Reviews of date.ca

I'm a down to earth,laid back n out going lady.I enjoy both in n outdoor life.A movie at home,walk at the park or beach are great essentials to spend time with a loved one.I believe in true love, n I know life can b great with a loved one!

I give my comments in two sections: first specifically on date.ca and second on internet dating in general.

COMMENTS ON DATE.CA I found the interface of date.ca to be very neat and functional. The search criteria works well, unlike other sites. In my local area, I can find a fairly large quantity of profiles in my late twenties age group. In their appearance, the women are fairly spread out . The date.ca did something strange to my profile: on several times when I changed it, a few lines of text were erased after passing through the customer approval centre. I asked the service about this problem twice, but never got an answer.

COMMENTS ON ONLINE DATING IN GENERAL. I am dissapointed with online dating. My comments are biased according to my male gender, also according to the fact I got hurt and am trying to warn guys out there. I divide my response in four parts to illustrate why it's a real bad deal for "normal" friendly guys. 1. DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY. I am relieved to see other guys writing their negative comments because I was taking it personally. I got a very low response to the emails I sent. I had my profile reviewed by some people, made for sure it sounded honest & good with not much improvement. One of the reviewers actually writes advice for men. I bought his book and it helped improve my dating scene a lot, but I can't find a satisfactory relationship online.

2. BAD RATIOS. Most sites have a male to female above the 2:1 ratio, which makes the demand/ supply unreasonable. First, it makes guys pay for the subscription fees. Guys already have to pay for the first date just to not look cheap and now we have to go to en extra ass kissing, pleasing level. The normal women which you meet in person get suffocated by gifts and don't feel attraction for that kind of behavior. Now the internet ones are totally demanding and if they don't get what they want there are 10 other guys emailing them to choose from. I can understand why women behave like this. If the situation were reversed, with a lot more females then males, I'm sure that the guys will not act much better. I find the personality of women that I meet in dance lessons, or via friends, to be far more friendly.

3. YOUR PROFILE IS IN COMPETITION WITH MANY ASOCIAL GUYS Some internet women openly say how bored they were of the previous guys they met right up front. There might be some truth in it, but I can't really know how all the other guys are like. Maybe a significant proportion of the guys are just non-social internet maniacs, but I can't know that. One woman I met in real life after a few emails and phone calls told me that the last person she met online and met in person proposed to her. Am I lumped into that category of losers? To be honest, I felt uneasy when she asked me why I tried an online dating site.

4. OBSESSIVE MSN CHATTY WOMEN Another woman I met in person after a few emails turned out to be a bit bland. After our meeting, we did an MSN chat and I told her that I didn't find the chemistry happening. She told me that she had ten chat friends. A few weeks later, she did an email to about 12 guys not realizing that all of us would see each other on the recipient lists. I saw that she logged in every single day that I have, meaning she probably did it every day. On many sites, I see the same profiles popping up every time when I do a sort according to last login dates and I think that there might be people out there with too much time on their hands.

5 THE QUALITY OF THE WOMEN ARE LESSER ONLINE I really think that a guy should have his life on track and just do pass times where he can meet women in a more normal environment. You just have to realize that there are a lot of desperate women out there that get quick ego boosts from all their attention. Once you get past their attitudes, you realize a lot of them have low self esteem, don't have friends, do drugs, or have some not normal component in their lives. There simply are a lot better women out there, you just have to find them. They will not be online. The good ones with no problems already have 30+ emails a week and will end up being converted into a bitch you don't want to be with. There will probably be women that are really pleasant to be with that will not like my comments. I have found some of you in my life, but NEVER online.

Unfortunately Date.ca is another dating service that misleads and use false advertisments to trap users into using their service. One example is a banner being exposed on MSN HotMail service, it depicts a member, with name and age. Yet in truth, it is a very popular model used by other online business. Thus one begs to question, how truthful is the information being supplied by such a business when promoting their very services. Not impress!

Date.ca does not deserve any stars. I give it ZERO stars, if it were a choice... I was "forced" to subscribe to it to be able to read "new mail" that I had received. I was disapointed that it was just one instant message that someone sent, and even more disapointed that the conversation went nowhere... I haven't renewed my subscription since, and apparently have 4 messages waiting in my inbox. I'd love to look at them, but I'm not going to pay the insane fee just to see what's in there. You have to subscribe to send messages, and you have to subscribe to read and reply to messages. It wouldn't be so bad if they allowed you to read your messages for free, but that's not what they do. Also, they mess up your profile, and delete chunks of it so the next time you check on it, it makes no sense. date.ca, and it's clone americansingle.com are not worth wasting your time, and not at all worth wasting money on.

Matchmaker is the only site I know that allows you to answer email from a member on a free membership, but it is basically the guys that pay and women who mostly ignore them. There are at least twice as many men as women. Worse than that if you count active members. They way to check out a website is to check out the women wanting to meet women. If they have been online a lot, then women are buying profiles and writing to each other. If the bi and lez women have mostly not been online in over a month, it means they do not buy memberships and do not contact each other. I noticed the bi and lez women on Matchmaker and Match are mostly inactive, so it means they do not buy memberships. The women that have been active on Matchmaker are the ones answering email initiated by men mostly. It does NOT mean they are members. I put up some fake female profiles and was deluged with email from men, but when I put up fake male profiles using very attractive model photos, the men very seldom got any email. WOMEN TO NOT USUALLY PAY FOR MEMBERSHIPS, just like in real life. Even though most of them are making fairly good money, all the financial burden is shifted over to the male. Career women have a hypocritical double standard. That is why I generally cuss them out and call them the trash that they really are. If you can screw them, then fine, but don't plan on finding any good women on websites like this one. The fact that guys will always hit on them, unlike in real life at times, means that internet women are always cherry picking and never seem to commit because they know another email is just a few minutes away. Single Canadian and American women are among the most absolutely worthless trash on the planet, when they are past 30 years old and still single, unless they are a widow. TREAT INTERNET BITCHES LIKE THE TRASH THAT THEY ARE. Quit paying for memberships, because the whole industry targets gullible loser males that they con into thinking they can match up with some wonderful gal. It doesn't happen often in real life, and even less often on the internet. The real Casanovas aren't wasting time on the internet, and that tells you something.

Must I give it even ONE star? Ugh! Nope, not for me! I have tried a few dating sites and date.ca (or americansingles.com!) is definitely *not* one of the better ones. See they make it so you can't read your mail unless you pay, even if the other person is a paid subscriber, so even the people who have paid to join get ripped because we could send out messages and teases but not get a response because the person we're interested in isn't a paid member.

Besides that they edit your profile in there for fun! I would go on and my profile would be all mangled. Needless to say one month into the game I cancelled my subscription!!

Oh, on the funny side this one man sent me a *huge* email detailing his life in Cali... I wrote back to him telling him his email read like an ad for a home-based business and he wrote back saying,"Thank you for your feedback, ma'am." Hee hee... that was the best part of the whole experience! =)

I give it *0* stars!!

~Unhappy and still single in NB~