Reviews of Yahoo! Personals

My biggest gripe about Yahoo Personals is the amount of FAKE profiles on there. I live in Michigan and I get a ton of out-of-state emails with broken english asking me to email them for pics. It's usually something like "I am very much like to converse with you. Email me at (whatever) and I will send you more pics. I eagerly wait to speak of you soon."

First of all, if their profile can't make a normal sentence sound right then you should know right away it's fake. Second, if the pic is a supermodel, you should know it's a fake. I've been a paying member for about 2 weeks now and have received close to 10 of these emails, ranging from New York to Texas.

I do like how it shows when the regular people were last active and you can read their email and see who sent it to you without being a paying member, unlike Match that says "You have an email. We wont show you who sent it or what it says until you pay us."

Sad to say but there is a listing of a man from North Carolina he is listed as SML on yahoo personals (may have listings on other dating sites also) who is a troll (trolling for women) not interested in a relationship just sex and personal info. Goes from one woman to the next. Said he is divorced but he is not. Will try to get your personal information to get credit in your name. He will be very nice until he gets what he wants then his personality changes drastically. Uses credit cards like there is no tomorrow but doesnt make enough at his job (correctional officer) to pay them. Please, please be careful he may become violent.

Hi all, This is to get out a word of warning to any guy thinking about dating MICHELLE NICOLE DICKINSON from yahoo personals MESA AZ . The woman has STDS Genital herpes type two. According to her it has disappeared but if any of you know the truth it never goes away. She is also a crazy nut job who just flips on guys and throws them out .Then shes got to gull to call the cops for nothing weeks later after u escaped the lunatic and file a harassment change.. Like I said really crazy!!!. She will start off giving head and fucks you at first and then all of a sudden cut off the sex and blames you for the whole thing. Then she starts the screaming until your about to lose your mind and when your ready to leave she starts to cry . It's a crazy cycle with her. Back a year ago she was raped so I think that seriously screwed her up for any man she dates. . Warning guys don't date mishy or her full name michelle nicole dickinson.

I would have given an negative rating to Yahoo Personals if the drop down allowed it. I gave them a credit card for the 7-day trial and cancelled on the fifth day. They billed the card and I had to call them first to dispute it according the MC rep. I did, and got the run around including statments that I was not providing accurate info as to name of dog etc. It was total B.S. So I called MC told them to decline the charge and give me a new CC#. Surprise!!!! YP "forced" another charge thru the new card # from the old #. That too was disputed and removed and MC said they would block future charges. Guess what happened next. YP forced another charge thru and I cancelled my MC account all together. DO NOT GIVE THESE FRADULANT CROOKS YOUR CARD #. Try OK Cupid if you want an honest dating site. It tells you when people joined, when they last visited the site and if they looked at your profile. The test are great fun even if you don't like the perspective matches they provide.

Yahoo personals is a nightmare! The service was not worth what it was paid and after I deleted the account a month prior to my service ending they charged me for an entire service agreement and now they wont give it back. They just keep charging you for it if you dont call them and cancel it prior to your service ending. It never tells you that it is going to keep renew you until you call in Cancel. I am trying to fight it but it does not look good. I would talk anyone out of ever using there service, and to go with someone better like match.com which after I used yahoo I saw much better options on there. Yahoo is just better as an e-mail

Yahoo! billing and cancellation policies are one of the worst. There are many customers complaining about problem they faced with your billing and cancellation.

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Yahoo.com and Match.com are the two site I have used the most. The same thing goes for Yahoo as I wrote for Match.com....Frustration and futility.

Then I found a tool that changed the entire picture. A friend sent me to a site called matchmatrix.com. I thought they were another dating site. I was wrong! They are much better. They have a product called MEnU. I purchased it and now I run every person I'm interested in through this rating system. So far I'm blown away. First it nailed what did not work in every single relationship I've had in the past. But the best is now I get a rating for someone I find on a dating site and either contact them or not. Using a dating site became worthwhile when before it was like shooting in the dark.

BTW.. I am not an affiliate and I get nothing for recommending matchmatrix.com. Besides, if your using a dating site, you don't want to stop. I just think that everyone that is dating needs to user their rating system before they waste any time and heartache. I mean EVERYONE!

One of the many problems that I have with Yahoo or online dating (only did Yahoo) in general is the issue of weeding out profiles which in essence comes down to weeding out photos and basic stats on a person. I'll grant you that noone can really define who they are in a couple of sentences, but most people craft their profiles to either prey on women's vulnerabilities by using all the "right" words (you can see right through this) or are so vague that to gather any real meaning from their profile as to who they really are is like swimming in muck and mire. Even though I put in my "requirements", I still received tons of email from men significantly younger and others who were nowhere near my criteria (sorry I do have criteria). Also, I got really sick of the canned introductions and I ended up revising my profile saying thanks, but no thanks if you approach me this way. When I revised my profile, I got an email from Yahoo that goes into why these ICEBREAKERS work; well they never worked for me because if you are too shy or whatever to write your own words, I am just not into playing this sort of game. I found 90% of the men seriously lacking in social skills and many just in it for the chase. Yes, honesty and directness is a real issue. Are you men too scared to be yourselves or maybe you are still in search of that too. I also had ongoing emails with men who seemed terrified to ask me for my number or who used every sexual innuendo in the book. So, when I revised my profile I came on pretty strong about who I am and what is important to me because I would rather receive one quality email to every 50 going nowhere fast email. I am pretty certain that I have gone against every rule of online dating and that my profile is one strong turn off to most men. If I get one email based on my revised profile I will be surprised. But I do not have the time to play games and frankly if someone can't understand the subtext to my profile or is scared off than why waste time. It all comes out in the wash anyway. I will let my membership run its course as I continue to live my life.

If it wasn't for Yahoo personal's I would have never met, my now husband.We were both very honest about what we wanted.Both of us were on the bad end of being cheated on.When I first saw him, my heart melted, but because I was scared, but at the same time I was attracted to him. I made the first move, yes I kissed him first. We talked for a long time, and started to get to know each other. Normally I am the person who makes the call to see someone after our first date, but I wasn't, I told him , the next move is up to you. Well he called the following day, we talked for awhile, I was very nervous, but excited at the same time.We started spending alot of time together. The following month, we decided to live together, so I moved to Geneva, and I'm still here. We got married a year later. The yahoo personals do work, I would recommed to everyone.

I gave Yahoo Personals one star because I had to...otherwise they wouldn't of gotten any.... I never found anyone on this site.....It was the same people you saw on the other sites.....Most people showed a picture of themself many years younger than they were....I had a few men to pick from and they really never changed.....that was it...

I tried to cancel Yahoo Personals and had a very hard time doing so....They want to keep charging your credit card.....which they will...I signed up for 6 months, I tried to quit at 4 or 5 months.....they would not let me....Then at 6 months they gave me such a hassle.....Now if I hadn't canceled that credit card....I do not believe I would of been able to get off from paying for this site......I gave them all my information....but they said my zip code didn't match....I know my zip code....They just wanted to hassle me....It has taken me a very long time to get off that site.....I still don't know if they have canceled me.....been working on it for a while now......

Never, never again will I sign up for Yahoo Personals.....Go to plenty of fish....it is free....and I have met a lot of nice people on there...