Hello daters out there,
Just a little reminder about one of the dating sites also featured in our reviews - Love & Friends. Although it’s maybe not the most popular of all the dating sites out there, it has some very attractive qualities for all those out there who are still in doubt whether to sign up to an online dating site or not.
Love & Friends is a paying site - that means it effectively keeps out most of the bogus profiles and weirdos. Who wants to waste their time on those? At the same time, Love & Friends offers that little bit of extra that other paying sites don’t. Free messages.
Yes, you heard me. Free messaging. That means you get to read your emails to other members AND reply to them too. As a free member you get a quota of replying to three messages every 24 hours (and even more if they ones you’re replying are paying members) and your mail size is limited to 500 characters… but that’s still infinitely more than other paying sites give you.
It comes in so handy for all those out there who are still new to the world of online dating or who hesitate for one reason or another and aren’t keen to pay up before they know for sure that they are interested and that the service can deliver results. A fine gesture by Love & Friends indeed.
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From Friday the 28th to Monday 31st of August, eHarmony are offering a Free Weekend allowing users complete access of the site including free communication with, and visibility of your matches.
We’ve been impressed at how eHarmony’s been growing in the UK. Increased TV advertising and media exposure means it’s now a serious contender for Match.com in the race to establish itself as the most popular UK dating site.
Thinking of subscribing at eHarmony after your free weekend? Then find how how much eHarmony costs in our previous blog article.
Get your free weekend at eHarmony here
For a comprehensive look at eHarmony you can also read our eHarmony Review
It’s not easy to find out how much eHarmony is to join before you’ve actually completed your personality profile (which can take a while!) so we created a profile of our own so you can see up front what the eHarmony prices are.
The image below shows the most up to date eHarmony UK subscription costs and payment plans. It’s good to see the 3 and 12 month prices have dropped considerably since we last checked while the 1 month and 6 month rates have remained the same.
Current eHarmony UK Membership Prices
Sign up at eHarmony here
Which subscription’s best for me?
Well unless you’re super confident you can meet your match within a month you’ll get the most value from your cash with the eHarmony 12 month subscription which can be split into 3 monthly payments of £39.80 (over the first three months). Working out at only £9.95 a month it’s a great value way to use the site at your own pace and get to know several potential matches/dates without the added pressure of worrying about the days on your subscription ticking down.
What happens once I’ve signed up?
Once you fill in your first name, email address, postcode and password you then go straight on to eHarmony’s personality profiling questions. It can take 20 minutes or more to complete but it’s worth taking your time on the questions as you’ll be surprised how much they reveal about who you are and who might be a good match for you. Once you’ve completed all the questions you can upload a photo or skip that step and start finding out who eHarmony has recommended as good matches for you.
Until you subscribe you won’t be able to see profile pictures but you can see member profiles to get an idea of how it all works. Keep a look out while you’re browsing the site as you might get a pop up offering you 3 months for the price of one. Don’t know how often it appears but it did for us after an hour or two, nice deal if you can get it.
Summary of eHarmony Subscription Costs:
- 1 month: £34.95
- 3 months: £59.85 (equivalent to £19.95 a month)
- 6 months: £14.95 (equivalent to £14.95 a month)
- 12 months: £119.40 (equivalent to £9.95 a month)
Read our comprehensive eHarmony Review
Quick post to let you know that from Friday the 3rd of July to Sunday the 5th of July eHarmony are opening the doors to their site for a free weekend of full access for anyone that signs up over that period. This means free communication emails and complete visibility of your matches.
To entice you further they also have a summer subscription offer giving you 30-40% off subscription fees, pretty good if you ask us.
Sign up at eHarmony here
For more info you can also read our eHarmony Review
Access all areas at Match.com for a grand total of £0.00
We just got wind that for a limited time Match.com are reprising their 1 week free membership offer that proved such a hit last year.
Unlike some other dating websites that offer a ‘free trial’ this Match.com 7 day trail gives you 100% full access to the site meaning you can reply to emails, winks and basically have all the benefits that a paid membership brings you.
The good news is there’s no strings attached. If you decide it’s not for you at the end of the 7 days then you’re under no obligation to continue, just wave goodbye and you’re gone with your credit or debit card still safely tucked in your pocket.
If you decide that you like it after trying it out and you get chatting to some potential dates you may be interested in continuing a conversation with then you’ll get the option of moving on to a 1 month, 3 month or 6 month subscription with all your free trial messages and conversations kept intact.
Not sure if Match.com would be a good fit for you? Well there’s 6.5 million members for a start but why not read our Match Review to see what we thought and why we opted to give it our highest review score of 90%.
Sign up for your Free 1 Week Match Membership Here
Okay, now it’s getting interesting. A couple of months ago I posted a blog article about dr Helen Fisher’s theory of four personality types of Builder, Negotiatior, Explorer and Director and how your love-life comes down to your personality type and the chemicals in your brain. (Those who want to know more about personality types might want to read my dating personality types overview of the four types or take a personality test at Match.com to find out which type they belong to.)
However, it turns out there’s a new way of finding that perfect match and it comes down to one of the most popular new sciences - gene technology.
As it turns out there’s a new form of genetic matching in town and it’s fast gaining popularity, turning on its head ‘conventional’ ideas about online dating.
I am talking about the Genepartner.com website, which seems to be causing a stir amongst those looking online to find that compatible partner. Apparently, what the Switzerland-based company does is ‘make love connections based on genes, or one particular family of genes known as human leukocyte antigens (HLAs)’.
The whole theory isn’t just some random idea by an enterprising science bod, designed to make them more money (although I believe that it WILL make someone very rich, as it’s just so new, so original and so audacious). It’s been carved up in the laboratories of Bern University in Switzerland and although my scientific background is too poor to make anything out of that fact alone, it certainly looks and sounds impressive (even if it does involve a group of students-guinea pigs going around, smelling each other’s t-shirts for a couple of weeks).
The idea behind it is, however, ancient. As it turns out, GenePartner is built on the idea that ‘opposites attract’, but behind the trivial idea is a very clever plan. One that is expected to be scooped up by various internet dating websites once they get their head around it. Apparently there has been already at least one dating site that is interested in genetic matching - Sense2Love.com plans to include genetic matching already this summer.
If you guys want to know more about your genetic matches before the British sites add it on their pages, you can always fork out $99 and order a GenePartner test. Basically it means a saliva sample that needs to be posted to the company. It will then take around two weeks for your GenePartner ID to be mailed back to you and you can then start using the GenePartner database.
The company hopes to make the process so smooth in the future that the singles might be able to tote their DNA profiles with them as they flit from one online dating site to the next.
The whole idea sounds crazy… and yet so genius! Read more here.
From today until the end of May the quality dating website Parship are offering visitors a 50% discount on a one month subscription. Get full premium membership including comprehensive compatibility testing for only £19.90 instead of the usual £39.80!
If you’re still undecided about joining Parship why not check out out review below to get a better idea of what they offer and why we thought they stood out from other dating sites. In our view Parship is one of our favourite sites for anyone seriously looking for more than a fling, they take finding someone compatible for you seriously and we’re sure you won’t be disappointed.
Read our comprehensive Parship Review
I was browsing the net to find new interesting online dating sites and clicked on a site called Conjugal Harmony. Kind of freaked me out. It’s a professionally designed site that advertises itself as a site of the latest craze in adult dating, dating and marrying inmates for conjugal visits. It even claims happily: ‘All the sex, none of the nagging!’
No way, I thought. I’ve seen my fair share of weird stuff here online, but isn’t this a bit over the top? I mean, this is what they actually write on their website: ‘With a conjugal marriage, you will finally have a wife with the perfect amount of freedoms and rights, and more importantly, you will finally start enjoying your own.’
And this is just a start. The site goes on about how it is important to get to know your conjugal online date through emails and visiting in order to ‘get a face-to-face (through glass with a telephone) to make sure this is the right person for you.’ They even promise to draft up all the necessary paperwork in their California office and arrange for an ordained minister to meet you at your next visitation and perform the nuptials!
Huh???
This goes on and on and seems utterly believable, with the big green sign: Click Here to Register right underneath it. It’s not until you browse through the profiles of the alleged users that you start thinking this might be just a mock-up after all…. Or not?
Anyway, have a look at Conjugal Harmony and send a link to some of your more gullible friends. Who knows, they might even fall for it?
