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| | What do you all think are the BEST sites then?Page 3 of 13 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) | Hotornot works for me, POF is only good for the forums, the women are pretty shallow here. | |
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| what do you all think are the BEST sites then?
Posted: 1/10/2006 6:44:32 PM | foresight, hindesight, construction site, crime site , out of sight, in sight, on sight, sight for sore eye's , gun sight, just to name a few . Your welcome! | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 1/10/2006 7:10:06 PM | | i know this has turned into a beat-up-on-match.com forum...but, i actually know a guy from work that met his wife on match. so, it can happen. they've been together about 8 years now. i have never found any of the paying sites to be productive.....or fun. | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 1/10/2006 7:25:16 PM | They actually read the profiles, and if it LOOKS like an email address, they'll pull it. The only way I've seen it so far is to make it look like a puzzle = an anagram. That actually works in two ways; one is that Match.com can't really complain about it, and two is that only someone smart enough can figure it out and write to you.
sweetlaura - it could be something like 'sugar was eating eggplant this lovely afternoon...' and so forth. Put it all together, add the extension and viola! You have the needed email address. I had a friend who did this (that's how I got his email...).
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| what do you all think are the BEST sites then?
Posted: 1/10/2006 8:03:12 PM | The most successful site for me has been rsvp.com.au, but I don't know if they have an equivalent in the US. I get heaps of contacts from RSVP, but almost none from all the other sites put together. My searches have also found more interesting women on RSVP than any of the other sites.
So for Australian men, RSVP is my recommendation. Women however have told me that the quality of men there is appalling (myself excluded!), and that match.com actually has better men, so who knows.
I did eventually manage to contact the woman who contacted me. I told a friend about match.com and they subscribed, so they sent a message on my behalf to the person in question. Yay, I don't have to subscribe now. She confirmed that she had put her real email address in her message, but that it must have been changed by match.com. So as suspected, she had no idea that I couldn't reply without subscribing.
POF is a great idea, but here in Australia there's just not enough people using it. Doing a search again after a month or so just brings up most of the same faces. Hopefully it will take off more here sometime.
Rob. | |
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| what do you all think are the BEST sites then?
Posted: 1/10/2006 8:20:32 PM | | Personally, my favorite free site is "Cupid." But I think that's because I like geek girls and that site seems better than most at attracting more intelligent women. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/10/2006 8:33:11 PM | | I'm a member and waiting for the 6 months to end. Yes, I also found that men on match.com were rigid as some christian men on the loveandseek.com.and catholicsingles.com., like I said before plastic seeks plastic. Which is why I never wanted to date any guys in the churches I attended. And the ones I did want all the women in the chruch were throwing themselves at them like hard up hussies. And the gals willing to support their behinds while the men played church leader, and then the men would "backslide" because I think they were not dealing with real life and fullfilling their husband duties of them working on the "outside" too. Just my observations in being involved in a church for 25 yrs...Peace. | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/11/2006 4:53:34 AM | | It seems that most of the sites are christian oriented. I prefer 'other' or 'alternative' | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/14/2006 12:58:52 PM | There is a relatively new site called oflove.com that claims to be 100% free (I think they're ad-supported). The site still has a lot of rough edges, and the membership figures are ... well, let's just say there were more people in my last elevator ride, but it might be worth checking out in six months or so.
At the moment, though, I haven't seen anything that even comes close to POF. A lot of people don't know this, but if you're unhappy about anything on POF, they will give you your money back.  | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/14/2006 1:21:05 PM | | I had the same experience with Match. I just signed up, contacted the person and then quit after a week. And just sign up for the shortest amount of time. but in the end, it was the worst site for me. this one has been the best. Good luck! | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 1/14/2006 1:45:54 PM | | Don't join Supereva.com! I repeat, don't join supereva.com! It is impossible to cancel your account! I had to change my credit card number! For some reason, pof had a link to it. (I like this site.) To cancel, they want people to go to futurepay and worldpay, put in a agreement or id number to login...and nowhere in their replies do they give you the correct numbers, so you can't login to cancel! So then they want you to send a fax to Italy saying that you want to cancel. Match, Yahoo, American singles, they all suck, and I'm discovering crappier ones daily, especially in the Houston area! | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 1/14/2006 2:24:58 PM | | on one site i had 4 e-mails waiting supposedly from interested women, but no one had checked my profile, so who messages you without looking at your profile, they just want you to pay so they plant e-mails to you, it`s a scam | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 1/16/2006 12:01:59 AM | I agree with all you about not having yo pay both ways, only one person should have to pay otherwise you don't know what you are buying, how many of those people on American Singles/Date.ca, Match, Yahoo or America's Internet Dateing are paying clients, how many hours are we wasteing contacting people who can never contact us. If they wish to make us pay to receive emails/contacts then at least allow us the opportunity to know who is contacting us so we can decide to sign up. But in reality I believe one party must have an account not both.
It's like walking into a grocery store and not knowing what food stuffs you can purchase because you don't know which item has been paid for by the seller to be sold, poor way of putting it but I hope you get the idea.
The only exception to this of which I have not seen mentioned, other than Plenty of fish being free, is Lavalife (originally a Canadian company). They sell you credits and currently you can send an email through their system for 6 credits. Once started it costs neither party any more credits (only the sender has to pay), the exception being IM which I believe is 20 minutes for 6 credits. The nice thing about this is you can have credits banked with them for months or years, they don't expire, not like the others with their monthly payments. Another nice thing for people who don't want to use a credit card online is they accept money orders as well.
I contact ladies first with what they call a "smile" then if they reply with one back I will then send a email through Lavalife's system, they don't mess around with email addys either like Match does, what you send is what they see. Of course if the other party is realy interested and they have credits, they can initiate the mailing.
Sorry I've rambled on here but I wanted to put my 2 1/2 cents in about both parties having to pay, good luck to you all for 2006.
Geoff from deep dark snowy central Ontario Canada. | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 3/11/2006 12:13:42 PM | 1 site i know needs to be deal with is matchdoctor all hey do is hide in a click gang andnot talk to whom ever thats a site for sore eyes  | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 3/12/2006 3:38:04 PM | I talked to a guy on match who I figured was date bait.
This was long time agowhen I was meeting people from dating sites.
I met him anyway, more out of curiosity if I could get a job there too....
what it paid and what they job consited of.
He got angry for some reason....
Guess he figured I was meeting him for something else?
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 3/29/2006 7:32:48 PM | | I can't say for certain they were fake, but I do find it highly suspicious that nobody ever contacts me from match, then like 2 days after my membership expires, I get like 10 emails. C'mon now, like I'm gonna fall for that and re-up the membership...for the 10th time | |
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| Match.com and others
Posted: 3/29/2006 8:08:03 PM | I guess i have to speak my mind a bit, i think POF is a great site , i dont know how they can see past the greed of all the other sites, its a market, people will pay for the service and in reality its cheaper than going to the bar and spending 50 bucks, 2 or 3 times a month. the yahoo one isnt too bad, for 15 bucks a month, cheaper than a few hours in a bar. But its really just business. they see a way to make a buck and they do it. its the corporate america way. free enterpise?,, but anyways, i have seen i profiles where people put right up front they are on the freebee way in their profile and to leave them a way to contact them, i think there are a million ways to send a message in a message so be creative. and if someone has enough attraction for you, they are gonna look at that message a million times and figure something out. didnt we play spy when we were kids? lol. but anyways i did join the yahoo one and it seems so far that its all on the up and up, and i'm sure if you join the others you really do get good service, my advice is check out the profiles see if there are a group of people that you would like to contact, join for one month, after that you can send what you want emails addy's and all , make your screen name your name on the freebee sites or try to include it some how, most people in this world that are on the internet have a common chat name and use yahoo. i wish everyone would use the same name for all of them just as it would be in yahoo. well thats all the advice i can give , i hope it helps someone somewhere and a big pat on the back for the sites such as yahoo, POF , and all the others that dont rip us off and allow us to communicate with the rape. Bob.  | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible and dishonest
Posted: 12/29/2006 3:33:12 AM | I was a member on a three day trial with match.com, i got lots of emails from people in other parts of the country, mostly much older men, wanting sex, one guy was an identity theft con, asking me for my b day, my address so he could send flowers with a stolen credit card, and asking me and others for emergency money to help him get back home after being robbed in Germany, France and well every other country.. hahahaha It is a good thing most of us are suspicous to a degree. After my trial ended, I got fifty emails (all fake) trying to entice me to come back and pay. What a crock of BS, I would never join them or any of the pay to date, be stalked, verbally abused (if you dont respond just the way they want). I like POF, however the first few days I deleted emails before I had a chance to read them, I thought I knew what I was doing.. I hope they didnt get mad.
I am thrilled to read how many people have met someone wonderful on here, it is very exciting!!!! I do get upset with the fifty something, overweight, balding, not attractive, men wanting to date Paris Hilton look a likes, saying that they prefer twenty to thirty year olds, under 125 weight, and intelligent, happy, blah blah blah, they will never be happy, never find true love because they are living in a dream. Some men and women are overweight from medicines, depression, injury or just not exercising enough, yet when a person meets someone they really like, they start losing weight, start being more active, are happier and the weight just falls off, so for anyone to blow off someone for a few extra pounds is silly. A guy that was not cute at all asked me out several years ago, I saw into his eyes that he was a very sweet guy that was just out of shape, had a bad hair cut, bad teeth and skin so I told him I would go out with him in a couple of weeks, that I had to go out of town on business, so when I got back, it was an amazing difference!! He had a new hair style, new clothes and his teeth were bleached, he had a bit of a tan and looked freakin great, we had a long relationship and were going to get married but he was transferred to another city and I just wasnt prepared to move away from my family and friends.
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 12/29/2006 6:09:23 AM | I am a member of Match.com (Paying) and I know that when someone emails me on the site I receive in my mailbox on the site and also receive one in my personal email. The one that is sent to my personal email account is sent annomously from the sender as @TalkMatch.com
If they send there email address in the email itself it is not changed to my knowledge.
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 12/29/2006 6:57:48 AM | Pay sites are not worth the money IMO. All you get are men that want sex. They should all be on AFF. I have a profile up on several. Out of all of them, NONE have lived up to their advertising. NOW POF!! different story. I love this place! Mainly because you can learn more about a person from reading their forum posts. It is a welcom addition to their profile. Gives insight to how their minds work and is just al the way around A GOOD DEAL!
my .02 worth
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 12/29/2006 7:33:32 AM | I tried out a 6-month paid membershipp at Match .com earlier this year. I never got to post my profile the way I wanted it. Every time I edited my profile, Match would send me an email saying that they wouldn't "approve" it. Here's a copy of their email:
Dear ______:
Thank you for submitting your profile for posting with our service. Unfortunately, we cannot approve and post it at this time because a portion appears to be confusing, filled with random text, cut off mid-paragraph or inappropriate, but it may be approved with minor changes.
Please take a moment to log in, rewrite any section which may not meet our site guidelines, and re-submit your profile for evaluation. Once your profile has been received, you will receive confirmation of approval within 24 to 72 hours.
Thank You
If you have any questions, please check the Help section available from the top navigation bar of our site. Or click here: _________
Your Match.com Customer Care Team
They also disallowed some of my photos. Women on Match have pics of their cats, dogss, their backyard, etc. but my portrait photos were not approved for unknown reasons. Match also give themselves license to crop your photos anyway they like, this type of artistic freedom is disturbing since these photos belong to members.
This kind of censorship is repugnant, so I cancelled my account and deleted myy profile. I don't know what their practices had been in the past, but they didn't censor emails I received from women, they were able to send me their personal email addresss and phone number with no problem. But in my opinion Match .com is a scam, for all the reasons people have mentioned in this thread. I think that with FREE dating sites like POF and My$pace, the days of paid online dating websites are numbered.
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 12/29/2006 7:48:15 AM | | For what it's worth, I basically disagree. I've had great success using both Match.com and eHarmony.com. I was on these two for three months and had a dozen dates. All of the dates were fun. No chemestry, but I met some nice people.... and even became reacquainted with a high school class mate. That said, one site that is unreal is Mate.com..... Still get contacted from 20 years olds living in Africa and Eastern Europe. (I know I'm a catch at age 60... but come on.....) From my perspective... you get what you pay for. The idea that a site (business for profit) is going to provide leads for an unsubscriber is idiotic. These sites are not into non-profit social work. POF is interesting for the forums, but I prefer more detail provided on the profiles for actually meeting people. Have a Merry and great 2007! | |
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| Match.com are irresponsible
Posted: 12/29/2006 7:57:39 AM | Match.com is irresponsible and are a bunch of crooks. I have filed a complaint against them and am advising everyone to stay away. They do not respond appropriately to their emails and are evasive in responding to complaints.
I can't believe Dr. Phil endorses this site, he needs a reality check. What is he thinking? $$$ | |
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