Dating for free online

Finding genuine free dating services can be a plethora of disingenuous information for the uninitiated in the world of online dating. As the Internet is constantly evolving, information that might have been pertinent a few years ago or even a few months might suddenly be out of touch today.

This applies especially in the word of dating services. Just a few years ago it was rare to find dating services being advertised as completely free, somewhere down the line, after signing up to the allege free dating service, members would be disappointed to find that they might have to pay to read a message that has been sent to their inbox, or pay or upgrade their membership to read, receive or send messages.

Some sites are genuinely free to receive and send messages, but the quality of these sites might not be up to a satisfactory level, but many uninitiated to the world of dating services, might be impressed by the template of the site and see quite a lot of members signing up (possibly each day), and may not realise that a large part of the membership are not genuine at all, but simply created by the administrator of the site to give the impression of it being a busy site.

But it doesn’t stop there, there is a disturbing ploy used by certain sites, where any genuine member that signs up, to their free dating service, suddenly has their inbox filled with messages from other members, claiming how much they would like to get together, the messages are allegedly from very pretty and handsome members, with the sole aim; getting the members to upgrade their membership via credit card or some other payment method to a premium membership, while unbeknownst to them those messages came from bots, pre-programmed scripts run by the administrator of the site to trick individuals into upgrading their membership.

Unfortunately it doesn’t end there, because once the unlucky member has upgraded to a premium membership, the chances of them cancelling the subscription even after cancelling their membership on the site is very low, as the required monthly subscription will be deducted from their credit card for the on going future regardless of how many times they ask for their membership to be cancelled, the only solution in such a scenario would be to contact their credit card company and ask for the card to be terminated or all subscription payments to the said site to be cancelled.

But the major problem of getting people to arrive at a website, and continue to be a regular member at the online dating site, is the one of the most difficult obstacles facing an online dating site, or indeed any site for that matter, many dating services have attempted to eradicate this problem by paid search, such as those used for Google Adwords, or an affiliate program where affiliates who send traffic to them get paid sometimes for each lead they generate, but this in itself has fueled false membership sign ups, where affiliates simply create profiles to get paid. So in conclusion when judging a free dating service, communication over a period of time will aide in sorting out genuine members from false ones.

Filed under: Dating | No Comments »

Finding genuine free dating sites can be a mine field of options for the uninitiated in the quest for a truly free online dating experience, and many people who are new to the Internet.

As the Internet is a constantly changing media, information that might have been relevant a few years, or even a few months ago, can suddenly be out of date in this dynamic medium.

This applies especially in the world of online dating. Up until a few years ago it was rare to find dating sites being advertised as completely free, somewhere down the line, after signing up to the allege free dating site, members would be disappointed to find that they might have to pay to read a message that has been sent to their inbox, or pay or upgrade their membership to read, receive or send messages.

Some sites are genuinely free to receive and send messages, but the quality of these sites might not be up to a satisfactory level, but many uninitiated to the world of online dating, might be impressed by the template of the site and see quite a lot of members signing up (possibly each day), and may not realise that a large part of the membership are not genuine at all, but simply created by the administrator of the site to give the impression of it being a busy site.

But it doesn’t stop there, there is a disturbing ploy used by certain sites, where any genuine member that signs up, to their free dating site, suddenly has their inbox filled with messages from other members, claiming how much they would like to get together, the messages are allegedly from very pretty and handsome members, with the sole aim; getting the members to upgrade their membership via credit card or some other payment method to a premium membership, while unbeknownst to them those messages came from bots, pre-programmed scripts run by the administrator of the site to trick people into upgrading their membership.

Unfortunately it doesn’t end there, because once the unlucky member has upgraded to a premium membership, the chances of them cancelling the subscription even after cancelling their membership on the site is very low, as the required monthly subscription will be deducted from their credit card for the on going future regardless of how many times they ask for their membership to be cancelled, the only solution in such a scenario would be to contact their credit card company and ask for the card to be terminated or all subscription payments to the said site to be cancelled.

But the major problem of getting people to arrive at a website, and continue to be a regular member at the dating site, is one of the most difficult obstacles facing an online dating site, or indeed any site for that matter, and many have attempted to solve this problem with paid searches in their attempt to obtain genuine, recurring members, and others have affiliate programs where affiliates are paid sometimes for each lead they generate, but this in itself has fueled false membership sign ups, where affiliates simply create profiles to get paid. So in conclusion when judging a free dating site, communication over a period of time will aide in sorting out genuine members from false ones.

Filed under: Dating | No Comments »

A few times I have almost fallen for the old trick of someone trying to get you to their site by pretending to be a woman, and seeming interested, I think the old adage of it looks too good to be true it probably isn’t equally applies to any random ad of a highly sexed female. There are rare and far between.

Filed under: Dating | No Comments »

XXXblackbook alledgedly also have an affiliate program, by the name of loadedcash, I say alledgedly because on the face of it, just as it’s website with bogus members, it tries to entice affiliates with unheard of potential earnings, something like $1.50 per click, I don’t know of any company that pays those rates for ppc especially in the dating niche; it all sounds too good to be true until you read the small print; aka its’ terms and conditions, which it states in the traditional small print lingo, that you only get $1.50 per click IF ONE in TWO of your VISITORS converts to a paying membership else you don’t get paid a cent.

Any internet marketeer would realise the chances of one in two of your referrals signing up to a paid membership are between slim and none, not to mention it incorporates a method where it does not have to pay the affiliate for anything by “shaving their leads” i.e. removing the commissions from it’s database claiming the 1:2 ratio of visitors to paid conversion has not been met.

It seems the whole affiliate program as well as its’ dating sites are utter drivel that shouldn’t be touched with a barge pole, no doubt its’ staff visit various forums pretending to be affiliates getting a big fat check every month, but at least now you should know better.

Filed under: Dating | No Comments »

This came from ripooffreport.com I think it is pretty relevant:

This company is a complete fraud. They troll Craig’s List and other valid Internet sites with computer generated listings of supposedly women looking for men. A response to one of the listings gets a referral to a profile claimed to be on this site which is promoted as free to register on.

It is obviously not free, and the people on it are in fact computer generated, illustrated with stolen or stock photos but with no actual profile information which, I guess would require a real person to make up and populate the phony database.

The new registrant can not actually contact any of these people without first putting a credit card up for grabs and agreeing to dollar-a-day billing rates. To encourage said sucker to expose the credit card, he (or possibly she) gets ‘flirts’ and listings from all these hot sexy people who are actually nothing more than computer bots.

How do I know? To test them I put up a phony listing with **obviously bogus** stats: I listed myself as supposedly being 75 years old, 4’6” tall, 350lbs, bald, drinking, smoking and drugging heavily, and my main fetish is supposedly sex with goats. My picture was a photo of my pet dog and the headline was ‘Are you that stupid?’

Despite this absurd listing, I got three or four supposed flirts and contacts a day from major hot-looking young babes and spammed with aggressive reminders that I can contact these ladies if I just hand over my credit card.

I knew better than to do that but how many do they rope in? Also if you are stupid enough to give them a card, the subscription will auto renew ‘until cancelled’ and I am sure they make that process a nightmare.

David
Kent, Washington
U.S.A.

Filed under: Dating | No Comments »

I see quite a lot of free dating websites, promising everything under the sun.

For someone like me I am a little curious just how many of these so called free dating sites are the genuine article? I certainly don’t want to join one and find out I am getting automated queries from alledged “women” who have never seen my profile but “are in love”, or someone asking me to send them some money inorder to release a multi million dollar trust locked up in a Swiss bank account.

So this blog is one man’s personal take on the world of online dating.

Filed under: Dating | No Comments »