SilverSingles

Shortest distance preference is 50 miles which is zip to zip, so that could be a 2 hour drive. No search feature - you have to wait on SS to send you matches. Cumbersome process to delete matches. No "body type" preference setting. "Have You Met" feature ignores preferences.

Customer Service is nil. I just got disconnected after an hour and 15 minutes on hold. Recording kept saying press one for a callback which didn’t work. This is not the first time this has happened.

I tried to contact them by email and got back a standard reply which did not address my issue. Customer Service is not available nights and weekends. This is ridiculous for a dating site. Do you think I can do this from work? As to the results I’ve gotten they stink.

I keep getting matches from states that are three or four states away. I want a relationship not a pen pal. Also I am an extreme extrovert and they keep sending me introverts.

How do I get what you promised? I’m contacting the Better Business Bureau. I want to cancel my account, but can’t get in touch with anyone.

I've only been on SilverSingles for one day so really can't attest too much, but I wanted to answer to some of the complaints three of the other women reviewers had. (1) I wrote to one gentleman and got a quick reply. And we corresponded for several hours.

(2) Being someone who likes to "investigate" on my own I was able to learn that one man I was interested in is a recent widower and his profile was everything he said about himself.

(3) Silver Surfers gave me plenty of matches for the first day so I am hopeful I will continue to enjoy this site!

SilverSingles was one of the biggest and silliest waste of my money and time! They offer no service really, if you compare them to reputable sites like J4Date.com with multitudes of real ladies.

The prevailing majority of women profiles in SilverSingles are outdated, fake and non-existent. None of them replied to my messages. Some of these fake profiles had been used as bait-and-switch to entice me into purchasing a paid subscription.

I wish I had spotted the ploy! But I had bitten the bullet and given it a try. It had been stupid of me. Please don't repeat my experience!

This dating site is totally useless. You can send messages or smiles and nobody responds,.. Too many profiles without pictures.... A waste of time and money.... There are many scammers on this site that give information and is very questionable.

I did a lot of online dating more than 10 years ago and belonged to many different dating websites over the years. I gave up and stopped looking for almost 10 years, but decided 8 months ago to get back into the game by giving SilverSingles a try. I immediately regretted it.

This is the WORST and most badly managed singles/dating website I have had the misfortune of being on. The site is very difficult to navigate and you will rarely get any sort of a helpful response from "customer service."

All you get are the same canned, pre-written responses to whatever your complaint or question is.

This site won't let you reorder your profile pictures if you'd like a different photo to appear first, but meanwhile they let through LOTS of photos that are supposedly against their rules, like sideways photos, photos that are too dark to see faces, photos with than one person in it.

They lie and say they review photos, yet repeatedly let bad photos through. I was very specific that I am a woman looking for a man but on more than one occasion, SilverSingles sent matches to me that are women!

They also seem to have a very poor security review practice because I have been approached multiple times by men with fake/scam profiles.

I can always tell these are scams because of the way they are written and because the photos are always obviously fake/stock photos -- usually much too perfect and clearly staged.

Since I can always sniff out a fake profile, I always write something that tells the guy to buzz off -- I'm not interested.

Then days later, sure enough, SilverSingles sends out an email warning me and other women who were approached by these scammers about the fake profile.

If SilverSingles would do their due diligence in the first place, there wouldn't be so many fraudulent profiles and scammers on this horrible website.

SilverSingles also repeatedly sets you up with exactly the kind of person you made clear you wouldn't be interested in -- or people who are geographically much too far when you specified a certain amount of miles.

Then they ask for "feedback" on their supposed "matches," saying they want this feedback so they can improve their matches for you, but they routinely ignore your feedback and continue to send you the bad and too-far matches.

Most people I have approached on this site NEVER respond, which tells me most of the profiles are old and outdated and no longer active.

Unethical dating websites such as SilverSingles keep old, defunct profiles active to make it look like they have more members than they actually do.

Also, be careful if you sign up because they don't offer any sort of monthly payment plan. Instead, they deceptively fool you into paying for an entire year at once by outlining the amount of the yearly cost divided by 12.

It's all very cleverly and misleadingly worded so that it SEEMS like you are signing up for a monthly plan but you aren't -- they will charge you for an entire year and WILL NOT relent when you explain that their website DID NOT make it clear you would be charged for an entire year at once.

If you don't realize the mistake within 72 hours, you are stuck on this terrible website for an entire year.

When I pulled up the site, my photo was no longer there. I called and I was told my photo and info were hacked from someone in Texas. Then I was told to go out to a store, maybe CVS, and call from there to prove I was from Mass. What???

So I cancelled, and next thing I find out, my credit card was cancelled due to unusual charges. Luckily my bank caught this before it was too late. This is a scam company, don't use it!!!

I enrolled and looked at matches and sent a few messages and logged out. Have not been able to log in since. Emails get no replies. Request to reset password gets no return email and not in spam. They have my money and I am out of luck. Reporting to BBB

The company itself isn't bad... but the women that are matched up with my profile are the most homely looking women I've ever seen. One would think that the pictures these women post they would try to look attractive.... 99% of them look like they just rolled out of bed... ugly.

The few that were attractive never responded to any of my quires and the one that did told me she needed money so she could return back to the USA from Turkey. She was buying diamonds and spent all of her money... I hope no man fell for that story. The site is alright but the women trying to lure a man sure need to polish themselves up before posting hideous pictures of themselves.

The company itself isn't bad ...but the women that are matched up with my profile are the most homely looking women I've ever seen. One would think that the pictures these women post they would try to look attractive....99% of them look like they just rolled out of bed...ugly.

The few that were attractive never responded to any of my quires and the one that did told me she needed money so she could return back to the USA from Turkey. She was buying diamonds and spent all of her money...I hope no man fell for that story. The site is alright but the women trying to lure a man sure need to polish themselves up before posting hideous pictures of themselves.