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If I ever meet a nice girl and we settle down and start a family, I hope it’s with someone I met while enjoying $22 off Brazilian capoeira classes at New York Capoeira Center ($45 value), or $20 for $40 worth of Italian food and drinks at Manhattan’s East Side Social Club.
That’s because Groupon — the online “deal of the day” Web site that fills my inbox with coupons for anything from donuts to haircuts — will give our darling child $60,000.
That’s right, free cash. The only catch is I have to use it for the kid’s college fees. Groupon’s CEO Andrew Mason made the strange offer at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco this week, according to Business Insider. The report says the $60,000 offer is actually a clever way to promote Groupon’s dating service, rather grossly called “Grouspawn.”
Grouspawn is a free service and it calls itself “the antidote for the poison of loneliness,” but what does the site get out setting me up on a date? Well, they’re hawking coupons to the sorts of places that could be date locations, and you have to use one on your first date (Grouspawn wants couples to provide some sort of proof that they did indeed meet on a Groupon date).
So I checked out the site. It notifies single Groupon users that they can cash in on the offer by using its “Date Assistant” feature, which offers a selection of “eligible hunks and she-hunks” for site users to contact. “They’re all real people,” the site hastens to add, although “Tess” in Chicago looks suspiciously like Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Marisa Miller. Still, she “likes Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain” (presumably, half-price Pina Coladas purchased with a Groupon).
Besides, for $60,000 she just might possibly be Ms. Right.
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Another disappointing online dating site. Is there NO ONE over 40 on there???? I saw 3 over 30, the rest were babies. WHERE are the good men these days?
Maybe because men your age have given up and don't mind being single. Don't let your age keep you from dating men younger than you though, you never know what may happen, you may miss out a good opportunity.
no kidding, Try to find a man when your raising grandkids...men my age want woman that are 25, slim blond....and beautiful.... and definately don't want the idea of kids... even thou they end up with some.....
I am really thinking all the good ones ARE MARRIED!!!!
mtgrandma, I could say the same thing about women, but I'm not that narrow-minded
That's not true, some men out there don't just want blondes and are flexible with age and don't mind if the woman has kids. If you think the good ones are married and only the crappy ones are available, you must be looking at the wrong place (that is if you are looking).
Where are the men your age. Working their butts off to support their children from previous relationships!
Next time your electrician, plumber, deliveryman, etc... is at your home, ask him if he's single and available. You might be surprised at his answer. (And maybe get a discount)
fstdrvr2, that could be true but one should also question the women that guys like them have babies with. It takes a man and a woman to make a relationship and make baby, it's not just the man's fault that things didn't work out. It goes both ways, as a society, we have a bunch of men and women who are looking to have a relationship having kids already because of failed relationships.
you cougars just need a cub.
rotfl!
"...for $60,000 she just might possibly be Ms. Right."
But if you view the $60,000 as an annuity with four annual cash flows of $15,000 with the first payment 19 years from today (3 months to acquaint, 1 night to copulate, 9 months of pregnancy, and 18 years of childhood)--and assume a discount rate of 10%--the present value is just $8551.92.
($15000 × [(1/.1) – 1/{.1(1+.1)4}]) x [1/ (1+.1)18]
So, for $8551.92, is she still Ms. Right??
If you get the money on conception/at birth you wouldn’t have to wait until he or she turns 18. You could conceivably invest the money in a college savings account and watch it grow. No need for your PV calculation. You’d be looking at a much more favorable FV calculation instead.
Somebody needs to investigate this company. I finally went to their site (Groupon, not the dating site) yesterday and signed up for the coupon service using my Gmail account. The first time I went there, I got a warning from McAfee that it would try to steal personal information. I exited my browser and went back later, with no warning. However, it was showing my Facebook contacts. My Gmail is in no way connected to my Facebook account, so it did indeed steal my personal information somehow!! That was my first visit to the site except for my registration, and I did NOT click anything related to Facebook when I registered. I rarely connect FB to other sites.
Companies are constantly buying and selling your information so that is no suprise half the scheme is a fishing expedition, there is another story on here today warnoing folks careful what you click cuz you may end up seeing mysterious charges on your credit card as well
Guess the days of you ladies bumping into Mr. Right at the market or for those so worried bout the sanctity of marriage at a church social are far gone but happy shopping online for him
Ladies, one tip that few men will say to your face, so I'm using an anonymous article comment to say it: If you want to get a date, lose 20 pounds! (or 30 or 50, you know how much). That's it. Men don't care so much for age, race, or any of the other things you're complaining about. They do care if you're a cow. Now drop some pounds and you'll start getting them to answer your personal ads.