LavaPlace.com overview, online dating site review

LavaPlace.com

LavaPlace.com overview

International Dating Service.

LavaPlace.com overview:

LavaPlace.com is an example of an international dating site.  Serving over 210 countries, they are attempting to take on the "world" of dating.  In place of charging a subscription for their services, they feature advertisers as their primary revenue source.  LavaPlace appears to be a site that's in flux.  They have elements of a social networking site and those of a dating site.  We'll evaluate them strictly for how they meet the needs of dating members.

The Lave Place site has sort of a 90's look to it, even though dating websites really didn't emerge until about the 2000 -2001 time frame.  Still, it has an old school appearance with its design and particularly its structure.  Although it is relatively easy to navigate, the site has a lot of stuff on the screen at all times making it quite cluttered. The images and text aren't as orderly or as logically arranged as we're accustomed to.

LavaPlace.com Features:

• Create your own profile and upload your pictures.
• Search for members within your local area.
• Browse other members' profiles, check out the photos they've uploaded.
• Send  "Kisses" to other members.
• Send and receive e-mails
• Mutual Match feature
• Favorites folder
• View Similars  (members whose profiles have key similarities)
• Instant messenger
• Who's viewed you
• Who's favorited you
• Blocklist any members whom you wish to ignore. 
• Excellent technical support.

Performing a Search on LavaPlace.com:

• A full search facility is available, allowing members to search by:
  • gender 
  • keyword
  • zodiac sign
  • hair / eye color
  • race
  • relationship type
  • language spoken
  • children
  • particular interest
  • age range
  • marital status
  • location where you live
  • whether the member has pictures posted
  • religion
  • smoking
  • height
  • body type

 As a free site with a severely limited membership, there is nothing to  talk about value-wise. LavaPlace are suitable as a small social networking location. However,  Many of top ranking dating sites are international sites with over 20 million, most of whom who are highly active on-site. So you should find candidates and prospects no matter where in the world you reside.

LoveAccess.com overview, online dating site review

LoveAccess.com overview

LoveAccess.com
Where Life and Love click

LoveAccess.com overview:
Getting registered proved simple yet tedious.  There were quite a few checkboxes to get through but the process was straightforward.  While there's a temptation to just breeze through this registration process, it's best to take your time and get it right the first time as this will have a direct impact on your potential matches. If some characteristic about a potential mate is important to you but you accidentally check the box for 'not important',  this will be reflected in the members' traits that you are matched with.

When performing a search as a free member, you're given some basic parameters but most of the search criteria will have been entered by you in the registration step.  Our search turned up more than 230 members all from within a 15 mile radius of our location (Orlando, Florida).  That  high number of results may not mean much, however, as we noticed that the vast majority of these members hadn't been logged-in to the site for over a month.  This suggests that those members may have lost interest with LoveAccess and moved on.  We must give credit to Love Access for placing the "last online" information in a prominent position, right on the members listing, as some sites make you dig into the last section of the members profile (if it's even available) to see when members were "last online".  

LoveAccess.com Features:

• Create and update your very own profile and post your photos for free.
• Perform free searches for other members that reside nearby.
• Browse other members' profiles and view their pictures.
• Show interest to members for free
• Create your own hotlist of favorite members.
• Blocklist  members you wish to ignore.
• Email alert system  (to your own off-site e-mail, i.e. Gmail, hotmail, AOL, Yahoo!, etc)
• Chat room access with private option
• Private chat room
• Priority placement in member matching (Premium members only).
• Email other members using Love Access's e-mail system (Premium members only).
• Instant message other members including text, audio and video (Premium members only).

Performing a Search on LoveAccess.com:

• A full search facility is available, allowing members to search by:
  • gender
  • age range
  • location to within 10 miles of where you live
  • whether the member has pictures posted
  • ethnicity 
  • religion
  • education
  • smoking
  • drinking
  • height
  • weight
  • has/wants children

So, in conclusion, LoveAccess doesn't deliver much for free members. It seems to have a stale membership and doesn't provide good value for money.  The membership is small for an International site which will severely limit any dating options you may try to get.  The site features some good technology but do you want to give away thirty bucks to find out the technology works nicely but you can't find anyone you want to meet? If you want to increase your chances of finding someone suitable, then we suggest that you check out our top 10 dating sites or even a couple of the 100% free sites we reviewed  (yes,  they aren't all bad). Those sites should deliver some fruitful leads, in return for your time and money.