Zoosk

Zoosk

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Rated with 1 star
Verified Reviewer
Original review: June 1, 2023

Matches not compatible based upon preferences of age, race, interests and locations I specified. My time ran out, I unsubscribed, still received emails every day, they will not leave me alone to the point I canceled my credit card, still continue to contact me every day. Stay away from this cesspool.

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Rated with 1 star
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Original review: May 31, 2023

The site is very confusing. If you like someone and just hit the check button but do not message them your likelihood of finding them again is slim. They ignore any race you don't want to see and even when you "x" out people they come back over and over and over again. Also the app has ads. How distasteful. The MONEY is all they care about. It is one of the worst dating sites I have ever had the misfortune to be on!

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    Rated with 1 star
    Verified Reviewer
    Original review: May 26, 2023

    I created a "free profile" to see if there were potential matches in my area and there were several, so I payed for a subscription. After 2 weeks of lack of responses with a couple of matches, and excessive interest from a few non matches, I did an experiment. Out of over 70 possible matches from my "local" search parameters, I "liked" over 40 of them (sends them a message that I want to connect). NONE of them even viewed my profile in over 2 weeks. If someone was on a dating site they would at least want to know who was checking them out. Several "non matches" (didn't fit my search parameters) were viewing my profile multiple times a day. I messaged 5 of them specifically asking about "views", and only 2 responded and both responded that they had NEVER viewed my profile (even though Zoosk is sending me notices multiple times a day that they are viewing my profile.

    I suspect that Zoosk is recycling old profiles of people who are no longer there but generated a lot of interest when they were. And Zoosk randomly sends views from the few people who actually are active members, or who you have viewed their profile (indicates to Zoosk that you are interested enough in them that any perceived interest from them is exciting) - whether they have ever actually viewed your profile or not. Zoosk sends messages to your email address that a member has viewed your profile to get you to log in and check your "views" folder - and once logged in, often there is no indication that the person in the email viewed your profile - its an email to draw "you" back into interacting and generating actual legitimate views that get sent to other members. Zoosk appears to be trying to keep us spinning our wheels - "actively engaged with our own hopefulness" - thinking that there are possibilities when there are not.

    I do not recommend Zoosk to anyone interested in online dating. I've had a few suggestions to try Hinge, but it's only available through a smart phone and I don't type on a phone - just laptop. I found GreenSingles and their platform is impressive - very few local matches that meet my search parameters, but they are honest about it - the people who are supposedly there are actually there, and the platform discloses the time frame in which they last logged in to indicate their level of availability (last few days, over 3 months, over a year...).

    3 people found this review helpful
    Rated with 1 star
    Verified Reviewer
    Original review: May 23, 2023

    This website is really a sorry one and poorly thought out. If you get a notification that someone "wants to meet you", there is just a thumbnail of their profile picture with no link to their profile for you to review. There is no search function that allows you to search for their name. Zoosk has this "carousel feature" where they throw up a profile picture and you have no way of getting to their profile to read more about them. Not worth the money.

    5 people found this review helpful
    Rated with 1 star
    Verified Reviewer
    Original review: May 15, 2023

    What happens is when you cancel your subscription they keep your listing up to make people think they have 4 times more profiles than they actually do, and they don't let people who cancel know this so not only does this do a disservice for the person canceling but also active members try to contact dead listings that should be removed, they don't even let folks know this is happening, very sleazy.

    7 people found this review helpful
    Rated with 2 stars
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    Original review: May 7, 2023

    Zoosk asks an unsuspecting subscriber for preferences, many of which are easily measurable (e.g. Age, Height, Religion). Then Zoosk totally ignores those parameters and throws all manner of profiles your way. I also am inclined to suspect that Zoosk keeps photos and profiles of former subscribers online to entire unsuspecting suitors. After receiving no response to polite messages to about 20 supposed members, I wrote to inquire, "If you are actually still active on Zoosk, please respond with a simple message such as "NO." I will not bother you again." NONE of these messages elicited a response.

    A feature of Zoosk is what they call Carousel, where you are shown a photo and given the option of Yes, No, Maybe. No other information, such has age, location, etc. If you select One, eventually you are provided access to this info. But select more than one, and tough luck bubby, Zoosk picks for you. And you may never see the other one again. Esp. since many may no longer be subscribers. Zoosk also has what they call Smart Pick, where they send about ten profiles your way. Apparently what is "smart" is that they live nearby, because unless it is an accident, the Smart Pick fails to meet any of the preferences you wrote down. Zoosk should tell would be subscribers how many others are actually active on the site, rather than foisting profiles of people who long ago left the site. It ought to be against the law what Zoosk (and others) do in terms of transparency.

    7 people found this review helpful
    Rated with 1 star
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    Original review: May 4, 2023

    I was going to pay for a subscription for this dating site but I can't get over the fact that in a town of 300 people they had about 25 people on this Zoosk dating site & the same for other small cities. I decided to check out reviews about this dating site and they were pretty much all bad reviews with fake profiles. I am glad that I checked out this fraud of a company before I gave them my money for a subscription. So if you are smart you'll save your money & forget about subscribing to the fraud of a company. There should be a law about scamming people out of their hard earned money...

    10 people found this review helpful
    Rated with 1 star
    Verified Reviewer
    Original review: May 2, 2023

    This site is a scam, loaded with fake profiles and scammers. 90% are unpaid and have not subscribed, so you can't contact them. The customer service non-existence, the message says , "You are the 10th waiting, please be patient!!" Which is a lie, they have no customer service or only technical support person they have is unfriendly and not useless, they take your money with extremely poor service.

    10 people found this review helpful
    Rated with 1 star
    Verified Reviewer
    Original review: April 28, 2023

    Most of the women in the 55-65 year old range look like like they are in their 20s. They have very youthful looking skin. I don't know of any makeup that can make a woman look 40 years younger. I just wasted my time viewing a lot of fake ads and most likely fake messages. I was tempted to subscribe but changed my mind in time.

    6 people found this review helpful
    Rated with 1 star
    Verified Reviewer
    Original review: April 27, 2023

    1. Too many fake accounts and close to no real members. Zoosk creates fake "views" and "likes" to keep paying subscribers interested. It seems like Zoosk has robots or paid employees to send you computer-generated, previously-written, messages which do not match the general conversation, or answer your questions. Very few members/accounts actually communicate with words, write back, etc.

    2. I started receiving a lot of attention ten days before the expiration of my subscription...all fake accounts that do not write back. Just another strategy to keep a subscription to NOTHING!

    One should not measure their self-worth based on their success with this platform. It does not provide the services they promise. It only generates revenue for its owners.

    13 people found this review helpful
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