LoveLace Posted June 5, 2010 Posted June 5, 2010 Any experience with date tall men.com? I peaked at it one day and created a profile, but it's a little pricy to actually send mail to anyone. Suddenly today I get notified of mail and find like 20 messages there. The photos all look extremely glossy and professional, (for the most part), and the subject lines of the messages are "can I cook for you?" and non-ordinary kind of phrases...also all the guys are very far away, several states away or even in other countries. If he lives in London and I"m in the USA, I think cooking for me might be kind of hard? lol Anyway what if I did want read some of these messages? I'd have to upgrade by paying $70 up front. Why would I pay that when most of the guys are 2 plane rides away? Hey I"m not saying I'm against LDR's, but I'm not a huge fan of dating someone not even close to my time zone. The point is, I got an inkling that many of these messages and profiles with the exception of 1 or 2 really seem fake. If I'm wrong about that I'm dying to know if all these trendy-looking model-like hopeless romantics are really writing me or if they are just made up!
carhill Posted June 5, 2010 Posted June 5, 2010 As a woman, you will get plenty of attention on *any* dating site, so why not stick to those which have established reputations and reasonable and predictable subscription costs? The site you referenced is using a domains by proxy service to obfuscate their ownership information, unlike established high traffic sites like yahoo and match, so that would be a negative in my book. Scam? IDK. I don't think I would find out
Green Posted June 5, 2010 Posted June 5, 2010 As a woman, you will get plenty of attention on *any* dating site, so why not stick to those which have established reputations and reasonable and predictable subscription costs? The site you referenced is using a domains by proxy service to obfuscate their ownership information, unlike established high traffic sites like yahoo and match, so that would be a negative in my book. Scam? IDK. I don't think I would find out Yeah why not stick to a free site like OKcupid or one of the recognized pay sites like Eharmoney. I'm a TALL man by the way and I have never used internet dating. I always find my gf/dates in the real world.
Jilly Bean Posted June 5, 2010 Posted June 5, 2010 Never heard of it. But, that doesn't mean it's not legitimate. Why not try something more affordable like match.com?
Author LoveLace Posted June 6, 2010 Author Posted June 6, 2010 Oh no, I've used every site out there between free ones to Match to yahoo to Eharmony, you name it I've tried it, and tried them all much more than once. I've never had great luck with it. But when I stumbled across "Date Tall Men" .com I checked it out because I DO love tall/bigger men or whatever and thought I'd see what it was all about. I'm not considering joining as a member because as I said, none of the men appear to be anything near local or even a couple hours away, and beyond that I am not into LDR's. I didn't realize this was the case until I made a profile (for free) and received some messages. And since the overall appearance of these men and their profiles were um, let's say almost fantasy-like or too good to be true, I just wondered if anyone here heard of it before or had experience with it. Even if someone confirmed the profiles are all quite real, I couldn't join based on $ and distance, but after seeing it I was curious to know if it had a reputation of any kind out there...to me it really looks fake but I could be way off. Even on Match.com I have experienced what appears to be membership tactics. When I first join as a member, I will receive several messages or whatever, but since it's the same people there over and over, that eventually dwindles down to not receiving messages at all over a period of time; and the choices of who to send messages to get narrower too. So naturally after a period of no mail activity, I will not renew my membership...but my profile will stay searchable. THEN suddenly after some time, I'll start getting emails from Match that say "You have mail!", "He winked at you!", blah blah blah, suddenly I'm getting all this action again, but of course I have to join and pay money before I can do anything with that action. Some of the supposed messages will not have photos, or I will respond to the message and never hear back from them again...I've heard it before and I think it's true that the site (and others) simulates actual profiles and messages to keep your business. I mean, it's funny how I start getting no luck at all but when I'm not an active member I suddenly receive handfuls of interests? It has happened to me more than once, especially with Match. Don't get me wrong most of it is quite real and seems to bring a lot of luck to many people. But I have felt scammed like this by sites a few times I think, so Date Tall Men just had scam written all over it...but again, I could be way off.
brainygirl Posted June 6, 2010 Posted June 6, 2010 Plenty of fish is free and people will email you even if you don't want them too. Okcupid is free, has fun tests and questions and lots of people too. Why pay for something free?
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