Mate1 Opinions
There are two services that are returned by Google when you search for Mate1 Dating:
mate1, an online dating agency that claims to have 6.5 million profiles and is free for women;
mate1dating, which has a warning before you enter it that the site contains explicit material.
This post is intended for you to add your comments in terms of testimonials and reviews of mate1. If you have tried mate1, please add your views to this article, whether you found it good or bad! I will eventually compile all views aired into a single summary review for the benefit of readers of the site.
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March 4th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
I have used Mate 1 off and on for a couple of yrs. if i remeber correctly and have enjoyed meeting ppl there and have met some really nice men there .I recently rejoined again and have been back in mate 1 for 7 days .What i do not understand is why my photo’s are still not posted .This has never happened and i very much followed all guidlines concerning the proper pictures .This is becoming very annoying to me.If there is a problem then why not notify me ,if not why not post my picture’s .I am very unhappy about this and am very surprised as well >While being in Mate 1 before i never had any problem’s and i consider it a great place .Please would someone fix this problem .I have written customer service 4 times and got one reply which was the same info given in Mate 1.I hope this matter can be resolved soon.
Thank you ,
Terri Clark
March 6th, 2006 at 2:27 am
Hi Terri,
I certainly hope that someone at Mate1 can help you with your photo problem! Does anybody else have the same problem with Mate1?
April 14th, 2006 at 1:33 am
My now wife contacted me on Mate1. We fell in love and were married this past January. I am 74 and she is 62 and we are crazy for each other. However, although I have hidden my profile on Mate1, I still occasionally get some woman (always young) that wants to chat. They are always an ambassadore and I feel it is just a come on to try and get me to rejoin.
August 29th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Mate-1 is a scam! I put my profile on just to see what would happen…I did not join. I have had over 21 emails from girls all over the country and none of them fit my profile. Plus I am out of their age requirement. These are scams to try to get me to join. If you want an honest site go to passion.com they have so many members they don’t need any scams.
September 10th, 2006 at 12:54 am
I submitted the basic profile – no added description, interests, etc. – and am currently a ‘guest’ user. Interestingly, within twenty-four hours I received notices of three emails: Chicago, Aspen, and a location purportedly within my home State. Unfortunately, the location named in the email does not exist in my State as a town, city, village, county, or any other entity recognized by the office of the Secretary of State. Okay – maybe it’s actually someone’s driveway. I would strongly suggest that Mate1 at least try to use the names of existing State-recognized entities.
November 19th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
This site is not honest. All contacts I received are fake. Mate1 sended to me to make me full member.
It said 3-trial for 1,95$, if you dont cancel within these 3 days, You are automaticly billed 45$,,,,This is not honest.
In fact, mate1 doesn’t post the price of full membership on the site.
Money thats import this site.
Not recommended dating site
May 31st, 2007 at 11:21 pm
I agree, Mate1 is a scam. I used it for six months and only met one person, who was crazy and kept confusing me with someone else! Every time I decided to stop my membership I suddenly got these emails, I soon realised they were all Online Ambassadors working for Mate1 trying to con me into joining up again and paying more mugs’ money. I suspect half the women on there are fake – there are far too many attractive model types who cannot be desperate for male company none of whom give you the time of day so it is a waste. I cancelled my membership two months ago and in that time have had about 30 emails – all from Online Ambassadors! Of course to see what they have written I would have to join up again – no chance. Take my advice and avoid this site like the plague!
July 14th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Unlike other dating sites Mate1 labels their “bait” as “online ambassadors” so members can decide if its worth paying to read mail from it or not. When I joined mate1 the full membership price was mentioned in small print on the credit card page.
July 29th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I agree that Mate1 is a scam, i switched to SexyChill.com so much better than mate1 and plentyoffish, they are new but all i did was filling my profile and adding a layout, next day i was on the home page as hottest profile and got 19 email from them, best thing SexyChill is free
November 6th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
I can’t get a picture to download. All I get is PROXY ERROR and no picture
December 16th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Mate1 is the typical bad dating site which does everything possible to keep you from reaching its promised goal. It is poorly designed in every respect other than the parts designed to drain your bank account. It’s often accused of predatory billing practices and flimsy automated come-ons from shill members known as “Ambassadors”. The rest of the industry just calls them “bots”. Eventually after you quit their game and orphan your profile Mate1 will sell your address to the spam gangs. My full report is filed here:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/281/RipOff0281796.htm
See also this entertaining account of the Mate1 bait-switch from someone who wisely avoided remitting payment:
http://www.torrentialequilibrium.net/art0073.html
December 29th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Mate1 is a TOTAL SCAM. I start falling for this “babe” (whatever?), all kinds of excuses when asking for another pic, trying to discuss anything with depth. I got sucked into these 3 hour chats about nothing? Anyways, I did not buy into the OA (online ambassador) but just fell for one of the “model type” pics. Your mind can really play games when communication starts with your “new babe”. It all seems “too good to be true” and it is!
The REALLY SAD thing is that I’m on there because with the business start-up i’m involved with I just don’t have time for dating or (for internet games). Oh well, i tried. BEWARE: of the scam, The 1.95 intro is a scam. Way down at the bottom of the email you find out they bill you 49.95 if you don’t “cancel” a 3 day trial. (WHY do you have to cancel a trial) This is deceptive and I will have credit card charge back, this is fraud. The “model” keeps you “chatting” long enough to get u over the “trial”. Scam, Scam Scam.
PT Barnum said, “a sucker is born every minute” For a few days, i was that sucker.
NO MORE MATE1 !!!!!!
January 25th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I want to cancel my 3 day trial now
January 28th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
After rejoining this site for the second time, I’ve finally come to the conclusion that it is a total ripoff and scam. Like alot of others have said, I often get contacts from OA’s and members way younger than I specified. I agree that Mate 1 does everything they can to scam members and I will never rejoin!!
February 13th, 2008 at 4:52 am
I have been on Mate1 for over a year and have found it to be a lot of fun. Yes, it is true that the Online Ambassadors are there to keep you paying, but I always ignore them. I get enough response without them.
Yes it is true that it is about $50 per month, but this is truly a website that you can find a good wife on. This is because many of the women, especially the foreign bred ones are very very serious about finding a mate. This is not the site for casual meeting. You just have to know which emails to ignore. Fortunately those girls who just want entrance to the USA, will actually tell you.
It is best to report the scammer emails, which come at least one per week. This does not make the site look good. Because I have gotten my past 2 girlfriends from Mate1 and am still dating seriously one of them and the other I turned into a friend, I would say that it is worth it. IF you want a beautiful girl from mate1, you will have to get one from far away and sometimes from another country. Note that neither of my 2 girlfriends, both within the last year, lived more than 30 miles away. Neither of these girls are ugly and both are very very sweet in many ways. It takes time and the website has its disadvantages.
The one thing I hate about the site is that they delete email addresses when you put it in an email to anyone who requests it. I’ve gotten over it, by getting it coded or getting the girls phone number.
Well, I may drop the site, but right now I’m still having much fun with it. Watch out for the “OA” denotation on any letter sent by a women…ignore these, they are a waste of time. If you only get mail from OA’s, don’t stay on the site or change your profile.
If you are not willing to have a Canadian girl or an Asian girl or European girl who lives in the USA, Mate1 may not be good for getting attractive women. All the attractive girls are not originally from the USA, but you American men should know better than to waste your time with most beautiful American women. They can’t cook, can’t make a decent living and can’t take care of their men. And many of them are on anti-depressants, alcohol or other drugs. I would only recommend this site to men who are serious and don’t mind getting emails from foreigners. I know I have enjoyed them tremendously. You can ask my girlfriend to vouch for that.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I used Mate1 for 6 months but did not renew. All contact from Mate1 stopped, just as it should have. However, now, several months later I find that £31.62 has suddenly been taken from my account by Mate1!
How could this happen? I really want a refund. This is outrageous!
Albert Budden
January 17th, 2010 at 3:34 am
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January 23rd, 2010 at 1:10 am
FROM START DATE TO WHEN YOU TRY AND END ANY DEALINGS WITH MATE1 YOUR NIGHTMARE WITH MATE1, WILL JUST HAVE BEGUN. TRUST ME STOP CANCEL YOUR CARD YOU USED WITH THEM. AND BOY IF ANYONE HAS GIVEN THE FAKE WOMAN ON THAT SITE THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS ASKING THEM TO TALK AT YAHOO.COM WELL YOUR PROBLEMS WILL START TO BEGIN.THINK ABOUT IT YOU GAVE THEM YOUR NAME AS WELL ETC I SAY NO MORE BUT WATH YOUR EMAILS THAT COME IN FROM JUST AN EMAIL THEY GATHER ALL INFO ON YOU HALF OF YOUR DETAILS GIVEN OUT TO THESE SCAMMERS COMES DIRECT FROM MATE1. IN MY OPINION CANCEL YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND MAKE A NEW ONE OR YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY FROM MATE1 AND THEIR SCAM.
January 23rd, 2010 at 1:22 am
THE FUNNY THING IS WHY WOULD ANY PERSON WHO HAS BEEN HAPPY WITH MATE1.COM COME ON THIS WEB PAGE OF COMPLAINTS AND HARP ON ABOUT HOW GREAT THEY HAVE BEEN TO THEM.
ITS TO MAKE OUT THAT THEY GET GOOD AND BAD REVEIWS AND AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED HAS BEEN PUT THEIR BY MATE1.COM THEM SELFS.
YOU SEE NOW THEIR LIKE A VIRUS THAT YOU JUST CANT CURE
February 8th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Well it amazes me that places like Mate1.com exist. I checked it out, but noticed from the get go that this wasn’t right, people asking for a chat and I hadn’t even posted my profile for 5 min lol, not to mention the stupid site has a X amount of people have checked out your profile, yet it showed a 0 and I had 1 email and 5 invites to chat within 30min of my “free” signup. Well done for making this site mate and warning the lonely hearts of the world of scum like this.
February 16th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Yes Watch out. Mate1 is a scam! I didn’t complete my profile and the immediately get over 21 emails from girls all over the country and none of them fit my partial profile. Plus I now get tons of requests to chat, all fake of course from the same dialog script.
February 21st, 2010 at 10:50 am
Mate 1 is a scam, never met one real person off this site. I didn’t even set a photo and I already had a couple e-mails in my box and people wanting to chat with me. In my opinion, total scam.
I have now switched to a site called Viviansguide.com, they screen each girl before you meet them, its really a high class site with really classy women, met a couple great women off there. Its also half the price of mate1.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:46 am
I’d have to agree with the above poster. Scam, scam, scam. I have also checked out Viviansguide.com as well, all I can say is HOT women, most of them verified and pre-screened. I would either go with this site or with a site like Plentyoffish.com where dating is free.
March 9th, 2010 at 8:45 am
20,000,000 members spread over 200 countries. 200? That’s more than the UN’s 192 (Okay, 193 if you’re counting the Vatican).
Just sayin.
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March 13th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
WARNING STAY CLEAR! Webcam.com strippers pose as single women via Mate1. They will try and con you into signing up for their webcam service which is just live porn and strippers. These strippers also claim that webcam.com is a partner site to Mate1 and everything is above board. THIS IS THE WORST DATING SITE I HAVE HAD ANY EXPERIENCE WITH. I was constantly bombarded with fake users! STAY CLEAR – especially if you’re male!