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Illinois
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Horrible, waste of time and money.
November 18, 2015

Folks, take it from me. Cougar life is a never ending money spending dating site that are nothing but fake profiles, bots, and catfish. Cougar life is a joke. Seriously, don't even bother with it. It will save you time and money.

Date of experience: November 18, 2015
Georgia
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Fake Rip off
November 9, 2015

I spend my money didn't use to site tried to get my money they never called me back so I decided to used the site only to find its a scam all are a cam girl trying to get money out of you I hate to site and the person you made it needs to be put in jail for just ripping people off Seriously

Date of experience: November 9, 2015
Alabama
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Stay the $#*! away from CG
November 6, 2015

This site is completely garbage. I spent $40 $#*!ing dollars on that $#*! supposedly you get real dates in that joint but it's ALL FAKE! So guys stay away from the site and don't sign up even if you die to see what the scammers send you via message. And then when I was trying to cancel my subscription it says I needed to call a number and when I called it, it says that all the services are out of services so I had to report my credit card as stolen because of the fact that they just want to steal your money so guys, just stay the $#*! away from the fake $#*! site.

Date of experience: November 6, 2015
Texas
8 reviews
307 helpful votes
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This site is a scam
November 6, 2015

I performed a cursory examination of the site and instantly began receiving emails from women in Washington state. I'm not talking 1 or 2 I'm talking 15 or 20. This indicated to me the replys were fake. Additionally even though I refused to provide my credit card number I am barraged repeatedly by the site with claims of women who want to be my buddy. All fake! Now I cant even get the site to allow me to enter ( Either on my phone or Laptop) as both require some elusive app to open the mail. I cant even get on the site to unsubscribe thus I will be forced to remove the email accounts from both just to stop the barrage of fake emails. What a bumch of $#*!.

Date of experience: November 6, 2015
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Honest return on your buck?
October 25, 2015

How about some real profiles, without the constant scammer interventions on most sites? People will turn away and forget any referrals on these, right?

Date of experience: October 25, 2015
Canada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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THIS SITE IS $#*!
October 24, 2015

I joined this site when I was drunk and deleted it about an hour later. The first girl who spoke to me was a cam girl advertising her site. She stopped talking to me when I refused to sign up. The second girl was a 55 year old man trying to blackmail me for $400... TRUST ME, STAY AWAY FROM THIS SITE! It's honestly just a scam.

Date of experience: October 24, 2015
South Carolina
2 reviews
23 helpful votes
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STAY THE $#*! AWAY
October 6, 2015

I'd give this sorry piece of sh*t site -100 stars if I could. They took my $40 dollars, thats right, FORTY MA-$#*!IN DOLLARS and the only action I got was them putting it UP MY $#*!. Nothing but bots and fake profiles. There are a $#*! ton of profiles of girls 18-30 that are hot as $#*! and all they want you to do is go to there web-show. If I wanted to do that I would go to a porn sight, jesus christ I am so livid right now. I want my $#*!ing money back. The BEST thing (and I say that extremely sarcastically) is that they give you 100 credits, it cost 10 to send a message and 40 to send it high priority. When you run out, you guessed it, you gotta buy more, as if $40 a month isn't enough to let you message endlessly. What a FUKKING SHAM... goddamn it I don't know if I mad about the loss of $40 or the fact I was stupid enough to sign the fukk up. Don't bother and heed this warning.

Date of experience: October 6, 2015
Utah
6 reviews
44 helpful votes
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Never again
September 21, 2015

I spent money, money and money. Guess what I got? Spammed! Never had a chance to meet someone in person unlike the rest of other dating sites. Pics are great, but those are just pics. Probably stolen from somewhere.

Date of experience: September 21, 2015
Australia
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Stay away, it's a scam
September 18, 2015

Read the other reviews and you'll know, stay away from this site!

Date of experience: September 18, 2015
California
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Sketchy...
September 11, 2015

Ok, I have not paid for anything yet. I do believe it is sketchy though. There have been at least 4 separate types of profiles I have found that are similar to another 3-4 profiles afterwards. One person will have a well-written profile, but then 3 or 4 others I find have almost the same exact profile paragraph for paragraph. Others have the same exact profile too that tell you to "watch" their show and then they will start to meet up with you. Yeah, very sketchy!

I was close to spending the $40 for a month until I had seen what the profile of one girl had read. I swear, I had seen that same profile on other girls previously. Yes, there are some legitimate women on there. Do I think there are dummy accounts constructed by the site itself? No sh*t I do! Lol! The admins lack creativity when it comes to their profiles, and it shows. You can tell the difference between legitimate accounts and dummy accounts, for the most part at least. Also, the fact that they don't let you exchange numbers or any other contact information is completely insane and ridiculous. Most sites are doing that now, and every single one of those sites have placed up dummy accounts and try to pass themselves off as legitimate go-to sites.

Honestly, sites like this make me not want to join dating sites entirely. Yeah, a handful of accounts are real, but how many are not? Watch documentaries too, and even those who run dating says admit they will use a man OR woman to chat via text from their offices. Also, when prompting each other to meet, whether it be by plane or nearby, mysteriously "something" comes up. Yeah, it happens.

I don't know if I really want to pay for this site, but it is definitely one of the more fishy of the sites I been to. I have not even paid for it yet! Haha

Date of experience: September 11, 2015
Canada
8 reviews
292 helpful votes
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I met my husband on Cougar Life
September 10, 2015

Couldn't understand a guy at that age being a "cub" more like an old mountain lion. Met online and met in person that weekend... the rest is history. I was certainly not looking for that kind of mate... but there he was.

I have no doubt that the majority of females on the site are scammers... it took me over ******* hits to find a real person.

Date of experience: September 8, 2015
Colorado
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Rip off
September 4, 2015

This site takes your money and that's all... Do not sign up

Date of experience: September 4, 2015
California
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Oh ya, also, after you purchase the $45 membership, then you can't even leave these women your phone number. If you do, they block it from happening. What's the point of paying this service if they want you to spend all your money on their website? If you try to take the women from their website to your cell phone, you can't! So, imagine meeting a girl in public at the club and you like each other but you can't exchange phone numbers, how ridiculous is that. You paid to get in the club and should have access to all it offers, but oh ya, maybe you have to buy her a drink or take her on a date but at Cougar Life, you pay for your membership and can't even give a lady your number?! If they try to leave you theirs, it's interrupted with something that crosses it out with a (message me) insert where the number was supposed to be. So they're just $#*! blocking and getting paid to entertain people and make it seem like all these hot chicks are checking your profile out but they're just a trap to contact their email where they have your email address and can send you to some verification site with your precious credit card information to an unencrypted site that doesn't even have the "s" in the "https" sometimes so your financial information is at risk. The site, I think, is involved in taking people's money and not providing a real service. I imagine there's a guy out there working for the company who intercepts women's phone numbers and blocks the guys from seeing them and goes on the dates himself as ridiculous as it sounds, it makes sense to me after spending a lot of time interacting with scammers on the site.

I started to feel like the site was apart of it all when after I sign up, they say pay 99cents a day with a month block at a time to show up in the top 5 of the search results. Where do I show up? When people search, I should be recently online because I'm always online, checking for about a week now.

When they didn't refund me within the first 24 hours of signing up and realizing the service wasn't all they said it was, I decided to just stay on it to give it time. I got a message from what seemed to be a real girl, but her profile was deleted and they said I couldn't read the message because her profile was under review. She seemed like she might have had a possibility of being at least someone doing something different than the other bot people.

This site is so lame, you'll feel like an idiot for still being on it after just one day unless you're a total idiot. Then you're gonna spend dollar after dollar only to realize everything I typed here was a truthful, honest and unbiased experience. Just don't want anyone new donating their hard earned money to this long business chain of scammers at one of the highest levels.

Date of experience: September 3, 2015
Canada
1 review
34 helpful votes
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These fraudsters should be prosecuted. They even ADMIT, in their "Terms of Service," to having CL employees post "fictitious" profiles "for entertainment purposes." Haha! These fake profiles are posted by what they call "Cougar's Cs." Read the Terms of Service for yourself before posting your photo and/or personal info, or parting with your money. CL themselves ADMIT that they post "fictitious profiles" for your own "ENTERTAINMENT." What a joke! So sad that some low-life people must cheat other people to make a living. Scum of the earth people who refuse to get an honest job but prefer to cheat us unsuspecting fools! Word to the wise: STAY AWAY!

Date of experience: August 16, 2015
New York
1 review
53 helpful votes
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Here's how it works...
August 15, 2015

To get an idea of how to this site works I made two fake email accounts and set up two profiles on cougarlife.com. One profile as an older lady the other as a younger guy.
On the guys' send of things everything seemed normal. However on the ladies side of things I noticed that the site send out messages to people on your behalf all stating "(profile name here) has indicated that she's interested in you." Nothing prompted this I didn't fill out a profile for either or even post any pics. I didn't even browse profiles, the site just did it on its own.

So in conclusion if you're a guy and wondering why all these dead profiles are writing you now you know.
If you're a woman and wondering why so many guys you're not interested in keep writing you, now you know why.

Date of experience: August 15, 2015
Canada
6 reviews
61 helpful votes
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Pretty Legitimate Site
July 22, 2015

I am a cougar on this site and quite attractive so I get a lot of winks and message. I have met a few men and they were real, a am I. I am not out for anyone's money and I don't have a videocam (video-scam). There are real people on here. Not to sound mean but it may be that some of the cubs aren't getting a lot of responses because not many women find them attractive. Also your profile may be too brief. And keep in mind a lot of cougars on here think they will meet the love of their lives so they want to read a profile that includes romance and the possibility of commitment.
I think their expectations are unrealistic since this is more of a sex site than a dating site, however I have heard a number of men tell me this seems to be the case with a lot of women here.

Date of experience: July 21, 2015
Canada
4 reviews
109 helpful votes
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Total SCAM
July 17, 2015

This site is a total scam. First they include a recurring charge on your credit card or PayPal account. The PayPal account recharge is easy to spot and cancel, but it's not so easy with a credit card (so never use that for any of this kind of site).
Next, they have tons of fake women. Women are allowed to join free, only men are charged.
Next, they send fake messages to you which makes you want to join up because your few free messages quickly run out.
Next, you will never hook up with anyone. Why? Just join under a fake female account and see where you are on the list of desperate men looking for females. Nowhere, that's where. You won't show up at all to females looking for men unless you also agree to pay a surcharge to lift you to the top of the list (meaning actually put you on the list).
They have a refund policy that only applies to those signing up for the top-tier subscription but the rules make it impossible to collect.
Only a total sucker (me) would join this site. Don't get sucked in like I did.

Date of experience: July 17, 2015
Australia
1 review
38 helpful votes
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Cougar life review (www.cougarlife.com)
July 16, 2015

Please do not waste your money on the website. They are trying to promote themselves by advertising. Do not fall into the trap like I did.
Also, the billing cycle is by itself ongoing. You cannot cancel it until you call their head office which is rediculous.

Date of experience: July 16, 2015
Canada
1 review
43 helpful votes
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10% Real Cougars 90% Fake = Cougar SCAM
July 15, 2015

Saw commercial, gave it a try. Can't believe the majority of active profiles in Canada's largest city are "video chat" girls from USA/Europe with extensive contact info in profile.

Cancelled recurring subscription, same day. CL's Terms of service employ "Cougar C's", virtual profiles. All female profiles with "... has not filled in 'About Me' or 'Looking For' yet. Send a message to find out more about them." are all FAKE profiles.

Not worth time or money.

Date of experience: July 15, 2015
Texas
1 review
98 helpful votes
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I am real
July 13, 2015

I'm one of the women on cougar life n I happen to b very real n looking for a younger guy cause we get along n connect better than older. So, I'm sorry to all of u that got lied to or whatever. Again I am very real no bull$#*! here!

Date of experience: July 13, 2015