Dating.comReviews 1,247

Running a 2018 device and expected smoke jajaajaja. But chats open fast, video scales down instead of crashing, and battery drain is… survivable. Notifications sometimes pile up then arrive all at once, which is mildly grr, but not a deal breaker.

I was mad at my balance the first week, then I set a weekly cap and stuck to text until someone showed real effort... Now the spend feels like coffee money, not a rent payment. The platform can't pick your pace...

Tried VR once, cool novelty, not my daily thing. Real spark still came from one simple question about a photo a dog wearing sunglasses, absolute icon. We laughed, swapped stories, and that`s how it should be.

I joined in April, expecting chaos, but the engine's solid. Messages hit fast, and HD calls stayed steady on my average 4G. I torched my first 120 credits because I jumped to video the second someone said "hi." That's on me. Now I keep text for the first day, short voice on day two, and maybe a tiny video after. Suddenly I'm spending half as much and enjoying chats more. Verification every few months is a buzzkill, sure, but I get why it exists... keeps the vibe adult and calmer.

My biggest fear joining any dating platform at forty-two was running into endless small-talk zombies. Dating.com's Let's Mingle tool nearly lost me at first; the default greeting feels mass-produced. A mentor on a private forum suggested rewriting it with one ultra-specific reference to my bee-keeping hobby. Magic. Reply rate tripled in a day, and the people who answered already knew I'm the sort who wears a veil on weekends. We moved to voice clips quickly, spending maybe six credits for a pair of five-minute exchanges. Now I reserve video for the handful who pass the bee test. Works like a charm, and credits last ages

TRY TO CANCEL WITH THESE CROOKS AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.BEST BET IS TO USE YOUR CREDIT CARD FROM YOUR BANK AND REPORT IT.

It's obvious that many if not all of the "verified" accounts are fake. After talking to someone for a while, we talked via video and it was him in the video. I thought that confirmed he was real. Guess what? Just to be sure, I did some further digging. On facecheck.id (don't use Google Images, it turned up nothing despite his pictures being all over the internet), I found out this guy from the US doesn't exist. Nothing he said was true. He's an actor from another country and yet he's been "verified". How does that happen? I'm assuming dating.com pays actors/models to keep people on the site and paying. Don't waste your time or money. It's disgusting what these people are doing!

How is this site still active. They spam every non suspecting person that comes in contact with the fairy tale of their dreams coming true. They will take your money and suck you in so deep you wont know what hit you, and thousands of dollars later you will lose not only your mind but your money too... you are welcome

Title: 18-Month Romance Scam Protected by Dating.com and Its Sister Sites Over the course of 18 months, I was engaged in what I believed was a genuine connection with a man named Dr. Vincent Turner, claiming to be a surgeon in Caracas. We talked across multiple platforms owned by Dating.com: Amaldate, Zendate, YourChristianDate, Astrolove, EuroDate, and others. He consistently refused video chats, reintroduced himself as a new contact multiple times, and used repeated scripted lines. Sometimes he claimed he was at home enjoying solitude — then minutes later said he was busy at work as a surgeon. He asked "How are you?" after we'd already been chatting. It became clear I wasn't speaking to one person — but to a bot or rotating script handlers. Now that I'm asking direct questions, he's stopped responding — but still sends scripted "flowers and candy" messages instead. You allow these profiles to remain active because they encourage credit spending — not genuine connection. This isn't a misunderstanding. It's a pattern of scripted manipulation, and I've submitted everything to the FTC, BBB, IC3, and other consumer protection agencies. The longer you ignore this, the more obvious your company's role becomes. (Dating.com User ID: *******7331 – Username: Bucko)

The amount of money laundering, user/member scamming on these sites that are owned by Sol Networks, and The Social Discovery Group, is of such an industrial scale, that I am quite certain that these sites have been setup to purposefully get members hopes up to meet someone special; The reason I am saying this, is because of over the many years I have been a member there (spent over a hundred-thousand-US-$ actively searching), every time I got serious with a member, crazy weird things would start to happen; From the member all of sudden turning against me, to that party having a traumatic event such as real-life, and even debilitating accidents, stuff stolen from them: purses, phones, real property damages, bank accounts raided, etc. No, I am not accusing foul play by the ownership/managers of these sites; But I do believe some bad actors are actively crawling (probably undetected from the general code-writers), and such these *undetected bad actors are purposefully being an adversary to every things that is good about relationships.
*And yes, such have threatened me physically, crawled in my private emails, text messages, phone calls, DROPPED messages DIRECTLY in the chat with members that I was becoming serious with. These incidents have occurred with such recognizable patterns, that they unmistakeable.

Undoubtedly, this website is a carefully organized scam. And this is definitely not a website for people looking for a serious relationship. I have now read the responses from the Dating administration to negative comments and I admit that I haven't read such dark humor in a long time. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What I like most is the comment that there is a team of moderators working around the clock. Yes, 24 hours a day. At first glance, the website seems suspicious. The credit communication system does not provide an opportunity to develop meaningful and long-term friendships. The $160 subscription will last you for a few days, while the nearly $400 subscription will last you at most a week. Sometimes you have to spend $1,500 to met a bit someone. Another red flag is popular and verified users. There are the most of them. All beautiful, highly educated, filthy rich and lonely... Well, these users are the so-called chat moderators. Their job is to keep the conversation going for as long as possible at all costs across multiple chat and contact lines. They will never establish real contact with you, you will not receive an email or phone number from them. Their task is to remain anonymous to you for as long as possible.This is the most important condition for maintaining the status of a popular and free member. Nobody knows who is a free member, except the administration and the free and popular user. If you insist too much on another, more civilized way of communicating, they will make a thousand excuses or stop contacting you. I found one of these verified and popular members on social media. It turned out that he had been in a happy relationship for many years. These popular members work from different locations, bringing profits to the platform and toying with people's feelings in the worst possible way. There is no morality there, there are no scruples or remorse, there is only money. They lie on purpose, extort very expensive gifts, use various methods of very sophisticated manipulation. This clever manipulation is called "fattening and killing pigs" (a popular social engineering technique used by dating site employees and chat moderators). It involves bombarding you with love messages without context, constant compliments, making promises, false interest in your past and present until he gain trust. Later, a phase straight from hell is called the "killing the pig" phase. During this time, the manipulator bombards the victim alternately with messages about transcendent love and messages that make no sense, as if he were writing to a complete stranger about buying a car or interviewing for a newspaper. It sends extremely contradictory signals. When the confused victim asks what's going on, the fraudster tries in various ways to convince the victim that has emotional problems. Then comes the final phase. In this phase, the abuser informs the confused victim that is end. You have to pay the equivalent of $13 on average to read one letter. On average, you pay $13 to listen to a voicemail. On average, you pay $13-15 to open one photo. Their profiles are also powered by chat bots, with letters and messages often written by AI. Informing support about the fraud will not bring any results. They act as if there is no problem, explaining that they cannot provide a user's information, explaining that they cannot force a popular user to share his e-mail address, phone number or make a video call, ignoring the evidence of fraud and the fact that this popular and verified user just scammed out of several thousand dollars deliberately selling a poor illusion. Is this called complicity in a crime? At one point I thought that in light of the overwhelming evidence of fraudulent activity some of the verified and popular users, their profiles would be banned. Absolutely noooo... These profiles are still active to this day with fake data. So the question remains about the anti-scam system, which is the pride of Dating.com, I assume? The administration often boasts about it. What kind of system is this that cannot perform simple functions that search for user data in all websites? Pathetic. If such a system existed at all, there would not be such devastating comments about the company's fraudulent activities. I think that the Dating.com administration has in mind a system for collecting sensitive data (ID cards, face scans, phone numbers, e-mails) of honest and uninformed users of the platform. I suggest additionally securing your life savings, because at some point it may turn out that you no longer have them or someone took a loan using your personal data. In short, a shameful slaughterhouse for your money.

Well I saw an ad for dating.com sandwiched in a news article I was reading. It featured a photo of a breathtakingly beautiful mature female. I was hooked instantly. Now one week and about $500 later I've realized that it is one of the slickest rackets I've ever seen. The "female members" that stroke your ego with flattering messages within 5 minutes of creating your profile are actually 1-900 (if anyone remembers those days) sales agents that are reeling you in to the tune of about $300 USD an hour with their chat credit system. Don't honestly know if they were even female. They also try to up sell you on emojis that you are supposed to buy to show your interest in them costing between several hundred USD and several thousand dollars USD each. Hate to break it to you fellas but, Marina, Jessica and whoever else you're talking to has no interest or intention of connecting with you on any level whatsoever. I indicated that I was interested in females aged 50 to 60 and was bombarded with chat offers from 60 year old women that looked like college students...1st red flag. Kinda wonder now why I wasn't able to connect with at least one of the real females that have complained about the site. Mad respect for the people that made this racket happen...have to give credit where credit is due. Wondering which hell hole? (Nigeria, India, Russia, China etc) these "members"were operating from. One dude operating 3 or 4 chat lines at once x 10 = cash cow. Good one fellas you had me going there for a minute.Would give 5 stars for its diabolical creativity but zero for ethics.

This whole website is a scam, it takes your money and gives you fake profiles. You have to spend a ton of money just to send messages to people, but every profile that messages you IS A BOT. They send you tons of messages to get you talking so you spend money. It is a complete scam; all of the verified and featured user profiles are bots and use stolen photos. Do not use this website and do not let your older relatives use this website for dating, they will not realize it's a scam and waste their money. Not only are most of the 'hot' profiles bots but the other real profiles are weird and creepy.