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LavaLife Reviews

Features Rating: (2.00)
Community Rating: (2.20)
Overall Rating: (2.60)

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Lavalife is an online singles’ dating site and also a friendship site. The company also offers “telephone-based products” in North America and Australia. Lavalife is based in Toronto, Canada. According to its corporate information, it currently has over 600,000 active registered users.

Lavalife was launched in 1997 and provides video messaging to its users. Its users are mainly from North America, Australia, France and the United Kingdom. It also comes in French version.

A feature that is not common among dating sites that Lavalife has is Lavalife for mobile phones through its Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) service. This feature is accessible to US and Canadian networks. Through this feature, people can join the network and search for profiles in their phones.

The site classifies its communities as for dating, for relationship, or for intimate encounters. Visitors can create their profiles for free, and search for other peoples’ in the database. It does not run on month subscription, but requires credit in order for the user to avail of features and services. Members must buy credits in order to send and reply to messages, watch videos, and other features.

Lavalife also provides a code of ethics for its users in order to ensure safety for its users.

User reviews to date: 4.

Richard from Tennessee

Reviewed: 29 July 2007

It is amazing how Lavalife accepts profiles from females with inappropriate and explicitly sexual material but after one year changed the wording of my ad because they decided my words that "I cannot afford credits" to be unacceptable. However, female ads stating that they are not paying members are accepted.
Also, many ads are from females who are really advertising for other dating sites. They are worded nearly identically, and always say "you can find me easier at another site called ...".
I have seen two ads next to each other with the same photo but different locations, ages, height, ect.
The responses I have received are from females whose ads claim they live in the United States, but in their emails they say they really live in Russia and are not allowed to place that information in the profiles.

Patricia from St.louis

Reviewed: 17 April 2007

I like livalife a lot! Their intimate dating section is great for some real fun.

Kerrie from Seattle, WA

Reviewed: 11 February 2007

I really like LavaLife because they have dating, relationships and intimate - but I can make different profiles for each and have different pictures etc.

It's free to join LavaLife and I can reply to messages for free. Being a female I get messages every day so I don't even have to pay to use the site since the gentleman are glad to pay to contact me.

I haven't tried any other dating services but I am really happy with LavaLife.

Jane from New York

Reviewed: 29 December 2006

LavaLife isn't as good as eHarmony or Match, to be honest. It just isn't as big and there features are just basic. I honestly wouldn't bother joining LavaLife. There are better dating sites out there.


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