Tease.com.au

Tease.com.au - A new era in online dating! I guess the one question you're asking yourself is 'How come your site is completely free?', and, indeed, it is a good question. Essentially, there's two parts to the answer. Number one: we're quite new. We only really opened our doors to the world at large late September, 2005. At the moment, we don't hav... e anywhere near the member base of other sites, and as such, it would be morally reprehensible to us to charge people a fee for a service that is, well, non existent. Without people to browse and talk to, there's not much point, is there? Number two: We don't feel that an online dating service *should* charge their customers for the service, which isn't to say that a business shouldn't be allowed to make some money to pay their staff. We are looking at all *sorts* of weird and wonderful ways of putting a few bucks in our pockets. There's certainly a bit of money to be had from advertising, including sponsorship deals and so forth, but that may not be enough. We are looking at organising speed dating events in all the major cities as well, and that may act as a source of revenue to fund the site. Perhaps we will have to introduce a 'Platinum' membership of sorts, whereby you get extended access to features (say, 20 images in their profile instead of 5), above and beyond the average user, however, the general Joe off the street still has full access to do whatever they want - including all the chatting and messaging and Teasing they can. Will this be enough? It's very tough to say at the moment. While the infrastructure costs of running small site are quite insignificant, that rapidly changes when the site gets larger. Staff costs alone are incredible, not to mention all the expensive computer equipment you need. So, with that in mind, we've decided that the site will be completely free and open to all users until we have reached a milestone of 20,000 signed members, at which point, we will stop, assess our costs, and decide on where we are at. It may well be that we ...Read More