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Geek 2 Geek
I am Spencer Koppel, the owner of Geek 2 Geek. Our mission is to provide a means by which geeks and people who want to meet geeks can find each other. We have over 200,000 members, mostly in the United States, but also Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. A free membership is available, offering people the opportunity to look around and see if there are any members who are of interest to them. They can even "wink" at other members and/or designate them as "favorites" to see if there is mutual interest before making a commitment to pay for further communication.
We make every effort to screen out "spammers" through our review process, but a very small proportion get through - when we find them, we delete them immediately.
It is absolutely true that we charge a fee, in the form of a subscription in order for members to communicate with each other beyond "winks", and that we do not provide refunds of subscriptions. That is our policy after we carefully considered the alternatives. Also, the premium membership is clearly labeled a "subscription" which by definition implies recurring payments.
This subscription model has indeed resulted in complaints to the Better Business Bureau. Each such complaint has been addressed by me personally, however, it hasn't been possible in all cases to satisfy each customer.
We've had many success stories, happy couples, weddings, and even children subsequently born as a result of members finding each other on Geek 2 Geek. Of course, not everybody has had success. We are constantly trying to improve the site to increase that success rate.
P.S. I apologize for including my own 5 star rating, but rating is required and I could hardly rate it any lower, could I?
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While I do understand the negative comments, and would never in my life give away my cc number to this site, I have. Found some amazing people to talk to since being a free member I can contact the gold members. There I have found one specific wonderful guy, after talking a bit we met and are in a great relationship today. Maybe some people are just lucky. But don't judge before you have tried yourself, as long as you keep from giving away your credit card number.
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I have had a free account for a year and have met a lot of wonderful friends and have finally upgraded to a paid membership so that i have the ability to send messages and not just winks. All the stuff out there not being real people on the site is bull, your winks didn't get responded to because the person you winked at didn't want to talk to you...it's not a prostitution site! You don't get responses from every person you try to talk to!
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I don't understand the negativity toward geek to geek. I joined because I wanted to find someone with the same interests as me. I found the love of my life within a month. It was completely worth the money and I didn't have to waste any time on eharmony or match.com.
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YoYoYo, Ricky here, i'm a big Jock that plays a lot of foot ball but secretly love me some nerdy women i recommend this site big time. I have got my satisfaction with it a few times so far!
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@Liar Liar Well, that's a new one. I wish I did own it. But I don't. Really. And as to its growth, I don't know, other than that they advertise a lot on Google, maybe Google works (or do you think that's a scam too?) And, I guess Alexa and Compete.com are complicit in it as well.
There's a big difference between pay dating sites and free ones. Basically you get what you pay for. I found my match on Geek 2 Geek.
As to the practice of automatically renewing, they're doing exactly the same as what Match.com and all the other pay sites do. Match.com even goes one further. They get you to sign up for a "Free trial" membership, all you have to do is give them your credit card info. If you look closely, though, unless you send them a hard copy letter canceling your free membership in the next two days, they charge your credit card on the third day.
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@Mike I found my match here; we're getting married next Feb. It's a great idea, and, while it's a pay site, what's $20 when you figure a date is gonna cost a lot more, even if you just go to a movie and get a snack after (which is what I did). As to the auto-renew, I un-checked the box and it worked fine. I have them to thank for what I hope is a lifetime of happiness. Thanks to them.
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After being a member of the site for just a couple of weeks, I found the guy of my dreams. Well, actually, he surpassed anything I could ever dream of. After almost three months together, I am crazy happy and have found the person I want to be with for all time. I would recommend the site to anyone that is looking for someone that appreciates geekery and its subsidiaries.