Reviews of Lavalife

It's a scam. I created a membership, but then never did anything because I was busy. Despite having no picture, and a very incomplete profile, I started getting emails from lavalife about these girls, always hot looking, who wanted to meet me. Why? They weren't in my age range, and weren't even in my country! How dumb do these people think I am that I'd respond to that? All it was was an effort by Lavalife to get me to finish and then join them. I'm not buying.

A few years ago I would have given lavalife 5 stars; their format was relatively simple and I met many for dating, and even a few long-term relationships that turned into life-long friends.

But now - navigation is unpredictable, and I haven't been able to access it for almost a week .... what's up?

Customer service and product delivery at Lavalife.ca are disappointing. The site has been inaccessible in the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge region in Southwestern Ontario for nearly one week (I'm writing this as of March 11, 2011). It does not load using a range of browsers (e.g., Explorer, Mozilla, Apple Safari) or on any device that I tried (my desk top, my Blackberry). Further, we cannot access lavalife.ca or lavalife.com in English, French or Spanish.

They do not have the good sense to email those of us in this regions, who paid for memberships, to alert us that they are aware of the outage and what they are doing to fix the problem. In my opinion, if they were a better company, they would proactively update us on progress and offer to double the length of our paid membership, at no cost to us.

Today I spoke with another lavalife.ca rep by phone, to find out if and when they are fixing this. I had to explain that their site is currently not accessible because he was completely unaware of this. Wanting some answers, I thn asked to speak directly with their tech support staff. The lavalife rep. told me - and I'm not making this up - to GO TO THEIR SITE AND EMAIL the company from there. I had to again explain that this is not possible because their site doesn't load anymore in our part of Ontario. So, internal communication in the company is poor and some of their staff do not appear to be the brightest pixels on the monitor.

For a business that depends on web-based services, it's stunning they can't fix this problem in a timely manner and that they aren't using email and social media to a) acknowledge the problem b) update users on what they are doing to fix it and c) offer compensation to those who are not receiving the services they paid for.

THUMBS DOWN. I cannot recommend lavalife.ca.

Nel

Joined to see who had sent mail...turned out to be a prisoner doing a life term in a prison in Bangladash. I cancelled but LL refuse to refund monies, even though There was no other communication or "match".

Turns out they do not check anyone and your profile obviously is viewed by all and sundry.

I was also alarmed by the category "intimate" and only saw this after I joined. If I wanted s -e-x only...I sure would not put my profile up on a "dating" site.

In all, a complete rip-off and conpletely unsafe, so beware.

if you spend enough time and money (like most things) it will pay off.
most of the women were poor and liars about thier appearance. but i did hook up alot. i was actually in a long term relationship with one
and some short term with others. one thing i must make clear to all the men reading this...you will not find a "good girl" here.
EVEYONE WAS BI-POLAR!

Lavalife used to be pretty good for meeting single women in the Montreal area. IMs were often returned and you could strike up a conversation with a good percentage of the women you contacted. Lately,especially since the site was revamped, there are very few women, mostly the same ones on all day long, you send smiles, they aren`t even recognized, which leads me to believe they are fake profiles. Alot of Russian women infiltrating the site as well. A waste of time and money. I doubt they will be around much longer. I`m going to Match.com.

For guys, Eric brings up a great point. NEVER join a site which is free for women. More than half on most sites aren't that serious about it to begin with, and that's when they are paying a monthly fee! When you're on any dating site, it's hard to meet someone when the ratios are so bad for a man, even if you are a good looking guy. I've been lucky meeting what I have met because I can write, and my pics are pretty solid.

Second, if you can't be smooth or original in your writing, don't bother signing up for anything other than eharmony- a site which sets up mutual matches/ selected one to one communications. On most sites the ratios are so bad that even a half-decent looking girl is made to be a Victoria's Secret model, and she'll probably have 75-150 e-mails in her inbox. The really hot ones will simply hide their profiles, and give me their e-mail address so we can communicate off of the site. Unless you've channeled Hemingway, or are clever and funny while not coming off as weird (yes, most of the best looking ones can be extremely judgmental), you aren't likely to get a response.

Ratios are bad online, etc. I once had a date on my arm walking in downtown La Jolla (when I lived in San Diego), and about 150 dudes were outside of this bar (Jack's now closed) oogling my date like she was the first woman they had ever seen. After the 50th dickhead approached one of the girl's in there, that wouldn't leave a guy with much of a chance, so I was glad I had a date that night.

You have to be creative and put yourself in situations where the ratios are actually to your advantage. If that means joining a yoga class, or taking a dancing or cooking class, swallow your pride, and ribbings from your guy friends- just do it.

I tried the lava life telphone dating and found it to be a horrible experience. First off, I understand the concept of men paying for the service and being totally free for women...but feel it to be unfair. I received numerous messages from women who stated they were looking to meet and date but never followed through with actualluy meeting. It also appears most of the women on this system are just there for the purpose of using your minutes. It didn't appear any of the women were serious. They are only on this site to "play games". I understand why they wouldn't take it seriously, since they are not financially invested in it.

I would not recommend this system to any fellows. It is a waste of your time and money.

I met the love of my life matt on lavalife chat.The only problem at first was the distance.I lived in utica he lived in hudson area.We met and hit it off.After a year and a half of long distance i pick up my life and moved in his area.Its going to be 4 years in september Weve been together. Im so glad i called the number!!!!!!!! :O)

I wish I saw these reviews first! Lavalife has hardly any users in the Boston area. I think there were about 16 users with pic's in the region... This was a very disappointing discovery after I thought I just needed to register to see all the search results. OKCupid has many users in my area, is free, and is a better designed site overall. Also, I don't know why people think these payed sites have more users--probably all the false advertising... in reality, hardly anyone pays to use internet dating sites... and it seems like if they are paying for it, they're definitely not getting what they thought they were paying for... If it's worth it to them, they probably aren't someone you'd want to actually date, lol.