Review of FriendFinder

Review of FriendFinder

Subscription

As the name suggests, this is a great site to reconnect with old friends or to find some new friends where you live or some new friends from around the world.

Some of the feature of this site are:

• browse members
• email
• wink or flirt
• find geographically

Premium paid services

• web cam chat
• blogs

This site also support multiple languages including :

• Italian
• Spanish
• Portugese
• German
• French
• Chinese
• Tagalog

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Popularity: 55% [?]

Review of Asia Friend Finder

Find some fun Asian singles in Asia FriendFinder.

Subscription costs

Free to try

$14.88 for a one month membership

Review of Asia FriendFinder

This is one of the largest database of Asian Singles on the net with over 5million members worldwide and it likes to also call itself the Chinese Friendship Network. If you are looking to make new Asian friends or want to find some Asian Singles, this is definitely the site to try out.

This site lets you view the members on this site and also allows you to chat to members without having to pay for a membership.

As they offer a free trial, it is well worth trying out. Add a profile and a picture and see who else is online for you to meet. It supports Chinese language as well.

Asia FriendFinder is maintained by a large online dating company and has built up an impressive range of services on its dating sites. You will find all the functions that you would expect here like

• email
• blogs
• uploads photos
• upload videos
• wink or flirt with someone
• hotlist someone

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Popularity: 30% [?]

Review of Shaadi Matrimony

Shaadi.com – World’s Largest Matrimonial Website

Subscription Price

Silver- 3 months – £29
Gold – 6 months – £49
Platinum – 12 months – £79

What’s Free

Free to browse, load profile, show interest, chat and send emails. All members get a free Vedic Astrology horoscope done. for them.

Special offers: Sign up for a Premium membership and you could win a car.

Review of Shaadi.com

This is not your usual dating site. It is a matrimonial site where all the members are looking for life partners and it the largest site for the Indian singles around the world. They are supposed ot have the largest database with over 2 million members worldwide, and have had over 600,000 success stories since they started in 1997 which you can read about on their site.

One truly unique thing about this site is that they offer their members a free vedic astrology horoscope. Then they can use the AstroSoulMate Search which will find them the best match by horoscope. There is even a Rashi Match (Moon sign – compatibility).

You can also search by community with the most popular being Assamese, Bengali, Gujerati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Marwari, Oriya, Parsi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu.

You can even search by religion; Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and more.

The membership

a) Register and Express Interest in Members FREE
b) Free Instant messenger and chat
c) Free Video profile – 2-minute video can be uploaded
d) Free Photo Album – 3 photos can be uploaded
e) 600,000+ success stories
f) Astro profiles
g) World’s only matrimonial website with ISO 9001:2000 certification

One thing that stands out is the numerous ways that you can pay for this service and they include: all major Credit cards, Net Banking, pay cash at UTI Bank or UAE Exchange, mail or free pickup of cheque/DD, drop payment at Shaadi.com collection centers.

“I was unsure about the kind of people
I would meet online… till I came here.”

The quality of the proposals was a pleasant surprise.. these were guys who were really serious about marriage. Though I received several decent proposals and met some of them, it clicked for me when I met Sudeep on your site. He was working in Boston while I was with my parents in Pune.
- Alpa Bose, 26, Dentist

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There is a live 24/7 help line on the site to help you with your user experience and questions. Â

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Planning to marry? Register at Shaadi.com Matrimonial

If you have a success story to share using this service, please add a comment below.

Popularity: 20% [?]

Review of A Foreign Affair

 

A Foreign Affair Beautiful sincere women want to meet you.

Subscription costs

Silver :  up to 2 email addresses for $12.00 each.
Gold:   up to 10 email addresses for $9.00 each.
Platinum:  $95 Activation Fee, then $19.95 a month, up to 100 addresses
What is free: Free basic membership for women and they have a free DVD for their Romance Tours

Special Offers: n/a

Review of A Foreign Affair The number one foreign introduction Agency.
A Foreign Affair is one of top marriage introduction agencies for anyone looking for a bride from Russia, Eastern Europe, Latin America or Asia. This is the site for you if you are looking for a bride from the following groups: 

• Russian Women
• Latin Women
• Asian Women

It is a very comprehensive and informative site
• With a lot of advice on how to avoid scams
• how to obtain a visa to visit the women that you have met online
• They can organise phone calls with a translation service
• They also have an express mail service to deliver your correspondence to your chosen lady.
• Obtaining a fiancée visa

The signing up process.
The sign up process is easy, you can choose to either buy addresses individually or sign up for a monthly membership which gives you access for up to 100 profiles a month.

You can browse the site and search for matches by age, geographic location, height, weight and use keywords like sports.

Romance Tours or Individual tours
They are also the first to offer Romance Tours to all these places, St. Petersburg, Kiev ,Moscow, Volgograd, Kazan, Odessa, Crimea, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Nizhniy, Novgorod, Donetsk, Krivoy, Rog, Riga, Barranquilla, Colombia, Cartagena, Colombia Lima, Peru San Jose, Costa Rica.

A Foreign Affair has been featured a lot in the media, including 60 Minutes, TIME, The Washington Post, The New York Times, MTV, Discovery Channel, and the full-length Motion Picture, Two Brothers and a Bride, A Foreign Affair.
 

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A live telephone forum every Monday to answer your questions about foreign brides.

They have an inhouse lawyer to organise a fiancée visa for you when you have found that special someone.

Thumbs Down :
The site is very busy so it might a bit difficult to get the information you want.

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Popularity: 69% [?]

Review of Relationships.com

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Popularity: 12% [?]

Review of Cupid Junction

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Popularity: 12% [?]

Review of Date.com

Every relationship begins with a date. Join Date.com today!

Subscription costs

Payments by credit card
30 days $24.95
90 days for $49.95 USD
365 days for $95.95 USD ($7.99 a month)

Payments by certified check or by money order
90 days for $49.95 USD
180 days for $74.95 USD
365 days for $95.95 USD

What is free: To post a profile and search, receive emails and use instant messenger

Special Offers: Online dating is fun, safe and easy. Sign up free!

Summary of Date.com and Date.ca (Canada)

DATE.COM is one of the oldest dating sites online and have been going since 1997. They have over 2 million members on their database. This site is designed to suit the serious dater who is looking for a long term relationship. Most of their members are based in and around the larger cities of North America. If you live in a big city, you will find a lot of success using this site.

Date.com also caters for singles in a lot of other regions in the world including the UK and Australia.

They have over 10% of their members over 55 years of age and seem to have an equal distribution of male and female members across the age groups.

Signing up process
To set up a profile, search and show interest in other users but if you want to make connections you need to upgrade to the Gold membership. With this you get some advanced features, such as Email, Instant Messaging and the Chat Room. With the free membership, you can search by location, age, interests, and 100 other personal preferences. The members who join Date.com are generally professional, educated and are all looking for a meaningful long term relationship.

An additional feature that Date.com has is Date Mobile is available for members in North America. With this service you can view profiles and connect to other members by SMS text. To set up this service, you are given a number to text and you will get a reply back with what to do next. When you become a member, you can even add a picture using your mobile phone to your WAP profile.

The costs for this service are:
DateMobile SMS – 50¢ USD for every message you receive including replies to commands that you send and the charges will appear on your wireless phone bill.
DateMobile WAP – A monthly charge of $4.99 USD will be charged to your wireless phone bill which allows you unlimited access to your DateMobile WAP service.

DATE.COM sometimes organises cruises and other events to allow singles to meet face to face.

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It has a good quality membership and their online magazine, Date.info, has some very well written articles and is of better quality than other sites.

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Its features are not as up to date as some other sites.

“Date.com is a community of two million active singles all seeking that special someone. Create your free profile, search and show interest in others. Then upgrade to a Gold Membership to email and chat with other singles. Invest in your social life today, at Date.com!”

Find A Date Now! – Date.com or on Date.ca now!

Popularity: 12% [?]

Review of American Singles

Subscription costs
1 month for $29.99
3 months for $54.97 ($19.99 a month renewal)
5 months for $74.95 ($14.99 a month renewal)

What is free: Free to browse and search

Special Offers:

Summary

Firstly, AmericanSingles.com is not just for people in the US, it does have profiles from other countries too. On its home page, you can see how many people are browsing, which gives the impression that there are a lot of people to meet here.

The signing up process
It is free to join, load a profile and photo to start dating. You can even upgrade to a Premium Membership for email, instant messaging, and real-time chat. You can even do video chat, send customisable astrology compatibility charts and of course all the normal methods of getting in touch with your date.

You can browse for free and there are then options to flirt, add to your hotlist , email or send an ecard. This site is great that it has added a lot of ways to communicate. They are very up to date with modern technology.

One of the nice things about this site is that you can see who has flirted with you, viewed your profile, hotlisted you etc. Which makes it easier for you to respond to someone with a lower chance of being rejected, if you know that they are interested.

One of the fun things about this site is that you can chat to anyone you like in the chatroom, or even open up another chat room yourself. One thing though, these chat rooms are not moderated and it can get a bit too busy, with the different fonts and colours flying around.

From the experience of some of the people I have met on here, I would say that you get quite a good crowd of people that you would happily make friends with.

All in all, the AmericanSingles.com site makes for a great dating experience, with nice design and really up to date online dating features.

Thumbs up
The American Singles dating site has great presentation, a lot of options on how to communicate by email, chat and message boards.

Thumbs down
Not many that I can see but if you have any comments, please add them below.

Sign up at AmericanSingles.com now.

Popularity: 18% [?]

Review of Yahoo! Personals

Subscription costs

• One month for $24.95 (billed monthly)
• Three months for $49.95 (billed quarterly)
• Six months for $74.95 (billed every six months)

Upgrade to the premium service.

• One month for $39.95 (billed monthly)
• Three months for $84.95 (billed quarterly)
• Six months for $124.95 (billed every six months)

What is free: Yahoo! Personals 7 Day FREE Trial offer Free to browse and search with advanced matching criteria without signing up.
Special Offers:
Summary
Yahoo! Personals is one of the largest dating networks with over 10 million members. Being part of the Yahoo family, it is a very fast loading and easy to use website with many unique feature that are not found in many other online dating sites.

It is simple to use and the sign up process is quite comprehensive. You can start by entering some basic information about you and where you live which is just the basic search criteria. This will bring up a lot of matches but ideally you need to refine the search so yahoo offers an advanced criteria search.
In order to do this, you need to log in with your yahoo id.

In the advanced search mode, you can provide more details about your ideal match, including their geographic distance, age, height, appearance, family, personal and professional attributes. When you check the attributes it offers 3 choices for each including must have, nice to have, doesn’t matter. Yahoo makes it easy to create your profile and make choices by including little help sections on the right side of the page so you can easily understand what some of the terms mean.
In this detailed matching process it even includes sections like ‘group affiliations – vegetarians, disabled, political views and astrological signs. For many people these are important search criteria that will help you narrow down the right match and most other sites don’t even bother with. However, the interests section is slightly sparse and they might need to include more sub-sections.
With advanced searching, the results become more refined and a match-scale shows you as a % how close a match they are to you. This is well presented and easy to understand. You can then view the profiles of matches who take your fancy, read more about them and maybe consider subscribing so you can contact them. You can also act as a matchmaker for your friends by finding people and forwarding the link.
With so many free features available before you even pay for subscription, this is a good choice for many who want to try before they buy.

Once you have signed up, you have a personal mailbox to send and receive mail. You can also upload up to 5 photos to your profile. Yahoo includes “conversation starters” a choice of 50 questions potential dates will have to answer to start a conversation going.

Another unique feature is to add a voice or video profile too. This is not found in many other dating services. To communicate with other members on the site, you have to sign up for membership.

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You can get matches emailed to you, saving you the time to browse through thousands of matches. Another nice feature is that once you’ve logged out and return a few days later, it shows you recent matches to any saved profile you have.

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You can’t restrict you search to just the people who meet your criteria, age, height, geographic location, etc, which would make it easier to and less time consuming to meet the right person

Popularity: 28% [?]

Review of uDate US

Review of www.udate.com

Subscription costs
1 Month : £29.99
3 Months : $49.95
6 Months : $74.94
What is free: You can sign up for a free trial and browse for free and they won’t take your credit card details upfront.

Special Offers: n/a
Summary
Udate in one of the most fun and easy to use online dating sites that we have reviewed and it has over a million members with thousands joining up every day.

There is a free trial so you can sign up and complete your profile and start browsing matches within 5 minutes. In your profile, there are some drop down menus to make some quick choices of what kind of relationship you are looking for and their required profile. They make this process easy by making you tick a list of boxes, which takes about 2 minutes. The next page then immediately takes you to the list of members who match the boxes you ticked. You can immediately browse the list of matches they found for you including pictures and personal profiles.

One of their unique features is that you can see who is online and send them a whisper which is like an instant message. You can upgrade to a paid membership and initiate emails with other members through your private email box.

Another unique feature for udate is something called “encounters” which shows you who has looked at your profile and so you can expect them to know that you have looked at their profile too. If there is interest, they will get in touch. You can also see who has added you as a friend and which appears high in the match list. For a lot of people, this feature is what makes udate a favourite with other online daters. You can increase your success rate if you reply to someone who has browsed you and added you as a friend. It makes you less hesitant to email that person to start a conversation as it reduces a lot of the guesswork in whether your profile is interesting to other person.

Udate will send you emails with details of new members who matches your criteria when they join.

In short, udate is a very easy site to use and to browse. The joining procedure is simple and the profile creation is quick. You can browse matches within a few minutes of joining up.

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You can upload your photo to your profile in about half and hour rather than the 24 hours that some sites take. Quick sign up process and free to browse.

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You can’t switch off from people you are not interested in and don’t want to talk to and you will continually be matched to this person. You can’t read emails that are sent to you unless you are a paid member.

 

Popularity: 18% [?]

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