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Zoosk
Zoosk is a dating community that works with social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Simply add the dating application to your favorite social site, and you can join the Zooksers community, thousands of great people from countries all over the world.
Number of Members
The estimated number of active members using this site.
: 1.8 Million
Cost
The cost of joining the site as a basic member, for the shortest subscription period. Discounts may be offered for signing up for longer periods.
: 1 month - $29.95
Regions Covered: United States
Online Since: 2006
Category : Facebook Apps
URL : zoosk.com
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by Dawn Holderness
August 16th, 2010 at 09:43 AM
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August 16th, 2010 at 09:43 AM
I signed up for 1 month, and yet zoosk charged me again and automaticaly the next month.
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Zoosk
Zoosk is a fun and simply way to meet others in your area. It has its own Facebook application, and if you choose, you can sign up to Zoosk through your Facebook account. Facebook will offer you the choice of passing your email to the site, or you can skip this step and enter it yourself on the registration page.
Just provide your email and password on the first page, followed by your location on the next. After completing this step, you’ll be asked to provide some personal details and a Zoosk username. Some of this information is visible to other members on what’s called your “Date Card”. You can add as much detail as you like to your Date Card, including your likes and dislikes, your favorite music and films and who you would like to meet. You can also pick from a list of pre-set “ice breakers”, which are questions that will appear on your Date Card. Simply click any number of these, and anyone contacting you can give you their answers. You’ll also need to upload a photograph. Your profile will be active without a photo however you won’t be able to email other members without one.
If you choose, you can also invite your friends to write testimonials about you. By doing this, your contacts from your Hotmail, Live or Gmail email accounts will be sent a message asking them to write a testimonial for you. To complete this step, you’ll need to provide the password to your email account.
There are two levels of membership on Zoosk, free and premium. Premium members pay a monthly subscription fee, and can access all features on the site and communicate with others without any restrictions. Free members have some basic privileges, can send winks and flirts, and browse profiles. Free members can earn (or purchase) Zoosk Coins. These allow the purchase of certain things on the site, such as gifts, or they can be used to grant chat and email privileges (unlocking e-mail messages for example).
Coins can either be purchased directly with a credit card, or they can be earned, for example, by getting your friends to join to the site. Premium members will only need Coins for special purchases such as gifts, or special delivery emails.
Regions : United States | Religions : Any | Relationships : Friendship | Type : Facebook Apps
Browse Profiles : No | Male / Female ratio : 70:30 | Adult content : No
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GandalfTheWite | USA | July 13th, 2010 at 12:00 AM
If I could, I would give Zoosk Zero Stars, but to rate it all I have to choose one star. Not only is it pretty much a rip-off money-wise (no such thing as refunds or such) if you actually want to communicate with others as compared to just looking at a picture or two, but Zoosk violates personal privacy.
I have not read through the fine print in the initial agreement when you sign up, but the privacy violation includes the following:
1) Impersonating you
2) Sending unsolicited emails on your behalf
3) Still using your profile when you have already removed their app
4) Targeting your facebook friends with emails saying you "suggest" they should use Zoosk because you are "so happy" with it. Most of my friends that received such emails unbeknownst ...
voradtralunidr | USA | May 31st, 2010 at 12:00 AM
On at least three occasions I was able to make contact with women who advertised themselves as living near Baltimore Maryland. Additionally their contact information was available to me through their Zoosk profile - even though I am unable to provide contact information myself. Of those three contacts, two were from Ghana and one of them was from Russia. I have attempted to contact Zoosk about these frauds and advise them I WILL NOT PAY for a site that fails to vet their profiles. I have received refunds from both Yahoo Personals and Match.com for their failure to execute their editorial responsibilities. I have no intention of joining a website for dating that cannot guarantee the people I am contacting are real.
There is no incentive to pursue Zoosk as a dating alternative since they perform no better than any other pay site. True, eHarmony, Match.com and ...
jonathan | Australia | February 27th, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Zoosk can be a bit of a rip off. You have to be very careful if you have premium membership as it will automatically renew and you will be charged. On most sites that have a membership you can cancel on the same day that you signed up and the benefits of you membership will continue until the date expires. Not so with Zoosk: By cancelling your premium membership now, you immediately forfeit all your premium membership benefits. If you wish to continue taking advantage of premium membership benefits before the next payment is due, cancel at a later time (before the next payment is due.) So you have to remember to cancel as close as possible to the cut off date. This is outrageous; I view it as a scam. Zoosk says this about it: “We hate worrying about paying bills as much as you do. That's why we ...
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I signed up for 1 month, and yet zoosk charged me again and automaticaly the next month.
I think this is the WORST online dating site I have ever used! When you get charges from them for an escort service in London you will feel the same way too.
I don’t like the fact that i have to subscribe to read my messages and chat with friends; it just makes me not want to waste my time being on Zoosk.
I don't understand what the deal is with the 29+ dollars a month that's just robbery. More like 5 bucks a month and you would have tons more clients. I for one will not pay that much for a singles site and not many I know will when there are free ones out there. Try lowering the price a lot and see what happens. Even if it were under 10 dollars a month on a non regen account.
Not a good dating site. Free membership is useless. It lets you see flirts, but after one exchange each, it blocks not only future messages, but previous messages as well. It will let you exchange phone numbers, but not emails. No one in their right mind would give phone numbers in the one (and only) initial message you are allowed to send?? It offers no trial membership. I assume because few would go past that point. There is no privacy in viewing other profiles. If you view someone, there is no way to block them from knowing. Therefore if you don't like their profile, you still are hounded with their responses. The dating pool seems very limited. After a few days (or right after you join), most profiles are either obviously fake, or very strange, undesirable people. The cost is extremely high considering they offer much less options/features than other dating sites. I'm also disappointed that you cannot use Paypal with the one month subscription, but only with the longer ones. If you DO choose to purchase a subscription and quickly decide to cancel, there is no refund and you are cancelled immediately (could be $100's of dollars wasted). Thank goodness though, I didn't pay for more than a month. Lesson learned! I give Zoosk a fat "ZERO". They apparently are spending all their money on advertising rather than creating a great site that can carry itself.
I was initially reluctant to join Zoosk because of its relatively high monthly price of $30 to try it out. But what lured me to take the plunge was the large number of local chicks posted. And I went ahead with a full-scale effort for three evenings in a row, messaging a total of well over a hundred females, ranging in age from 18 to over 40. I was respectful, and kept things short, telling them to please read my profile, then email me if interested, including my email address. The profile was worded pretty much the same as I had done on other sites, and it had generated a fair number of responses. Over 50 on AsianPeopleMeet, for example. But I got absolutely NO replies from any of my over 100 messages. So I must presume that Zoosk is just a site where women like to post about themselves, with no more seriousness about meeting people than posting comments on YouTube. So I will warn everyone looking to actually meet people to NOT waste your money. Try another website for that.
I will try posting this giving a ZERO stars rating. But if you see that I gave one star, that means I was forced to do so against my will. For, to me, zero replies to my messages warrants a zero star rating, agreed?
Glad to be a part of something worth while thank i love to meet people and share with friends.
I have paid my dues but cannot get on, site does not recognize me as a member. Sam
Zoosk is a huge rip-off. It's the only dating site I've ever seen where BOTH you and the person you write to have to be premium members in order to read or write to each other. It took a little while to figure out, but it turns out that if you are NOT a premium member you can send only ONE e-mail to a particular person but cannot read their e-mail if they respond! If someone writes to you, you can read the first e-mail they send to you, and can write ONE e-mail back but then cannot read any further e-mail from them nor write to them again.
Even if you pay the whopping $195 for a year premium membership, unless the other person is ALSO a premium member, they can only read one e-mail from you and respond one time.
It is not free. Either you or the person you're talking to has to be a premium member, since 99% of members don’t pay, you will have to pay if you want to talk with anyone, since you can’t say anything like phone numbers or email addresses.