Let’s face it, most of us have probably considered or even tried a free online dating site. It seems like a good idea at the time, and since we don’t have to part with any money, we think we don’t stand anything to lose. What we may not realise however, is that free sites are essentially a wasted chance to succeed in the web dating game – except that rather than getting a good, reliable service, instead we are wasting our time with a service that doesn’t even manage to match us with anyone remotely suitable.
Recently, I decided to try a free cyber dating site or two to see what they had to offer. The first site I tried claimed to be a South African dating site, and at first glance seemed legit. After joining and taking time to post a profile, I soon started getting emails from singles who came from the UK, Russia, Turkey and even India… but not a single one from South Africa! Even worse, every one of the emails was on the dodgy side – one or two even offered me money to assist them with a project that is too awful to even think about. Needless to say, I deleted my account as quickly as I could.
The next site I tried seemed more on the level, with an intensive sign up process where I had to give my preferences on a huge range of aspects from looks to career, income, children, smoking, drinking, beliefs, interests and many other factors. After spending a good half hour or so doing this, I was finally done – only to find out that I couldn’t upload a profile picture, no matter how hard I tried. I also couldn’t access any features beyond browsing galleries – the hidden costs suddenly amounted to a huge sum that was even more of a shock considering that the site was promoting itself as a free service.
Why should you pay for dating services you may be wondering? The answer is simple – free services are purely there to lure people into joining, without any security, without proper matchmaking, without any good features and without the quality and reliability that you would get from a good paid service. With a service like Head Over Heels, you don’t even have to fork out a huge amount – membership plans are just R145 a month for a full membership. That means access to all the features you need, for less than the cost of a single date.
For that small membership fee, you will have the peace of mind of an online dating site that is easy and safe to use, with a range of features, hundreds of singles and no random messages from Boris in Russia – only relevant, South African matches.
Still not 100% sure?
Head Over Heels is giving iMod readers great way to try out their awesome dating service – sign up using the codes IMOD or IM0D, and you will receive a limited membership discount of two months for the price of one!
Check out www.headoverheels.co.za and find out why singles all over the country are signing up for a chance to connect through the hottest online dating service around.
Like all things in life, you get what you pay for. :)
.. and when you don’t pay, you never really get!
Am a young boy of 22 and am luking for a girl to dating