{"id":505,"date":"2013-10-10T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T00:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2015-07-17T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:28:42","slug":"the-power-of-subscribing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/the-power-of-subscribing","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Subscribing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raise your hand if you&#8217;ve ever wasted hours, if not days out of your precious single lives filling out user profiles, personality tests, and sifting through countless &#8220;free dating sites&#8221; looking for love; I think we all have, yet why do we still do it? \u00a0I know why I attempted it years ago: the average one-month subscription to the big dating sites (you know the two I&#8217;m talking about) was about $45, and last time I checked (for research purposes &#8211; I&#8217;m engaged now!) that figure is still sadly in the ballpark. \u00a0So we saved some money, but did what we end up with &#8211; glorious spam messages, fake user profiles, and usually zero responses &#8211; make up for the countless hours we just wasted? \u00a0Isn&#8217;t our time worth anything? \u00a0At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\">LFGdating<\/a>, we have decided to take the opposite approach, yet balanced it to save you time\u00a0<em>and <\/em>money\u00a0with our monthly subscriptions starting at\u00a0<em>just<\/em> $9.95. \u00a0That&#8217;s not even ten of your hard earned dollars &#8211; and likely 1\/10th of your monthly iPhone bill &#8211; providing you with a 100% authentic, spam &amp; bot-free, professional gamer dating venue where you can actually meet and talk with <em>real<\/em> people. 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