Date.com

Free membership:

Yes.

• Search the database for profiles you like
• Post your profile with a photo
• Search for profiles in your home town
• Send a flirt (show interest) - although you need to pay to communicate any further
• Read advice features and other articles on site

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Paid membership:

With a paid membership you can:

• Post your profile with a photo
• Use the search function
• Use live web video and audio instant messaging
• Use the chatroom
• Appear at the top of search results
• Send flirts
• Send messages to other members using onsite email

Open to: Worldwide, but focuses on USA, Canada and UK

Payment options: Major credit card, or check

Renewal: Automatically renews to a monthly membership if you don?t cancel or choose another subscription length.

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Features: Features:

• Photo profiles
• Search function
• Secure onsite email
• See who's online
• Web video
• Audio instant messaging
• Onsite articles and advice features

We like:

It’s handy to be able to see how many people are online once you’ve logged in (over 4000 when we first signed on). It’s hard to tell how many members some dating sites have (if any!), so this is reassuring.

There were also a surprising number of matches in the reviewer’s home town (Back of Beyond, Ontario population 13,000), which we didn’t really expect.

They have some very high tech features for paid members (web video and audio instant messaging).

The site has a really nice web magazine (under Advice on the home page), with loads of articles and advice for the lovelorn. You can read this for free without even signing up.

We don’t like:

This site bills itself as the “premier free online dating service” but it’s really no more free than any of the other paid sites. You still need to pay to communicate with other members (other than flirting), so that’s a bit cheeky.

Click here to visit the Date.com home page

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Susie was tired of being "cute".

She wanted to be a bad girl.