Reviews of Yahoo! Personals

I have been looking around for women to date for about 3 years. Yahoo Personals turned out to be a goldmine of qualified candidates. I was reluctant to use any Internet service because I thought the only chicks using it would be the same morons and bimbos you see in chatrooms. I was pleasantly surprised. The quality of females who responed to my profile was outstanding, and the third one I dated turned out to be a perfect match.

I signed up for a 6 month subscription plan with Yahoo Personals, but I only used it for about a month before I grew tired of it. There wern't too many women on that site I was compatible with. The women who were a good match for me didn't seem too interested. I had a few emails and "Icebreakers" sent to me but those were from uncompatible women, who were generally too young for me. I've drawn the opinion that the internet isn't a good place to meet people. A great deal of the profiles on Yahoo Personals are inactive. A big waste of time and an even bigger waste of money. Thanks for reading.

It's already shady enough that yahoo uses it service to prey on lonely single people. Yes, you know what I mean - they sucker you into subscribing for their service, because hey, it's only $25 to send out a few emails, right? Then you find out that only a fraction of people can actually READ your emails, since they're not paying members. And naturally, yahoo doesn't let you see who's a paying subscriber and who isn't. Then yahoo continuously tries to auto-renew you until you actively cancel your account, and let me tell you, it's great fun trying to find out where that 'cancel subscription' button is located on their website.

Now we have to deal with yahoo USING their former customers to add success stories to a public review board. Come on, yahoo, that's pathetic. Anyone can see that these reviews are blatant attempts to absorb more subscribers. Anyhow, if you do end up trying out online dating, keep in mind that the success rate is VERY low, but apparently yahoo will do anything to make you think otherwise.

I did not meet the man of my dreams on Yahoo Personals. It was a disappointing experience, overall. Most of the other customers didn't have legit profiles, and the yahoo customer service was terrible.

Unlike all the shills that have been writing reviews here, it's unlikely that you will find a match from yahoo, or any other internet dating site. Anyone is better off trying to meet someone in public, as opposed to online.

I met the man of my dreams on Yahoo Personals. He is now my sweet husband. Our match was extraordinary in that we are compatible in so many facets of life: education, religion, love of dogs, future dreams, desire for closeness and refusal to obtain a divorce. We love each other so much. We laugh, we play, and we honor God together. Thank you to Yahoo Personals.

Most of the people writing on this site in the past month are not writing reviews, they're writing TESTIMONIALS. If people want to read about how you met "insert random person", and how you feel you owe your grandson's life to yahoo for making it possible, then we can choose to read about it on the yahoo site, in their "testimonials" section.

The reviews here are supposed to give prospective customers an ACCURATE representation of what to expect prior to paying for the yahoo dating service. And, an ACCURATE representation would be - "You spend upwards $50 to send out a few emails, and have less than a 1% chance of finding something meaningful. If you actually want to get online dating to work, you have to put tons of effort into using the service. Or, you have to get lucky. Furthermore, the whole online dating business is scam because yahoo doesn't let you see who's a subscriber, and is actually able to read your communications! This means you could send out dozens of emails, without a single one being read. Also, yahoo uses an auto-renew payment method which is difficult to cancel, and is designed to keep draining your money."

Now, you might think I'm just bitter that online dating didn't work for me... but guess what? I'm getting married to someone I met from yahoo personals. Yahoo recently contacted me asking to write a testimonial at this link. So, it's my guess that they've contacted all of the people with success stories asking them to write reviews on this site.

Just so you have some more background on where I'm coming from, over the past few years, I've tried match.com, plentyoffish, true, eharmony, etc, etc, etc. Yahoo was no better than any of the other offerings, but there just happened to be the right person at the right time on yahoo. I owe nothing to yahoo, because frankly, they don't care about providing a good customer experience. They look at me in terms of $/customer... and they only want me to write a review here to generate more profit. Yes, I'm lucky to have found someone, and I'm thankful that it happened over yahoo. But in retrospect, I could have met anyone anywhere, and I probably would've been a lot richer had I not wasted money and my TIME on dating sites. So, just to recap.. if you want to try to be in that 1% of people who can meet online, get to work, it's going to be a stressful few years - otherwise, just stick with the other 99% and meet in real life.

I placed my profile on Yahoo Personals in a simple search for friends, for like-minded individuals who could assist me on my quest, my journey, as I discovered my true identity late in life. Little did I dream that I would find the other half of my soul, my heart, my pulse, my love. We are still on the path of discovery, but neither of us is alone now. We are truly blessed. I am so happy that I utilized Yahoo Personals!

When Ralph and I got engaged after meeting on Yahoo Personals I told the girls at work that I paid $24.95 for the love of my life.

Seriously, I'm floored and thankful that love could blossom from a personals website. I felt completely at ease knowing that I could move at a pace that I was comfortable with. In fact, Ralph and I communicated through Yahoo Instant Messenger and over the phone for a month before we ever met face to face. Through the natural progression of the relationship love turned into marriage in February.

To be given the opportunity to build a new life in our mid to late thirties is priceless to the two of us. Thank you Yahoo!

I joined Yahoo Personals with little hope of truly meeting someone I would want to spend the rest of my life with. However, I was looking through the different personal adds, and came across one that stood out like none of the rest! I sent Chris a message and he contacted me. When he saw I lived about 120 miles from him, he said he didn't think it would work. We talked on the phone EVERY night for at least 4 hours! Finally, about 2 months later before even meeting, this man told me he loved me over the phone. We were in love, and had not even met, but it was special because we feel in love for who we were, not for what we looked like. I drive to Ky every other weekend and spend the weekend with Chris, and we are now discussing me relocating and moving in together. And yes, "wedding bells" are in our future. We both have children, and they love us, and we love them. I am more in love with this man than I have ever been in my life. I know this is the man I want to wake up next to every morning. Personals made a beleiver out of me!

If Yahoo personals can drum up such high ratings then match.com deserves about 5 1/2 stars. What's up with all the positive reviews of Yahoo personals? The person writing the 5-star Yahoo reviews has to be an employee of Yahoo, because they've allowed themselves to be effected by the negative reviews of YP.

Allow me to make one thing clear, I've studied Internet dating for the last 3 years, and I can tell you YP isn't exactly the best site out there. It seems the quality of the YP site is inferior to that of match.com for the reasons of:

1. There are more Quality members on match.com than on YP.

2. The members search engine on YP is deceptive. If you run a search on YP you find duplicate listings of profiles and profiles that have been inactive for several months. This important part of the YP site is poorly managed.

3. The user interface on YP is hard to use and it does strain my eyes. The reason it strains my eyes is because they use a white background and light blue text.

4. It's way easier to search for members on match.com than on YP, and match.com has far more searching options than YP does.

I've wrote YP and told them to consider making changes. The only change they've made is by making the view profile pictures easier to use. Other than that, Yahoo only seems interested in milking the cow for what it's worth when it comes to it's YP. They just haven't put much effort into improving the site. I really think that if they made the site more functional and visual appealing they could attract more members. Instead of doing that, they would rather pay people like Lynn Schmitz real?, Toni Ciarcia, or Sharon to post reviews on the catacombs of the internet.

Yet YP does have a few advantages over match.com:

1. The first advantage is use of YIM on the YP website. If you're a paying member, you can just click on the smiley face next to the profile and send a message.

2. The next advantage is you can read emails and see who's sending you the email as a free member. I have 3 emails in my match.com mailbox and I have no intention of paying $35 to open them because, I don't know if it's worth it to view the emails.

3. YP is far cheaper than match.com. For example, YP is $25 for 1 month and match.com is $35 for 1 month. Match.com is more because of it's goodies such as it's Dr.Phil and style promotions. I recall the membership fess on match.com jumped up the second they singed Dr. Phil McGraw. However, If YP does make drastic improvements to it's site, the membership fees on YP will rise.

Yahoo Personals is more economical and the odd can be better for meeting someone depending on the situation. A woman can sign up to YP as a free member and use YIM if she really does want to meet someone, however her odds ate better if she pays the fees. The main reason for this is because the YP site is more workable than match.com.

Are you considering joing an Internet dating site? Do you want to know how to become a member to a dating site? Is Yahoo Personals or match.com right for me? Is online dating any good? Finding love online, is it possible? First, What you should do is sign up as a free member. Second, run a search and count up the members who interest you, if you can find more than several move to step 3. Third, pay the fee and then send only 1 email every 2 days. Many people pay the fees than burn themselves out by sending out as many emails as possible over a short span of time.

Like I said, I've studied internet dating for more than 3 years... it will be 4 in a couple of months. In this time, I've set up many profiles and metered results. I've helped a few people out with this. If you're serious about finding love online, using these sites, landing dates, then drop me a line at "x_12_12"... you should know where to address the message. If you're an employee of Yahoo who's serious about improving the site, you're welcome to contact me. If you're a spammer and you spam me I WILL turn you over to the U.S. government, and I know the correct departments of the gov to sent the spam.