Online romance - A true story

[Al-khiyal]

Inspired by own online romance

February 6, 2008 -- An Exmouth couple, who met on an internet website and married a year later, have launched a free dating service to help others find love.

Paul Ramsey, 33, and Joanne, 29, married last Saturday following a 12-month whirlwind romance where they spent hundreds of pounds subscribing to an internet dating site.

The pair, who had both been single for years, met online even though they both lived in Exmouth.

The happy couple, who this week flew off on honeymoon to Egypt, plan to start their new life together by launching a new free dating website to help other people find their soul mates.

The new website, ****************, enables people to meet for free with no hidden charges for using any aspect of the site.

The couple believe it is currently the only completely free dating website online.

Paul is a self-employed mortgage advisor and Joanne works as a marketing consultant. Both will be devoting their spare time to running the new website.

Paul said: "We spent hundreds of pounds on dating websites finding each other and it was certainly well worth it in the end.

"However, not everyone has money to spend on dating websites as they are usually so expensive, so we thought when we got married we would set up a completely free dating site for anyone to join.

"It has cost us quite a bit of money to set up, but ultimately we will get great satisfaction from seeing other couples meet on our website just like we did."

Joanne said: "After my previous relationship broke down, I spent the past couple of years going out regularly into town with friends and on dates with different men, but I struggled so much to find someone who I could get on with that I just decided as a last resort to try a few dating websites.

"At first I felt quite scared and, to be honest, a little embarrassed using dating websites as none of my friends had used them.

"As time has gone on it does seem that dating websites have become more socially acceptable and that was certainly the case with myself as after a few weeks some of my friends also joined."

Anyone interested in joining the new website can sign up now at ****************

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Sorry folks we were duped

February 13, 2009 -- A lovestruck bridegroom who appeared to get hitched in SIX different towns in one day has finally confessed to telling a Valentine's Day whopper.

Paul Ramsey's incredible efforts to get publicity for his dating website duped local newspapers up and down the country – until he emailed his press release to our sister paper the Milton Keynes Citizen.

He described himself and his 'wife' Joanne as a local couple who fell in love through an online agency and married two weeks ago.

Now, in an altruistic bid to share their wedded bliss, they were setting up their own online dating site and urging singletons to register.

But the story rang a bell – because only a couple of weeks ago the same report had been offered to the Biggleswade Chronicle.

Our reporters followed up the information and, although they couldn't make direct contact with the couple who were said to be on their honeymoon, took the extra details supplied by the groom's brother in good faith and ran the story.

But when the same happy couple turned up in Milton Keynes only a fortnight later, alarm bells started to ring.

The Citizen's emailed request for a chat and a few further details was refused: 'Sorry, I can't,' replied Paul curtly.

A quick search of the internet turned up the same beaming picture of the 'local couple' in newspapers in Herts and Beds... and Essex... and Devon!

A check at Bletchley's register office revealed no Paul and Joanne Ramsey had been married at any time in Milton Keynes in the past decade.

Paul was challenged by email. Was this a Valentine's scam? he was asked.

"It's not suspicious.... I was not trying to cause anyone any harm, just trying to build a free site for people, that was all," he emailed back.

"It is not a scam. I just thought local people across a few different areas would be keen to come on a free website and we have no money to fund anything whatsoever."

Paul claimed the site, which asks for people's email addresses and mobile phone numbers, bought him "absolutely no financial gain' and offered to close it down immediately.

But the Citizen, hoping for a vestige of Valentine's romance, had one more question: were he and Joanne REALLY enjoying wedded bliss?

"We are engaged and we live in London," came the reply.

[amalgamate]

ummm... what a waste of time

[Cheba_Mami]

online romance, a FALSE story.
still i hope they are a happy couple.
a website from which he gains nothing? what about the advertisers if the site would have been a succes? Then he would definately earn a lot.....