This Young Woman Claims To Be The Original Match.Com Gold Digger
Madeleine Scinto | Dec. 2, 2011, 3:41 PM | 2,408 | 17 The subject of this story asked to remain anonymous (this is a stock photo)
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After running a story about how a young woman who scored a bunch of free dinners through the online dating service Match.com, we received a phone message from an angry Rebecca McAlister*.
“I just think it’s really f-ing funny,” said McAlister, who knew the woman we wrote about in high school. “It’s not until after I told her how I went on Match.com how I got all these nice dates and went on all these free dinners ...”
Her message trailed off, but it’s clear she considers herself the “original Match.com gold digger.”
McAllister started using the service in 2008 after moving to San Jose, Calif. to work as a nanny.
Though she was only spending $400 a month on food at the time–her employers also offered free meals–she found herself flat broke.
“I was working as a nanny and we were still partying like we were in college ... nice alcohol, weed,” she said.
During one of her partying escapades, she decided to log onto Match. When her first date offered to pay for dinner and refused to let her look at the check, she was sold.
“I started emailing 14 to 15 different guys every seven or eight days,” she said.
With some guys, McAllister kept the email conversations going for over a month, and with others, she asked to meet the first night they chatted.
McAlister started going on dates six nights a week and saw her food costs drop by 75 percent. This meant the guys were spending hundreds of dollars a month on her.
The boys usually bought her at least a drink or two, and even better, the San Jose natives were more than happy to show the newcomer around town.
Each date usually cost between $40 and $50, McAllister said. She only split the bill once when she "sort of" liked a date, and she never gave any of them her number.
McAlister also made sure never to date the same guy twice, except for an engineer at Apple who we’ll get to later. For the most part, she thought the dates were “pig faced” and lived in a “delusion” about their appearance.
“Not one single guy on there actually looked like his profile picture,” she said.
McAllister moved ahead with her budgeting scheme and threw in another online dating site, which was free, called PlentyOfFish.com. However, she recommends using Match.com over the latter because she found the boys on there to be “super cheap.” Perhaps Match.com's subscription fee created a barrier to entry.
Eventually, the scheme became tiresome: “You can’t spread your love over all the sites," she said. "Otherwise it’s too much maintenance."
If she didn’t check her email every day or two days, she’d have 35 emails in her inbox with just the two dating services she had going.
When asked about whether she slept with any of the dates, McAllister said she only slept with one when she visited San Francisco and needed a place to crash. She only remembers him as hot “Adam on Match.com.”
She also almost slept with that engineer for Apple when the two agreed to spend the night together on their seventh date. She dumped him on the sixth.
Even with all her money saving success, McAlister actually quit her escapades about a month and a half into the venture. "I started to get too fat," she explained.
Too much of a good thing, indeed.
*Name withheld.
Read more:
http://www.businessinsider.com/match-com-gold-digger-2011-12#ixzz1fQFEbhU9
