just making sure you are okay.
Please try to send me an email to let me know!
Thanks and keep up the good work…us single people need you!
Take care,
Linda
February 28, 2009 at 9:47 pm |
Hi there,
It is 4:45 pm. I am getting the following meesage:
The webpage cannot be found… and when I click on more informaiton, it give me the following:
This error (HTTP 400 Bad Request) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the web server, but the webpage could not be found because of a problem with the address.
For more information about HTTP errors, see Help.
Is all OK? Hopefully, it is an esay fix.
Thanks and keep us the good work!
M
February 28, 2009 at 9:48 pm |
hey, what’s up with the bad host name? POF system not accessible for too long now.
February 28, 2009 at 10:03 pm |
What happened to POF website, I keep getting error message too! I received email notification that I had mail but I can not get access. OH NO, it might be MR Right!
February 28, 2009 at 10:05 pm |
awwww so very frustrating that….so trying to get in…..
lol
hope its fixed soon good luck
xxx
February 28, 2009 at 10:06 pm |
awwwww….so very frustrating that…..so trying to get in…..
lol
hope it is fixed soon….
good luck
xxx
February 28, 2009 at 10:20 pm |
Crash, I hope you do not burn.
What ever would we do with out you. It is too cold here in DC to go out and search the streets for friends.
Hope you get the bugs out quick.
Mac
February 28, 2009 at 10:30 pm |
Hi Marcus
Was gonna let you know the site isn’t coming up but I guess you know that by now.
Also thank you so much for providing this service for all of us! I just joined two weeks ago. You are brilliant!
By the way, have you found your fish?
Nancy
CountryHeart63
February 28, 2009 at 10:31 pm |
It is down for me too!!!
February 28, 2009 at 10:44 pm |
Marcus,
I need my POF fix! Whats up with the site today? Im getting:Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
February 28, 2009 at 10:47 pm |
Also getting the “Bad” response, At least you know you are popular Markus. Good luck with the fix
P
February 28, 2009 at 11:08 pm |
Also getting error message in Washington – USA problems or all over?
February 28, 2009 at 11:09 pm |
Should have hosted with Rackspace
March 1, 2009 at 1:38 am |
Just when I meet a cool girl too!
March 1, 2009 at 3:23 am |
I can’t log in, HALP.
March 3, 2009 at 9:56 pm |
Okay everything back to normal. Breathing again.
March 12, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
yeah ..
look at http://voila.fr/
a big frensh site ..
supporting meetic for example ..
June 2, 2009 at 11:46 am |
Should have hosted with Rackspace
June 20, 2009 at 7:50 pm |
This is very up-to-date information. I think I’ll share it on Delicious.
p.s. Year One is already on the Internet and you can watch it for free.
October 3, 2009 at 12:00 pm |
Hello to All! I the lonely young girl. In search my love! If who that wishes to get acquainted with me that write to me on sweet_sweet56@yahoo.ca
February 5, 2010 at 4:52 am |
This can be a I enjoy examples of the articles which have been written, and especially the comments posted! I will come back!
April 30, 2010 at 1:06 pm |
Hey Marcus what are you doing about the serial killer on your fish site that has been killing women. How is it that its not all over the place yet. Your system sucks and it can not stay free forever. You will be forced to charge a fee to stop these maniacs from killing again. I recommend a paid service. Marcus is only init for the money the ads provide for him. I have met marcus in person years back and he really needs to do something before he finds himself in a bad place.
October 23, 2010 at 12:28 pm |
I want and meldemeg out of Meetic with immediate end to the cover from my account. Ole Kristian Olstad
March 19, 2011 at 10:33 pm |
I think its a perfect one.
April 22, 2011 at 12:54 pm |
SO is this deal is done ?
January 18, 2012 at 6:25 am |
i used my username and password and i can’t get in to the web site???? it was given to me by untrue .com
March 12, 2012 at 5:47 pm |
Well done Marcus. Everyone knows how much you make from Google Adwords and its perfectly justified – you ran a good/addictive site. So your comments/notice regarding wanting to remove all ads is bull. What you have done with the ‘viewed me’ aspect of the site i.e. trying to make your users pay for it will be the death of pof! Simple fact – you just got too greedy!
September 7, 2012 at 10:39 am |
I sincerely enjoyed studying it. Keep your website update and you have a regular visitor for lifetime. Good POF!