Musicians-in-your-city

I am a web designer who has worked with 'user journey' sites, and this one fails on every count. It is highly prescriptive - there are 'objectionable' and 'illegal' terms that you are not warned about but which trigger a rude and abrupt warning if you include them, after you click 'next'. They don't tell you how many letters you need to type - causing another rude warning. Their emails are rude... (is there a theme here?).

Extract from their email to me:

You have registered one or more entries on Musicians-in-your-City.
Your entries violate the general terms and conditions of
Musicians-in-your-City. The objectionable entries show
A red exclamation mark in your personal manager.

Please correct your entries and make sure you comply
With the general terms and conditions in the future.

It speaks for itself. I feel strongly that apart from the operational difficulties for the user (there should be a maximum of three steps to get going), the site was designed by people who not only fail to understand their market, but also don't speak English as a first language. This would be forgivable if it was acknowledged. But as indicated above, there is a tone of arrogance and disdain in their messages, warning and communications.

After trying to register twice, I gave up, having received uncountable warnings about being deactivated.

The WORST site you can imagine. It's a SCAM with no way to get my £43- back.
Impossible to navigate, clumsy and it keeps bouncing you to spend more money on band registration "name protection" and won't let you correct it if you attempt it. DON'T USE IT. They "blocked" my user account because I made an error (not surprisingly because it is so very complicated to use) and they offered a refund link which DID NOT WORK and which has now mysteriously disappeared. They re-instated my account onto their "hampster-wheel" system so that I cannot claim a refund. Tell everyone to avoid it please.

Who do these people think they are!? Shoddily presented website with no way to reply to the unhelpful and frankly insulting emails they send out. They actually inferred I was a liar when one of my collegues tried to confirm we are in the same band but was unable to deciper what it was that they wanted her to do in order to confirm this. Whilst setting up the registry of said band they placed so many restrictions on what I could in fact write that it was practically impossible to give any information about the band in the minimum amount of characters I was ordered to use. Then to top it all off, when I realised there was actually no way of contacting the administrators of this hapless joke of a website I politely pointed this out in my listing. I was then threatened with expulsion from the site. AND ALL OF THIS FOR A FRANKLY LUDICROUS FEE!

Avoid this website at all costs, these idiots do not deserve to be allowed to breathe the same air as we do.

I signed up to this site about 18 months ago when I was looking for a bass player and drummer.

There was no mention of fees until the last second so I thought I would give it a go). Having gone through the rigmarole of searching listings etc, I finally got presented with a payment request. For a site that looks little more than an MSword document, I was certainly not going to pay for this nonsense.

So off I went to look elsewhere. Sadly, ever since, I have been spammed on about a fortnightly basis and each time I block their pointless e-mails but they still somehow get through my spam filter.

I have to laugh at their fake testimonials that roll round on the homepage. They have obscurely named people such as "Steve T" praising this garbage site! These mean nothing at all, since the site owner can simply stick on positive comments (the contents of which seem suspiciously worded to pick up traffic from browsers) and pretend they are from site users.

Total garbage and having read the above comments, I am so glad I did not waste my cash! AVOID!

I agree completely with all the reviews above and would also like to mention the intrusive, not to mention suspicious questions asked of all the members of our existing band. In my naivety and in the hope of obtaining contact with other musicians, I followed the website's instructions and gave five email addresses which I assumed would lead to a simple confirmation from the other members, to prove that I wasn't some kind of stalker of unsuspecting and innocent musicians. The reality seems to be that the website is set up to collect personnal and confidential information on as many people as possible. Luckily most of the contacts I entered, found the experience so frustrating that they decided to abort before giving home addresses and 'phone numbers. Why would this kind of website need this information on EVERY MEMBER of a band? Consequently I spent £15 of our subs and have received no contacts at all even though I can read at least two entries from people in our area who might just fit our requirements and I'm getting emails from the website every couple of hours telling me of FAILED ATTEMPTS at contact because we are not a recognised band according to Musicians In Your City... etc. I would advise anyone to steer very clear of of this site. Unfortunately it's very likely that the reason you're reading this is that you've already had a problem!