Zoosk

I HAVE TRAVELED FROM THE FUTURE TO ALERT YOU ABOUT ZOOSK.

If you're reading this review, you may be wondering to yourself if it's worth it to make a financial commitment to Zoosk. I was in your exact place onCE time. I wondered to myself... How could a popular website like Zoosk yield such poor reviews online? Are people simply butt-hurt because they couldn't get a date?

When you sign up for Zoosk, the platform seems friendly and promising. Your first red flag will appear when you realize you can't read messages from other users without paying for a subscription... But you want to, oh so badly.

So you get suckered into that subscription, but before you even finish your purchase, Zoosk offers you more features for more money! And you're thinking to yourself... Well why am I paying for a monthly subscription if I don't even get all these other features included in there?

Then comes the last slap in the face when you get to the final check out page, and realize that they have a $25 "one time subscription fee"... WTF is this? A gym membership?

But the greed doesn't stop there. Just about anything you want to do on this website costs more money. And you start to realize that it's likely that your matches are not even getting your messages, because they may not even have a Premium Subscription. So Zoosk is actually using your messages to honeypot other users into paying for a subscription, while you're left feeling demotivated because you are not getting a reply back from anyone.

Right at this point, Zoosk delivers one last kick to the nuts. They automatically renew your monthly subscription without notifying you. What is the point of signing up for a one-month subscription vs a 12 month subscription if the former option gets automatically renewed without your knowledge.

If you're like me, you are finally so fed up by their scammer approach with online dating, that you decide to de-activate your account. At least you get to feel some joy when you click through their desperate click-bait attempts to keep you as a paying member. They beg and plead with you not to deactivate your account down to the very last click.

TL; DR
Search for "Zoosk reviews on Consumeraffairs.com and see for youself.

I'll admit, I was not a. Believer in online dating several months ago. The only person I personally knew that tried online dating got married in 3 months, then divorced after a year. Not a good image.

But a friend convinced me to give it a try. What did I have to lose? Do I did. I started out with just a free account. It turned out that free accounts could send messages but could not read messages. Major bummer.

That said, Zoosk does have a couple of cool features. First, you can send virtual "gifts" to other members as a way of showing interest or that maybe you liked their profile or pics. Second, you show your interests by categories (music. Movies, television, people, etc.) Zoosk had a vast array of preset interests from which to choose.

Zoosk used this feature called Carousel in which they show you a pic of someone and their age. No profile or anything, just a pic. They ask "Do you want to met him/her". You must answer "Yes", "No", or "Maybe". If you answer Yes or Maybe, you earn a coin. You can earn up to 40/day. After that you can buy coins for a somewhat hefty sum or just wait until the next day to earn more.

These coins are used to buy certain items, such as the previously mentioned gifts, and unlocking profiles you want to view on a matched user.

The problem with the coins is that paying members are required to use them too. If you don't have enough, you must purchase more.

I feel that paying members should get a certain number of free coins and gifts per day. I also feel that no profiles should be locked to paying members.

I also do not like that you cannot search on a username. If you happen top come across someone you like, you had better click the "Add" button so that you can find them later in your "Connections" otherwise you may have a very hard time finding them later.

I did not get a paid subscription for a few months because I was "Winking" at people and sending messages left and right with no response.

For some reason I finally decided I'd try a paid membership for 1 month. 10 days later it happened. I got a message from someone who had just joined that day. It was HIM. He found me. I saw the message come up just as he first sent it. I viewed his profile and knew immediately he was the man for me. We exchanged email addresses and hit it off. We are madly in love like neither one of us ever dreamed possible.

So in the end, even with what I viewed as shortcomings, Zoosk worked!