Jonny S.

Often when I pay for any subscription, I immediately cancel it so that I won't get rebilled. Virtually every website lets you do that and lets you enjoy the benefits of the subscription for the amount of time that you have paid for. But not Zoosk. If you cancel then you lose all benefits. I didn't realize that and I logged in and submitted the billing information again and was charged twice for the same period within 2 days. After dealing with Zoosk customer service, they agreed to give me a prorated refund, but not the full amount. That is utterly sleazy.

Not only is this a scam site, but when these "girls" aren't busy responding to some sap plugging in his credit card info, it seems like they're on this site drafting 5 star reviews. Maybe it should be called russiantrolls.com
Keep in mind that this is a BUSINESS trying to make money. The women emailing you are not the ones pictured - they're manned by less attractive people - probably women and men - who need to work so they come up with nonsense like this actual quote that I received:
"My dear, do you think it will be difficult for us to get used to each other when we decide to live together?... I really want to avoid misunderstandings in our family."

Mind you I have no profile picture, no information about me, I've never contacted this person other than clicking a like button, and that's the nonsense I've received. And let me tell you the girl pictured is stunningly beautiful and there's no way in heaven or earth that an exquisitely beautiful woman is going to send this to a complete stranger.
Utter nonsense.

This may be a real website but maybe not. It's filled with girls, impossibly beautiful girls, all clamoring to marry a western guy. Sound real? Not to me, but it's a fun fantasy... Still getting used to the website but some of these women appear to be real, at least they're not computers talking to you like another website. I don't know if the photos match the actual people behind it yet or not. The website itself is really bad though, freezes my phone all the time.

Just got this email, haha:
"Good afternoon, {{male name}}!
I want to know you, I'm interested in the fact that you live. What are you looking for on this site? Do you believe in fate or love at first sight? Your heart is free, Jonny!?))
On this site with the search for the person who will be with me all my life! Are you ready for such a relationship?)) I really hope that yes {{male name}}!
Faithful, caring, loving husband. Love is a great happiness for a woman!).
In relations, as I believe, the main thing is to trust and understand your soul mate, make concessions and love, I will do everything that you would be happy, {{male name}}!
I dream to fly to Paris, go for a week of high fashion, reach a high career. But most of all I want my husband to feel his judgment every day. I will do my best to have love and understanding in our family!
I can not wait for your reply, {{male name}}!))
Sincerely, Katia."

These websites are largely selling you a fantasy. Like pretty much all of these Slavic-women dating websites, you have to understand how they work. The women are real, meaning they are real photos of real people - not CGI created photographs. But that does not mean you will communicate with the person in the picture, it's highly unlikely in fact. You have to understand what's going on in that part of the world (even before the invasion). So a beautiful woman poses for some glamor shots, gives the pictures to the website and they create a profile that is staffed by anybody anywhere. It's a nice fantasy but just don't get your hopes up. I give higher rating to this website than others because they do seem to organize legitimate tours -you can see the videos on their website. If you really want to meet a foreign bride, that's the way you have to do it - go there. It's possible to connect with the actual female via various social media accounts. Usually they do not reply or they will block you with some sort of "I am prohibited from contacting you outside the website" type message. Of course they're going to say that. If they're really looking for love that's not the response you get.

I have not encountered fake profiles like some appear to have, but the concept is utterly horrible. You get a picture of a girl whom you immediately don't like but you're stuck with her for the next 24 hours, and that's it. One picture you can look at. There are others but you gotta pay for them. It should be called Coffee Meets Beagles.

Contrary to what happened to Jason - I signed up and got even MORE emails. One is really attractive and great so far, so we shall see what happens. The website isn't the best - slow to load, logs you out after short time period, big banners running across the top.

Like all of the other Ukrainian bride websites, this one is staffed by translators who sit behind pictures of beautiful women and will send you tons of emails to make you think that you are attractive, interesting and perfect for them. But like all the others, it's just a money grab because you pay for the message and you won't get their contact information. It's fun if you want to just waste some time and money and have a fantasy but don't think it's anything real. (2 stars (rather than just 1) for the website's design & user interface.)

For every profile you see, there is a real girl... somewhere. But that's about the only truth that's there. There are females (and males) who operate behind these profiles and respond to you. The truth is, 99% of American men are not going to travel to Ukraine or Russia to meet one of these girls. And furthermore, to leave either of those countries an advanced visa must be obtained and they're not always granted, so there's very little chance that this is actually going to result in a genuine marriage. It's a fantasy; if you're okay spending money for something like that, it's okay, but understand what it really is.
I have zero information in my profile other than my name and age, and no picture. Yet I get emails that say how they noticed me or i like your profile a lot. What's that tell you?

This website is deceptive. It offers private photos of some of the girls, and says, "To see private photos, simply make contact with a member." (see pic). One girl emailed me and I paid the fee to reply (of course) and responded to her but yet I still could not see the private photos. To answer Alex's question below, no, I'm not giving you any further information (especially because it looks like you just gave your own website a 5 star review).

I tried a few times to get customer service to address this but was denied. This was Ivan's response: "At your request, we have reviewed our records in detail and confirmed that the service was offered to you as intended. As a result, we are unable to offer to you a refund for a service that was properly rendered to you."
Pretty lame and deceptive in my opinion.

Like pretty much all of these dating websites you have to understand how they work. The women are real meaning there are real people they're not CGI created photographs. But that does not mean you will communicate with that person. These websites are largely selling you a fantasy. You have to understand what's going on in that part of the world (even before the invasion). So a beautiful woman takes some glamor shots, gives the pictures to the website and they create a profile that is staffed by anybody anywhere. It's a nice fantasy but just don't get your hopes up. I give higher rating to this website than others because they do seem to organize legitimate tours you can see the videos on their website. If you really want to meet a foreign bride, that's the way you have to do it.

This website wants to sell you information and it's somewhat based on fear. It collects public data and then miscategorizes it sometimes and makes you think you need to update it, but you can't do it without paying. I will tell you the trial method was cheap and it was easy to cancel so props for that. But for example, it said I have a criminal record and it turned out to be a parking ticket. That's just nonsense - parking tickets are not crimes. ‍

Can't do anything unless you pay.
That's pretty much all I have to say about this website but since I have to have 100 characters, I'll add this story

It doesn't really produce results that you want, it gives you anything. I look for postal jobs and it said over 100,000 available but all I got were Lyft listings. If you do a search for "Imaginary jobs", it comes up with 100,000 "Imaginary jobs." lol.

I honestly think this is the most legitimate Russian dating website I've come across. Sure you have to pay to communicate with the females, I get that but it's not filled with overly dolled up glamorous, possibly beautiful women. They honestly seem real and when I created my profile I didn't get flooded with emails once I paid. The few women I've interacted with seem pretty normal and responsive. I don't know what everybody is saying about scammers but there's been none of that with my experience with the website.
In fact a few women rejected me because I'm in the US and won't even blocked me because she just didn't understand my question but I was out of her age range. That is what a normal website should do

I recently moved and wanted a new carpet. I bought two from Rugsource and they were promptly shipped. I had them in my apartment and on floor within 5 days. Turns out I didn't like either so the return/exchange process was very simple. Great website & prompt customer service. I bought from them in the past as well and I recall it being a good experience too.

When you follow an email and try to log in to check your credit score, it takes you somewhere where EVERY page is to sign up to their credit monitoring for $25/month $300/year. Sheesh. Annoying.

Was looking forward to buying some stuff from this website to clean up some shoes. Had a question about the order immediately after I placed it, so I called and emailed. Got zero response. The next day I emailed again to see if anybody checked the account (maybe they were closed?) and the woman basically was like yeah what's the problem? Despite me telling her I had a question. Eventually she told be that I don't check my emails because she sent "about 10" - in actuality I had 3, none of which addressed my question. Just became completely unresponsive and suggested telling me I don't check my emails.
Pretty annoying process and really didn't treat me like a valued customer (maybe I'm not).

Decent website, good CS. Easy cancelation process. The information I received was thorough and helpful.

... the subscription aspect is somewhat annoying. You have to auto renew and cancellation seems a bit difficult with a phone (I've tried 3 times). I wonder why? On the computer it was easier so I bumped to 4 stars. I am always suspect of websites like that.

The thing that annoys me about the service is that if you email customer service of a company that uses this website, you get an auto reply. You open it thinking it's something important to say but it simply says "we received your email and will respond..." blah blah.
I find that completely unnecessary and a waste of time and sometimes in a small way, disappointing.