Reviews of Lavalife

Joined to see who had sent mail...turned out to be a prisoner doing a life term in a prison in Bangladash. I cancelled but LL refuse to refund monies, even though There was no other communication or "match".

Turns out they do not check anyone and your profile obviously is viewed by all and sundry.

I was also alarmed by the category "intimate" and only saw this after I joined. If I wanted s -e-x only...I sure would not put my profile up on a "dating" site.

In all, a complete rip-off and conpletely unsafe, so beware.

if you spend enough time and money (like most things) it will pay off.
most of the women were poor and liars about thier appearance. but i did hook up alot. i was actually in a long term relationship with one
and some short term with others. one thing i must make clear to all the men reading this...you will not find a "good girl" here.
EVEYONE WAS BI-POLAR!

Lavalife used to be pretty good for meeting single women in the Montreal area. IMs were often returned and you could strike up a conversation with a good percentage of the women you contacted. Lately,especially since the site was revamped, there are very few women, mostly the same ones on all day long, you send smiles, they aren`t even recognized, which leads me to believe they are fake profiles. Alot of Russian women infiltrating the site as well. A waste of time and money. I doubt they will be around much longer. I`m going to Match.com.

For guys, Eric brings up a great point. NEVER join a site which is free for women. More than half on most sites aren't that serious about it to begin with, and that's when they are paying a monthly fee! When you're on any dating site, it's hard to meet someone when the ratios are so bad for a man, even if you are a good looking guy. I've been lucky meeting what I have met because I can write, and my pics are pretty solid.

Second, if you can't be smooth or original in your writing, don't bother signing up for anything other than eharmony- a site which sets up mutual matches/ selected one to one communications. On most sites the ratios are so bad that even a half-decent looking girl is made to be a Victoria's Secret model, and she'll probably have 75-150 e-mails in her inbox. The really hot ones will simply hide their profiles, and give me their e-mail address so we can communicate off of the site. Unless you've channeled Hemingway, or are clever and funny while not coming off as weird (yes, most of the best looking ones can be extremely judgmental), you aren't likely to get a response.

Ratios are bad online, etc. I once had a date on my arm walking in downtown La Jolla (when I lived in San Diego), and about 150 dudes were outside of this bar (Jack's now closed) oogling my date like she was the first woman they had ever seen. After the 50th dickhead approached one of the girl's in there, that wouldn't leave a guy with much of a chance, so I was glad I had a date that night.

You have to be creative and put yourself in situations where the ratios are actually to your advantage. If that means joining a yoga class, or taking a dancing or cooking class, swallow your pride, and ribbings from your guy friends- just do it.

I tried the lava life telphone dating and found it to be a horrible experience. First off, I understand the concept of men paying for the service and being totally free for women...but feel it to be unfair. I received numerous messages from women who stated they were looking to meet and date but never followed through with actualluy meeting. It also appears most of the women on this system are just there for the purpose of using your minutes. It didn't appear any of the women were serious. They are only on this site to "play games". I understand why they wouldn't take it seriously, since they are not financially invested in it.

I would not recommend this system to any fellows. It is a waste of your time and money.

I met the love of my life matt on lavalife chat.The only problem at first was the distance.I lived in utica he lived in hudson area.We met and hit it off.After a year and a half of long distance i pick up my life and moved in his area.Its going to be 4 years in september Weve been together. Im so glad i called the number!!!!!!!! :O)

I wish I saw these reviews first! Lavalife has hardly any users in the Boston area. I think there were about 16 users with pic's in the region... This was a very disappointing discovery after I thought I just needed to register to see all the search results. OKCupid has many users in my area, is free, and is a better designed site overall. Also, I don't know why people think these payed sites have more users--probably all the false advertising... in reality, hardly anyone pays to use internet dating sites... and it seems like if they are paying for it, they're definitely not getting what they thought they were paying for... If it's worth it to them, they probably aren't someone you'd want to actually date, lol.

i have been with lavalife for at least 10 years... and it has more then paid off.. THATS LAVALIFE OVER THE PHONE... no fuss no muss...

actually, lavalife is at its best over the phone... as far as the site, it is hurendas ripoff..

ive only been on the website a few times and quickly learned the scams performed by larva...

funny how long it takes for the females to respond to a friendly hello, or im interested are you?

funny how when you do get a response you usaully have 5 to 6 minutes left of the credit you bought...

funny how it is that you only get responses only after larva has determined that you have spent enough time and money to get a response... im not talking about credit time, but actually day and month time...

i have met 3 women from the larva and only due to the out of the ordinary time slots i spent that day on larva...

funny, how when i met some women from this line they actually admited to being paid by larva to have their profiles on their site..

so....... one night and day i got extremely erotated by the fact that i was not getting any resposes to my civil greetings that i decided to perform a expririment..

i decided to be nasty as possible with my greetings and low and behold i was getting responses left right and center...

hmmmmmmmmmmm.... why is it that these women would make time to immediatley respond and continue to fling the improper talk back and forth..

yes i reallize that women get lot of greetings so they can not respond immediatly, but how quick the resposnes came after my rudness...

women have actually told me that response timing is questionalbe as well ...

so i came to conclude that big brother named larva actually decides the fate of your money by the resposne time from the ladies...

HOWEVER... ive have also noticed that if you are to have a response (positive or negative) it will be within the first 2 minutes after sending a message.... if it takes longer then that you just wasted an entire time slot...

FUNNY, on their phone sites as well.... the same results seem to happen.... if you dont get a response with the first 2 minutes... forget about it... thats when they bring up the scanks of larva to waset your time and money....

over the phone, my success rate is 90% of the time for one night stances... there were longer periods as well...

and thats what i have to say on that...

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I actually met several (about 7) men from lavalife, all in the relationship section. I had a long list of requirments, and actually ended up meeting a wonderful professional - things were excellent for many months but then his behaviour became somewhat erratic. Turns out he had been married before (he had told me that he had never been married), he had lied about his age, he had kept his dating profile online even though he had told me he'd taken it down (I never thought to look, as I trusted him) and - most shockingly - one night he showed up at my house, looking unkempt and frightened, and told me that he is a schizoprenic and had been diagnosed about 12 years ago.

All this after thinking I'd carefully screened who I met. I tried to help him but he was very paranoid and very scared of me (I guess that's common with paranoid schizophrenia.)

In the end I managed to contact his family and they stepped in to help.

I know it isn't lavalife's fault, but I'll never try online dating again.