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Re:Never Pay for Online Dating (2010) by nradov on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:29PM (#25066454)
Dating is a "market for lemons".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

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Re:Never Pay for Online Dating (2010) by toyg on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:00AM (#25067886)
That's pretty rude. People are single for all sorts of reasons that don't make them "defective".
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Re:Never Pay for Online Dating (2010) by AussieWog93 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:52AM (#25068543)
Read the article. "Markets for lemons" contain both "peaches" and "lemons". There are just forces acting on the market to keep the "lemons" there.
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