Avoid at all costs - took my money, suspended my account for no reason and when I asked for their assistance they have ignored my emails. This was quite upsetting considering the reasons that brought me to the site, however, having read other reviews on here - scroll down and you'll see that they suspended a member for reporting a Neo-Nazi and another who reported a white supremacist - and I can see that this is a pattern of behaviour.
I joined the site a while back in the hopes of finding a potential coparent match. The website is awfully outdated - does not work well on mobile platforms for example - and there is a VERY shallow pool of current/real male members who are not just looking to have no-strings unprotected sex. For those looking for a free sperm donor its perfect but if you're looking for an actual coparent this site is useless.
I still perserved as I am somoene who likes to give things my all. From the start my profile stated no Brexit or Trump supporters please - that was all. An important political value that I thought should be stated upfront to avoid clashes/confrontation. This was approved by their site moderators. A few members who disagreed respectfully informed me of such and we left things at that, however, one took it upon himself to send me an abusive message. I immediately blocked him and flagged the correspondence with their site asking them to let me know what they would do about it. It took them days to respond and when they did I got a one line response asking for the username which I provided.
Two weeks later I still had not heard back. I also at the same point decided to log-in to my account but found that it had been suspended. No email had been sent to inform me of this.
I suspect that the abusive member in question retaliated by reporting me and the site, rather than take a common sense approach, suspended my account. I contacted them again to ask for a response to my initial email about what action they were going to take in regards to the abusive member on their site and also query why my account had been suspended. They did not provide an answer to my query other than to state my account had been blocked following a complaint and that I needed to provide my identity card.
Now considering the sensitive nature of this site and the importance of info like my identity I, understandably, was concerned about this. I replied back to ask them to pls outline what complaint had been made, why the decision had been taken to suspend my account, why my identity card was needed and how their storage of such information would comply with data protection laws. Till now I have received no reply back but my account has remained suspended. This means I have been charged for a service that I am unable to use.
It says A LOT about a website when they suspend members who report abuse. It really makes no sense that my account was suspended after I have been the victim of an abusive and vindictive member - which I brought to their attention - who they seem completely OK with him sending nasty messages to people just because they have differing political views. I am, however, completely fine with not being on their site which is un-usuable and full of disgusting men who are looking to just use women.
Had good and terrible experiences with this site.
On the one hand, I connected with and successfully donated to a lesbian couple using AI with a happy result.
I have been a paid member on and off for years.
A few months ago, I was told that my membership was blocked and then cancelled due to a complaint. However I have no idea what the complaint was, or who it was from. Since I have a clear conscience, then I can only assume that it was a misunderstanding of some sort, or someone who had started an argument and then told only half the story.
I asked politely what the problem was, and they refused to tell me.
I asked politely what the accusation was, and they refused to tell me.
I asked who it was who had complained, and they refused to tell me.
The site just made a very vague accusation, with NO explanation, and banned me.
On this site, Franz has made several comments about "polite requests" to cancel and people being "aggressive", but in fact his actions were very highly psychologically aggressive. In terms of politeness, it is incredibly rude to tell someone they have allegedly done something wrong, but refuse to say what they are accused of doing, and refuse to say who has an issue.
It is not only good manners, but it is in fact a very basic human right, and legal right, to be allowed to defend myself. Franz's actions did not recognize this right. I was not permitted to defend myself on any level, nor even to know what it was I had to defend myself from. To this day, I do not even know what I was accused of. Therefore, his pretense of civility is a farce when considered relative to his actions.
At the time I suddenly had my internet throat cut, by these thugs, there was a young woman in France who was planning to visit Australia. She gave me an e mail, but now I have no way of contacting her, as without any reason or any warning, all my messages were blocked and I no longer had access to them. In this case, someone who wanted my help and could have gained it was obstructed, by the same company charging her money to facilitate the same thing they were blocking. Their actions represent a breech of contract against me, against her, and against any other woman who may have wanted my help. If Franz was on Australian soil I would have sued him by now, and made a range of formal complaints against him to the ACCC. He remains safe in another country.
I am not interested Franz in hearing any patronising and nose in the air response, like the half dozen I have just read. If you want to make a valid response I want to know what I was accused of, by whom, and I want both a) an apology for your total disregard of my basic human rights and b) access to all my former messages that you stole.
If what I am accused of is absurd and baseless, I will take out a bank loan with the express purpose of flying to France, engaging a French lawyer, and holding you accountable for your actions.
To review readers, you have seen the arrogance and indifference of the man who runs this site. I am a witness that if there is any problem you will be treated with contempt, extreme level rudeness, and even your most basic and reasonable questions will not be answered.
Upon reading this website, I now learn for the first time that sperm donors are supposed to get free subscriptions! So Franz, you have actually stolen several hundred dollars from me! I also read that throwing people out with no explanation is something you have done before. So it is not random strange behavior, but rather company policy! Your "Eric" cut and paste responses show your insincerity. He even referred to someone named "Mary" as "he". You have the name Marie in french so language is no excuse for cutting and pasting without even minor corrections. The network of Co-Parent websites really need to start treating customers with some level of honesty and respect. While Franz can effectively bully and insult people on his cluster of websites, the million of others on the web are not under his control. His response to this will be one of his cut and paste ones he has now demonstrated. He will claim I work for some competitor, and/or that I am not a "real" person, or that I, ( along with a couple of dozen other people) are simply making things up. None of these are true. What I bore witness to above is true, and I have all the e mails kept if any court of law wants to read them one day. Its all in writing Franz. So you can lie all you want, but I have it all in writing.
Their sudden response after ignoring my questions for over a year:
Their answer, only here and not on my e mail. After more than a year:
Quote "We protect women against men who want to enjoy the situation.
We received two complaints about your profile, that's enough to delete your account and protect our members."
How dare you.
How dare you.
PROOF THAT IT IS A LIE.
If you are telling the truth, then what is my name?
You have thousands of members.
You delete and throw off quite a few people, as there are multiple people even on this site who have stated that.
This site does not give my name, address or e mail. BUT, even though you don't even know who I am, you are telling lies about me.
Therefore... a simple question... who am I? Do you have any idea who you are actually slandering and telling lies about?
What complaints? From whom? On the basis of what?
I have done nothing wrong.
Nobody at all needs "protection" from me, and your inference is illegal, and SLANDER.
Claiming I am a man who only wants to "enjoy the situation" is a LIE and is SLANDER.
I have at all times, offered AI, therefore any claim to the contrary is a LIE and is an act of SLANDER and LIABLE against my good name.
I am not a rapist.
I respect women. I have a biological daughter through AI already, with a lesbian couple
You have no written proof of the opposite, because it doesn't exist, and you are telling lies.
If you had any valid or true complaint against me, then why didn't you answer any of my questions to you over the past year,
You have ignored all correspondence for months, and respond here only because it is a public site, and you can't hide in the shadows under the rock you operate from.
There are either a) no complaints at all, and you are making things up.
Or b) there are two complaints which are baseless
Either way
If there are two baseless and false complaints, then how do you know who I am exactly? Given that you do not even have my name?
A man has a right to defend himself
A man has the right to know why you suddenly deleted and blocked them
A man has a legal right, even in France, to not be lied about in a public place, to be slandered and to be libeled.
You will apologise to me formally and in writing on this site.
You will restore all correspondence from my membership.
OR, I will be flying to Paris, employing a local lawyer to sue you for slander, and ending your organisation, and either sending you to jail or draining your bank account.
Furthermore, since donors are supposed to have free membership, you have also stolen several hundred dollars from me, as well as now falsely claiming lies against me. You are a petty criminal.
Don't waste your time with this site...
I find a sperm donor! Thank you :)