This site is okay. The biggest problem is the bad layout and crammed website design. You can't use the back button on this site either. I don't have a problem with the "pay as you go model" where you buy credits rather than a recurring subscription.

The local search logic is pretty messed up. In my local searches I get a majority of women in British Columbia. That is just not "local" to where I live in the Seattle area. To get a real local search you have to do a lot of fiddling with the custom search interface. I messaged back and forth with a few women and it didn't end up in any dates. One of them wanted to screen me in a Yahoo IM session and after that I never talked with her again. Eventually I met someone on this site who I had a year and half relationship with. I'm sure that was purely by random chance.

For men, you will get a lot of smiles from women in Russia who are 99% likely to be scammers. I got a lot from places like the Phillipines too.