C'mon man.

It's not the COST of a relationship that explains why every single online dating site sucks -- good luck even FINDING a relationship (even one) on a site like this.

The real issue is that online dating sites are all complete ripoffs in which real people are outnumbered by fakes/scammers/bots by a factor of at least 500 to 1 (if this site is typical).

If you isolate just the photos/profiles where the person is extremely attractive, that factor goes up to more like 5000 to 1.