| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 1/2/2009 1:37:25 PM | Paid sites ARE better. Anyone saying different has a stake in POF in some way or the other free site-date hook up
Neither work.
But the paid sites do get a few responses. People are paying and have some incentive while people on POF do not have that incentive to actually want to meet someone. And the paid sites don't seem to have these damn forums that let you shoot yourself in the foot. Or show how much a girly man you are by siding with the women on every issue.
But it is impossible to know who is a member and who is not. And the biggest complaint is the continual renewal despite not wanting that feature
In the end, on line dating is BS Free or paid. | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 1/2/2009 3:26:05 PM | While I agree I have met many more on paysites than POF, this free site offers so much more than pay sites. No, I have no monetary interest in POF in any shape or form.
I think the features such as the forum affords many the experience of others.
We may not be so bold to ask many of the questions posed in the forums but surely wondered about many of the topics other fishies do.
Some use POF for dates, some for information, some to while away dark nights.. we all do gain something from being a POF member.
good fishing to all,
dusty | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 1/2/2009 3:57:39 PM | I guess different people will get different results. I was on a pay site for years and met one person and it went no where. I didn't find anyone that was serious about a relationship let alone even meeting.
Much different here much less run around with the ones that are truly interested in actually meeting someone. I have even made some good Internet friends of both genders which wasn't my original intention.
I have found that those that just want to "chat" ( "cyber sex" to be exact) about the same. I have gotten just as many of those that want to email ..."hi, how are you today?" 10 times in a row without really telling or asking anything. I just don't have to pay to receive them or send replies here.
Something I continue to find perplexing is I get more "interested" mail when I am not looking. I haven't figured out what is so alluring to males about "Just here for the forums" or "Sorry, not interested in meeting anyone new right now". For some reason it works like moths to a flame, what is that about??? | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 1/3/2009 10:05:46 AM | | And the marketing scam of pay dating sites lives on. Wow, people buy that eharmony and match stuff hook, line and sinker. They are practically pyramid scams! | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 1/3/2009 10:52:59 AM | I have had good luck with Match and gone back there. I do find many of the same people are on here as on there, but here's a difference. I recently had contact with a man who is on both, but he has not visited POF in 30 days whereas he visits Match.com usually daily.
I made initial contact with about 8 people of whom 4 responded. One of the 4, will probably go further (a meet). While I usually get a response from people on POF, there is something about the site that turns me off, and I have never dated someone I've met here.
I think I have two primary grievances with POF. One is that pictures don't look good here. The thumbnails are too small and they are squeezed, not cropped, into the square shape, usually distorting the subject. The other is that you can't remove a person from searches here once you have decided you're not interested. (Remove from searches is different than block from contact.) That makes the sorting and selecting process harder. Somebody please tell me if I'm wrong about this feature, but I haven't seen how to do that on POF. | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 1/3/2009 11:07:27 AM | The reality is .. Shelling out bucks for a pay site does not seem to enhance your probability of meeting someone who you connect with (as opposed to a free site)... you can meet a really cool person on a free or pay site... or out in the real world .
And the marketing scam of pay dating sites lives on. Wow, people buy that eharmony and match stuff hook, line and sinker. They are practically pyramid scams!
Amen to that.. reminds me of the pet rock craze people bought into.. lmfaooo | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 1/3/2009 12:40:29 PM | | I think some paid sites are better than others. There are some paid sites with lots of fake profiles. These "fake profiles" keep sending you winks until you join. Once you join, there are no more winks being sent to you. Other pay sites have lots of unpaying members because their subscription ran out and it was never renewed. | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 7/2/2009 4:43:05 PM | | Hey bigbin, no offense, but if you'd work on your diction, English, punctuation, and word choices, you may have better luck. | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 7/2/2009 4:47:32 PM | | no they arent worth it...you wont find anyone different on that site that you cant find on a free site....why pay to get mail from people you probably wont even be attracted to? then sometimes even though you are a member, the other person cant contact u unless they are a paying member....its a waste of money to me. | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 7/3/2009 9:46:25 AM | | No they are a waste of time and money. I am a bloke and it seems to me that most girls on the dating sites do not really want a boyfriend or a relationship. | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 7/14/2009 2:30:58 PM | I have no faith in paying sites nor free sites.
I worked for an advertising company in San Diego and saw what really goes on to keep online dating business going. And like most businesses, once you get a little on the inside, for the most part you don't like what you see.
You know most of the parlor tricks with paid sites.
1. Numerous fake profiles (made from the same comp) claiming to be from different parts of the world are posted to not only make numbers but also send out the fake emails a lot of you are complaining about.
2. The hassle to get a refund. You would be surprised how many people will just chalk it up as a loss rather than actually call in, wait a bit and cancel. Also 22% of people who go for a refund, will just let the automatic thing run because they don't want to deal with the hassle. One hell of run if you can get over 1,000 people (think big scale here people) to just give up on 7.99 to 30 bucks monthly.
3. The Bull**** factor. If you join a dating site, you should be trying to date right? A lot of guys and gals hope that if you go to a paying site where you pay to enter, you'll find someone serious. If you want something, you have to go get it, actively participate in searching, if it fails, move on somewhere else. But do not forget to look in REAL LIFE ALSO. That guy or woman you like that passed you by in the library, mall, dorm, or grocery store, SAY SOMETHING.
Free sites (like anything free) receive more bad than good. on top of being a guy and dealing with the regular female BS, there are scammers, pranksters, hookers, spammers.
By the way, guys who run into those cam/model/please-vote-for-me girls on paid sites and are confused, look at their prices. They make $$ per minute/hour for EACH person watching. $50 to a site like fling, match or OBC is just an ADVERTISING fee to them. So pay attention.
JUST KEEP IN MIND THAT EVERY SITE YOU RUN INTO IS A BUSINESS. BUSINESSES NEED TO MAKE MONEY. AS DO THE PEOPLE ON THEM. PAY ATTENTION. ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE AND DO WHAT YOU CAN, YOU'RE ONLY HUMAN. | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 7/14/2009 3:03:57 PM | | I have had good responses with both paying and non-paying sites. Some of the sites are too expensive. | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 7/14/2009 4:16:56 PM | | Stay away from pay sites all they want is your money if they find you a mate then you close your account they cant get money | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 7/14/2009 6:22:00 PM | | I don't feel I should have to pay for the privilege of meeting creepy people off the internet. | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 7/25/2009 4:33:17 PM | | eharmony is a money making trap. They send you a few matches. You can start with communication which consist of a set of 5 questions, not in your wording. And then the waiting begins. If you are lucky you might get a reply back of a set of questions sent back. In other words you do not actualy get to comunicate with anyone until you have jumped through a set of hoops. I have begun the comunication with over a dozen matches and not one has replied back. Oh and in the 6 months I was on eharmony I got less than 20 matches, most of which I deleted due to indesent expossure. Didn't even bother to look at the profiles. | |
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| Are pay dating sites worth it?
Posted: 7/25/2009 5:38:46 PM | | Alot of it depends how many possible connections are not that far away. On one site the nearest possible connection to me was over three hours away----I was wondering if the gas companies had a stake in the site..... | |
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