When you claim to have 50 million members, it’s no wonder why you are starting to see Zoosk advertise everywhere. Problem is, as I mentioned in previous posts, that a good chunk of these are fake profiles. Let’s look into this new discovery of a zoosk scam.
When shows like Desperate Housewives and Cougar Town got popular, matchmaking sites took notice and starting exploiting the “cougar”. In short, these are older attractive women (Courtney Cox hello) looking for encounters with younger men (Demi Moore – Ashton, list is longer than ever). Since this has become such a hotbed of activity, every single matchmaking site tries to market themselves as catering to the “cougar”. Problem is, Zoosk is using fake profiles to establish themselves in this manner. Great example is when I saw a hot 40+ year old blond in New York, Miami, and LA as active! Many sites like zoosk use these profiles to lure membership into paying for a membership. Shame shame shame.
If you’re the older woman or the younger man looking for this type of relationship, you need to use a site that only dedicated their membership base to that sort of thing. From the same people that brought dating for cheaters mainstream (Ashley Madison), they have a site that is growing with CougarLife (they even have a guarantee program).
It comes as no surprise that not all profiles on dating sites are real. I mean, don’t you ever laugh when you do a search and all you get are blond hair blue eyed women when you know your city is primarily spanish! In order to get a true zoosk review your really need to be a member to see for yourself. I do like that they tie in Facebook rather smoothly into their app.
However, it bothers me when I go onto a dating site and find married men posing to be single. It seriously drives me up a wall. While it’s hard for me to consider this a Zoosk scam, I just wish these guys would get off sites like Zoosk and go to sites that cater to the affairs world like AshleyMadison.com (they even have the balls to guarantee you an affair or your money back). What’s up with that right?
There are thousands of dating sites out there, problem is the amount of scams that go on with these dating sites. In terms of Zoosk scams, there are tens of thousands of profiles that simply are not real. These profiles can be split up into three categories:
1. Zoosk supplied profiles used to entice and lure non members and existing members to buy a Zoosk membership. You know the Zoosk profiles, how can you have 10,000 blondes living in a 100% Spanish community is an easy giveaway hello!
2. Third party marketers put up fake profiles to entice you to go onto another website. You can see how this can turn into a vicious circle of clicks and email submissions that get you nowhere.
3. Finally legitimate profiles. Once you are able to weed through #1 and #2 above, you now have found legitimate profiles. The issue you have here is the insanely high ratio of men verses REAL female profiles. So yea, a legitimate female’s profiles will be inundated with email replies
Now, what makes this Zoosk scam more involved than other dating sites is their claim of 50 million members *. If you take away a huge percentage of men, throw in a large percentage of fake Zoosk profiles, you aren’t left with many females to choose from. Zoosk will have you paying $30** a month for a site that is not delivering on the amount of REAL members as they advertise. This is truly a Zoosk scam!
Instead, if you are looking for a discreet relationship, look no further than ashleymadison.com. This site caters to men and women looking for a private relationship and/or affair. The interesting twist here is the importance of being PRIVATE and understanding the sensitive nature of your new partner. Ashley Madison has been getting ALOT of press this year with all the celebrity affairs going on. You’d be surprised of the ratio of women to men on ashley madison, it’s a lot higher than you think. They even offer a program where they guarantee you an affair. Ballsy I know! Basically if you don’t get a discreet partner within 3 months, you get your money back. What do you have to lose right? Sign up for a free profile here.
Or perhaps you are a younger man looking for an older woman, a.k.a cougars. If that’s more your thing, then check out Cougarlife.com
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* http://www.zoosk.com/about.php
**Zoosk.com Premium Membership
Matchmaking sites are everywhere. In order to stand out, a dating site needs a good quality following, along with real people looking for similar relationships. But are the Zoosk profiles for real or is Zoosk a scam? They advertise that they have 50 million members, 50 million! That’s a LOT of members, but are they a real? Or is this yet again another dating site that uses an old database of members to artificially inflate their numbers? You want to say Zoosk scam here don’t you!
Let’s look into this further. Zoosk makes their money by converting free members to premium memberships. These memberships allow a member to virtually communicate limitlessly. When it comes to dating, we all know this is a game of numbers. If you put in enough time, you’ll be rewarded with dates (sometimes you definitely won’t consider this men or women a reward!). So to have a real Zoosk review, you’ll need to understand that the only way to see if this service works is to be a paying member. Great, another site you have to pay money for. Like everything though, nothing good is ever truly free.
The Zoosk dating site takes into account casual and long term dating. In terms of price, it varies. A one month subscription is $29.95, 3 months for $60, one year for $120. While mathematically the $120 is the best deal, realistically the 3 months for $60 package is most ideal. It gives you 3 months to communicate with hundreds of women and men in your area. Like all aspects of dating, some of these folks are hit or miss.
But realistically, it all comes down to what you’re looking for. You are ALWAYS better off going to sites that cater to niches. Let’s say you’re looking for a older woman / younger man type of encounter, you’ go to Cougarlife.com (they even allow you to communicate for free initially). Or, if you’re looking for a discreet encounter (ex affair), you’d go to AshleyMadison.com (they even have a plan where you are guaranteed an affair or your money back)