Most of the people writing on this site in the past month are not writing reviews, they're writing TESTIMONIALS. If people want to read about how you met "insert random person", and how you feel you owe your grandson's life to yahoo for making it possible, then we can choose to read about it on the yahoo site, in their "testimonials" section.

The reviews here are supposed to give prospective customers an ACCURATE representation of what to expect prior to paying for the yahoo dating service. And, an ACCURATE representation would be - "You spend upwards $50 to send out a few emails, and have less than a 1% chance of finding something meaningful. If you actually want to get online dating to work, you have to put tons of effort into using the service. Or, you have to get lucky. Furthermore, the whole online dating business is scam because yahoo doesn't let you see who's a subscriber, and is actually able to read your communications! This means you could send out dozens of emails, without a single one being read. Also, yahoo uses an auto-renew payment method which is difficult to cancel, and is designed to keep draining your money."

Now, you might think I'm just bitter that online dating didn't work for me... but guess what? I'm getting married to someone I met from yahoo personals. Yahoo recently contacted me asking to write a testimonial at this link. So, it's my guess that they've contacted all of the people with success stories asking them to write reviews on this site.

Just so you have some more background on where I'm coming from, over the past few years, I've tried match.com, plentyoffish, true, eharmony, etc, etc, etc. Yahoo was no better than any of the other offerings, but there just happened to be the right person at the right time on yahoo. I owe nothing to yahoo, because frankly, they don't care about providing a good customer experience. They look at me in terms of $/customer... and they only want me to write a review here to generate more profit. Yes, I'm lucky to have found someone, and I'm thankful that it happened over yahoo. But in retrospect, I could have met anyone anywhere, and I probably would've been a lot richer had I not wasted money and my TIME on dating sites. So, just to recap.. if you want to try to be in that 1% of people who can meet online, get to work, it's going to be a stressful few years - otherwise, just stick with the other 99% and meet in real life.