Date.com Review

Love, romance even marriage, there's a very good chance you just might find it here. Over the years the Date.com dating service has had a high success rate when it comes to helping singles make real love connections.

Date.com claims to have been in operation since Valentine’s Day, 1997. In internet terms it makes them a dinosaur, but it sure doesn’t mean they don’t know what they’re doing. In fact, this dating service has as many features as any dating site out here and a membership base of over ten million as well.

What's FREE!

• Free express signup
• Create a free profile
• Search and view profiles
• Send icebreakers
• Send winks
• Receive and reply to e-mail
• Anonymous mailbox

In order to meet all of these people, you’ll have to register at least a free membership. This is a multi-stage process at Date.com. You start with your basic information, stuff like where you are (down to the city, which is helpful), what you look like (age, hair, eyes, height, weight, body type), and how you live (occupation, faith, whether you smoke, drink or have kids).

Then you’ll move on to describing the kind of person you’d like to meet, using pretty much the same kind of information. The options are pretty much unlimited here, so if you really want to meet that 6’6" tall redhead insurance salesgirl from Guyana here’s your chance.

Lastly there are some pretty quirky essays to further help describe yourself. 1) What traits do you find attractive? 2) Ask a question that someone can answer in their first letter to you. 3) If you could "do lunch" with anyone, who would it be, and why?

Searching at Date.com is similarly thorough, with options up the digital wazoo. You could just scope out "who’s online" or perform a basic search by age and location, or go hardcore and get super-picky with the advanced search feature.

Use the Auto Match system to find love matches based on what you entered in your personal profile, or, let the stars guide you - features an in-house astrologer that shows you what astrological sign you are most compatible with, then gives tips on how to peak that type of person's interest.  You can save your search types and even see who you’ve looked at and who’s looked at you!

If you want to get in touch with that cutie firefighter from Chicago, though, you’re limited to just "show interest" unless you fork up the dough. Becoming a "GOLD" member gives you a bazillion ways to get in touch, including regular email, instant messaging, chat rooms with live audio and video.

Rates run from $24.95 (U.S. dollars) for one month to $7.99 a month if you sign up for a year. With Date.com’s ten million current members and 250,000 new ones joining each month, hanging around for a while might be a pretty good idea. $7.99 is what, two drinks at the bar? And the only person that’s going to step on your toes is the cat.