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CougarLife Reviews Summary

CougarLife has a rating of 2.1 stars from 256 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with CougarLife most frequently mention fake profiles, credit card and customer service. CougarLife ranks 652nd among Dating sites.

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France
1 review
7 helpful votes
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CougarLife
May 2, 2016

This site is fine if youre just wanting to chat to younger guys by text/ email and I imagine you can also meet guys for sex here pretty easily. But for me, im a 47 year old woman whos looking for more than that. I like that the option is there for sex but its a shame the guys dont really seem interested in more. The other site I use is justcougars.com and I just find that it has a better mixture, in my personal opinion, between guys looking for one night of passion and guys who are actually open to real dates. If you just want to hookup then go to one of these sex sites. Just because im classed as cougar doesnt mean ill jump into bed straight away I know some who do, but thats not my style.

Date of experience: May 2, 2016
Washington
1 review
16 helpful votes
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TERRIBLE, DON'T EVEN TRY IT. All the women on there are selling webcam shows. If that's your preferred way to waste money, then go right ahead... thank goodness i didn't pay anything. I was and keep being bombarded by scamers like the already mentioned.

Date of experience: May 2, 2016
Brazil
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Classy Ladies!
April 27, 2016

I have used CL for like two months. Right now, I share the same opinion as some other dudes. If you want to get laid right away use Cougars69.com! But I also believe that CL is fantastic to meet nice, educated and classy older women. So if you are looking for some quality relationship: Forget Cougars69.com and stick with CL. I know it is not easy and I know some people complain about fake profiles and stuff like that. But with a little patience you can meet nice iolder women. Right now I have chated and talked on the phone with two lovely ladies.

Again: Not the place to find a quick s#$ date, but a place to find classy women!

Date of experience: April 27, 2016
New Zealand
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Agree
April 27, 2016

I agree with some guys: CougarLife.com (and Cougars69.com) are the two only sites which work! Use one or both of em and you will be fine!

Date of experience: April 27, 2016
Florida
1 review
12 helpful votes
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SCAM!
April 26, 2016

Do not pay for this site it is a scam you pay $50 for the initial subscription. They make fake profiles and send you of messages when u reply to these messages (from fake profiles) you use "credits" which you only have a limited amount of. Well when those "credits" are all used up you can't message anyone untill you purchase more credits. Every womens profile says the same bio! Everyone who payed like me dispute the charge with apple and let people know its a scam! Its robbery without a gun

Date of experience: April 26, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Been on cougarlife for a month and get nothing but 20 spammers a day, what a joke, big waste of time and money

Date of experience: April 25, 2016
Colorado
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Heck yeah! Men looking for an older woman. This is such a great site. Opens otherwise closed doors to women. I love it!

Date of experience: April 24, 2016
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Love it!
April 24, 2016

I am a 49 year old cougar and have been seeing a gorgeous 22 year old for 3 months. Whave hhave spent every weekend together since we met. If it does not work out I still have 250 unread messages to check. And they keep coming in

Date of experience: April 23, 2016
Sweden
1 review
11 helpful votes
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As a divorced mother I travel between London, where I live and work, and Bangor, where my son stays with his Dad. When Im staying in Bangor the options on CougarLife are very limited. However, when I search in London there are a real abundance of really attractive young men to browse. Personally I like the site and if it had the member-base that other good cougar sites have, such as JustCougars.com, then I think Id probably use it a lot more. But the fact that there is such a difference depending on the city you are in really puts me off extending my membership, as I may have to relocate to Wakefield due to work and I expect there will again be a difference in the number of matches I get shown there. In short, if youre in a major UK city, definitely give it a try. If not, there may be better options.

Date of experience: April 22, 2016
Romania
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Cougar Life Summary
April 18, 2016

Ive not been all that impressed with this site so far. Im 45 and would like to think im in pretty good condition, so im quite surprised that meeting interesting guys and not just complete pervs is turning out to be a bit of a challenge since im one of the sought after cougars on this site. If youre just looking to meet a younger guy for sex and dont really care about his personality then this site will do that fine, but if you actually want to meet some intelligent and funny guys, id recommend one of the others like justcougars.com.

Date of experience: April 18, 2016
California
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Scam
April 15, 2016

Fake profiles, some will be exactly same description but different pictures. Trying to dispute charge now.

Date of experience: April 14, 2016
Nevada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The best thing i ever did in my life that's it for now

Date of experience: April 11, 2016
India
1 review
36 helpful votes
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Real or not?
April 11, 2016

It seems like the messages you get from people are not real. Or am I wrong?

Date of experience: April 10, 2016
Bulgaria
1 review
12 helpful votes
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It seems like cougars using this site are searching for a long term relationship. Unlike on Cougars69 you will most likely not find a fast and easy hook up. Nothing wrong with that, just saying. If you want a serious relationship with an older woman it may be the best site to use. But I was searching for some casual action and obviously other sites are way better to find "naughty cougars".

Date of experience: April 10, 2016
New York
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I found CougarLife.com to be a good site and in my opinion, beside Cougars69.com, you will hardly find a comparable and for sure not a better site to meet older women! Like every dating site you will find scam artists. So how not to get scammed? Use your common sense! Yes, that simple!

Date of experience: April 10, 2016
Virginia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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90% bull$#*! so far
April 9, 2016

I am not saying its 100% bull$#*! cuz I still got 3 months to go but its def 90% bull$#*!. I sign up for 3 month membership recently and as soon as im in I get a lot of girls flirting and contacting me so im like nice, prob because this is my first time signing up for a online dating site ever, just looking for something a lil dif, a lil kinky. They message you via email and trust me its a scam. Its not even random im on my 13th girl chat in a row and they all eventually follow the same pattern of wanting your credit card info for cam sites or this Id Verification bull$#*!, which from what I gather is just making you sign up for a whole different dating site. I mean there not even clever with it, im contacting young, older, different ethnicity and they all say the same things, I mean down to the letter like there is this one lady writing everyone and she ran out of diversity so she recycles the same lines, its kinda funny and sad when I think about the money part. I mean there was a commercial on tv, so doesn't that mean that there was approval or testing of some sort to see if it is legit and works before airing it out, thats what my dumb $#*! thought and so far not good. Im playing with these chick on the emails calling them out, sense of humor goes out the window and they start sounding like robots. Gonna call to complain tomorrow but Im pretty sure I will just be talking to another robot. But again thats so far, although I do not have high hopes of improvement I will be writing an update review if things kinda change

Date of experience: April 8, 2016
Romania
1 review
24 helpful votes
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Signed up to two cougar sites last month to improve my odds, cougar life and justcougars.com. My plan was to quit which ever one was proving to be less successful but they're both petty damn good in different ways. Cougar life seems better known and I've had some hot chats with older women on it. But I can't rule out justcougars because I actually had a proper date through that site. So it seems ill be paying double for another month at least!

Date of experience: April 8, 2016
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I'm a younger guy who has a strong interest in older women, so I bought into the hype and (very foolishly) paid for this site's services on not one, but TWO separate occasions. Both of my 3-month runs of CougarLife were frustrating on many levels.

I'll begin with the worst: the "credit" system. Upon paying CougarLife's crazy membership prices, you're given a certain amount of credits that you use to send first messages. This means that as soon as you sign up, you're already restricted in the number of people you can contact. Once you're out of credits, you can't send icebreakers, meaning you must spend MORE money to get more credits. Adding "gifts" to messages (meaningless pictures of shoes, flowers, etc.) usually costs more than the message itself, and it didn't seem to increase response rates in my experience. The only woman I successfully met with told me that she didn't have to pay a cent to use the site - that men are the ones paying for everything, which I consider sexist and unfair.

Fake profiles are abundant, especially with 20-somethings that are either scams or cam girls (strange that they are allowed on a dating site explicitly intended for younger men and older women). My inbox is full of the "flirts" that these profiles send every day, and they just keep coming. In addition, the site fails to say when people who logged in longer than one week ago were last on - you could waste precious credits on accounts that may or may not be active and never know.

CougarLife didn't let me delete my account when I asked for it, too. I first had to cancel my subscription, but when I clicked "cancel subscription", it refused to do it and told me that it will renew as scheduled! That is pathetic, and indicative of a very poorly-run site. Canceling a subscription means calling them or sending them an email, as though that was too hard for users to do.

There ARE real older women, and they are fairly obvious to distinguish from fakes, but they can be difficult to reach or speak to, depending on what it is you're looking for. Most seemed to want real relationships versus a one-night stand, so fair warning to men who want a fling and not much else. Guys who are either teenagers or in their younger 20's don't seem to be what many women on CougarLife are looking for, so that was difficult for me, a 23-year old who wanted casual encounters.

Overall, the site is poorly run, is full of scammers, has a horrible messaging system, and is overpriced. And the worst part is: it's the only semi-legitimate dating website for cougars and cubs that I have seen so far. The rest are even worse, if that can be believed, so this is what you're stuck with if you don't want to use a conventional dating site (eHarmony, OKCupid, etc.). Avoid this site at all costs. If you really want to use it, be prepared for the worst.

Date of experience: April 8, 2016
Washington
6 reviews
17 helpful votes
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Dont do it
March 31, 2016

Scammers and associates whom work for this site are the only ones here more so than legit people.

Date of experience: March 31, 2016
Alabama
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Not really ethic
March 30, 2016

Very disappointing. Automatic messages are sent in your name to others (they use your profile to send automatic messages to others). Lots of fake profiles send you flirts and automatic messages. All just to keep you " hooked up" with the waste of time you are also paying for. They charge for message you write... it's pretty awful. Ahh and the cancellation of the subscription is not easy at all. Tried today and couldn't cancel. Hopefully tomorrow.

Date of experience: March 30, 2016