Clark B.

Every single woman on this site is a robot. I've proven it - when you're chatting with someone, and ask them a question, no human is going to respond with something completely unrelated! Also, I've received over a 100 messages from women saying how hot I am, how much I turn them on, how much they want to chat with, etc. As soon as you ask them if they want to video chat? "I can't" or "I don't have my camera". Bull $#*!!

After registering for a free (basic) membership on this site, completing a "personality test", and, finally, filling out an extensive user profile (a process which took several hours to complete), I found out that I had to purchase a "Premium Membership" simply to view the FACES of any of the other members, let alone send someone a message. I had received numerous emails with subjects entitled "Meet your matches!" and "Your profile has been visited - curious?" almost immediately after registering. Naturally, I WAS very curious about who was interested in me, and was anxious to see with whom I had been matched. However, the least expensive option for a Premium membership was $69.95, and that was only for a single month of access! I wasn't about to pay that much money for a dating site that I knew nothing about, despite my curiosity (which was greatly impacted by the aforementioned steady stream of emails that I was receiving, which led me to believe that there were many women interested in me).

I decided to email Customer Care and complain about how I had already completed a profile, that I would like to try out Elite Singles, but that the cost of a one month subscription was far too expensive at $69.95 (especially compared to a site like Adult Friend Finder, which only costs $29.95 for a one month "gold" membership). I was shocked to receive a reply offering me a free 3-day trial of their premium service. Realizing the value of this gift, I spent much of time during the next three days on the site. I filled out my profile completely (well, almost; the site has a "completeness gauge," and it stated that my profile was 85% complete). I was notified that I had "new matches," which I was excited to review. Very few (if any) of my matches lived close to me (within 100 miles); however, I was not surprised by this, as I had been a gold member on Adult Friend Finder for some time, and I rarely found any women located near me. I sent out MANY messages and "likes" (both to my matches and to anyone I could find within 300 miles of my location), hoping to get a response. However, at the end of my 3-day trial period, I found that I had not received a single reply to my messages (despite the fact that my profile had been viewed numerous times, and that I had been matched to over a hundred other women).

Besides this obvious lack of active members, I found three other major problems with the site: 1.) You can only see the name of the city that another member lives in, not the state. So, unless the person lives in a large city, there is no way to know how close they are to you. 2.) At least HALF of the members (likely more) that I was matched with did not include a single photo of themselves in their profile! (so, well over 100 members) 3.) I would conservatively estimate that 80% of the members that I was matched with had filled out less than 25% of the information on their profile (a more realistic estimate would be that 90% of the members had filled out around 10% of their profiles).

Also, based on the few women on the site who actually had posted pictures and completed a profile, I didn't find hardly any of them to be very "elite" (as one would expect, given the site's moniker). In fact, I would consider very few of the women even "attractive" (and I am not a tough critic) - I would give my matches an average rating of 6 out of 10 in terms of attractiveness. Moreover, since so many of my matches had filled out so little of their profiles (and NONE of them had responded my messages), I am not even able to give an average rating based on personality.

One final annoyance: the site would send me emails with subjects claiming that I had new "messages." However, I discovered that the creators of Elite Singles had redefined the word "message"; in every case, when I received an email claiming that I had a new "message," I found that my "message" was nothing more than an alert that one of my matches had (finally) uploaded a picture to their profile! What a let down!