Reviews of Yahoo! Personals

Many fake ads and they are easy to spot...all have very attractive women with short, nonsensical profiles of one small paragraph...some even are written in broken English, like some guy in India is sitting there writing them, pretending to be a white girl.

I sent about 200 e-mails and only got about three back...granted I am not a good looking guy, but I wonder how many never were delivered because they were fake profiles to begin with.

Yahoo! Personals is full of fake profiles. And it makes me feel that they've supporting that in some ways. There's no response for complaints about the issue.

'Project Real People' - Gimme a break...

Yahoo Personals is by far the worst personals site I've used. I would strongly advise people to find an alternative, if for no other reason than because if you ever have a problem, there is NO CUSTOMER SERVICE. I have encountered bad customer service before, but never ZERO CUSTOMER SERVICE like I experienced at Yahoo. After a few weeks without a response, I had to look up other Yahoo company email addresses on Google and see if they could help. They managed to get customer service to respond to me with one brief email and that's it. All that time I was paying $20 per month and had been for some time. Yahoo does NOT understand how to treat customers. Aside from that, the pool of people on Yahoo seems a little less interesting and a little more timid about responding than the pool at some other services. It seems like a lot of the people there are just window shoppers or after a little extra fawning. As compared to some other sites, people at Yahoo will more often respond with pre-made text snippets like "Thanks! I liked your message." It makes the whole experience a lot less fulfilling. The user interface is also behind the curve, and the profile review staff at Yahoo Personals will reject profiles seemingly at random, whether or not they violate the printed Yahoo guidelines. And they will never explain further, since there is no customer service.

Overall, I see no reason to even consider using this service. There are far better choices out there. (Basically, all of the others I've tried are better.)

After this experience with Yahoo Personals, I am even reconsidering using other Yahoo services. I don't need perfect customer service, but I at least need a company to acknowledge that I exist.

I'm a (50's) middle-aged woman who has tried, on & off, Match/Cupid/ now Yahoo. Had some interesting dates from all. I am smart, cute, talented, secure, VERY "young" physically and mentally, and have usually found younger men more compatible(physically esp) but have dated older. "Older" (as well as same age) usually turned out to be rather too "set in their habits/ways", and physically not "into" my interests. So? Where is she going with this? Well...I have observed (esp on Yahoo/Match) that most of the male profiles in my age group, and a few years younger, state they are searching for "Women-30-40". HELLO? I may be older, but believe me...I find it difficult to meet men able to keep up with ME...libido and interests! Yet they seem to be looking for pre-40 yr olds? I don't get it? Some Hot-39 yr old is going to be happy to sit around Sunday while he is glued to the TV? Or Saturday when he is off on the links for the day? And note...many of these same men post their(usually large) incomes. It makes me wonder if they are attempting to encourage contact thru income...and that seems sad. (JMHO but Income should never be posted nor matter.) Perhaps someone could start a Younger Men/Older Women dating site? LOL!

I subscribed to the site about a year ago for 3 months. The first guy I met was a possessive idiot who wanted me to commit to him after 2 dates . . . I questioned him about that and then he dumped me! (But I was very happy about that)

I dated the next guy for 3-4 months and I became infatuated with him. He seemed to be into to me as well, as he made quite the effort to wine and dine me (it made me a little uncomfortable b/c I'm not a golddigger but I appreciated it). Unfortunately, halfway through our "relationship" he began making new profiles on all of the other popular sites. I eventually confronted him and he dumped me, claiming he was not in love with me and he felt he should be by that point. I haven't been the same since but perhaps I'm taking it all too seriously. I think he was playing me b/c he enjoyed the sex and parading me around, but he had no intention of taking it any further, even though he led me to believe he liked me in the long term sense.

Tried to get back into the dating scene but all of the guys were losers just looking for sex. Finally pulled all of my profiles.

I really question the quality of the people on Yahoo and other sites. It seems the online dating promotes a "throw-away" attitude towards others and turns people into addicts b/c the next one is just a click away . . . Yahoo is a better site than most, but there are too many fakes and people stay on with inactive profiles. Internet dating is not the wave of the future . . .we need to take it back to reality.

Some nice people there but if your looking for an interracial relationship your may want to try Matchinterracial.com or some of the other sites that cater to interracial dating

I have tried to contact Yahoo Personals many way and many times to find out how to send a money order to pay for one month of personals. I have recieved no reponse and I can't locate any information on how to get the money order to them. This is very frustrating and I am disatified with this service.

I was very disappointed with Yahoo personals but I learned a lot from the experience. I can't believe I was so naive as to expect that if I showed interest in someone she would actually be very eager to contact me. The reality is I paid my 40 dollars for 3 months and responded to 50 or 60 ads. This was a lot of work, writing all those emails. I did not receive more than 3 or 4 responses. Another time, I did meet two women within a short period of time and was not really interested in either one (one of them posted a really old picture and was nothing like the picture--she looked like my grandmother), but there were so many others who didn't acknowledge me. A few people responded and led me to believe we would meet but it never happened. I daresay this is how it probably works for most guys. There are also several ads which have been there for at least a year. This is suspicious. Some of the ads look to good to be true and are clearly fake. I wanted to cancel my subscription, but they would not let me because I could not remember my secret security question. I feel like an idiot for all the times I rushed home to see if anyone had responded to any of my responses to their ads. If you are not interested in meeting anyone you should have your ad taken down. Yahoo does not screen out the fakes. I thought the purpose of instituting a fee was to keep fake ads from being posted. I am bitter about the whole dating scene in general and would discourage people from wasting their time on this servic

I sure would like to know which women are getting inundated with e-mails, because I have been listed with YP for 3 weeks and not one single message has reached me. I think I might have something set up incorrectly, but as someone else has posted, there are no contact numbers anywhere. This is the first time I've used a "dating site" and had absolutely NO response, serious or otherwise. What's up with that??

Chins up fellow on-line daters! Life is good!

Yahoo has been a great return on investment. I posted a free profile, have paid no money, and have spent a few hours a week on-line for three months. For my 'valuable time' I have flirted 42 times. That's more action than I've seen at the grocery store all year!

I recently moved from a small town to Thousand Oaks, a mid-sized bedroom community near Los Angeles. So I REALLY don't know anyone.

I am the kind of person that reads the classified ads for entertainment and I find on-line ads, like personals, to be highly entertaining! It's rare to find a guy that puts much thought into describing themselves. Those that do take the time are something else altogether: they take some extra special care, high maintenance. But I am high maintenance as well.

But, I'm not shy! And I'm not bad looking, defineltely not fat, AND I can put two words together.

I was shy at first. I didn't post a photo, and was afraid of the 'commitment' to correspond if I flirted online. I got really great response to my profile over a one month period. It was titled "Ashley Judd with OCD" ...Then I got brave.

I have posted my photo, and put up a sassy little title "LOST/FOUND: cute loveable companion." To date I have sent out 29 canned flirtations. 10 of them have written back. 14 guys wrote to me and I alway extend the courtesy of a reply. Currently I correspond with 4 gentlemen that fit my criteria pretty well. Oh, and there was one psycho. Not bad statistics.

If I was a paid member, there is one other profile that I have had my eye on called "Fit-to-be-tied". It's almost worth the 20 bucks to join so I could corrrespond. Mmm, mmm. Of course, my results reflect my willingness to get out there and a social strata bent in my favor.

My recommendation for the guys: put a little thought into your profile! I don't care if you talk about your relationship with your dog, or talk about your work, photos are both our friends and our enemies, so use your words! Recommendation for the ladies: Go ahead and flirt!

PS- I suspect that Yahoo has different rules for men than for women. I have noticed a few times that if I (as a female) flirt with a guy, they actually give him a free email response, where he COULD send his email address and never pay to be a member. However, if a guy flirts withe me, one of us would have to pay to join, in order to send anything other than a 'canned respone.' Just an observation. Five Stars