SilverSingles

Silver Singles is to me a fraudulent dating site... they do nothing that they promise. They tell you that they use your comments about supposed matches that you delete to prevent further of the same... which is totally false. They do nothing to weed out fraudulent matches that basically are pfishing attempts. None of the parameters that you furnish them are observed, I'm in Ohio and I get matches from NYC to California, despite the fact that I gave them a parameter of no one over 50 miles away. Most of what I do on the Silver Singles site is delete fraudulent pfishing matches. If I could rate it lower than 1 star I would.

The two months I browsed SilverSingles after entering my profile, subscription prices ranged from $32/mon to $18/mon with a minimum of three or six months. Price seemed to go down the longer I waited. I put a limit of 50 miles from my town. Lo and behold I quickly had 196 matches! Less than 25 of those matches were within 50 miles of the big city where I live; most were 100-150 miles away in bordering states. If a paying member sends a message to a non-paying member, the non-paying has to pay for a subscription before reading the message. I really question where those journalists who give the site a high rating received their information. It was easy to delete my profile when I opted not to buy in, but they warned me I wouldn't be able to post a new profile if I left them.

The site has great reviews, I liked the personality profiling. Why NOT take the plunge!?!? I signed up for 6 months. Within a week, I could see there was gonna be a problem unless I was willing to drive 2 hours for a date. I called customer service. They advised I needed to just re-emphasise that distance was important. Ok, done! It didn't change the fact that the matches I got were still more than an hour away. I don't live in a big city. I asked for a refund, was told I'd loose a month of payment. OK. Gave it another week (so I'm now in my 3rd week of membership). Called again. Nope-NO refund unless it was in the 1st 3 DAYS of membership. DON'T DO IT unless you live in a big city or you're willing to do a long comute.

This dating site is as bad as it gets. 90% of the men they are suggesting have no photos and when you ask them (the men) for a photo they do not respond.
It is a total waste of time trying to choose someone to say hello to when you can't see what they look like. I have at least six photos of myself on the site. There should be a stipulation for the people using the site that they can only post a profile if they have at least one photograph. Look at the blank photos, you'll get the idea. A waste of time and money! Grrrrrrr🤬

So friends encouraged me to try online dating and SS SEEMED to be a possibility. Signed up and started getting notices and matches. I responded to a few ladies and never heard back. Then I received what - I should have known better - seemed almost too good to be true. Turns out I should have run away screaming. The old saying, "There's no fool like an old fool" definitely applies. As I said, this lady seemed almost too good to be true, and it turned out several thousand dollars later that she was a scam artist. Nice picture, a little dog, a very nice "biography," and she played me like a fiddle. Do yourself a favor and stay away from sites like this because it's the wild-wild-west out there, No verification, no way to check are they really who they say they are. The only bright spot - I received a refund of the balance of my membership. STAY AWAY - better yet RUN AWAY!

They sent a canned response to my complaint about being flooded by young scammers using their email address. They acted clueless. Now l know, and had to block their email address to stop 20-30 scammer contacts every day.

Pointless filling in your preferences because they take no notice. I asked for no matches without a photograph - most of the daily "matches" had no photograph. I said the distance should be no more than 50 miles as otherwise how can you have a relationship? They took no notice of this either! I emailed them several times and they said that they dont send send matches on your preferences but on the psychological match = what is the point in filling in the preferences then?!

Silver Singles is not a dating site I would recommend to anyone let alone someone that is looking for a meaningful relationship. Between the phony profiles (they do catch them but only after you have been contacted by the fake person) and the difficulty in getting in contact with them, this site does not provide you with anything more than a free site would. Even when you specify the gender you are looking for, you still get matches for the wrong gender.