Hi,

When you mentioned that the first Dating Agent script was being sold
on Ebay for $5.00, did you mean the one being sold by Deep Blue
Computer Services? I ask this because I bought one such script on CD
last year from this seller on Ebay, and had a lot of problems
customising it (e.g. could not access the members' photos to resize
them to speed up the downloading etc.).

After being so dissatisfied with the script, I removed it from my
site at www.abeautifuldate.co.uk. However, I now need a new one,
instead of having to rely on affiliate links all the time.


--- In datingscripts@yahoogroups.com, "NTM@D..."
<datingscripts@d...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Encryption is a must in this business.
>
> The first dating script from Datetopia was Dating Agent (early
> version). It was delivered with 100% source code for $99/license.
> Many licenses sold fine but the sales almost terminated in few
> weeks. I found the reason on ebay. I found illegal resellers
selling
> it for $5 on ebay :) .
>
> Now we provide Dating Agent III (v3.6) with source code for only
$69.
> All the other scripts are delivered encoded using a custom made
> system that encodes php code leaving the html parts unchanged.
>
> As you noticed, encryption causes problems with customization. We
> tried to solve this problem with our latest product (
> http://www.matchagency.biz ). It allows full editable profile
> attributes, categories, multiple languages directly from the
> webmaster area.
>
> Also the layout templates, configuration files, payment
integration
> parts for all our scripts are provided with source code.
>
> Regards,
> NTM
>
> Datetopia.com
> --- In datingscripts@yahoogroups.com, "ravenslade"
<ravenslade@y...>
> wrote:
> > We have spent many hours trawling the web searching and finding
> > dating or matchmaking scripts. We have found that alot of them
are
> > trying to add to many fancy features instead of actually
spending
> > time on making the ones they have even better.
> >
> > We have gathered information that alot of people that use these
> > sites like the basics of adding a profile and photo, many don't
> like
> > the photo rating system as it puts added pressure on them to be
> one
> > of the 'Gorgeous' set. Being able to message, email, chat, send
a
> > kiss and a good search facility are all good.
> >
> > Another area that causes problems is encryption. Although we
> > understand that the people that build these scripts need to
> protect
> > their work it does cause problems when the 'Buyers' of these
> scripts
> > want to design their own site setup, and if for instance on
> > the 'Register', or 'Profile' pages you can't add extra choices
> > because of this encryption.
> >
> > This is just a basic overview and do think that these script
> > writters should take on board some of the people that buy their
> > scripts and get their feedback to help in design and development.