LavaLife.com overview, online dating site review

LavaLife.com overview

LavaLife.com

Where Singles Click.

lavalife.com overview:

Lavalife is based in Toronto, Canada, and was launched in 1997. As such it is very popular amongst Canadians, especially as the site is also available in French. However, following extensive publicity campaigns in recent years, the site has now become popular in many other countries, most notably the USA, UK and France, and has amassed an impressive 15 million registered users, making it one of the most popular dating sites on our list.

One of the main features of Lavalife is that it is effectively split into three different sections: a casual dating section; a relationships section; and an intimate encounters section. You can search separately in each of these sections and you can also include a different profile in each, making each one individually tailored to that specific arena. This means that Lavalife is essentially three dating sites in one! As such you may find that some of the profiles that come up when you search the intimate encounters section are a bit more steamy than those that come up under the relationships section! This means that whatever you're looking for, Lavalife has it all!

LavaLife.com Features:

• Over 15 million registered members
• Over 8000 new members daily!
• Comprises of three different dating arenas - casual dating, relationships, and intimate encounters. You may set up a different profile in each of these areas, effectively making Lavalife three dating sites in one!
• View members' full profiles as a free member
• Post your profile picture and upload many other pics to create a backstage photo gallery
• Send smiles to other members to signify your interest (must be registered as a free member to do this)
• Send e-mails to other members (must be registered as a premium member to do this)
• Free members get to reply to any emails sent to them, but cannot initiate contact themselves. This is a very useful feature, which all too many dating sites don't provide.
• Ability to see when a member was last online. Again, this is a really useful feature that too many dating sites don't have.
• Search for other members to within a one mile radius of where you live, for super targeted geographical searches!
• Live video chat with other members over your webcam
• Create hotlists of other members you like
• Instant message other members
• Also available in French
• Available through WAP on your mobile. Browse Lavalife on your mobile and get free text alerts on the go!
• Lavalife Notes - an online magazine that's sent to you by email, with interesting articles, stories, features, tips and advice
• Excellent technical support.

Performing a Search on LavaLife.com:

• A full search facility is available, allowing members to search by:
  • gender
  • sexual orientation
  • age range
  • location
  • zip code
  • radius to within 1 mile of your location
  • whether the member has pictures posted
  • who's online now
  • new members
  • members with photos or backstage galleries

Lavalife.com is free to join, and as we stated above, a free membership gets you unrestricted access to virtually all parts of the site, so you'd be fool not to sign-up for a free membership and at least have a look around this site.

Ge-Dating.com overview, online dating site review

Ge-Dating.com   aka: Great Expectations Dating
Your new Relationship Starts Right here!

Ge-Dating.com overview:
Based on our personal experiences, we cannot, in good conscience, recommend that you join Ge-Dating.com. They have demonstrated to us and, it would seem, to many others, that they have a very poor record of keeping their customers / members happy. 

As reviewers we aim for two things.  Firstly, we aim to provide a fair review, based on the way a site operates and services their members, in the context of other sites, within the same general category (we try to compare apples to apples etc). Secondly, we aim to refrain from outright negative critiques.  We feel it's tempting to over-react when focusing on what a site does improperly or if they are committing an oversight that results in doing a disservice to their members.   However, what follows is factual.

At the time of writing, GE-Dating are the website arm of a US-based nationally known matchmaking service called Great Expectations. The business uses live representatives although you sign-up online to become a member of Ge-Dating.  We assume that your information is electronically forwarded to the live representatives who contact you by phone within 24 hours. In attempting to join the site (in order to review it) we were stopped in the process because the site's sign-up form would not accept a cell phone (based in the USA) as a home phone.  

Ge-Dating.com Features:

• Over 50 locations across the US.
• Only available for US singles
• Over 30 years experience in the dating game
• Cross between a traditional dating site and a matchmaking site.
• All members are screened via telephone calls by a GE Dating Relationship Specialist to ensure members are serious about meeting and dating other singles. So you can expect a phone call from a relationship specialist soon after you join to discuss your matchmaking needs. No other dating site provides this!
• Sign-up to GE-Dating and create your own profile and upload your pictures for FREE
• Search for other members within your local area for free
• Browse other members' profiles, view their photos, check out any video greetings they've posted
• Create your own hotlist of members you like
• Create your own blocklist of members you wish to ignore. These members will then be blocked from contacting you in future.
• Check out the online magazine, packed with interesting articles, members' experiences, tips and advice to get the most from GE Dating.
• Complete privacy protection - no one will know your identity unless you explicitly tell them!
• Excellent technical support, including your very own relationship specialist.
• Email other members using GE Dating's internal e-mail system (you must be a premium member to do this)
• Instant message other members (you must be a premium member to do this)
• Access a multitude of public and private chat rooms. Private message other members in the chat rooms (you must be a premium member to do this)

Performing a Search on Ge-Dating.com:

• A full search facility is available, allowing members to search by:
  • gender
  • age range
  • marital status
  • location to within 1 mile of where you live
  • whether the member has any pictures posted
  • ethnicity
  • smoking
  • drinking
  • height
  • weight
  • plus any other features of a member's profile

It's possible that GE Dating have a third party marketing company that handles and hires its own representatives on a commission-only basis.  This scenario would bring about the conditions complained about on the net. These complaints are consistent and widespread. While we cannot substantiate their veracity, we can't help thinking that most of them may well be valid, especially after the response we received when we attempted to sign up to the site. For further informative complaints by their customers please Google "complaints about GEDating.com".