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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Would You Pay $131.70 to Guarantee a Valentine's Day Date?

A dating-auction website claims that more than 2,500 men in the DC area already have done so.

  Valentine's Day can be challenging for people with sweethearts. Trying to figure out the perfect gift can really be stressful. For singles, the day can be even more difficult, but a dating website with a twist aims to boil it all down to something just about everyone can understand—a straight monetary exchange. Apparently, it's a pretty attractive proposition in the DC area. WhatsYourPrice.com recently released the results of a study of singles that found that 369,282 men nationally made offers for first dates in the month leading up to Valentine's Day, with nearly 2,700 of them in the DC region. WhatsYourPrice.com starts out like most other dating sites—a participant uploads a photo and a personal profile. Where it differs is in the "…

Eric S.

11:48 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013

I'm pretty sure that a different website will be very popular today, with people people at least $200 an hour for guaranteed dates. You know, Backpage.   more ›

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