Reviews of Yahoo! Personals

When I reflect back on my experience I can sympathize with many of the negative reviews. I would send messages to girls and wait....and wait....and wait....with no replies. In the beginning this type of rejection was tough. After the first month of paying for this service I wanted to cancel. In the beginning I would only message girls who posted a pic. One day I decided to look at some profiles who didn't have any pics. After messaging some of these girls I began to receive some replies back. I began to feel better about myself and my experience with the site. My outlook changed and I began to make friends with these some of these girls even if it didn't go anywhere romantically. It took me a year on yahoo personals before I actually met a girl that I connected with beyond the just friends stage. We've been together for 2 years now and will be getting married in October. I had many highs and lows during my year on the site. 3 out of 5 is my rating.

Althou I was only on Yahoo Personals for a little over a month, I had a great time! I met alot of great guys there. I went out with 2 of them and we still remain friendly. However, I did not meet my match from the personals, I got back with an old boyfriend/friend. We went out for 4 years back in college days....then we went our seperate ways. He got married / then divorced. I got engaged, had a baby girl, then got left for another woman. Needless to say, we always remained friends. Recently, our love interest in each other has sparked back up, and we're going to see where it takes us!!!!! But as far as the Personals go.....GO FOR IT! It's fun, nice way to meet people. And who knows? your Mr. Right could be there.

I'm not sure why you all feel the reviews are bogus. Mine is not. I wrote a success story to Yahoo Personals and customer service wrote right back to me congratulating us on finding each other and put this link in the email to give a review here. So don't be so hasty to judge, because you truely don't know. To be honest, I never in a million years thought I'd find the man I'm with right now at Yahoo Personals. I am a Christian woman and I have belonged to several "on-line" dating sites, have purchased memberships at times and was truely getting fed up with seeing the same people at all the different sites. I would only join if there was someone I felt I wanted to get to know better. My focus was Christian sites (LoveandSeek is the lowest cost I've seen and didn't feel I was getting ripped off. 9.95 for one month), and happen to one day put my profile on Yahoo because I felt there were more local people on it. I didn't care for the constant email from men 1000 miles away from me. I didn't join Yahoo because I hate spending the money to just "look". But then a gentleman wrote to me that was a Christian from Grand Rapids, and I was in shock to read his profile in that what he said was exactly what I was looking for. As it turns out, we knew each other from several years before. We briefly worked together for a few months. I was skeptical at first thinking he contrived his profile to fit mine, but now that we've been together, it's all very true and we are a perfect fit. I told Yahoo that I didn't ever think I'd find "the" man at their site..lol. Anyway, I did join Yahoo for one month when Jim emailed me. It can work if you are patient and cautious. I've met a lot of men that are just plain horney and want to get laid (UGH). True gentelmen eh? Anyway, hats off to YP, I'm done looking, and am glad to be done with the online dating scene! I only gave 4 stars to YP because their pricing is high in my estimation.

Mike, here's another thing to add to your "yahoo employee" theory: almost all of these 5-star testimonials came in on normal business days (never weekends, which is normally when you see most other reviews). Also, with this flood of positive feedback for yahoo, you'd expect to see a few recent positive reviews for match.com et al on this edatereview site, right? Well, just go ahead and check them out if my point isn't already obvious.

The truth of the matter is that all of these online dating sites provide relatively the same customer experience - that's why we're writing these reviews, right? And, everyone would agree that these sites do a decent job at what they're "supposed" to do - provide a means to at least contact other single people. Unfortunately, the USERS are what bring down the experience for all of the other genuine customers, thus creating a system that DOESN'T work for most people.

Almost all the people who I've known to have tried these online dating sites have had miserable failures. It's because the women get so much response by sketchy men (ie, men twice their age) that they don't know how to deal with the sheer amount of response that they get. This puts them in a position where they can be as picky as possible, turning down perfectly qualified men. In turn, men have to send out mass email solicitations to get a single hit. Thus you have a system where women have been given the right to become superficial and men have to lower their standards just to get a date. On top of that, you have men who lie about their height/income and women who lie about their weight in hopes of "beating the system." The only people I know who have carried out a successful relationship as a result of online dating have been non-superficial people who genuinely want to meet a nice person. In other words, they're not looking at the photos first!

Don't get me wrong in thinking I'm blaming everything on the "users." All online dating sites are sleazy operations that are designed to suck as much money from the customer as possible. They all have crap customer service, and they don't care if you meet the right person or not. But on top of all that, it's ultimately the users that turn the entire operation into a miserable failure.

However, I still recommend that everyone try online dating at least once - just for a month. Because, there are some lucky people out there who can manage to get these things to work, and you don't want to pass up that opportunity in the small event that your next significant other is waiting for you in the form of a contrived online profile with doctored photos.

hey Tony and anyone else who's concerned,

I thought Yahoo might have been refering ex-customers to this website but I think that's an inacurate thought. If you look at all of these 5-star reviews, you'll find the writing style and the subject of these 5-star reviews is the same. I'm certain the same person is writing these reviews.

Customer satisfaction for internet dating works in many different aspects. You may find a customer who's happy because they found the love of their life on the internet, you could find one who's dating life came back to life because of the website, you can find a person who likes exchanging emails on a dating website, or you may find someone who has more confidence in themselves because of a dating website. When you think of it, internet dating works in different ways for different people, but the writer of these reviews doesn't realize that.

On 12/01/2006 Yahoo went ahead with a change of it's coporate structure due to it's slumping stock value (YHOO). Due to this fact, My guess is some micro-management cheeseball gave this goof the job of writing these 5-Star reviews on edatereview.com.

Yahoo should advertise it's dating website outside of the internet. If I ran Yahoo I would advertive Yahoo Personals in bars and nightclubs... You know, a place where single people would see and hear the message. But, I don't run Yahoo and given the history of Internet dating listening to it's customers, they'll ignore the advice.

Yahoo employee, You're GUILTY of writing of piss-poor, one sided reviews. The sentence: Lost stock Value and Your Job.

I think people should write reviews on how Yahoo personals could improve it's website!

Okay, what's with all these FAKE testimonials about YAHOO personals that I've been seeing on this site lately, you know a slew of 4 to 5 star FAKE reviews about Yahoo personals?

Is Yahoo hiring people to make up fake stories??

I am so glad I chose yahoo personals to help me find the man of my dreams. When me and Andy met online for the first time we talked for about 2 hours. Then about a week later we decided to go on a date. I was a little nervous at first, but then my brother offered to have a double date with us just in case. It was awesome, right after that first night I knew that things would work out. We both now live in North Mankato in our own house. We're getting married this summer. I can't thank yahoo personals enough.

I loved meeting guys this way because I could write back and forth a few times if I was interested. It was up to me if I wanted to give them my phone number, or they could give me their number if they wanted to. I could screen them out if they didn't put a picture in or if I didn't like what I saw. It was so much easier than hoping to meet someone in my everyday life that had something in common with me and wasn't married. Because the company protects your privacy, nobody goes directly to your personal email. They have to go through yahoo personals to get to you. It was a comfortable way to meet people because I felt that the company safeguarded me against undesirables. I liked being able to be picky about certain values that mean a lot to me. I only chose Christians because that's important to me, but you had all kinds of options to choose from which made it nice. I am so attracted to the guy I met. I don't know if it will be a lifetime or a moment that we share together in this time frame called life, but I see the possibilities of spending my life with him.

I had totally given up on finding a guy on my own. I decided to try the "online dating" scene. I did not have much luck and was getting just as disturbed by it. Until June 6, 2006 when I got just the message "Hi" in my inbox. I read over the profile and decided what the heck I would give it a try. Boy am I glad I did. We emailed each other for a few days then talked on the phone more and then met on the 10th. We have been together ever since!! It is the best. I have found the man of my dreams. He is the greatest person ever. I can't believe how lucky I am!! And now for the best part....we are getting married on 7-7- 07!!! We met on 6-6-06 and will be married on 7-7-07!! I can't wait til then, it's gonna be perfect. I have the perfect dress, the perfect place and thanks to yahoo personals I have the PERFECT man!!

Every day that passes I thank whatever whim of fate that possessed me to reactivate my Yahoo Personals profile after swearing off internet dating. Two days later, Troy sent me a message that answered all my conversation starter questions. It was long, involved, intelligent, and definitely caught my attention.

We chatted for a few days and made a date to meet the next week. We couldn't wait, and instead met for lunch two days before we had planned. We talked and talked, I was late getting back to work, and and my heart skipped a beat when he leaned in to kiss me goodbye.

We had our first "official" date two days later, and have been inseperable ever since. I never believed in the idea of everyone having a soul mate until now. The last three months have been the happiest of my entire life, and I have Yahoo Personals to thank for it.