Check out our latest communities fighting
AI scams on Reddit and Facebook
On SmartCustomer, businesses may not offer incentives or pay to remove reviews. Learn more about our Review Guidelines.
CharmDate has a rating of 2.6 stars from 699 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with CharmDate most frequently mention contact information, total scam and good luck. CharmDate ranks 4th among Russian Dating sites.
We monitor reviews for authenticity
I am usually shy around girls and my friend recommended that i join this site. Honestly speaking, i didn't think that i stood a chance with any of the beautiful girl here. I was surprised to find that most girls are very warmhearted and ready to mingle. I am already dating one of the girls and then whole experience has been awesome.
This site is so sopecial to me as it is where my lonely heart got cured. When i joined charmdate, i didn't expect to find love. Then i met this russian girl and she completely knocked me off my feet. There is nothing we want more than to meet each other face to face
Hey, guys, are you crasy to spend so much money on this scum? You can find the real females from Russia and Ukraine on the other sites (love.mail.ru, beboo.ru, mamba.ru or others)... As for me, I can see them every day. BUT 99% of the single females both in Russia and Ukraine (in the real life) are poor and ugly. It always amused me, when I found so many women 40+ looking so gorgeous... In the reality all of them are lost shape after 35 and total wrecks after 40.
The number of genuine women on this site are in the minority.
In over two years, and after spending a couple of thousand dollars, I have not succeeded in successfully exchanging details with a single lady. There are ALWAYS problems at the last hurdle. Either the phone doesn't work, the internet is broken, she has to visit her auntie... you name it.
It has its fair share of scam artists. One woman claimed to be a dermotologist. I knew more about the subject than she did. Another claimed to be a cosmetologist and was a bit evasive when I asked her where she worked. When she told me, I checked out the place. They had never heard of her.
Two ladies have refused accept my FB friend requests because they prefer to communicate through the web site where you have to pay for everything.
One more thing. Why DOES it take the agency up to 2 days to 'process' some letters? What exactly are they 'processing'?
So, I have learnt how to sort the chaff from the wheat.
(1) Insist on setting an early date for a meeting. Avoid those who won't commit
(2) Avoid those with erotic/revealing pictures
(3) Avoid those who start to 'darling' you after the first letter
(4) Avoid those who keep changing the subject just to keep you talking
(5) Avoid age inappropriate women
(6) Avoid those who are on-line at all hours of the day
Make no mistake. These women get paid, maybe not DIRECTLY by Charmdate but certainly through the agencies.
Good hunting and mind your back!
This site is simply a fabulous place when it comes to finding a real and good partner. I never knew I could get an excellent woman on this site but for real, I got my heart desire. A woman who knows my feeling at the right time. Her picture was exactly what I saw on her profile, and just with a few chat, we met and everything went smooth. A Very peaceful woman and I love her. Kudos to Charm Date who made it possible.
Yes, this site costs money to communicate with the ladies...what did you expect from a Chinese-run company? This is not like some eHarmony/Plenty of Fish scam, where they lie about using some algorithm to pair you with the perfect match. You ACTUALLY have to get to know your lady, and that takes communication.Once the six-month trial period has ended, you are able to request contact info for your lady (full name, address, phone number, email address) and you can free yourself of the burden of CharmDate's outrageous costs. You don't need to spend $399 for a boatload of credits, unless you plan on emailing several times a week, chatting for several hours at a time, and using the call service.
As for the latter, I would advise against using their system for phone calls, as you can use up your credits very quickly...this is how CharmDate (run by Qpid Dating, a China-based company) really makes their money. Be smart, use your head (not the "other" one!) and you just might find true love...and it won't cost you an arm and a leg!
Firstly, Charm Date is NOT a place for any self respecting man to be looking for love. Simply eighty percent of the women here are not real. If one wants to question this then simply try this...
Beside using your present account. Post a new account under another (New) email address and use a completely new name but not your own, also post the worst photo you can find and wait to see what happens...
Need more proof... Think of it this way. The site is controlled by Bots and works on an algorithm not real people. Also I know from experience you need ten (10) letters not just from you. But both parties, before you can even ask for a direct contact. But even that is not real. The women on this site are NOT able to talk with you in "Real Time" via video chat, in order to convey that they are actually legitimate! TOTAL SCAM STAY AWAY!
I am in British Columbia Canada and I want this site KNOWN as a SCAM SITE
This site is perhaps the best dating site I have been using dating sites from past 2 years almost just to find right girl LMAO, because no one knows our feeling except these site but there are many scams I have found but finally got the right site to find my love and I will be finding it asap. Ill rate it 4 stars just because of the QPCreadit because it sucks man. Otherwise the best dating site and I love it.
Charmdate is like my first shot at online dating.
As i have no basis for comparison, i still think that i have had a nice time here.
The Russian girls i have spoken with are not as mean as i have anticipated judging from the things i have read in the past.
So, i have nothing to complain about for now.
With charmdate you pay to exchange letters but you cannot exchange emails. One lady sent 15 letters and refused to give me her email. The letters were very compelling with a strong, loving future. Another lady I really fell in love with.
I agree with Wayne G...
Girls flatter you fall in love after a few exchanges of messages that are paying for reading and the answer... not to mention the rates chat, phone... and the strongest is the exchange of address, which of course, after agreement of the person requested is charged 150 USD...
Doubt is allowed for some women actually looking for men for a real relationship...
Great caution so!
Actually, I love my social circles. I like meeting awesome ladies that have the bodies to wow my mind. I think i am attracted by the pictures, and so far, charmdate has given me more reasons to meet the cutest shawties there are. This is some cool stuff.And i think i will try it for a period of time.
The few girls I've spoken with have been easy to track down through Instagram or FB. They online models and sell themselves. Several have lived in Russia, although they claim to be Ukrainian. Another (maybe two) had pics with her boyfriend, on a trip they took the week before.
I won't say total scam. However, very chancey, and full of scammers. I spent about 5 letters into one girl. We will see if I get my credits back.
I have been a member of this site for a while now, I dont really spend much time here, so technically, I have had just one date. Our relationship didnt really turn out well though, but I have met someone else already via this platform. Dating could be really tasking but charm date has made it easier for me. You should try it soon.
I saw it several time on Facebook before I signing up. Didn't know it's this different from other sites until I joined. Firstly some of the services are not free, I guess it's for better quality. Secondly I do meet cool people here and they are more like looking for something steady, not like hook up you know. It's better for people more senior or mature and who want something real. It's still worth trying.
I have never been a fan of the amazing world, but i think i need to use the word more beacuse of the experiences that i have gotten here. I meet a lot of people from all around the world, on a regular. I have even strated learning some new languages because of the many chats that i have kept tabs with here. This is the greatest dating site here is.
This is an amazing site, I must say. Very effective to meet the right person or persons you're looking to meet. I recommend charmdate to who that is new to online dating or has tried other sites before so you can see the difference yourself. Good luck to those still looking. Hang on there, you'll find someone.
There is a great number of people out there to meet. I enjoyed using this site as it provided positive experience for me as I initiate chats with people and kinda of have a social life even Im not very good at it, but it makes you feel really good about yourself.
I'm glad to say that online dating does work. I find this Charmingdate site better than the most of the popular ones out there. At least for the chances of get a date. So keep on it, create a profile that describes you, be honest and there you go. Hope to give you a perfect guide.
I have tried a few other dating sites and Charmdate was the easiest to use and the best for getting to know people.It took me a while to meet someone special, as expected. I went off a few times, dated someone and when it did not work out i came right back on and tried again. Found it a great way to connect with people and i have recommended it as the best online dating sites.
Answer: My verdict after a year of using Charmdate: it's total fraud! I had been in a close contact with many girls for a year until I finally left the site. Now I'm convinced that pretty much all of them were scammers. I had not met any of them! All of them suddenly came up with some kind of excuse in the last minute as to why they couldn't have a real meeting with me. Bullsh*t! It can't be a coincidence when I had 4 dates on http://j4Iove.com After using it for 3 months only. Can you explain the difference? There is just one realistic explanation: Charmdate women were fakes and scammers.
Answer: The question "Can I trust the site" is easy. The answer is no. The real question is "can I trust the girl" and that is harder to answer since there are some real women on the site. Here are some things to consider. Many men have signed up for tours or independent visits to meet a girl only to have the site call at the last moment and tell them they either have found someone else or decided they were not interested. By that time they already have their ticket and "tour" booked and paid for. We don't know if your girl is real or not and you might find yourself a "victim" of their fraud. Before you trust her, you need to be able to separate her from the site and confirm the relationship independent of the agency. There are ways of doing this. Ask her to send pictures that she has posted on her private web sites. Google them and make direct contact. I googled any picture of wome writing to me. Many were on VK.com, the equivalent of facebook. So I set up an account there and contacted the ladies. Most immediately blocked me. One who did not simply told me she would ONLY correspond with me on Charming date. You can also try to find a way to give her your phone number and ask her to call you collect. Most of the time your letters will be edited to prevent such information so you'd have to be creative. Tell her about a 2025 mile trip you took and fill out the rest of the telephone number with number of gas station stops meals eaten, people visited, etc etc. If you really want to you can call her, assuming you are actually talking to her and not a fake agent. Find out where she works. Call there and get her direct number. Try anything. But so long as you are only writing emails, you should assume little correspondence between the profile and the emails you are getting. Odds are if you are corresponding with a real woman, much of your correspondence has been "enhanced" or even written by the agency and you will have to start over getting to know her. Independent studies indicate that you have a higher chance of marrying a translator for the agency than you do of marrying the girl to whom you thought you were writing.
Answer: Do they get paid? Not in a conventional way set up in a western society. Charming Date, gets its women from "affiliates" in Ukraine. These "dating groups" go out and advertise for women, who are seeking western men. The site pays the "affiliates" money for each women's profile they get to use the site. I CANNOT definitely say that the affiliate groups are set up to pay the women. They feed them a lot of bullshit about how easy it is to marry a western man. In Ukraine, the average salary is about 200 bucks a month. A lot of these women love that country, but want a better life. The dating sites know this and use this as their leverage to get women to sign up. They really BELIEVE that someone is going to marry them. That is their dream and the dating sites tell them that the dream will never be realized if they are not exposed to a society (western) that can give them a better life. Not all of those women are scammer's. You have groups within the affiliated dating service group, that is filled with nothing but scammers. I am SURE that the leader of these groups ASK to be paid for each women they get to sign up.If they DO pay a woman, she is not getting hardly anything at all. A Ukrainian woman is not going to get rich advertising herself online at different dating sites. I would say she is lucky if she even gets 10% of a reply. And then that is eaten up by all the photo-shopping that is done to make them look more beautiful. She is stuck, she does not realize how hard it is to get her out of the Ukraine because the dating site will not ever tell her of the VISA restrictions that are attached to Ukrainian citizens when it comes to visiting the West. But the dating site is her only hope., so she stays with it not because of the little she may be getting, but because she believes that she will find a real husband from the west. To the dating sites, she is nothing but the product they advertise to make money off of, and some of the women have gotten hip to that. I have had a couple talk to me seriously about how they felt they were not being informed on how hard it is to marry a western man because of the restrictions on the average Ukrainian's VISA. The dating site WANTS you to fall in love with one, wants you to keep buying credits, spending money, and if you are communicating with a lady from one of the crooked affiliate sites, she will be encouraging you to keep writing, or will try to seduce you with words. A real lady does not do that, even in the sites. If you tell her the site is too high, she wants to know how much you pay. If you tell her you can only write her once a week, she will tell you that she will cherish each letter you send. If you are in a site that has video chat, you can SEE the very woman you are talking too, which Charming Date may have now. A true Ukrainian woman will introduce you to her family through the video chat, show you her brothers and sisters, because Ukrainians are all about family. They are proud of their families and want them to meet you. I have done this several times at another site and even send emails to them without the use of a site, but it costs them a lot of money to respond to you, to have what you send to them interpreted. CharmingDates plays this game two ways, they pimp the woman without her knowing how hard it will be to get this dream, and they scam you thinking you are just going to find a wife here just by a few chats or letters. You might, but you can bet you will be spending a lot of money to send and respond to letters. CharmingDate cheats on their chat feature by NOT giving you the full time you pay for, and they DO have women, who are members of the dating site, answering chat invitations. So, that should tell you something right there. Because there seem to be no restrictions or laws governing these crooked affiliate sites from Ukraine, this will not ever stop. But... there are a few sites out there that you can really meet some decent, nice, attractive and respectful women from Ukraine. After you have been around for awhile, you can smell a scam a mile away. A real Ukrainian woman will SURPRISE you with how friendly she is. She will SHOCK you with how humble she is. All she wants... is for you to be her friend and she HOPES, that it becomes more than that. There are many, many attractive women there. This I learned AFTER my first post here. But because there are so many, the men there take them for granted and will leave them in a minute. They are there, they are in Charming Date, but there is so many frauds and scammers there also, the dating site can easily get out of trouble by saying they have no policies at all governing the affiliates who sell them profiles of women they recruit. The site says "no scams", that is true for any society that has laws, but they do not get these women from a society based on that. So, it is easy for a woman and the company she works for, to scam the site, which I am sure... they know it. Good luck out there! Search the sites hard, there are some Ukrainian women that are really worth your time and attention. I am continuing to find out more and more about Ukraine. It is a very interesting place. It also seems that, the more you seem to want to know about their country, the more honest women are attracted to you. The more intelligent you act towards them, the more credible the women seem to get. It seems like a word goes around the country that says" this guy has a real interest in our country, he is worth being serious with" The truth be told, a lot of dudes, pay that little money to those women, and want nothing but virtual sex from them. That is how I believe the scammers got a foothold in the industry. The cry for immoral (smile). Everything you have read here is based on my personal opinion, on things I have learned while talking and dealing with women from Ukraine. When they were asking me about the unrest in America, about holidays, about how streets look like, you can assume... she is probably on the level. She will NOT EVER ask you for a DIME, nor will she send sob stories about someone in her family being sick. The true Ukrainian woman, for all her humbleness, is still a very PROUD woman. She may not have ANYTHING, but she will not ask anything from you! Personally... I think if you get a chance to get ahold of a true one? That Slavic woman is going to love you to death, no matter WHAT you look like... just have a decent heart and treat her correctly.
Answer: I flew to Kiev and found this site to be much of what others have said. The woman are paid. Local model agencies refer girls to this site to make extra money. One girl told me she made fifty per cent of what she brought in. When I surprised a couple of girls that I was in Kiev vacationing they were all of a sudden leaving Kiev on there own vacation. I found meeting girls in Kiev at bar/restaurant I was much better off. If you notice girls send you the same pictures just to build their tally and so on. If you stick to a letter a week and see where it goes from there it will keep your costs low if you want to keep investigating this site. But my recommendation is travel to Kiev during winter and Oddessa during summer and see what happens.
Answer: It's a fake and scam site.
Answer: Any positive feedback here about Charm Date is a complete lie. Don't believe anything.
Answer: They will not do this. I actually wrote them about a month, maybe two back about policies. This was one of them I wondered about and they said they do not provide that service anymore. They also do not support IMBRA.
Answer: You have to request them to do this. I would delete all your photos, and erase everything you can. Then make the request.
Answer: This site appears to be a complete rip off, far too expensive, gives nothing in return except endless chat.
Sign up to meet Russian Girls, date Ukrainian women and get the companionship you deserve with Charmdate.com.

