Reviews of Yahoo! Personals

I see men complaining about golddiggers because they set their income requirements too high. That's fair. I probably would not want a man who I perceived to be after my money. Ironically, I am more financially well off than most of the men that I have met. I'd be happy enough to find a compatible person with a comparable income.

The flip side of this is that men are attracted to beauty every bit as much as women are attracted to financial security. There have actually been studies on this relating to our most primal instincts in selecting appropriate mates.

A man looks at the picture and he makes a judgment. A woman looks at the income and makes a judgment. Is one worse than the other? Everybody can judge that for themselves. I do not know this for a fact, but I would guess that the more physically attractive a woman, the higher she sets that income bar.

For now, I would suggest that you bypass women that you perceive as gold diggers. I can guarantee that there is some much older guy out there, who doesn't care if she wants his money.

Just the way it is. On Yahoo, any other site and in real life.

Good luck to all of you!

I have to agree with Steve from Florida. The obstacle that put me off from online dating right from the beginning was the number of women that specified high income levels for their 'dates.' I couldn't bring myself to contact women that did this....to me, it's display of poor taste and a greedy mentality I'd rather not be involved with knowing. It's always irritated me that women only flirt with me 'after' they've found out what I do for a living...and online dating really isn't any different. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

I read enough of the disgruintled reviews to tell it's mostly a bunch of losers that use these inetrnet dating sites. Men write how screwed up the women are. Women write how screwed up the men are. You are ALL screwed up and anybody who pays money, and worse yet their time and energy, to meet a bunch of losers like you are a bunch of losers that also lost their money. The website keeps charging your credit card because you are too damned stupid to cancel payment through your credit card company. Now you've got less money and are all mad as hell from the last loser that your loser ass met. Like I want to meet a broken down loser like you, that probably can't pick up anybody in a bar. Stick it where the sun don't shine!!!!!!!!! I'll meet real people in the real world. I quickly learned that internet people are disASSter areas. The one good thing this internet dating stuff does is get a few more losers off the streets and out of the bars as they surf on their computers, and for that it helps the rest of us.

Dawn I disagree with some of your comments. Although I agree that some of the opinions expressed here are way out of line, they do have some validity to them. I have been trying both Match and Yahoo off and on for several months and I have noticed a continuing theme. The same woman month after month are on here. Can you honestly tell me that they cannot find a compatible date? Golddiggers??? How else would you describe someone who comes right out and tells you they only want to date a man who earns $150,000,00 a year. I honestly wouldn't care if she were a waitress as long as she was the one for me.

Well, after reading some of the mens' reviews for this site and onliine dating in general, I see why there are problems. The fact is that you write the profile. If you are targeting your potential dates correctly, you will get responses. If you have the attitude that real women are fat and non attractive, you wind up with strippers and people who marry for green cards.

I live in Florida. I know lots of nice women in Florida. Of course, to a great guy like Nate they are probably not good enough. He picks a "dancer" and a woman who was married to her cousin. Then he writes a review stating that the women in Florida have no morals!

You picked them and overlooked nicer women becuase they weren't quite up to your exacting "standards". You are fooling nobody.

Brandon is also complaining about Yahoo. He is complaining that all of the women are Sasquatch or gold diggers. He doesn't want to waste his time with "worthless losers" because he is busy and quite self important. He calls the women on the site scags, etc. All of the young women are still throwing themselves at him! If they were, he would be dating them.

Hah! If either of you are as great as you say, you would have no problems getting an attractive and quality woman, online or offline. Like attracts like.

Every man that writes to me is not perfect for me. Some of them lie on their profile. The fact of the matter is that I would never embarrass myself by coming on a forum and speaking of these men in such disrespectful terms and blaming everybody but themselves.

If you are getting losers, it is nobody's fault but your own.

I noticed something...I have read some of the reviews of the various dating sites, and I have been a member of those same sites at one time or another.

And, to tell you the truth, they are all a scam. Plain and simple. Find a wife, or husband on line..fat chance.

The most things you are going to get, are old deleted profiles, fake pictures, and people that are so picky, that the only thing they are on there for is to make other peoples life misrable. Oh, and lets not forget the criminals, homosexuals, and cheating hubbies and wives...these are the top attractions.

Want a free night of hay romping sex? Just do not try to solicit a date on line...use your hand instead.

Want a man, or woman for dating, long term relationship, and possible marriage? Good luck.....and keep dreaming.

The only thing you do on ALL sites you have to pay to be on, is feed someone your credit card, bank account, or other personal information, and end up setting your self up for idenity theft.

Want a love life? Stop dating your computer, and go out, and meet people in person.

Hi,

I have tried most of the dating services out there. I think its a good way to meet a woman out of your social circle you wouldnt normally meet. I base a success on if I met a girl or not, not the quality or length of a relationship. That being said: 1. Yahoo personals is full of fake profiles. I demanded my money back. 2. I filled out eharmony for at least an hour, they wouldnt let me browse pictures, and sent me matches of three fat, non attractive women. (got my money back) 3. Singlesnet was all women from other countries trying to suck money out of you. I cancelled and got my money back. 4. Not many girls on Americansingles.com, but I did meet a girl off of there for dating and occasional fun. (of course, she was married to her cousin to get him his green card) But met, and was a success. Match.com is ok, I met a girl from their I have been dating for the last two years. Of course, she ended up being a dancer and a mess, etc. etc. Unfortunately, signs werent visible at first, or I ignored them. Bottom line, we met, so it was a success. Any of the adultfriendfinder sights are a joke. 5 million men, and 2 women. Im from Michigan, and I think the quality of women in Florida and their morals is horrible, of course that is of no fault of any dating website.

Yahoo Personals is a scam, they get 0 stars from me. Many of the women are professionals or diggers, half were "spawn of Sasquatch", and the rest were 12. I'll have none of the above.

I've been a member of several dating sites eharm* date cherryblossoms true and others. I'm a busy man and I don't want to waste my time on a worthless loser.

I'm 44 and the really young women still throw themselves at me(I politely deflect their attention). That is, on the rare occasion I have time to go out. I get a lot of attention on the dating sites and Internet dating could be the perfect solution. But there are way too many scags on the dating sites to make them legitimate. We could meet the same losers by spending every free minute in a pub. No thanks.

I'll bet that Internet dating has the exactly the same miserable success rate as pub crawling.

Advice: 1)If you go to a club, get hammered, and make a pass at someone; expect EVERYONE to consider you nothing but a worthless drunk. 2)Respect does not equal b**ch or Pr**k. Everyone breathes air, has stinky farts, and will only live so long. 3)Be honest with yourself, because you are the only one believing your lies. 4)Karma is real. What goes around comes around.

Twice I have been a paying member of singlesnet.com and Had a bad experience both times....The second one, they flooded me with letters from great looking ,very interested locals,then when you pay to read them ,none of my e-mails got a reply...One girl wrote back and said"I said no such thing and I am definitely NOT interested...Now you dont expect this to happen because she wrote to you....Wrong..THEY write to you, and send little flirts which when pursued,never get an answer!!Oh yeah!..They got me on the 3 day trial thing...I couldn't find the link to cancel ,so all these letters,like 20 per day come in from all these women from GHANA???And they are mostly 60 plus(I'm 40)..And one or two were over 90....So go figure....I bet they are the worst to go with...No stars...No customer service...You are lucky if you can cancel...

Linda from Arizona made a good suggestion...try Plenty of Fish.

May I make another...try Singlesnet?

It's way primitive, but it has a huge advantage over Yahoo and Match, and just any other pay site of which I'm aware: A non-paying member can initiate e-mail communication with any paying member and, logically, read e-mail from any paying member and respond with e-mail to any paying member's e-mail message.

Sure, the pool of paying members is rather small, but sign up, throw up a quick profile, and check it out. At least, unlike Match and Yahoo, you can conduct e-mail communication with a few people at absolutely no cost. And, if you like it, you can join and open two-way e-mail communication with anyone--not just paying members as in Match and Yahoo--whose profile is displayed on the site.

No, I'm not an employee of Singlesnet, just someone who's used the service and found it far better than the normal alternatives, Match and Yahoo.