Dating Direct Review
Dating Direct is a UK based dating service which includes dating personal profiles from people from all over the world, but mainly the UK and USA. You must select the country of the person you want to meet to try and find a lover amongst the 3.5 million active members. Dating Direct is an international dating service that has profiles of people from all over the world. It lets you select first the country of the person you want to meet from a list. It is mainly based in Birmingham, the United Kingdom, with over 3.5 million active members.
This online dating site began its services back in 1999, with its mission “to serve its members needs with the best possible online dating service with the highest quality of support.” It offers a free trial for visitors. Apart from this, they maintain un-moderated chat rooms and protect the user’s personal information such as email address when sending messages.
Like other dating sites, database searches and profile posting is free. However, contacting people and sending messages require membership. It costs £24.99 for a month, £44.99 for three months, and £59.99 for six months.
Dating Direct provides events like speed dating and parties with dancing and drinking to its members in the UK. One can also read success stories and dating tips provided on their website. Along with dating tips, they also provided safety guidelines when dating, especially when switching from online dating to offline or face-to-face dating.
They also provide their online dating services to companies such as AOL, Channel4.com, HeartFM.co.uk, iVillage.co.uk, NTL and Tiscali, etc.
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2 User Reviews And Comments
#1 Well, DatingDirect was a good
Terry on 01/09/2007
Well, DatingDirect was a good place for me to start dating again after my divorce. Although it is a very popular site in the UK, Dating Direct is also available to people in America.
I've met a few ladies on the site, but none have turned into real relationships at this time. I've even met a girl from the UK and made friends with her.
DatingDirect is a comfortable place to meet people from your own home.
#2 Best of a bad bunch. These
Mark Dalton on 08/27/2007
Best of a bad bunch. These sites are overpriced, so don't hold their membership.
Search facilities have become very poor under the new site. Beware of what you are buying, as the site defaults to the biggest purchase and takes it without warning. Basic membership wont cut the ice nowadays, especially for men, and if you want to make the site do what it used to it will cost you the think end of £50 per month.
Was a real good site - the pick of the bunch. Then they got silly and greedy this spring: and 'upgraded', introducing lots of flashy unnecessary features their rivals had, and at the same time lost a lot of the better features their rivals didn't have like actual real members, and very good search tools. Under the old site you could search by new members in your chosen area - not any more.
Under the old site you could do a very specific search that gave you the mst recently active members first - not any more. Under the old site you were either a paid up member, or not - not any more. Now there are shades of membership, and the standard memberships costs the same as the old one, but there is a PLUS membership that allows you to talk to non-members but costs you twice as much: so you have to pay for THEIR membership.... If you don't do this you will get little action.
The new features also include IM - like what's the point???
If you want to talk on IM: go and talk on normal IM.
Other new features include the ability to not have a name, and use some weird handle - like the cheapo rival sites.
All in all, a sad deterioration in what was the king of the dating sites.
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