Whether you're looking for a long-term relationship or just a new date - Mate1.com is one of the choices in dating niche. According to their official website Mate1.com has over 15 million members, with tens of thousands joining daily. Ranked by Comscore Mediamatrix® and Neilsen Netratings® among the top 5 mainstream dating sites on the planet, with thousands of new members joining daily.
Mate1.com Design, Usability and Browsing Review
Mate1 has professional design and is easy to browse even if you are new to online dating. All navigation links at Mate1.com placed logically so you would not have any problems with understanding where to go to make action.Who's online right now? Who's new in your area? Who's the most popular? Who's viewed your profile? Just click the link of your choice and choose from our multiple sorting options to make sure you're getting the search results you want.
At Mate1.com it is also easy to browse member’s profiles by category. When you click on browse link you will get this option: browse elite women, tall women, most attractive, new members, professionals and international beauties. Each choice is full of profiles which falls into chosen category so no need to use advanced search technology which is also available.
Mate1.com Members Database Review
Mate1.com is 3rd in the top dating sites of United States by traffic volume (only Yahoo! Personals and Match.com have higher traffic ranks) but is only at 5th place by active members’ volume. According to Compete.com analysis they have around 1.000.000 active what makes them really large dating service.Mate1.com Profiles Quality
At Mate1.com you can upload as many as 20 different pictures to your profile to show every face of your personality. Also you can add other information about you when completing personal essay. There you can write yourself description, what kind of person you’re looking for, lifestyle & interests, favorite things and least favorite things. All this could be done during 20 minutes and in most cases you should not write anything. All you need to do is to choose a right answer from drop down menu.Voice Message
Also at Mate1.com you can leave a voice message for your profile. Recording a voice profile is free and easy. All you need is a touch tone phone and a minute or two. To record a voice message at Mate1.com you must call our automated, toll-free recording service: 1-888-757-2738 and when prompted, enter the following code: 859-789-500. That will increase your profile response rate incredibly and you will get more contacts.
In general profiles quality at Mate1.com is really great. Unfortunately many members did not complete their essays but those who did this really have very well informed profiles. On the net there are lots of reports about fake profiles on Mate1.com but I don’t think that it is true. All dating websites have fake profiles or dead profiles but if you will try to contact only those persons who has complete profile you will have fewer chances to meet forgotten profile. Also there is another reason for fake profiles problem and you will know about it if continue reading this Mate1.com review.
Mate1.com Free Access
Basically Mate1.com is free to join and complete personal ad including voice messaging service. Also you can browse all profiles for free and sort them but when it comes to any action (emailing, chatting or reading email) you will be asked to become a full member. And here is an answer to the questions why Mate1.com has so many fake profiles and has so low response rate. Simply when you join this service you don’t know that you will need to pay for Mate1.com to use it.Risks of Mate1 Free Trial
If you want to know the bad point of Mate1.com it’s their free trial. When you will enter any paid option of the site (usually it is a new mail (sent by automatic bot) Mate1 will offer to use their free trial. Also you be asked to purchase free trial when you’ll decide to email someone or view additional photos of other members. Free trial offer looks really tempting only $1.95 for 3 days of using Mate1.com! And many members get caught on this trick. They buy free trial for $1.95 but don’t read the terms of this trial which are written by small letter on payment page. Here are the full rules of Mate1.com free trial:For your convenience, if you do not cancel your trial before the end of the three day period, your trial membership will automatically convert to a full membership on the day after your three day trial ends. Your credit card will be automatically billed at the rate of forty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents after the end of your trial and every thirty days thereafter, until you cancel. If you do not wish to become a full member you must cancel your trial membership before your three day trial expires. You may cancel at any time by clicking on the Account Settings button on the Mate1 homepage or by calling customer service.
In other words if you don’t cancel your free trial in 3 days (or forget to cancel it) your will subscribed to this service at the rate of $49.95 per month. And you will pay this sum until you decide to cancel this subscription.
This price is obviously set too high because the average monthly cost at most dating services is around 25 dollars. Why should you pay in double-size for the service which has even lower features than those who has 25 dollars rate?
Mate1.com User Testimonials Review
I have seen some positive testimonials about Mate1.com dating service but majority of testimonials were written in the following manner:They do not tell you its$ 50.00 to join, untill you get you bank statement, but I have been e-mailed by some women, most out of state that I am in.
Lots of fakes on this site. Everyone wants just wants cyber sex. Most of the profiles are fake.
i signed up for a month. chatted with a few chicks online. one of them was trying to get with me hardcore, but she was just average looking. tons of girls tried to chat with me whenever i was online, but most were fat or didn't have a picture so i declined.
i emailed a bunch of attractive girls... one I emailed back and forth a few times, got her number, chatted her a few times, met up with her twice, took care of business. one other girl gave me her email and phone, but nothing came of it. i canceled my account after a month.
Review of Mate1.com Good Points
- Good design- Nice informative profiles
- Voice profile
- Big members database
- 3 days of site using just for $1.95
Review of Mate1.com Bad Points
- No free features- Expensive subscription rate ($49.95 per month)
- Dead profiles (people complete profiles but don’t know that will need to pay)
- Low response rate because you need to pay to reply