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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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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.
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.
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!
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!
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
Been on cougarlife for a month and get nothing but 20 spammers a day, what a joke, big waste of time and money
Heck yeah! Men looking for an older woman. This is such a great site. Opens otherwise closed doors to women. I love it!
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
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.
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.
The best thing i ever did in my life that's it for now
It seems like the messages you get from people are not real. Or am I wrong?
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".
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!
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
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!
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.
Scammers and associates whom work for this site are the only ones here more so than legit people.
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.
Answer: No the site is a scam
Answer: No, there are real people on that site BUT: 1. You're "annual membership" is actually a set number of credits you can use toward emails, once they are gone, so is your membership. 2. To encourage you to spend you're credits, the site will bombard you with fake profiles to reply to. A little research, and you can easily tell who's real or not. Unfortunately they won't tell you when the persons last login was, why? Nobody ever logs on. So you're in essence wasting your time emailing to real people unless they reach out to you first.
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