Kudos for Cupid.com

Well, I’ve recently started focusing on building up my social life now that I’m locked in for the next stage of my career. I figure I need to start dating or at least meeting and talking to girls so I can be less afraid of the initial contact.

So I get occasional emails from the different websites that hold my profile, and I get some from Cupid.com about their “predating” events (read pre-dating, and not PREDating, which is how I first read this word and thought of The Predator). I had been getting a couple, and finally I clicked on a link in one of these emails just to see what the event had in store. Well I looked at the form, then left it alone because I had to go to work, and I really wasn’t that interested in participating in something that could be seen on a subsequent documentary on We or Lifetime.

After I had visited and failed to follow through with this form, I started getting emails mentioning how I didn’t complete the form. I guess Cupid is pushing these predating events hard… normally you pay $35 to get into one of these.

Then I checked my mail this morning after work. I have a message here from a personal AOL account which I initially thought was spam, but opened it anyway. Apparently someone locally runs these events, and she actually got word that I looked at this form online. She made me an offer that was pretty good, and now I’m registered to go to one of these speed dating things at the Melting Pot next Tuesday. Apparently they’re overflowing with ladies and need men to equalize the ratio. We’ll see if that’s good or not.

Anyway, Kudos Cupid.com for hustling the honest way. Not by spam, fake ads, or numerical misrepresentation, but rather by providing a service and following up with customer support. Good Job.

-TJ