[QUOTE=Herbie53;3883686]I've heard similar about POF, but have yet been able to prove it. I too have been interested in POF and a few weeks ago, I opened a couple accounts. For the second one, I said I was married. It let me go through the whole registration process, and at the end, it said membership denied because they don't accept married people. WTF? I've never had that happen anywhere else on sites like these (notwithstanding "legit" sites like eHarmony and Match) and it ruined my experiment. Usually, listing that you are married brings out the best professional scammers because they assume you are really lonely and desperate, and they work you hard. I didn't get to test that out on POF, so I closed the other account and won't try them again, the judgemental bastards. Perhaps after I get past the esteem busting rejection of not being allowed to join a hook up site as an alleged married man, I'll try again. The travesty.
Anyway, I believe that the success rate for any hookup site will really depend on the city, and if they charge men a fee to participate. If they charge men to use it, don't expect much, has been my experience. As with all things related to the hobby, different areas have preferences for different ways of getting the word out and connecting. I've haven't been able to fine a good solution that seems to work well enough everywhere. Maybe POF works great where your friend is, and SA, Adultlook, or the sister site works better in another town. I always figure that any site that charges men to read and / or send messages is geared more to con artists and scammers, and less to scoring touchdowns by men folks. At least when BP was active, there was a lot of garbage to sort through, but I didn't have to pay to sort through it, nor did fellow brothers, and our combined efforts helped us sort through crap faster. That's why the sister site is one of my favs.
The vast majority of these kind of sites, I have found thus far, whether POF, SA, LocalDating, et al. , are loaded with scams, con artists, and bleed (not suck) you dry with the GPS types. There are some real humans on there, but they are few and far between, take a lot of time to ferret through, and often incurs expense that doesn't land well. These kind of sites make their money from men paying ridiculous fees to message scammers, bots, and other useless time wasters. Women on many of these sites are given free accounts to keep men subscribed. As we learned not too long ago, one of those affair type sites (that had customer email accounts stolen and such, and yet still exists!) actually created bogus female accounts themselves on the site to entice men to pay the fees to talk to them. Men still sign up on there. WTF is wrong with these guys? Geez. You can have better luck using the sister site than any of these fee sites, and it's way cheaper, too.
I've done some unscientific testing of these sites over months, and noticed a pattern. I'd create the "free" account, and then get asked to pay the fee and join. I'd skip it, and then get the usual 2 to 20 inbox message from the women folk within half a day, (often within minutes), that you can't read and / or respond to unless you join. Nice business plan for sure, because little head often controls the wallet. This was typical on all of them. I joined a couple of them to see how they worked it, and it wasn't pretty the way they tried to manipulate the heartstrings of a lonely old man just looking for one more hottie fuck before he dies. Not that I'm that guy, but you need to put up the right kind of profile to attract the best of the best trying to work you.
Since using a VPN and free encrypted mail services makes it easy to try different things using different user name and accounts, I tried various profiles as different users and email addresses, using a different city, and would get very similar responses, so yeah, a lot of what's on these kind of sites is automated, or they have some impoverished person in a 3rd world country constantly looking for new meat to scam, their boss paying them a penny per hundred message attempts. They got to make a living though, and I guess it beats sifting through dirt for food.
Having noticed this pattern, and this was just last week, I opened a couple more "free" accounts on a "local dating" type site, and on which I already had other accounts. I did everything pretty much the same as I did for the other accounts regarding my profile and such, but instead of listing a bigger city in Florida as to where I lived, I listed Reddick, Florida. Get it, red dick? Yeah, and it's great that is a real town.
Sure enough, I get basically the same women and kind of women messaging me, spam asking me to join the site, but this is the great part, I got around 15 profiles suggested for me of "hot local women wanting to meet you right now" that were also on the service living in Reddick. Oh my gawd, who knew all those hot women loved that backwoods country lifestyle. Their profile pics were a-list looking hotties, young college women (you know, University of Reddick), supermodel types, glamor types, all that lived within a few miles of me in Reddick, and wanted to fuck right now. Except Reddick, Florida, has like 23 people living in it, only the college of crickets exists, and I'm confident that Reddick (nothing against the town) doesn't have that many fine young ladies living there, because if they did, I'd be selling my house and moving there. My belief is that those 15 profiles of hotties that want to meet me right now were automatically generated by that service, not knowing that Reddick, while a legit location, doesn't attract hotties to live there, but does seem to have a lot of trees.
Realistically, considering the cost benefit ratio, the sister site is about as good as anything out there for most larger towns and cities. Smaller places like Ocala, Gainesville, (or Reddick, LOL) really don't have a lot of options because the type of workers we like don't migrate to those places. Options in those smaller places are typically the regular SW that can be found in most any community in the country, easy to locate by the body language and costume.
If anyone has had regular success on any of these kind of sites it sure would be great to get a detailed report or three. It hasn't worked out on my end.[/QUOTE]Just to reiterate what you have posted, same results for me. I have never paid to joined any dating site, but like you said, they send you pics of the hottest women in the world. Only one word comes to mind "Scam" I get scammed on Instagram, they contact me and we go back and forth a few days and next thing they all ask me to send them money.
