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Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Awful.
July 16, 2022

This site had numerous times they sent me emails saying they had sketchy lying reviews of illegitimate profiles. To be wary of who I had contacted me Scary. Also they say they are a highly educated site. There are men on there with only a high school education & no social skills. Misrepresenting who they are in their profile pics.

Plus, on this site you cannot search for connections even after the money you send them. You can only wait to see who they send you as a match. In my experience these matches were awful. They had nothing to do with what I said I was looking for. I met one guy who posted a pic of him driving a boat, looking young and healthy. When I met him he admitted he had disability issues and was very infirm after a car accident years before. I am a yoga instructor. He could barely walk.

Terrible site. Do not give them your money.

Date of experience: July 16, 2022
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I tried Match and Eharmony with pretty good success (apx 5% scammer experience) in meeting compatible and quality people. I thought I try EliteSingles thinking/hoping it might be better than Match or Eharmony for meeting more educated and professionally established partner like me. Instead, in the first 3 weeks, 80%+ of the contacts were scammers (2 in one night). I got so tired of reporting them that I just cancelled the service. Even the seeming real person matches I got were NOT compatible matches in terms of professional status or education. And they make the cancellation process so confusing and deleting your profile even more difficult. So I had to delete all my pictures and tried to edit the profile to note that I'm leaving the site overtaken by scammers. But the site is just keeping my edited profile in review instead of publishing. Terrible site. Stay far far away.

Date of experience: August 11, 2021
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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No matches
March 10, 2019

This site only sends matches from profiles with no pictures and they are the opposite from my preferences. From all the clients who subscribed to this site, it is hard to believe that you won't receive at least one or two good matches a month. Extremely disappointed.

Date of experience: March 10, 2019
Pennsylvania
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Not a serious dating site- waste of money and your time. Matches that are sent to you are not members any longer or very far from your desired type. Have been a member for 6 months and met only one person. Most of the people there for killing their time to get some online fun, nothing seriously. Will not recommend this site to anybody- just save your money, time and sanity.

Date of experience: April 22, 2020
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not worth it!
November 19, 2021

Elite Singles markets itself as a site for professionals. While there are some professionals, many were not. The default search is for 500 miles. You have to manually change this every time you search unless you want matches across the country! You also had to change the age preferences every time you searched. My biggest gripe with this site is the high number of scammers/phishers who create a fake profile and try to get your contact info. This happened to me almost weekly in the two months I was on the site. I would receive an email from the site telling me they were "investigating " a person who had been in contact with me. This never happened on the other site I tried. Finally, it is very expensive and I found it not to be worth the money for the reasons set forth above. There are definitely better options out there.

Date of experience: November 19, 2021
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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First of all. You can't "shop" for possible best connections. They spoon feed you who they want you to see and connect with. You also can't choose a distance for which you would like your possible future mate to live. For instance: The minimum distance in which they might live is 50 miles. Maybe I want someone that lives closer, but I can't choose that. So I live in Colorado and most of the Elite-filtered choices for me, live many miles away-some from the east coast. Really? I also can't filter their height. I am a tall woman and Elite sends me matches that are 5'7" men. In a nutshell, I don't think this British based website is invested in bringing people together. I think this is all about money in their pocket. If you purchase just be prepared to give them your money and have NO control over who you can choose or criteria that is important to you. Good luck finding any matches on this website. Buyer beware :(

Date of experience: June 22, 2022
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I wrote numerous emails inquiring about how to cancel my father in laws subscription due to a serious illness at the time he was hospitalized and unable to communicate and elite singles refused to cancel stating they needed a power of attorney kinda hard to get a power of attorney when one is unable to communicate and seriously ill. Other Companies where extremely helpful and had no issues in cancelling his subscription such as roman and human super nice and helpful compared to elite singles. Once my father in law passed they still refused to cancel his subscription without a death certificate. If I could rate them a ZERO I would they are horrible they only care about their bottom dollar. They should take a course in empathy!

Date of experience: September 8, 2022
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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You notice that this company spends a lot of many advertising and the reviews you see are mainly good on most of the dating sites which promote EliteSingles. This is the worst dating site ever. First you spend a lot of time going through a list of questions about who you are looking for so you can be match to your perfect mate. Once you finish they match you with the total opposite. If you put tall, they will match you with short. If you say, established career, you won't get it. Additionally, I think the pool of people in the US is limited so there would be weeks without a new match. Then they tell you to expand your search criteria. This was really the worst dating site I have been on and I have been on a few over the last year. Please don't waste your money, on top of it all Customer Service is non-existent.

Date of experience: September 2, 2020
Ireland
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I joined Elite Singles end of 2018 for a few months. I cancelled it and received no further emails only generic emails offering reduced membership. However, 03 July 2020 £227.70 was taken from my account by Elite Singles. According to Elite Singles I never cancelled and need to cancel 7 days before renewal?!. I have since discovered I am not alone.

Date of experience: August 5, 2020
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Each to there own I s'pose but for me i'd rather get chatting with real singles on wejustfit.com than spending hours answering questions for science. Im not saying it wont work and it probably does but just not how I like to roll.

Date of experience: March 26, 2019
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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FAKES are the Vast %
March 23, 2022

Elite singles has far more fake, spam and phishing profiles than real ones on my account. In the week or so I've been on I've had maybe one at the most legitimate messages daily and somewhere between 3-5+ daily fake messages. I have had very good luck with very few fakes and scams and spam on Match and on Zoosk. My friend heard it was a good site. But, Elite singles in my opinion is horrible! I've reported every single one, I message them to complain and ask for a refund and they just deflected and defended.

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Date of experience: March 23, 2022
Tennessee
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Elite singles purports to have educated, upscale singles. Nothing could be further from the truth! I have set my match criteria to limit matches no further than 50 miles away and it constantly send me matches 2 states away. Customer service is non existent and the vast majority of profiles have no photos and many of my matches have a high school education. I have contacted customer service twice and have yet to hear from them. I want a refund of my 3 mo. Membership (which is the shortest time you can sign up for).

Date of experience: April 8, 2023
Canada
1 review
16 helpful votes
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EliteSingles is a Scam
December 12, 2019

Please do not attempt to join elite singles, They are scammers in Germany operating a front dating site and they charge a high amount to make you think it's elite but it really isn't, They took my profile down after i made payments and they have refused to refund me, Now i found that my card has been charged multiple times in one day. Stay away from EliteSingles

Date of experience: December 12, 2019
New Zealand
4 reviews
9 helpful votes
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DON'T try EliteSingles NZ
December 20, 2019

Elite Singles NZ is made up of a huge proportion of redundant profiles that they keep recycling, which gives the illusion of "lots of activity" - even if it cost $20, it would not be worth it. Save your money!

Date of experience: December 20, 2019
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I recently tried the platform knowing I had three days to legally cancel. After the second day, I decided it was not for me. I tried navigating the site to contact customer service but there was no link. I deleted my account and contacted them through my credit card. By then we were in a debate about how long it took me to contact them. They kept my money and told me they hoped I enjoyed using their service. Maddening.

Date of experience: May 9, 2020
Arkansas
1 review
9 helpful votes
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As most have already stated, this site has serious flaws. My 3 month "subscription" ended in only about six weeks. It appears that the customers have agreed to auto-renew (in the fine print--and they also promised not to file class action lawsuits). I am unable to contact customer service as the auto-response states my Email / password is unknown. The only option to cancel membership and avoid auto-renew is to sign in to "my account" for a password re-set-- yet after one month, no password re-set link has arrived. I am LOCKED out of my own account. There is a phone number in Germany, as well as a FAX--but there is no E-mail for this company that I can find. Nonetheless, I continue to receive "advertisements" from Elite Singles (not matches) to the email that they insist is not valid. I was matched with "any living breathing male within a 300 mile radius"-- regardless of my personal preferences--anything but ELITE.

Date of experience: December 26, 2018
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Hilarious.
July 9, 2021

This site is a joke. Most accounts are fake, and the few actual humans are the last people on Earth you want to date. My advice is work out, buy good clothes, eat healthy, and start being social. The best women I've ever met are coworkers and friends of friends. Online dating is a scam.

Date of experience: July 9, 2021
New Zealand
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I would give a minus!
September 27, 2022

I used them a while back. Every aspect of their so called service is utter garbage! A complete and utter waste of money even when they offer an 87% discount and offer you $15 a month that you have to pay 6 months up front for!

Date of experience: September 27, 2022
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Terrible Website/App
February 10, 2022

The elitesingles.com website and matching software is terrible. Most of the matches are from overseas, regardless of your geographic location setting. I get about 20 smiles a day from fake accounts like "Gmail me MADISONAYISHA". I feel that most of the interactions are not from real people, but are from bots. The reason I say that is the conversation will start out and quickly dead end. For people who are serious about finding someone, I would not waste your time or money with this elitesingles.com

Date of experience: February 10, 2022
Oregon
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Lost count of how many bogus emails I received about "a friend, colleague, brother, whatever, of a member seeing my profile and wanted to connect. Blah, blah, blah... please send your contact info...!" and then all the emails from ES about profiles being reviewed and to please not contact any further... Not trustworthy by any means. No chance of getting a refund as there is No One to contact. Buyer Beware!

Date of experience: November 29, 2021

Overview

EliteSingles has a rating of 1.1 stars from 556 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with EliteSingles most frequently mention customer service, fake profiles and credit card. EliteSingles ranks 652nd among Dating sites.

service
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value
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shipping
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returns
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quality
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