Quality of paid dating sites

I saw this post from some frustrated person that has tried so called popular dating sites. I also was making my mind to try a paid sites like match.com, but after reading this post I postpone my decision as of now.

So Free sites would be great to try and you won't regret if you found nothing because you didn't have paid anything.

 I have tried eHarmony, Yahoo and Match.com and found them to be totally useless.

IMHO, it is not unreasonable to expect that when you send a message to someone who has elected to participate in the process that you get some kind of reply -- even if it's a simple not interested. The web sites have convenient "not interested" click buttons for precisely that purpose.

It seems that the majority women who participate in these fora (esp. match/yahoo) are rude bores. A girl who is too lazy to click "not interested" is going to be too lazy to thank you for flowers down the road. That said, I have had no positive response (from my age/educational peers) and just a few women who have had the courtesy of giving a negative response.

I've had female friends review my profile/picture and contact messages. They are mystified.

If I contact what appear to be my peers -- college educated women of my age group that give the appearance of being smart--they are they rudest of the bunch. No response at all. The only women who respond to me are young women of less education but really good looks. (Not talking about the obvious Nigerian scams here.)

For a while I though the problem might be sending messages to people who do not subscribe. Then I read a posting from a guy who kept a log on MATCH and found nearly everyone was reading the messages.

I tried the message notification service myself and yes it was true.

Nearly everyone I was sending messages to was reading them (about 95% --- I was shocked it was so high). Of those only about 10% even looked at my profile. 0% positive response. (Over 150 women contacted.)

The best description I have heard of MATCH is that its sole function is to reassure women that there are no decent men out there.

Are there any sites that cater to well-educated people who actually want to meet people?

One of the obvious things MATCH/YAHOO could do would be to have a response meter. Your profile would be rated by the percentage of inquires you responded to (even if it is a click of not interested).

If free sites are providing everything then why people go for paid sites? Simply, waste of time and money.

Hmmm .... interesting. To tell you the truth, paid dating sites are losing the charm now. I do not trust that there are genuine people on paid dating sites anymore. After all, spammers or fake profile builders do make lot of money, so what makes one think that they can't pay one of these paid dating sites and start contacting genuine people, defrauding them. No more paid dating sites for me.

Oh my .... paid dating sites are no good that means . I have also heard many bad things about paid dating sites. Recently, I read in a news that a dude is sueing match.com for uploading fake profiles of women. He apparently furnished and refurnished his profile to get responses, uploaded so many pictures, read around a lot, and made attempts to contact females on the site, but to no avail.

Finally, he decided to sue the paid dating site, claiming that not even a single woman is responding to his profile or his invites. How is that possible if there are thousands of women on the site.

I can't think of the whole story or the link, but this is the gist of that news. And it happened not too long ago. Big lesson for all paid dating sites.

I agree with chris_dude.Free means that you never have to pay for any service, just enjoy connecting and meeting people with no worries so free dating site better then paid dating site.

Do you guys agree that Free Dating Sites are full of c**p. Can't say anything about paid sites though, but I strongly believe that scammers won't pay to set up their profiles. Do they?