Finding love: Virtual dating assistants help the shy and the lonely

Washington, June 1 (ANI): If winning dates online has never been your forte, here’s a simple way to find love - hire the services of a virtual dating assistant.

Max Hartshorn, 24, has mastered online dating.

He knows exactly how to attract a woman’s attention and uses his talent to ghostwrite correspondence on behalf of single men who are unwilling, too busy or too inept to find a girl for themselves.

And whenever he gets a woman, his bank balance spirals upwards.

Hartshorn offers online dating service to Virtual Dating Assistants, one of the first full-scale Internet-dating outsourcing companies.

For 600dollars, Virtual Dating Assistants guarantees clients two dates a month while the “executive service” package, at 1,200 dollars, promises five dates a month.

“I get paid for each woman who writes back positively,” the Washington Post quoted Hartshorn, as saying.

He added: “It’s very analogous to sales . . . like a cold-caller or a telemarketer.

“I don’t care that much if it becomes a date or not.” (ANI)