The Dating Academy

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Double Your Dating

by Eben Pagan (a.k.a. "David DeAngelo")

Sold direct·For men·Funnel grade: C·2 amber

The 2001 ebook that invented this entire category — front-end price plus the upsell catalogue that became the template.

What Double Your Dating costs

Observed 2026-06-08. Where a price is split-tested or gated we say so — we never guess a number.

What you pay forPriceSource
Front-end ebook + upsell catalogue

The original (2001–2009) pricing is not consistently documented; the model was a cheap front end feeding a catalogue of higher-priced programs. We do not invent a number.

Low-cost front end + paid upsells — exact figure not pinned(not pinned)(reported)source

How it's sold: Free 7-day email "lead magnet" → low-price front-end ebook → an upsell catalogue of programs (the model every later ClickBank product copied).

Refund policy

Money-back guarantee historically advertised; terms have varied across two decades of versions — not consistently documented.

Claims vs evidence

What it promises — and whether anything backs it up.

  • "Cocky & Funny" reliably attracts women

    No evidence shown

    The founding marketing hook of the category; influential, but never backed by published outcome data.

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Flags

Red = a serious, documented issue · amber = a funnel / credibility concern · green = something notably honest (a real refund, a clean published price).

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    The template for the whole funnel model

    Double Your Dating pioneered the free-lead-magnet → cheap-front-end → upsell-catalogue structure that every later ClickBank dating product reuses — useful context for recognising the pattern.

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    Creator left dating for "make money online"

    Eben Pagan moved his primary business to marketing/income courses — worth knowing the founder's long-term focus shifted away from the dating advice he's known for.

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Who's behind Double Your Dating?

Eben Pagan, writing as "David DeAngelo," launched Double Your Dating in 2001 — the ebook that essentially created the modern dating-info-product business with its "Cocky & Funny" approach. Pagan later pivoted his main business to "make money online" / marketing courses.

The verdict

More historically important than currently essential: this is the 2001 product that built the entire dating-course playbook. We include it so you can recognise the funnel structure everywhere else. Current pricing isn't consistently documented, so we don't pin a number.

Same lens, the whole industry

We decode dating apps, coaches, matchmakers and courses the same way — what it costs, who's behind it, and what the claims are worth. No affiliate money, anywhere.

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We take no money from Eben Pagan (a.k.a. "David DeAngelo") or any course, and we are not a ClickBank affiliate. Figures observed 2026-06-08from the product's own sales page, the creator's site, or mainstream press; split-tested prices flagged as such; gated prices recorded as gated. See methodology.