The Great 'Cheapest & Best Internet Dating' Sites [Archive]

tina36

27-06-2004, 6:39 PM

INSERT BY MARTIN PLEASE NOTE: !If you represent/work/are a partner or affiliate of a dating site - you may post here providing a. you do not plug your site and are not advertising just giveing good info. !If you want to tell people about your site then you may post a note about it ni the referral section and then link to it from here.

This is not a place for websites to advertise and while you may be trying to help - your opinions are not unbiased. Please read both the note at the top of the page and the Chat Forum instructions for details.

In the post below i have removed the offending links and advertising to the referrers section.

Hi Guys / Martin

I represent an internet dating site and posted a note in your Cheap Dates section, and its good to hear you have now set up a topic just on internet dating.

Here's some advice:

The majority of dating sites are free to post your profile, !however, !to send messages or to read messages from other members you have to pay anything from £5 to £20 for the month, which may sound like a lot, but at least you know everybody who is a member is serious in using the service.

Free sites are great, although you have to ask the question, whether these people are truly serious or just sending spam type messages just because they can as they dont have to pay for it.

For description of this persons site and what it offers - see the referrers section here. (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Referrers;action=display;num=108837 6488;start=0#0)

emmajames

28-06-2004, 11:14 AM

I'm on my own with two rumbustious children and with most of my friends married, have signed up to three dating sites over the last couple of years. The Times Encounters dating site (for the e-mail facility), Udate (on a friend's recommendation) and match.com. Of these I lasted only two weeks of the month's subscription I had paid for with the Times and Udate. The Times (£25) was a blatent money-making exercise and their customer services department didn't even have the courtesy to acknowledge a complaint. Udate (£17?) didn't impress me at all with the sketchy profiles you were obliged to fill out. I've fared better with Match.com because potential dates post photos and personalised profiles, their customer services department are efficient and courteous and it is reasonably cost effective (about £14 a month). Tip - if you sign up for a month and then resign your membership, you can have three months for the price of 1.

emmajames

28-06-2004, 11:31 AM

Re: my tip 4 Match.com - the 3 months for the price of 1 offer applies after you have paid up for a month's subscription and resigned, to encourage you to remain with the service. It occured to me afterwards the way I'd posted my tip wasn't terribly clear.

lynneinjapan

30-06-2004, 10:02 PM

I spent quite a while on Love @ Lycos, which is (or was a year or two ago) entirely free; they did start up a pay service with some extra features but I didn't see the point of paying for it. There are a lot of timewasters on there but I met some interesting people and had several real-life dates, only one of whom turned out to be a disappointment and totally unlike his picture. I did find, though, that I had a tendency to back off as soon as I met someone in the flesh!

I also signed up with Dating Direct but never forked out for membership (£20 for first month, £50 for 6 months)... but I did indirectly meet my current boyfriend through the site! Just before Christmas 2002 I got a message saying that I'd been randomly selected to receive 5 days' free Premier membership, so I sent out messages to all the men I liked the look of and got a handful of replies. Set up a couple of dates, and with one of them we each took a friend along (safety in numbers and less risk of awkward silences) and I've now been going out with his friend for over a year. The guy I had the date with also met someone very soon afterwards - not sure if that was through DD though - and they're getting married this September.

Another one that I tried briefly was Midsummers Eve, though I don't know whether it's still in operation - I can't get it to download at the moment. That one allowed you to send something like five messages per day for free, but you had to pay if you wanted to send any more than that.

The trouble with the pay sites is that they may boast having half a million (or whatever) members, but that's just the people who've put their profiles online for free. They don't usually tell you which of them have actually paid for membership and so will be able to read any messages that you send them (once you yourself have paid up), so it could be that only one person in 100 will actually receive any message that you send them.

01-07-2004, 5:51 PM

Was single a while ago and looked into the whole Internet dating thing. Almost all the Internet Dating sites are free to register and load your profile. However, they all charge for sending messages and making contact with other members. I found one very good site which is completely free and very professional.
Check out www.uksinglesconnection.com. Although I personaly never actually met anyone on the site, I did have some very interesting chats with people on there and I highly recommend this site. It seems to have almost all the features of the other sites but at no cost.
ps another free site, although not as good is www.midsummerseve.co.uk

02-07-2004, 12:47 PM

Hi Guys (and girls),

A tip for any gay readers of MSE, i'm a member of a dating/community site for gay men and women. It's a great way to chat and get to know people and even has regular real world events where you can meet up as a group and get to know each other.

The site is www.outintheuk.com (for the guys) and www.outforwomen.com (for the girls)

A few of the things that make it so good...

a) It's free! (after 30 days you can optionally pay for a licence as a donation to help keep things running, but you can still use everything if you don't, its about 20 quid a year)

b) There's a strict rule that its not used to explicitly look for sex, so NO naked pics or people after only one thing.

c) It has profiles, private messaging, discussion boards and a real world events diary that includes things like, weekends away camping, club nights, coffee meets, bowling and anything else you can think of!

Oh and one last thing that makes it a bit special (can you tell how much of a fan of it I am) NO ADVERTISING!

So if you're gay or bi and want to learn a bit more go to the address above...or if you're feeling kind and want to join up and give me a little credit for pointing you to it go to the following links:

Guys:
http://www.OUTeverywhere.com/tour.cgi?by=jonxyz:15884

Girls:
http://www.OUTforwomen.com/tour.cgi?by=jonxyz:15884

PS. I don't make money out of those links so fear not my motives are pure...I just want to gain us some new members!

02-07-2004, 6:53 PM

I joined Udate a year or so ago and was, as has been mentioned, fed up with all the non-members. So what I did was sent them all a blank message with my email address in the topic line. Even if they haven't signed up they can still read the topic line. This isn't a money saving tip, but it is a dating one. I met my current girlfriend through this method and we have been together for nine months (by the way she paid for our first date, a surprise trip to a comedy club, the best £30 she ever spent ;)).
Jim

03-07-2004, 9:45 PM

I've recently been doing some strategy/research for an online dating agency, and would make a few observations:

1) Online dating, like online auctions is a "network effects" proposition. In other words, the more users a site has, the more new users will be attracted to it rather than to smaller sites. eBay now has over 95% of the online auction market, and dating will eventually go the same way.

2) The winner will be Match.com - which has about 1 million people (this is a large chunk of the total attainable market) signed up in the UK. The typical ratio found in the dating business is 1 paying customer for every 10 people signed up.

3) Udate was acquired a year or two ago by Match.com and they haven't spent a penny on updating it since. I imagine that udate will eventually be absorbed into Match.com.

4) So it's probably better to save money by signing up for one big site than spreading over many. Whatever smaller sites may claim - e.g. that they appeal to a certain type or class of person - this kind of specialisation only works when it pertains specifically to religious or cultural practices that affect relationship and dating behaviour, e.g. Jdate for jewish people or BET for people of colour - both these are in the USA. Otherwise your'e best off sticking to a generalist site, and playing a numbers game.

5) Dating agencies have very generous affiliate arrangements. I've noticed that greasypalm offers 37.5% cashback on DatingDirect, which is a close number two to Match in the UK.

16-07-2004, 10:12 PM

Try http://www.perfect-match.co.uk/ - completely free, and seems genuine. There are real people on there.

Travelqueen

20-07-2004, 2:21 PM

OK.

A few I've tried:

Love@lycos - don't pay for the upgrade, but still like the site, and still visit occassionally 3 years later (ok ok, so it's not worked for me just yet, but some people I know are very successful and I've met some great people so it's not ALL bad! ;))

Faceparty - hmm, sometimes I like this, sometimes I hate it.. can be a bit young.

capitaldating - free, seem to have quite a few users, always forget to visit for 6 months at a time, which reminds me...

4dating - logged on, never used
udate - as above
various others I forget the names of - if you have to pay to use it I won't so...

However, one which was quite good was Chemistry - this is an event primarily with the internet bit on the side, but a good way to meet lots of single people of the opposite sex in a safe environment and know everyone is single... I'd like to think of it as a classier version of your standard meat market which lots of dating games thrown in - key & padlock, speed dating, dancing lessons etc etc

Also, gumtree - not a dating site, but has a dating part on it, and its worked well for me - its a site for Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans, so it is primarily these and outdoorsy type brits who advertise.

I'm sure there are hundreds more, but these are the ones that I prefer using .

TQ

PS - for a bit of a laugh there is espinthebottle http://www.ecrush.com/espin/index.phtml?trip=250 which is just as it sounds.. for when you're bored in the office!

Travelqueen

22-07-2004, 4:19 PM

Another amusing one is http://www.greatboyfriends.com/home.php (also greatgirlfriends.com) where every person is vouched for by an ex / sister / friend etc - it's US based (and there are a few articles about it) but there seems to be a small but significant UK contingent too.

enjoy!

TQ

01-08-2004, 11:48 PM

Unfortunately, Perfect match is only free until you try to send a message!

hilstep2000

08-08-2004, 11:21 PM

I met my partner three years ago on a free Internet dating site, but I can't remember what it was called!
The thing to remember is, if you agree to meet someone to do it in a public place, tell someone where you're going, and keep your phone on!

There's nothing wrong with using sites, just remember not to lose your usual common sense!

fertler1

05-05-2005, 11:29 AM

To a certain extent this is free. you collect points to allow you to send and receive messages. it is also one of the best i have come across - met someone - though unfortunately did not go further than one date www.loopylove.com (http://) :p

Miroslav

05-05-2005, 8:20 PM

Are there any ads anywhere that are looking for an ugly bloke with baggage and no money?

Thought not :mad:

Oh well, maybe someone will take pity on me one day ;) :rolleyes:

Seriously though, Isn't it a bit dangerous, even meeting in public etc etc? And you never know who anyone really is anyway online, I could be Sally the local launderette for all anyone knows :D

ditzymuppet

12-05-2005, 5:25 PM

www.faceparty.com hmmmm!! Take this one with a pinch of salt! (Or just the whole saltlick!) Lots of people who log on bored at work... searches are free... sending messages are free... rating members are free....its very easy to kill a few hours on this one.... there are a few freaks and geeks on there... but its all good fun :)

~ditzy~ :rolleyes:

elan

11-05-2006, 3:47 AM

i've been into net-dating for a long time as i travel a lot :D seems i'm registered everywhere)) though i've never taken it too seriously...u know too many scammers and those who fade away just after you say u'r going to visit their country. But....lololol that was fate, i met my baby on www.luckylovers.net and it's the best one for me :T and you know though there are pretty many users there i felt like they work just for us) then i saw in forum this was not only me who thought so.:confused:

ringo_24601

11-05-2006, 7:36 AM

I did net dating for a while until I met my current girlfriend on jdate.com, we've been happily together for 7 months now.

One potential money saving tip for jdate would be to sign up for the affiliates program: https://affiliates.jdate.com/
If you had your own site, you could put this link on it, sign yourself up as a monthly customer (jdate gives you $20) and jdate would charge you $34.99 to join... minus the 20 and signing up to jdate for a month would only cost you $14.99, only 12 quid.

Just an idea, not tried it out though.

Dora the Explorer

11-05-2006, 8:21 PM

Does anyone have any recommendations for internet dating sites that cater for the older age group :confused:
Or is this way of meeting people something that should be left to the youngsters, like scuba diving and playstations :wink:

marcus01293

13-05-2006, 9:20 AM

Try this website for all us singletons out there and its TOTALLY FREE. :beer:

Members have photos and you can leave people messages for Free and Instant Message for Free. You can also join for Free.

It's really easy to use and to search for people.

www.plentyoffish.com

:T

sarymclary

13-05-2006, 8:39 PM

After my marriage split in '02, I registered with Friends Reunited's dating site, and as mentioned previously, it is extremely easy to use. I whittled my prospective dates down to a shortlist of 4, and then spent several weeks emailing (via their site, so no personal details go out), and then chatting online via MSN or AOL IM. This gave all involved the chance to get to know a little about our circumstances, and a 'feel' for each other's personalities. It also helped me work out which, if any, I considered might be worth meeting eventually for a date.

I did meet a very nice guy, who was extremely kind and caring, but seriously not my type (I'm 5' and seeing him literally eye to eye was very off putting, especially as my ad stated I had a thing for tall guys!), I met an RAF chap who had initially seemed very pleasant, but after a few dates it was easy to spot his penchant for red wine and his emotional baggage would fill a 747 hold, and 'Mr Twin Towers' (as I called him, as he'd lost his business in 9/11) didn't even get a date, even though he seemed like a decent enough guy.

I'd strongly suggest a lunchtime date, or a coffee date, with a stipulated timespan of say an hour for the first meet. Ensure the venue is familiar to you, and don't allow your vehicle to be noticed by the date if possible. Arrange to have a friend in the same venue, if possible, and always nip to the loo to make a phone call to your friend to let them know if you're OK. An hour is plenty long enough to decide if it's a go or a no.

Don't, as a friend of mine keeps doing, agree to meet a guy too quickly, convince yourself he's 'the one', sleep with him the first night, and then wonder why he doesn't return your calls! She's also met up with a couple of guys via personal ads in the weekend issue of The Telegraph. One of them seemed like a great guy, and his ad was witty, etc. Let's just say the first night was extremely rough and left her with bruising, and he readvertised the following weeks with slightly different psuedonims, but the same witty lines. He was obviously a serial dater, eager to find desperate ladies who put out quickly.

As it turns out, I met my lovely man in a supermarket carpark. Totally free, and totally random. I do pull his leg about throwing himself desperately in front of my car as a means of getting a date mind you!

As a warning for all those ladies out there considering internet dating, take it really slowly. I had 2 marriage proposals during my short stint of dating, and whilst I know the first was very sincere, I do think the second was simply his way of playing the field (and as an ex-olympic athlete I suppose he'd be an expert). Even I was taken in though, tho' I didn't accept the proposal, but I did think he was sincere, and then he just disappeared a few weeks later without an explanation. It's very difficult if you're back on the dating scene after a long absence to get to know the ropes again, and we can be terribly naiive, without realising it.

The simple rule of thumb with all the dating sites is that the more contacts you make, the likelier chance you have of meeting someone special. I made a couple of good mates via the sites, even if nothing romantic developed.

dippy-dora

15-05-2006, 6:32 AM

Over 5 years ago I met my OH on the Leisuredistrict, that used to be on telewest, now it's on the net and they have set up a dating section, I believe alot of people got together from this site!

Good luck all you who are looking, but word of advice, be cautious what details you tell people and don't believe everything you are told over a screen! Don't do what i did and have them move in the day you meet:rotfl:

edit: sometimes the best way to meet people is by not looking at all! We certainly wern't which kind of made it better as we didn't look desperate - just somehow we knew we had to meet!
We emailed each other every night for 2 weeks, and sent a few letters and talked on the phone. He came down to see me and moved in that day, we've had our problems but it will be 6 years in October.
I, though, feel like I missed out on the 'courting' and in some ways regret that we didn't have that but it was a distance thing.
Lol he'd hate me putting this on here but he doesn't read this site

Doctor B

07-06-2006, 9:37 PM

How about free advice on writing a profile for the dating site, anybody know of a site that offers good free advice?????

loulou_lemon

07-06-2006, 10:56 PM

How about free advice on writing a profile for the dating site, anybody know of a site that offers good free advice?????

This thread might help :D

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=203348

dorthyangel111

06-05-2007, 8:00 AM

What is this about cheap internet dating,when there is free internet dating websites available.for what they r asking money for? 100% Free Online Speed Internet Dating Services for Singles in UK (http://www.silvergallerydating.com)

kickstart

06-05-2007, 12:29 PM

I am suprised that no-one has suggested Freedating.co.uk I have had a look around that site , and it is totally free ,not just to search , you can actually leave messages and read messages , unlike a lot of others. I cant promise you will meet Mr Right tho' :lovethoug

welshgirlmel

06-05-2007, 3:36 PM

What about this

http://www.girlsdateforfree.com/ As it says its free for girls!
My friend uses it and says its good but prefers www.match.com which always have offers. I think they give u six months free if you dont find the one in 6 months lol

I used dateline and thats where I found my man..six years later we are happily married - worst £100 I ever spent as I met him on there within the first month lol

daveo999

07-05-2007, 11:52 AM

You could always try http://www.friends-dating.co.uk , this is a good site to meet friends or a date, also include lots of articles and advice. The site is FREE, and exclusive to the UK.

jack111

19-07-2007, 10:44 AM

For all those dating online some guidance at http://www.safe-dating.com might be very helpful interesting reads there about online scams securing your computer etc.
Found this particular article useful http://www.safe-dating.com/article/online-dating-advice/date-safe/online-dating-advice.html .

Brazilian

28-11-2007, 7:03 PM

Hi

I have been a member of the following dating site for about three years. It's not exclusively a dating site, but a friendship site as well and I have made some great friends over the years. It attracts a wide range of ages and has regular social meets - you can put up a profile for free, post in the various forums and send a limited number of messages for free.

Check out: www.midsummerseve.co.uk (http://www.midsummerseve.co.uk)

See you there!:beer:

galiffrey

29-11-2007, 11:09 AM

I use http://www.freedating.co.uk its 100% free you can view matches and even send them messages for free also since they upgraded the website you can even see how's online theirs no age limit on this website as im approching 42 and found some really interesting people but havent found Miss Right yet,you can even upload photo's once its been approved its one of the best dating websites i found so far

I have signed up to many dating websites and paid for the membership but found them to be useless thier are so many out thier and prices differ on all of them

hope to see you on thier :beer:

chezabelle

29-11-2007, 11:22 AM

I have to vouch for UK dating site mysinglefriend.com - not only is it relatively cheap to use (I believe £20 for 3 months, with a free sign up), but every person on there has had their profile and picture chosen by a good friend, meaning that you often learn a lot more about a person than they would've chosen to write about themselves!! Me and my girlfriends had a lot of fun on MSF last year when we were all single, and met some genuinely nice, funny, gorgeous, intelligent people - and we knew they weren't nutters!! It's a well designed and simple to use site - highly recommended!:D

floss2

29-11-2007, 1:47 PM

Me & DF met on Faceparty - first made contact in January/February 2003, met up early April & are now engaged & living together......my advice is take it slowly, get to know each other on email / MSN / phone first, and tell someone where you're going & then let them know when you get home!

veloo

29-11-2007, 5:55 PM

I wonder if we could have a singles section in here. I would much rather date a moneysaver, than another high-maintenance woman!!! Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, paid the price and... finally debt free now.
I am starting all over again...

I think all we need is to find people living nearby and meet up in a public place. If we don't like anything, we don't need to reveal anything at all and/or make any contact again. No one is any the wiser, and I am no worse off than before...
It just feels too complicated writing everything down about myself plus everything else, and go through this whole rigmarole... Also, I am a bit uncomfortable putting all my details on these (dubious?) websites. Perhaps I am just old fashioned...

PS: Do any monesavers want to meet up for a drink?
;-j

Edit: I've just realised I have posted in this thread titled "The Great 'Cheapest & Best Internet Dating' Sites". Guess what? It just might be moneysavingexpert.com!!!

miserly_mum

29-11-2007, 10:13 PM

I met my OH 3 years ago through Loopylove. I think at the time it was £20 for a month but compared to a night out thats peanuts.

We had both been single for a few years and had got fed up with pubs and clubs as a way of meeting someone. We both like quiet nights in which is fine but doesn't leave much scope for finding a partner.

The site itself was ok but once we "clicked "we moved over to MSN messenger to chat online free as I think a lot of people do.

I feel if its a site you need to pay for its more likely to have people genuinely looking for a partner rather than time wasters looking for a shag. Although that is not always the case

Yes I had my fair share of perves,married men and saddos messaging me but you soon learn to weed them out and most people on it were pretty "normal"

It was the best £20 I ever spent and after months of messaging, texting then phone conversations we finally agreed to meet.

Although we were both nervous it really was like meeting someone I felt I'd known for years, which is one advantage of online dating. You get to know so much about each other prior to meeting theres very little chance of awkward silences.

I'd say to anyone considering internet dating to give it a try. I met a wonderful man and we are very much in love and now have a beautiful little boy together.

Running Horse

30-11-2007, 10:29 AM

Met my wife on faceparty, and were married within two years.

BUT we were lucky to meet someone else looking for the same thing. Not everyone there is, and some were quite rude when replying to a friendly hello email. Like a lot of singles activities (such as nightclubs) it can be depressing to see the same old faces over and over, who vaguely want to meet someone, but act like they want to be single forever.

Worth a try, but keep doing all the other things like hobbies, societies, sports etc.

miserly_mum

30-11-2007, 1:16 PM

Met my wife on faceparty, and were married within two years.

BUT we were lucky to meet someone else looking for the same thing. Not everyone there is, and some were quite rude when replying to a friendly hello email.

I couldn't agree more in that it is pure luck that both of you were genuinely looking to meet someone (as my OH and I were at the time we met online)

Then again that could apply to meeting someone anywhere, bar,club through work etc. The advantage is online you can just block the nasty ones and you soon get to know the serial online daters because they are on every dating site.

Speaking from a womans perspective I think if someone wants to meet you after a few days i'd be wary. If someone is genuinely interested they'd want to take things slowly and get to know a bit about you first. If only to rule out the fact you are a bunny boiler

nigelplant

08-01-2008, 8:28 PM

Hi Guys / Martin

I represent an internet dating site and posted a note in your Cheap Dates section, and its good to hear you have now set up a topic just on internet dating.

Here's some advice:

The majority of dating sites are free to post your profile, !however, !to send messages or to read messages from other members you have to pay anything from £5 to £20 for the month, which may sound like a lot, but at least you know everybody who is a member is serious in using the service.

Free sites are great, although you have to ask the question, whether these people are truly serious or just sending spam type messages just because they can as they dont have to pay for it.

For description of this persons site and what it offers - see the referrers section here. (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Referrers;action=display;num=108837 6488;start=0#0)

Only problem with this is as you say, its free to register a profile, so we pay to join and endup being one of few who have paid, so how do you know if anyone else has a paid for profile.

To be honest i now think internet dating is dead, Profiles that are not paid for or have not be used for ages are all still on there, it make the site look like its got loads of users but its very hard to weed out the people who are active and paid upto reply

So the comment about Knowing everyone else is serious is not really valid, best bet would be to use a free site, at least you will get to chat to someone on there.

I mean over the last couple of years i must have had three different paid for profiles on one site i have used!!

Profiles should indicate whether the person is paid up and indicate when they were last used.

Well thats my point of view anyway :confused:

zoosporus

09-01-2008, 1:20 AM

This one that has a large number of users and is 100% free http://www.plentyoffish.com it's a very good site, much better than udate, dating direct or match.com. This site automaticly shows you the last 10-20 people who have logged into the site within your area.

There's also http://www.freedating.co.uk which is 100% free, though isn't quite as active.

There's another site which is for single parents. Although it's not 100% free, they do allow you to send one free messege per day as well as allowing you to view profiles and any messeges you've received, as well as a free chatroom http://www.lone-parents.org.uk/personals/index.php

sm.thomas

29-03-2008, 5:33 AM

I have also come across one online dating site named okcupid. Everything is free on OKCupid!
You will also get free profiles, pictures, tests, personals (http://www.okcupid.com/match?kw=personals), match rankings.
There are really some good features which I found on this site.

You can see who is online now and who's viewed your profile.
You can also compare your profile with another member's profile by clicking on the "Compare Profile" button on their profile page.
You can search profiles with various criteria like: gender, age range, religion, ethnicity, Languages spoken.You may also filter sort your result by……
Those who have photos only
Those who are single.

gabo77

21-02-2009, 12:57 AM

The best site i've found is friendfinder.com (http://friendfinder.com/go/g1076814) and on top of that registrations are all free! just give it a try you'll see ;)

lester12

11-04-2009, 8:15 AM

These days we can find many free online dating sites, but credibility is the question. Many sites are allowing fake profiles which is not safe to approach with. Anyways, selecting a right person through online is very exciting and could be even safe.

themarquist

15-08-2009, 5:45 PM

freeukdating.org (http://freeukdating.org) has the most comprehensive and best list of all of the free dating sites that you can join.

xmaslolly76

15-08-2009, 7:16 PM

http://person.com/ is a free site it has its share of pervs and gold diggers but if you put in the effort you can meet some lovely people. Its not just restircted to same sex messageing either so not only did i meet my partner but i found a whole host of new friends on there too. There are chat rooms, games and they also allow cameras. Warning on the camera front though as i said above it has its share of perverts be prepared to receive some rather out there messages (that is putting it mildly) but you do have the option to block people who annoy you. Cameras can be set to Public, Friends only or one on one.

jl45

16-08-2009, 8:45 AM

www dot datingdirect dot com ("Sorry as a new user you are not allowed to post with links. This is done to stop spammers clogging up the site. Please edit your message below to continue." so this will have to do)

Normally 6 months costs 77.94, 3 months is 59.97 or 1 month month is 29.99

If you sign up but dont subscribe they will email you offers until the best deal they offer is 1 month for 5 pound. Cancel the resubscription once subscribed else they will charge the full amount the following month. But once your subscription has expired the offers will start up again and after a couple of weeks I received the 1 month for £5 deal again so I will now resubscribe.

I assume this cycle will endlessly repeat

k_bagpuss

16-08-2009, 1:00 PM

I met my darling OH on Dating Direct in April 2008. He put all his details in, wrote a quiz you can put on your profile and pressed the "find me my soulmate" button and up popped my profile! After a couple of weeks online conversations we met up during the day in my local where I felt safe and we've been inseperable ever since, and we bought our house together in April this year.

I'd just reiterate whats been said before - there are false people out there. I had the misfortune to meet one of them before meeting my OH (from a different website) and it put me off internet dating for quite a while. I think trust your instincts and make sure if you meet up with anyone make it daytime and somewhere YOU feel comfortable and safe, and let someone know what you are doing!