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Dating: Personals with Photos & Online Matchmaking Services
Dating Services - who do we recommend?
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| Network: | One and Only | None | AltMatch.com |
| General: | One of the largest. Tens of thousands of personal ads. Special section for people with disabilities. | A singles resource site as well as a dating service. Fewer ads (Profiles) but more to do onsite. | The "alternative" or "extreme" branch of One and Only. |
| Aimed at: | Straight, gay and bi | Straight only | Gay/bi singles and couples, transgenders and groups |
| Photos: | Yes, up to one per ad | Yes, up to four per Profile | Yes, up to one per ad |
| Voice Files: | Yes | Yes | No |
| Explicit Sexual Content: | No | No | Yes |
| Email Notification of New Ads: | Yes, free | No, but can search Profiles by date | Yes, free |
| Free Services: | Placing ad, searching ads, email notification of new ads, receiving responses to your ad, Chat Room, articles | (Free Membership Required): Creating Community Profile, responding to Community Profiles, receiving responses via internal EMail to your Profile, Chat Room, questions to Relationship Advisors. (Open to Guests): browsing ads, general site resources excluding above. | Placing ad, searching ads, email notification of new ads, receiving responses to your ad |
| Paid Member Services: | Responding to ads | Responding to all Profiles, internal EMail address book | Responding to ads |
| Help with Ads: | General advice, sample ads | Profiles organised under headings | General advice |
| Confidentiality: | Responses to your ads keep your identity confidential. If you respond to an ad though, your email address is included with your response | All contact can be made through the internal EMail service for as long as you like. There's also a "Privacy" status which prevents anyone from seeing your profile until you EMail them | Responses to your ads keep your identity confidential. If you respond to an ad though, your email address is included with your response |
| Watch Out For: | Paid memberships are renewed automatically until cancelled. | Paid memberships are renewed automatically until cancelled. | Paid memberships are renewed automatically until cancelled. |
| Verdict: | A popular, professional service, with a huge database of ads. They claim 78,000 searches a day. Some ads are bound to be out of date but the email notification works well to counteract that. The site has some new content features, but it still basically exists for browsing and answering ads. | A community as well as a dating service. We like the very comprehensive profiles and the free Community Member facility, and the internal email keeps your details confidential. | Obviously nothing like as many ads as the other two services, so if you narrow your search too far you're likely to be disappointed. Perhaps not surprisingly, there are fewer photos here and the ads are predominantly placed by and aimed at gay/bi singles. |
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