Online Dating Site Reviews

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for what it's worth my experience of this group of sites is included here. Written by Steve Law 22 march 2008

I have some real concerns as i thought i would post a couple of profiles on different white label dating sites First thing i noticed was the absence of subscription fees another join free and get hauled in type of site i thought.I suspect the winks system is used sometimes by the sites to make them think your being contacted although this is hard to prove i posted seperate profiles with different descriptions one with a picture and one without and i received exactly the same email from a member and also winks.Now call me suspicious but surely different people wouldn't get the same contacts on completely different sites.This to me suggests they are system generated and sent blanket to all male members. Next experiment over a month or so i sent 180 emails and got 50 returns none of which were normal conversation and didn't end up in reciprocation the emails ended after 3 mails and now i have no conversations going.There were also suspicious gaps in the emails of 3 days and the mails were always sent during the daytime apart from about 3 which were early evening.Next experiment was with the cancellation system provided on the site i cancelled before the month was up but still got billed for 2 months later.It's unlikely i will get a refund this has actually happened before.A lot of profiles were dead profiles after a short time meaning they were no longer members but were still being advertised so you could do a search for someone in your area get loads of hits and even some emails from one or two people but i found after a couple of weeks they were not subscribed. The sites like you to believe that they have lots of members and i specifically asked if my profile would be completely deleted and i had no response also there was no way to delete it on this site yourself.Well in my book thats plain wrong.I suspect there are a lot of other things going on that the site does but this is hard to prove.They deleted my diary entries as well as i expressed my feelings about the site the last diary entry i put i was leaving and i thought there was something going on but they deleted the last part.I sent quite a few emails to the admin asking for the billing agent details but they wouldn't give that information either.They just said it's on my statement turned out there was no phone number included on my statement i would have to phone my bank at my own expense.I would have thought that you were entitled to be able to contact these people by phone but all i got was the head office address which was the site admin and not the billing agent.So all in all not very good.I will say there are some quite good sites out there so there not all bad and review sites do a good job of telling you which ones are good beware not all are independent. But i believe there needs to be more regulation of the cowboys.I'm not saying that white label dating are to blame as they only distribute the software to anyone that wants to run a site you can call it anything you like but the database engines are the same they do have a bit of responsibility in as much they need to allow the software to clearly show the information a customer wants and not just use it as a money spinning tool to lure people into subscribing by these winks and messages from members who you think but can't prove are actually contacting you.In some cases there are genuine mails going to other members but i wonder if there is some hooking in of the punter going on.Again for legal reasons I'm not accusing Whitelabel of this it's something i just suspect happens with many sites to boost the revenue of the site by getting as many subscribers as possible.I'm on a lot of free sites and the same patterns do not occur with the email traffic which again re inforces a lot of my thoughts they seem more realistic and random more scammers there but if your savvy then you know the ones that put email addresses up front and straight away on the first mail is a suspect.I sent an email to Whitelabel dating asking them how they protect there reputation from people who use there databases and software in less than honest ways.As yet i have had no reply.There are small and large operators who hide there address in very small print at the bottom of the terms and conditions pages on a lot of these sites some are genuinely doing a good job but unless they are all regulated then the bad ones keep getting away with it!The good ones usually have an affiliation to a consumer protector so these are obviously safe if you have an organisation to complain to who is impartial and independent of the website admin i think thats whats needed across the board.For obvious legal reasons i have not named the websites using Whitelabel dating's software but you may see it appear at the bottom of the browser as it's accessing the site.Obviously there are quite a few database suppliers out there and i suspect the story is the same with them as well.

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