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Last summer and fall, I used a different site for three months. About half of the women answered when I wrote to them. I had about ten dates.

There's a huge difference on Mate1! About half of the women have had their profiles removed when I click on the email link from my regular email. Those were probably already discovered to be fakes. Of the remainder, all but three never answered -- and I put a fair amount of effort into contacting potential dates. I never posted or sent anything that would be a turn-off, such as a solicitation of sex or naked photos. I am almost totally being ignored but maybe it's by non-existent women -- fake profiles, in other words.

I can tell some of the women are not who they say they are. As a professional writer, I can pick out non-native use of English fairly easily. They say they're from Las Vegas or Miami but their usage is distinctly Eastern European. In that same group, several women were much younger than my preferred age range. It seems to happen often. They commonly hide phone numbers in their profiles, asking for texts. I fell for that once but ONLY ONCE!

Is that enough? I feel as if I'm throwing away $60.00 for three months of nothing.

What I mean by "salt," is bait because nothing ever happened, at least for me, was a bunch of B. S. "Likes," with no follow through, no calls, and no dates. A good writer can make a person "feel like" they've died and gone to heaven, but that isn't reality if the prose don't come from a "real person." I just can't believe that they do here, as all I've ever experienced is a slew of bogus "like collectors" playing some kind of "hiding behind an e-site," "penpal games." I will never go back on this site again. It was my first and LAST dating site. Hey, I can walk down the street where I live and get my own dates. Bye, bye to Mate 1.

Joined Mate1 last month and figured its time to let people know my thoughts.
Advantages Simple to use, higher than average real women on the site (although not quite as many as WeJustFit Id say), average number of fake profiles, easy search function.
Disadvantages Should offer a better deal for longer term subscriptions. There should be a way to get all your messages together once a day rather than your inbox being bombarded with emails every half an hour (seriously, I spend ages deleting them all).
All in all, its 7 or maybe even 8 out of ten for me. Better than average but there are still superior options.

Basically any date site that doesn't at least provide an address/location of their "company" then it's almost always a fraud. This same one runs several other sites, and pretty sure they own the one(which i won't name) that hacked my cell phone somehow. Probably due to a very bad review i gave, or maybe for calling out one of there fake "members/profiles"? Either way it's ok since that was really all i used my cheap phone for anyway, but would advise anyone to NEVER use your own for any date site, unless you are very careful!

Like many so called dating sites, this is just another scam where they are looking only for money. I joined for free in July and almost immediately received notification of the many women who were interested in me based on my profile. Of course in order to contact them or receive their messages, I would have to upgrade which of course costs money. The comedy of it all is that since I joined, 172 women have sent me emails, but only one individual has viewed my profile. In addition, most of them do not even come close to what I'm looking for (simple things like age and distance from where I live). Fortunately, I never upgraded or spent any money (having been burned on other sites), but get a chuckle on the almost daily notifications of who's interested in me. Stay away from this site like the plague.

Women get to join for free... that just starts off as BS. Then, none of them delete their profiles after they leave or are no longer interested in dating... so most of your search, turns in useless profiles. Why they don't delete or "snooze" profiles that haven't been touched in 2 weeks or so, is to keep men thinking they have more available women than they do.

In the midst of my one month membership, my login doesn't work and I can't log in. And of course... it happens on a weekend. To top that off, when you go to their customer service page, there's a picture of a woman with a headset on and yet no numbers are given anywhere to call in for problems. ALL issues have to be done via email and guess what... no monitoring during weekends!

I have met sever girls on site I never join it get there numbers when they email me but is always the same they fall in love with you instantly then after chatting for week or two they hit you up for money wAnt funds for plane ticket or some other stupid excuse don't do it. Stay away from any woman from Ghana or Nigeria biggest scammers in world. Is just kind of entertainment for me I am out nothing would never send my hard earned money to these stupid $#*!es