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Zoosk offers an online dating platform that utilizes behavioral matchmaking technology. Users are paired based on their activity and preferences. Established in 2007, Zoosk also integrates social networking elements and a mobile-friendly design.
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Reviewed Oct. 6, 2021
This site seems to use a lot of fake accounts (bots) they set up themselves. Secondly, they will not follow your search criteria, they could not care less about what is important to you, they feel they know what you want better than you do. Third, no matter how many people you block, this company will still send them to you and say they are perfect matches for you. Fourth, they want you to spend more money to "get noticed." Isn't that what I paid the subscription cost for? So that tells me that this sinister company will purposely do things to block your chances of meeting someone until you spend more money on crap like "boosters" to get noticed even more. All dating sites do this even Match and Christian Single. You are better finding someone special on your own.
Reviewed Oct. 4, 2021
SCAM SITE! Always want more money and do not provide service. Trying to contact customer service, so far no luck. Been on hold for 45 minutes. Cancel subscription now. This company is a SCAM! SCAM! FAKE SITE!
Reviewed Sept. 25, 2021
They will auto renew and charge your credit card unless you specifically cancel. So I only used the site for a few months and then paused the account as I never met anybody. It is a dumb site!!! Not many ways to narrow the people down. I think it is a waste of money!! Plus they charged my card again with autorenewal which I never authorized!!! Use another site!!!
Reviewed Sept. 21, 2021
The absolute worst dating site ever. 90+% is all fake profiles. Most women don't even put full profiles... Most women that I send likes and comment, I got responses to chat elsewhere. I've complained to Zoosk and they said they have a security team that reviews and verifies if they are real...every profile pictures should be verified.
Reviewed Sept. 15, 2021
Ok, so after signing up and reviewing some profiles I went ahead and signed up, I kept browsing and sent some messages. Never got any responses so I went to check to see if they were ever sent. They were not sent, so I sent customer service a notice and they offered to reimburse me half of what I paid while offering to correct the issue and I will have full service to the end of my current subscription. Well 4 days later they cancelled my subscription, a full nine days before the end of my current paid subscription. So in the end I paid a full months of 28$ for about 7 days of full service or I mean ** service.. Save your money and say hi the old fashioned way to people. Zoosk is a scam and a waste of time..
Reviewed Sept. 14, 2021
The absolute worst dating site ever. 99% is all fake profiles. Most women don't even put full profiles..meaning, they're not paying. So, I'm not sure what their limitations are to use the app. Most women that I send likes and comment, I get odd responses like almost automatic responses asking to chat elsewhere if I give my info to them. I've complained to Zoosk and they said they have a security team that reviews and verifies if they are real...I wonder how they are doing that...NOT! Zoosk is here to just take your money...Don't do it! I wish I can sue the ** out of them!
Reviewed Sept. 3, 2021
You can't take Zoosk seriously, think of it as $150 spent at the casino, yea might win, yea might not, and the odds always favor the house. There is no way to view any favorite profiles. The search engine is limited to a few choices. There is no way to organize or save, or search for favorite profiles making it a huge waste of time, because you can't find that 1 profile from yesterday. A 1st year college student could do better! The goofy games and promotions are useless just more ways to get you to buy their products. A few help items, other than that nobody is home when it comes to support. As mentioned think of it as $150 spent, at a casino, Not recommended at all.
Reviewed Aug. 17, 2021
To increase their click-thru stats, Zoosk will send you an email notice saying you have received a message, when, in fact, you have not. I will get 3 or more of these emails per day. These fake messages are designed for the sole purpose of increasing their visitor count. Moreover, if you need to find out about a particular function, you will need to google for the answer because you will not find answers on this site. Rates one star at best.
Reviewed Aug. 9, 2021
I'm glad I only signed up for one month. Big waste of money and got nothing out of it. Zoosk actually messes with your account and sends fake profiles to you. These fake profiles always show up in the morning because they do their dirty work late at night. They will send you profiles where the person looks great. So you answer them by sending them a return message. But they never reply and in one or two days their profile is gone. Even if you do a full search, that person does not exist at all. Zoosk is a fraud dating site. And their software is the worst ever. You can't move on this site w/out being seen. Can't do anything in private. People don't reply to messages (I'm a good looking guy). This site is based only on looks. Absolutely no science for matching. Stay away from this waste of money and time.----DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY !----FRAUD COMPANY--REALLY IS--THE TRUTH!
Reviewed Aug. 4, 2021
I want my money back. 29.95. Robert **. Most ladies are scams. I'm a decent looking guy. I thought maybe you could change but you obviously have not changed. Had one or two days ago. I want my money back. Or else.
Reviewed Aug. 1, 2021
I canceled because of all the fake profiles. They make you feel unwanted and undesirable. I canceled but didn't do it quite right and they automatically charged my card another $75 and I canceled again so they gave me another 6 months. That's when I was sure that it is a money grabbing scam.
Reviewed July 25, 2021
This dating site requires that I sort thru many, many profiles ignoring my filters. I asked for a mileage of no more than 100 and yet I receive profiles from hundreds of miles away. I stated non smoker and I see profile pictures of men with cigarettes in their mouth. Zoosk is not user friendly and they continually bombard me with advertisements to upgrade and spend more money. Zoosk does not offer any way to communicate with them or help solving site issues. I regret signing up for Zoosk.
Reviewed July 11, 2021
25 negative stars if I could for simply just wasting a lot of my time. You can tell them nobody must be receiving your messages, zero replies from alleged likes you got to sign up, tell them anything. Call them scammers, scoundrels, thieves! It just rolls off of them like water off of a raincoat. They won't ever reply, but tell them you're calling your credit card company to charge back! Then they will recoil, "oh no we've been found out". Then they will refund your money within a day! If you let them scam you, they will...
Reviewed July 10, 2021
Buyer beware! It's a phony company with very few genuine profiles but a lot of bogus charges and tricks to string you along. I had been using J4Love.net before pandemic started, and I had been 100% satisfied with it (they have real girls and they are the hottest girs in the world). When I realized that I won't be able to travel for a while, I joined Zoosk and I just threw my money away. I didn't meet any real woman there but quite a few scammers. I should have not ventured out this way! If you check the fine print, you will see that they consider it your own fault if you are scammed by their fake profiles, they are not responsible for anything. Don't waste your time with Zoosk and don't put your money at risk!
Reviewed July 7, 2021
Do not sign up. There’s nothing but scammers on here and it’s a waste of your money. Please stay away!!! All they want is one thing. Sex. Girls please, please don’t sign up on this website. Use another one. I don’t think Zoosk cares who signs up as long as they get paid.
Reviewed July 4, 2021
I had a account for Zoosk...It wasn't until I wanted to leave the site because I was not getting responses to messages I sent...then they offered me enhanced messaging..which did in fact help with getting responses from people... Problem was..9 out of 10 always want to try to get to chat off site because they are scams..from people who want money or gift cards...to getting different pictures sent to me was not the same person as was shown in the profile...Way too many red flags...so I looked at the site statement and right in their own statement it say...they don't monitor or scan for scams...
As paying members I feel like that's a serious responsibility for the site to consider.. Considering that they want to charge people for using the site...but yet take no responsibility for keeping their members safe...if I could give this a -10 I would because that is just completely garbage...If they have the nerve to charge people then they should have the responsibility of looking out for their own members. Stay away from this site at all costs.
Reviewed June 29, 2021
I've been on the site at least 3 months... Get lots of "I want to meet you" but when I reply, no response. I feel they're just having a computer spit out names that may match my profile and say that they "want to meet me".. This has occurred many times. Gee whiz if they want to meet me, why don't they respond? Hmm...I'm a 68 yr old widower and I feel they're preying on emotions.
Reviewed June 26, 2021
Stay away from the full membership... Not worth the price... Not a great algorithm. Just a waste of time... None of the women seen to be really interested in dating. Go figure? It's like going on Facebook and trying to date a contact... Very weird.
Reviewed June 24, 2021
I'll keep this simple. Every contact I make and started talking to never lead to a meeting. Within the first 2 or 3 contacts they ask a phone number. No problem right! After texting back and forth a couple time you hear their stories about how they need money to pay for some crisis going on in their life. I also had several contact me and when I responded back there was nothing no answer back or anything. A huge waste of time and money joining this site.
Reviewed June 11, 2021
The interface is limited and it's difficult to figure out how to respond to messages. Matches aren't the best as well. I get many reactions, but can't tell much from the alerts and this makes it hard to match the notification to something in the app.
Reviewed May 29, 2021
When you provide your credit card details, that gives this mob the right to steal from you. Hadn't used them for a couple months. I had no photos, no profile up at all, not a word. Suddenly I started receiving all these fake messages and requests etc... just **. To justify stealing from me. I discovered they had taken $170 from my cc - a month is $34. I had been assigned upgraded membership, coins, read membership etc etc. All the ** they could muster. Half the site is fake to boost numbers, give them your cc at your peril. This one story, a few others. Scammers.
Reviewed May 28, 2021
My account suddenly was blocked, "account locked by an administrator", no explanation. There is no way I violated any conditions, but maybe some snowflake "administrator" got triggered over something, I'll never know, apparently. Oh well, my subscription was running out anyway in 2 weeks, and I wasn't planning to renew. I pity the fools at Zoosk if they attempt to auto-renew, like they do for their members. Non-refundable, of course. Match is way better, and there are many other options. Any company that arbitrarily can close you out with no explanation isn't worth a nickel.
Reviewed May 5, 2021
From the moment I attempted to sign-up it was a nightmare and I should have taken the hint to NOT go there. Would not accept my payment. Was forced into using my Apple account which was more than annoying. Navigating the page itself is RIDICULOUS. It’s ALL ABOUT UPSELLING. But the very worst part is the alerts “so and so wants to meet you” which is utter nonsense. The Carousel is ABSURD. You can’t view the person's profile and must base your decision SOLELY on a photograph!!! This is as fricken’ shallow as it gets. I should decide if I want to even move forward based on a SELFIE!!!! OH, COME ON!
Don’t even get me started on the Profiles themselves. Most of these people are deluding themselves with their flowery descriptions of the “perfect” date. When I attempted to log on today, nope couldn’t do it, couldn’t get a password, change email, NOTHING. FINALLY... they can’t process my refund because it went through Apple. I have to no beg Apple for the refund. DON’T DO IT. JUST DON’T DO IT.
Reviewed April 7, 2021
Zoosk is definitely a fraud. Seemingly there are no individual subscriber controls. Zoosk controls what they want you to see, I think they are just having fun with the subscribers and have no intention of honest match making. Anyone interested in filing an official complaint with the NY State dept of State licensing and Consumer Affairs please do so. Also, file with the Better Business Bureau.
Reviewed April 6, 2021
I recently signed up Zoosk. I do not pay the membership yet because I wanted to see how that works. I can’t contact anyone though I can see who wants to contact me. Somehow a guy sent me a message with his phone number when I was online, I don’t know how he did that. We started communicating, he told me he’s a business man, I went to LinkedIn to check, his photos in LinkedIn and zoosk don’t look like they are the same person, but he said if I request he will accept me. So I let my guard down. He told me he’s doing a big business, gross profit would be a few millions after done.
I did suspect he’s a crooked because to me that business doesn’t need a middleman. After a few days he wanted to borrow money from me, I cut off contract with him immediately. I can’t make a solid conclusion on him that he’s a liar. I never want to think bad about someone I never meet. But his photo in premium page is gone. I have to realize some people come to the site for different purpose. I feel I should tell my story to warn people about this. The beginning bad experience won’t stop me to find my Mr. Right. I believe most of seniors are seriously looking for their twilight love.
Reviewed March 30, 2021
I have to be honest, there are more nasty desperate ** on this site, it’s nauseating! I can’t believe I got sucked into paying a dime, what a disappointing ugly mess! I thought for a minute I might be on Candid Camera, but no, the joke's on me. Live and learn.
Reviewed March 21, 2021
Gay Experience (3 Times Zones). I found my fiancé on another site. A man in the area of San Francisco contacted me (3 time zones away). In less than a month, he expressed his deep profound love for me. We never met in person. He talked about his exes a lot. He was more focused on receiving more pictures, and not on the misfortune I experienced. He became paranoid when I didn't return his calls in a timely manner, or when he couldn't reach me. Beware of pressure tactics! The site is full of obsolete inactive profiles. There are a lot of fake views. The distance parameters do not work well (example above). The site needs to be revamped. The customer service needs to be more responsive.
Reviewed March 13, 2021
I finally decided to subscribe to Zoosk after a couple of months of creating an account. Within less than 4 hours I had my account locked by an administrator for posting a picture in my new profile of an artwork in which nudity was depicted. I didn't realize that artistic nudity was not allowed. However, I have now been permanently banned from Zoosk for an image that was removed. I think that is a little overkill since it was removed and I now understood that it was in violation of their policy. They did say they would refund my subscription but that I could no longer be a customer.
Reviewed March 7, 2021
I have tried other online dating sites which were all disappointing but Zoosk was by far the worst. I must have sent 100 likes, messages, and smiles to women I thought was attractive. It was like a ghost town. There were about 3-4 overweight women that contacted me of which I said hello. I am not an unattractive man. I have never had any problems striking up a conversation with women before, so I know better than that. I can't quite put my finger on the treatment people give each other on these sites, especially Zoosk.
You can't send a picture with your message. There is no selection for political affiliation. Their mobile app has problems with crashing. I bought a three month subscription and it is worthless. Like I said, I have sent out numerous messages and likes, but get no reply from the women who are in my age group, and who I think is attractive. I can see that they have supposedly seen my message and looked at my profile but no reply. Very disappointing.
Reviewed Feb. 20, 2021
I have a paid membership and have used their service for a few months but every feature they offer they want you to pay more money whereas other date sites include all the same features in the monthly membership. I think it is wrong that they send auto views and messages trying to hook you into paying for another membership after you cancel. They are expensive enough without paying more for every little thing. Once my membership is expired I will now ever use this site again.
Reviewed Feb. 10, 2021
Zoosk is not worth the time or money. You can put in all your preferences (age range, body type, ethnicity, relative distance to you, etc.) yet when it comes time to do the Carousel (where almost 100 random women are presented for a Yes or No selection) most of the women (and men probably as well) do not fit your criteria at all. Furthermore, the ones you say NO to on Carousel, will reappear the next time you play another round. It's just a shotgun approach of throwing any and everything at you, regardless of your preferences. It's a big waste of your time. There are probably better websites worth your time.

Reviewed Feb. 5, 2021
Be aware that the site manipulates the members. It informs you of interested viewers when no such thing is occurring. Case in point, I happen to be up at 4AM and I’m notified others are viewing. Obviously fabricated since it is not true that others would be online at this time. I was notified that 5 people checked my profile. Total **, whose up at 3 in the morning and certainly not 5 interested! I sent a note to confirm if they were online....crickets! Same level of crickets when you express interest in members. Find another dating site because this one flat out sucks!
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2021
I was blocked from Zoosk and they said I had activity on my account and I feel someone was using my account. I did not do it and I feel it was unfair. I do not have another email and I want this to be fix and resolved. I feel it was a misunderstanding as well. I want to file a complaint. My email was blocked.
Christina **
Reviewed Jan. 13, 2021
DO NOT USE THIS SITE!!! It is a scam. I signed up for 6 months with a special discount. After loading and using my profile, I determined the following: They do not follow the search criteria you list. Some of their recommendations are hundreds of miles away and out of your suggested age range. Many of the profiles (particularly attractive women) are no longer in effect, thus you get no response from the notes you send. Then Zoosk keeps telling you that the ones you tried to contact, or just viewed, have viewed you.
My profile was hacked and gradually changed. First my name was changed, then my photos deleted and replaced, then the wording of my profile changed. I discovered this about 6 hours after successfully using the site. I could not get back on the site because my login data was compromised. The only way I could go back on the site was to use a different email address and recreate my profile. That was unacceptable. I quit the site, asked them to delete my payment info and asked for a refund. Of course, “their” policy did not allow refunds. If you read the other comments below, Zoosk is notorious for charging you in the future, even after you have quit the site. I have contacted my credit card company and any charges from them will be disputed. Don’t get SCAMMED like I was. Avoid this site. There are other alternatives that work much better.
Reviewed Jan. 13, 2021
Simply another unscrupulous with automatic renewals, difficult navigating the site in order to cancel. They bait one with fake profiles and messages in luring you in towards subscribing or renewing. This is a bait and switch and I'm perplexed nobody has taken them to task with a class action legal case. I will be pursuing this in San francisco CA. If many of you would like to join please message me.
Reviewed Jan. 12, 2021
Zoosk sends daily emails that are pure lies. When confronted, their response was "We appreciate what you're saying. Just ignore the lies." Write an honest profile that conforms to their guidelines... If they don't like it, they'll gladly turn it into a lie for you. I'm rapidly coming to the suspicion that zoosk is just another scam site that is nothing but mind games.
Reviewed Dec. 24, 2020
Constantly received notices of women supposedly interested in me that I didn't like despite my submitted preferences. Tried to cancel but wasn't allowed. Zoosk charged a renewal fee despite my cancellation...I removed my billing info from my account and was billed anyway. Zoosk is a very dishonest site.
Reviewed Dec. 17, 2020
I cancel this account and because I didn’t keep the cancellation notice they thought they could just charge me again and they did so be careful this is a scam. I canceled my account and they still charged me.
Reviewed Nov. 9, 2020
This site is simply designed to take your money and give nothing of value in return. They even charged an activation fee of $25-really? $80 for nothing. Even with the search filter set for local woman, they give you profiles of women who live 400-4000 miles away. I believe many profiles are outdated and just kept there as bait- usually attractive women, which, not surprisingly, are rare. Twice, there was a third-party "cupid/matchmaker" woman, telling me that that someone was "crushing on me" but too shy to contact me. She told me she was getting off the site because she had found someone and was getting married, but her friend who lived in Regina (like me) was looking over her shoulder (in Ottawa) and really liked me.
When I got back to her that same day and addressed the fact that "how could someone be looking over your shoulder if they live 1000's of miles away", she and her profile suddenly disappeared. I even tried to contact this "woman" who liked me, and told her I liked her- no response. Surprise surprise! As though they haven't scammed you enough, they try to milk you for money for coins, which allow you to know if someone has read your message or not. Really? They have a feature that inserts conversation tidbits for you, (like we need that).
I was talking to a very attractive woman (who lived in Vancouver, of course- me in Regina), who was babbling about how clever and attractive I was, (hot-heels, skirt, the whole nine yards-way out of my league) and this insert happened. I mentioned this to this "woman" (Toadie/Zoosk employee is more like it) saying I think I am being scammed, and she disappeared-not just from the "conversation"- she disappeared off the site, never to be seen again! Overnight! Zoosk even bothered to keep the charade going for several conversation exchanges before this happened. That"woman" never reappeared on Zoosk site again...
They also have a feature telling you someone has "viewed you"-when you click on it, it dekes you out and takes you elsewhere. Another feature asks if you "like someone"- it doesn't tell you anything about them other than the photo- not where they live, or anything. How can you tell if they are of interest to you if there is no info? I have heard that most of the attractive posted profiles are out-dated and just kept there as bait-I am 100% sure this is the case..
I gave up on dating sites and all the scams and fake people years ago, but had no choice but to get back on because meeting anyone now is all but impossible. I deeply regret giving them my money. I have spoken to a couple of real women and they all said the same thing- profiles belong to people who live 100's or 1000's of miles away. This site should be sued, taken off the internet and forced to pay back their victims-it is a highly predatory outfit which is prospering in this pandemic-they all belong in jail-this is a very very dishonest money grab and nothing more. I have read that they will cancel your subscription with no money back if you speak ill of them- I don't doubt that in the least.
Reviewed Nov. 1, 2020
Zoosk used to be a good site. Now you cannot search a grid... only 1 at a time, so this forces a view and notifies others. Very deceiving. Hopefully, they read these and will improve. Please add the grid back.
Reviewed Nov. 1, 2020
Terrible website. Terrible service. They are taking advantage of lonely people. It’s expensive and the matches have no relationship to my profile. Stay clear of Zoosk. They have discouraged me of ever trying any other dating sites.
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2020
I paid pretty much $100 to subscribe to the site and now I find out you have to purchase credits on top of the $100 to see if someone has read your message or to read theirs. This site is nothing, but a money grabbing scam. Do not subscribe to this site. At first I just browsed the site and some local profiles. Then I started getting notifications that so and so viewed you. I checked out the profiles and then I started getting all these Zoosk notifications that so and so messaged you. So after seeing about a dozen people sent me messages I decided to subscribe and replied to every message I supposedly got and have never got 1 response back.
I sent my thoughts in a complaint to Zoosk support and they told me to try harder and gave me a gift of 250 credits so I could use them to see if someone read mine or sent me a message. Coincidence I don't think so. I got baited into thinking I had all these people wanting to chat and come to find I got zero responses! Do not waste your time and money. Save it and give your money to someone that can use it because you'll get more satisfaction than getting sucked in to subscribing to this site! Buyer beware now!!
Reviewed Oct. 30, 2020
I just spent $400 to have my computer cleaned up after being hacked. The date the hackers IP address appeared on my computer coincided with when I created a Zoosk account. After much effort I found a phone number to Zoosk customer service and after explaining my situation they confirmed as much. They indicated they had suspended accounts and were aware of the specific issues. Really? This was the only dating site I’ve used, was active for 3 weeks when I deleted my Zoosk account, and also deleted my email account associated with the site. As far as the dating connections, they do a lousy job of screening and don’t follow stated preferences.
Reviewed Oct. 17, 2020
Pros,
2. It has a mobile app.
3. It's an easy website to use.
4. The search engine is decent.
Cons,
1. Unless you pay for a membership it's useless to be on the website because most members will not paid the extra money for the privilege for anyone to email them.
2. There are different tiers of memberships so some features you don't get with the basic membership.
3. Unless you purchase a multi-month membership the price isn't reasonable at all.
4. Now to the juicy stuff. Zoosk WILL NEVER PERMANENTLY DELETE YOUR PROFILE. I emphasize this because even if you deactivate your account if you happen to be a good looking person they'll keep your profile up making it look like they have more desirable members and use it to make people think they have people interested in them. These are ghost profiles.
5. Though I have met real people on Zoosk there aren't that many real profiles with new websites like Bumble, Tinder and SnapChat. Websites like Zoosk and even POF are dying because of the newest swipe platforms.
6. If you're not all that good looking then don't even bother signing up for Zoosk (or any dating site come to think of it). Sadly looks are going to be 99.99% of anyone's success online.
7. Lastly make sure you not only cancel your membership ahead of time, but also inform your bank or credit card service TO NOT PAID ZOOSK ANYTHING so they don't rip you off. I've heard complaint from people that Zoosk took money from them even after they cancelled their paid subscription.
8. Don't be on the site for more than a month tops because after that you'll mostly see the same profiles and very few new ones so the monthly packages aren't worth it.
All in all with the pandemic going on it was a great way for me to kill time, but if you have other way of meeting women I'd avoid Zoosk (and most other dating sites).
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2020
They charged my bank account twice within an hour when I never gave permission to make that transaction. Someone hacked into my account with a different address other than my own. The site is not safe, secure or private.

Reviewed Sept. 21, 2020
Zoosk does many dishonest things. They send you "new members" who are old member. They invade each member's privacy by telling other members that you viewed them and vise versa. They have no notice price increases. They post members representing that they are active when they are not. They tell you people want to meet you, who do not want to meet you. They don't care about fraud if it gets them more business opportunities.
Reviewed Sept. 19, 2020
I joined Zoosk about three weeks ago. I signed up for three months and also paid for enhanced messaging. Cost about $100. About a week ago, Zoosk blocked me without giving any reason. So now I am unable to message or receive messages. I would choose another site as I believe they are manipulating their subscribers. Match is much better!
Reviewed Sept. 3, 2020
I've only been on the site a few months, have made contact with two men that were completely military romance scams. Zoosk should do a better job validating profiles. These men indicated they were in the military, used fake pictures, included children, said their wife was deceased, kid has a nanny and they asked for money. It's heartbreaking to go through. Not to mention the fact that I do not feels safe now, these men said they were deployed in Syria on "peacekeeping missions". I never knew this was an epidemic until now. Ladies - beware the man that falls for you instantly. And if ANYONE asks for money, start doing your research. I feel horrible for the marine whose pic was used, they play into your love of country pretending to be in the military.
Reviewed Aug. 31, 2020
It sends messages from other members without their knowledge or consent. Maybe that they are no longer members. Matches me up with members that didn't want matched on their carousel. Repeatedly sends notifications of views from the same people day after day. What a waste of time.
Reviewed Aug. 21, 2020
I had joined paid my money wrote my profile had only been on about a week and I was hacked by someone. I immediately sent an email to the administrators, their customer service telephone number doesn’t work so you have to send an email, about an hour later I tried to log on to see if I had any answers from them and they had blocked me instead of the hacker. But of course they’ve kept my money.
Reviewed Aug. 21, 2020
Constantly received notices of women supposedly interested in me that I didn't like despite my submitted preferences. Tried to cancel but wasn't allowed. Zoosk charged a renewal fee despite my cancellation...horrible customer service.
Reviewed Aug. 10, 2020
I unsubscribed to Zoosk as directed. A few days later, my account was charged again. I do not recommend this dating site. One individual who I had a conversation with, sent a nasty message. Beware!!
Reviewed Aug. 10, 2020
I've been on site for about four years. Have met one member in all of that time that just wasn't what we wanted ... Zoosk will ignore your desired mates and send what I think are fake, model like profile pics expressing interest, which is not what I'm searching for thankfully...or sell you their "Boosted" membership. Your profile will appear before anyone else's which I think a waste of money??? More importantly, found out this week that poor members cannot "block" Boosted members at all! You will think they are blocked until they suddenly reappear in your Messages box the very next day. This went on for weeks before I reached out to Zoosk expressing my concerns as I was clearly becoming harassed by a man I was blocking daily...choosing the "harassment" entry as my reason.
Instead of blocking his access to me...which I'm told they can do, they chose to ignore my cry for help to get the extra money he paid for "Boost." I spent over a week sending them screenshots of him per their request...Their answer to my feeling this man was creeping me out? 15 more days on site and 250 coins I guess to buy him a gift???! I cannot believe all of the time I just wasted on formatted email replies with names assigned to them so you think you're connecting with live rep who cares about your privacy and Zoosk's not so reliable reputation. I cancelled. Too weird for me. The matches were so far from my initial " dream" man checklist I have to assume it's due to lack of members as I am not a bad match...just won't settle because they lost members due to stunts like this! I was too lazy to join more reputable site but now's the time! That's if a real person sends me real refund as promised! Keep your money. Try others as I should have done!
Reviewed Aug. 7, 2020
I have not used this website in years, I'm in a happy relationship. Yet they still let my information be hacked in January and did not notify me. I found out from a website called you've been pawned. I'm outraged.
Reviewed Aug. 6, 2020
Tried to set this up, and was told I had an account already. Had deleted it a couple years ago, but apparently they neglected to delete it, just inactivated it. Then realized, despite other glowing reviews online, you cannot message for free. Or even see who messaged you. Or what they said. So updated my 'story' to reflect that I would not be upgrading because of the untruthful reviews, and they sent me an email saying they had 'approved" my 'story update.' Which is to say, they completely deleted what I had written about not upgrading. Twice. No bad language, not sexually explicit, not violent - but deleted anyway. Bye bye Zoosk!
Reviewed Aug. 5, 2020
I signed up as a premium paying member. Quickly learned that most profiles were fake. Zoosk uses not so honest means to get you to think their other members are legit. Trust me. There is more fakes than real. After I answered to one of their fake profiles about my honesty in sharing my thoughts about their dishonesty, they blocked my account, yet they kept my money. Your decision.
Reviewed Aug. 5, 2020
ZOOSK is one of the more affordable dating sites but the quality, function and especially poor customer service reflect the lower cost. I'm on three dating sites and ZOOSK has by far been the least effective. Even though you paid, they have these little scams within the site which force you to buy coins to see profiles. The funny part is, that there is a workaround to that using the search option or clicking on their profiles when they are online.
Customer service is surprisingly adversarial when there is no need to be. They don't take suggestions or complaints seriously or well and you can almost picture them laughing in their offices at their silly and sad clientele. They have an opportunity to make people's lives better and do some good but apparently they've found a profitable business model and are not concerned with making matches, just making money. I joined because ZOOSK was listed among the top 10 dating sites but that was not my experience.
Reviewed Aug. 2, 2020
I plan on making this one of the lengthier reviews you have probably come across, so be prepared for an essay, folks. I am writing a longer review because I feel the need to provide readers with the most details so they can avoid making the same mistakes I have made in my time dealing with Zoosk. For those who may not want to read the full review, however, here is an abridged version: avoid Zoosk if you are looking to join an online dating site. There are FAR better options out there. With that said, we can now segue into the unabridged version. Enjoy!
I joined Zoosk in January of 2019. I signed up for the 6-month subscription. This is the first (and likely last time) I have used an online dating site. I figured it was time to jump into the relationship world, seeing as I have not been in a relationship before. I was ready to find a woman. After taking some time (not as long as I should of, too), I decided to purchase a Zoosk subscription, for it was the cheapest of the big three (eHarmony, Match.com, & Zoosk). Looking back, I should of taken their fairly low prices as a serious red flag, but alas, I did not.
Fast forward to after I sunk over $100 of my hard-earned money into the website. I figured that if I wanted to make a go of Zoosk, I would need to put SOME money into it. After sinking around $100 into the site, armed with my subscription and blissful ignorance, I sent out messages to several women that appeared to be in my area. Several weeks went by where the only message I received was an auto-generated message from what appeared to be a bot. In nearly two months, that was the ONLY message I got back. Yes, you read that correctly; the only one. Remember, I had been messaging people in fairly large numbers up to that point in time. Needless to say, I was discouraged, yet decided to march on under the ruse that I would have a better experience in the future.
At this point, I had been on Zoosk around five months. Around this time, I still had very little luck on the site. I had only gotten two other messages from girls, both of which sent me one message then never responded after my initial response. Now that my six months was coming to an end, I was not sure if I was going to give it another try. I didn't make the decision in time, and my subscription auto-renewed. Not wanting to waste the money, I knew I had to trek on. I would have to have better luck this time, right?
Wrong. Over the next six months, I got ZERO messages even though I was practically spamming other users in an effort to generate a conversation with a real female. I was smarter this time and made sure to cancel my subscription well in advance of the renewal date. Thankfully, I was not charged after that (a problem I have read about Zoosk members having).
If you have gotten this far into the review, I applaud you. Anyway, I have no intention of giving Zoosk any more of my money. Overall, they are a complete scam of a company preying on romantically frustrated people, conning them out of their cash. The chances of you talking to a real human being are slim. I provided so many details in this review to hopefully convince others to stay away from Zoosk. Don't make the same mistakes I did. You'd be better off spending your money on a gym membership or a diet to better yourself. In conclusion, Zoosk cares little for their users. Their site is littered with bots, scammers, inactive accounts, yet will still ask for money for nothing in return.
Updated review: July 23, 2020
They have responded with a refund.
Original Review: July 23, 2020
After two days and countless fake sites with famous actor headshots I decided this was a (costly) mistake. They won't refund any money. The shady ethics of a terrible service should be put out of business. DO NOT TRUST ZOOSK!
Reviewed July 23, 2020
I joined as a premium member 2 months ago. I am sincerely disappointed with this site and the connections and contacts I have received. Many of these men are not really interested in meeting anyone real. They mostly want to text a few times and chat. Then they are on to the next. The site matches you with members regardless of your preferences and distance requirements. I also believe they keep a large database of members in their carousel feature who are no longer active to show a huge choice of men that no longer exist. Don't waste your time or money on this dating site as it's a sham.
Reviewed July 11, 2020
I recently joined Zoosk, but disappointed. When they send you matches the mileage is always off by at 25 miles. You don’t know the person's zodiac sign unless they send you your 10 daily picks/matches. Worst part is not being able to access the site from anywhere on my mobile phone. All other dating sites this is possible, but not Zoosk.
Reviewed July 6, 2020
I had signed up for this service back in 2016. I never signed up for the premium subscription, and had just created a free profile. I received a notification that a man had viewed my profile and had also sent a message indicating that he wanted to chat. This was a good looking man who also lived in my small town. When I clicked on it, it immediately prompted me for payment to see his message. I decided to forget about it, but was still interested in seeing his message. A few days later, I see his profile on another dating site that I belonged to, that does allow free messaging back and forth. I decided to say hello, to him, and send a message. I received absolutely no response whatsoever. So I'm convinced that Zoosk used this man's profile to send a fake message, in order to get me to cough up some cash.
In conclusion, steer clear of this website and it's deceptive practices to lure people in.
Reviewed July 5, 2020
2) FAKE views
3) FAKE notifications that someone wants to chat with you
4) FAKE notifications that someone wants to meet you, etc...
When you try to chat with someone after receiving a notification that the person wants to chat with you, you will likely NEVER receive a response. It's like being told by a bully in school, "Hey, that girl said she likes you; go talk to her!" Then, of course, you go and the girl has absolutely no interest in you. I received an e-mail notification that someone wanted to meet me; the pic in the email looked 1-2 decades off of the stated age, and she was listed as being local, but the picture had an out-of-state telephone number written over the face of the lady (which I've heard means the chance is high of the person being a prostitute, if it's even a real person voluntarily posting the pic). Then when I logged into Zoosk, I noticed no such person ever even viewed my profile. According to reviews here, this is a very common occurrence with Zoosk.
Then I played the carousel to about 50% of potential matches, most of which were not even in my same state, and within a couple minutes had 4-5 'views' from the same women, most, again, from out of state and surely wouldn't have bothered looking if they were real women. Again, another very common Zoosk failure. Then one young lady I'd sent a message to earlier yesterday allegedly 'viewed' me again, and I saw a notification pop up saying that she wanted to chat. So I clicked to her profile to begin chatting and noticed she hadn't even read the first message I'd sent (BTW, you have to pay to see if someone has read any messages sent to them each time after...) Many hours later, after midnight, my phone received a notification that my message had been read, and I noticed she had sent me a message, too. I decided to wait until the morning to view it.
I received a ONE-WORD REPLY -- 'yes' to asking if she lived in the same city with the rest of the chat completely ignored, and yet it now shows we're listed as a 'connection,' lol... I replied, 'Nice,' as it was obvious I was wasting my time. I then shortly later received a notice that she wanted to chat. I also paid to see that she had allegedly read my last message. So I sent a message stating the app notified me that she wanted to chat, and I asked if she would like to chat a little. That was allegedly 'read' but not replied to. Then just a bit later I get the notification again that she wants to chat, though she never does...
This is all experienced in just 2 days since I became a paying member and posted one profile pic. I've uploaded a few more today that I felt were a little better just to see if anything might happen. And I filled out all the information -- story, interests, ideal match, etc... So far, nada except for 2-3 views from the same ones that live a state away and are almost surely bots, anyway. They can't even get bots from the city I live in to play mind games? lol.
I hadn't used a dating site since I met my recent wife of 5 years on Match, but I've been able to at least talk to and meet a few women via Match about 6 years ago, and I at least had a fairly lengthy conversation over a few days and nearly met up with one lady via Plenty of Fish 6 years ago. I sincerely doubt the same would happen on Zoosk regardless of how much time (and $) I invested. How can guys be motivated to put effort into messages they know almost certainly won't ever be seen by a real person? You'd be better off trying to make a match with a hardened political opponent you'd have an argument with online, as at least that person exists. Hopefully Match and POF haven't gone heavily in this direction, as well.
*Also, I will make sure to cancel my debit card before canceling the service, as many reviews on this site mention that the company will still charge you after cancelling. You're made to sign an agreement when using PayPal that they can use whatever other method of payment is on the account, so I guess I'll have to delete my bank off there around that time, as well.
In the end, upon realizing you've paid for 3 months of what basically amounts to a horrible carnival ride full of fake garbage with nothing more to see beyond the first 1-1.5 days, it's better to accept and take the loss and to avoid wasting any more time or energy on the site. I got more enjoyment out of writing this review than using that trash site. The only 'positive' thing I've gotten from the site is the ONE-WORD REPLY, lol. I can only say that Zoosk made me feel worse about myself in not being completely 100% confident that real women just won't respond to me, though I'm pretty sure it's all bots. It just amazes me that Zoosk is somehow in ANY measure considered one of the top dating sites.
What a sham(e). I would have been far better off spending the money and time on self-improvement, which is surely a much more realistic way to try and gain interest from women you can actually meet. Hopefully a civil lawsuit will be brought forth at some point and could help reform or even simply help lead to putting such scams out of business. Hopefully this along with the other reviews here will help people to avoid giving ANY money to that 'business.'
Reviewed June 20, 2020
I have been a member of the Zoosk dating site for some six months. Today (20 June 2020) I attempted to log into my account only to find that I could no longer access my account. Mind you that I had subscribed to this site. I call the customer service number to complain that my account has been hacked but only to find out that Zoosk had discounted my account. The individual that I was speaking to was from a foreign country because I couldn’t understand her English. Which by the way, makes the customer service interaction even more frustrating. I asked her why my account was disable. She gave me an explanation that I couldn’t understand a word that she stated. I wouldn’t advise anyone to subscribe to this dating site. With all the scammers on the site Zoosk disabled my account without any explanation. Buyer be aware.
Reviewed June 18, 2020
I've been on Zoosk for about a month and I have quickly figured out it's full of old profiles. Not only that, when you write something in a chat with another member that Zoosk doesn’t like you writing about, it automatically disappears. If you want to be censored when trying to legitimately chat with someone and let them know about yourself, then this is the site for you. I feel Zoosk is a waste of time and money, I would recommend doing business elsewhere. Zoosk doesn’t want people to know the truth about their poorly run fraudulent dating site. Again, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY!
Reviewed June 16, 2020
In an attempt to entice me to subscribe to a membership, they submitted a picture of a female along with her details that were contrived. The interests she indicated too closely paralled my expressed interests so much so that it was evident that this person was contrived. There just is no other person with so much similar interests. Watch out folks and don't get suckered in.
Reviewed June 11, 2020
In February 2013 I met my husband after connecting on Zoosk. Love their website and so happy my husband and I met. I love how you can see the pictures on the profiles and you can show interest in the person.
Reviewed June 10, 2020
All dating sites are suspect, and Zoosk has a limited amount of eligible men who are decent and acceptable. The same people have been on this site for three plus years, or they simply haven't removed their profile. The cost is a little high, but probably in line with the other sites.
Reviewed June 9, 2020
Your account is messed up all the time and it sends automatic robot messages, you get very little response from members, then when you cancel your subscription, wow in 24 hours you all the sudden have 80 members interested in you and messaging you, but as soon as you renew your membership, they are no longer there. This is the worse fake members dating site ever.. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY. Plus if you write something in your profile that they don't like, whoops, it automatically disappears, they don't want people to know the truth about their poorly fraudulent dating site.
Reviewed June 9, 2020
Have you ever wondered why you send out so many messages but get no answers. I've been on Zoosk for about a year and a half and figure out pretty quick it's full of old profiles. I decided to hang in because I figure most of them must be real, but I no longer believe this. Do I have any proof of this other than what I believe is true. So here it is, I found my step sister's profile on Zoosk several times over the year and a half and I asked her about it the first time I saw her profile. She replied, "Oh no I was only on there a quick second, why?" Since then a friend asked me about my sister because he thought she was seeing someone, and she is sooo... Safe to say old/fake profiles are left up whether you like it or not, I would Not. I feel Zoosk was a waste of time and money, I recommend doing business elsewhere.
Reviewed June 9, 2020
Zoosk search system favors those with good looking person on the image even though we cannot tell if it is authentic or not. I have uploaded my authentic photo and it is not really having any effect on the quality of women which I felt so so low in ranking compared to me. Matching is not really good.
Reviewed June 8, 2020
This site just wants money! Felt like it was a escort service more than a dating app everything is asking for money telling you this person is interested and once you pay that's not true once you give your email and information the emails are overwhelming to say the least I think its a scam I took it down but to find out my profile is still there
Reviewed June 7, 2020
Attractive older men but there is nothing but teasers unless you join. Also, most too distant from the City. I would pay to join if they would go into more detail instead of superficial format. Rarely does someone reveal anything personal about himself.
Reviewed June 6, 2020
A couple of years ago, I found myself being single again. Eventually I started looking at dating sites, more out of curiosity than looking to find a relationship. I signed up with Zoosk as there a lot of woman locally who use the site. Had a free trial to explore the site and send messages. After the trial period ended, I could still access parts of the site...but like all other dating sites out there...the subscription fees became cost prohibitive.
cost to a more reasonable, Covid-era price.
Reviewed June 5, 2020
I've the last year this company has charged both my credit card and PayPal but they apparently have no record of that. I have been attempting to contact them for months now with no thorough replies or resolution in sight. They claim to not have the PayPal charges on their records and refuse to refund my overcharges. I will continue to report and review until a solution is brought up.
Reviewed June 5, 2020
I don’t believe enough is being done to keep scammers off the site. It is especially significant for older women. I believe the site should have better information available to older women to help alert them to communication that is typical for scammers.
Reviewed June 4, 2020
This site looked promising, but like the majority it falls short. Process of acknowledging interest and follow up leaves a lot to be desired. Some responses were promising and others were middle-school like. Even for a well established man like me, very disappointing.
Reviewed June 2, 2020
I have just started using this site, and for a senior citizen it seems to have many features that would filter out bad matches. There seems to be many sites that are more interested in making money for the developers, and not helping any that is looking for someone to date.
Reviewed June 1, 2020
My membership to this site was expire the next day. My membership was removed one day before. All I asked this company was to allow me one hour to wish friends best wishes. The company coldly stated if I’d renew my membership I could do so. This company owes me just one day, all I asked for was one hour. This is company is truly Disgusting making money with those desiring someone special. Discussing.
Reviewed June 1, 2020
Beware. There are literally maybe 5-10% real women on the site, if that. They immediately will give you some kind of story about how their account is fixing to expire and ask for your email or phone #. They lay it on thick about how attracted to you they are and how whatever is in your perfect match details is them to a T. So far not one I have connected with even has a phone # in the same state and they immediately start sending you pics hoping that you will download them and get whatever trojan they are sending your way.
Reviewed May 31, 2020
Using this app is much like window shopping. There's no clever algorithm to assist in matching like minded individuals. The few categories for self description, if actually answered by participants, are for the viewer to consider individually as left to the participants to basically describe themselves based on three categories: my story, my perfect match, and my ideal date. Many do not share anything or very little.
Participants can choose interest icons, can share their height, and religious identifications. I do recall answering questions regarding my specific interests to include if I were looking for man or woman, ethnicity of interest, and distance willing to limit candidates. However, it did not seem to apply in any way form of fashion. I found it HIGHLY frustrating to get messages from individuals of considerable distances away, from individuals both 20 years older and younger, and from ethnic groups not of my own.
Basically, it was WAY TOO MUCH digging through the weeds from individuals simply unsuitable to my stated interests. I did not at all find it flattering to open the app and have 70+ messages or likes. I spent 6 months and have not been satisfied. I have started talking to an individual over 800 miles away 2 weeks before my prepaid membership is over. Unless a miracle happens with this person, my experience was no less entertaining than the word app on my phone.
Reviewed May 30, 2020
Glitchy and laden with fake profiles. Once you sign up, you are presented with a seemingly never-ending series of pictures of women who look 20 and their profile says their (enter your age group). Also appears to have robotic "looked at your profile" kind of functions that make it look like members are actually looking you over...however, very few of these profiles really communicate. The real members I have met on this website laugh about how abysmal it is, that most of the profiles are fake, and that they definitely will not renew. That tells you everything you need to know.
Reviewed May 30, 2020
I was unable to find anyone for me but I did find a couple of friends in other cities that I still speak with weekly. The ladies in this area were more interested in texting rather than meeting someone in person. I can say that a few were really nice and offered to meet but I wasn't interested in them.
Reviewed May 29, 2020
You constantly get emails of specific matches yet when you click the link you are taken to the rate match site. Constantly adding back people in the viewed tab that you manually remove, yet they are still showing as days old.
Reviewed May 28, 2020
Zoosk is a great dating website that I feel for the cost filters out many of the people you would not want to meet on a free dating website. Seems to have more quality people than other sites I have been on.
Reviewed May 27, 2020
Like all dating sites, Zoosk is limited on being able to protect women, and there's a fair share of fake profiles. That said, it had higher quality matches than other sites I've tried (Bumble, OKC) and was a fairly easy and intuitive interface to use.
Reviewed May 21, 2020
I like(d) Zoosk a lot. I joined in April 2020 and was finding very acceptable profiles I was interested in. All the sudden my account stopped working after I received a message within the app from someone claiming their friend was interested in me to click to see their picture. (If you get one of these dont click on it). The message came from within the Zoosk app so I never thought it was a problem. After that I could not log in so I changed my password, and got in on my phone but it wouldnt let me on any other device.
The next day my new password would not work even on my phone. Finally I found how to contact tech support and they told me they blocked my account due to questionable activity- they never notified me they did this. They told me they could not reinstate my account but would move my story over from the blocked account to a new one (you must use a different email address). So I did. The next day the new email address no longer worked and it would not allow me to change my password- although presented as an option- your only option. I did get in though, by clicking on a link in an zoosk email that came saying someone was interested in me- very insecure. Then when I went to check out my profile zoosk did not move my story over from my blocked account but there was a story on my new account— it said “I'm fat and working on that problem”. I was beside myself. First I am not, and second that story was associated with my photos.
I tried to change this profile story but it wouldnt allow me to. Then I went and tried to disable my account and the disable button was grayed out. All I could do was pause my account. I have never had so many issues with a website. These are technical issues of security and privacy. I requested my money back as I will never expose my personal information on a site with these huge technical issues. You have to be able to trust a site with your personal information and this one is not trusted.
Reviewed May 19, 2020
Zoosk is no doubt the worst dating website ever. As a man seeking a woman, I found many of the women to be bots that simply cannot put a sentence together. It is an absolute waste of time to communicate with no one. Do not use this site. It is a complete scam. I am fortunate enough to receive a full refund but others may not be so lucky. Buyer Beware.
Reviewed May 18, 2020
Have been on this site for approximately 2 years. I am finding that 99% of the men stating they are widows are not. Statistically speaking women outlive men yet there are so many men (generally always good looking) that claim to be widowed and are between the ages of 58 to 63. The general story is have one or two kids not at home, one out of the country at a college, etc. or with another relative either overseas or in the U.S. (for Canadian sub-scribers).
They seem to be either self-employed, engineers or in the oil industry and often work out of the country. It is like they all use the same play book - information is almost identical. When you start asking questions about how long they have been widowed, what happened to their spouse and personal questions they either get annoyed - or change the subject or stop communicating. I have also seem the same picture - maybe with a different shirt, etc. on the site claiming to be from a different area but they all seem to be in jobs you can't trace.
I keep getting reviewed by the same people and have conversed with some that claim they have not either reviewed me more than once or twice or did not indicate they wanted to meet me. I have gotten communications telling me a man wants to meet me too yet I have no idea who this person is as I did not contact them in any way.
Reviewed May 15, 2020
This is the most terrible thing or a group I have ever paid in other to achieve something. Couple of months ago I had a very terrible breakup so I was desperately looking for a way out with a new relationship so I registered at Zoosk and subscribed after restricted to send like or message to any lady so I subscribed for a month £30. The short of the story is please stay away from this Zoosk. They’re fraudster. They restrict you for liking or sending messages saying you’ve reach your limit of sending like or messages. AND how’s that possible after I have paid money.
Reviewed May 14, 2020
To begin with even if you Pay to join they still attempt to stick you for more money by making you purchase what they call coins to view certain things.... Personally I found this terrible, they do not tell you this when you sign up and start paying them.... SECOND Beware. There are so many scammers on the site it is unbelievable, Their security has to be non existent. I was a paying member and my account was hacked, Their answer is for me to create another profile, using a different e-mail... Now seriously how stupid is that. Their customer service simply does not wish to Help you in any way. All your contacts past e-mails etc will be lost. Now this happens a LOT.... Do NOT waste your money on this site, go someplace else.
Reviewed May 9, 2020
I purchased a subscription under the belief that this was a dating site. If you subscribe, you’re only allowed to message one person per day! SENSELESS.. Why would one pay for a dating site to message one person. Complete turn off. Also, “they” control what you say in your “story”. If they don’t like what you wrote they alter it to say what they want.
Reviewed May 7, 2020
Stay away! They know EXACTLY how to take advantage of people who are lonely, upset and frustrated. If after a few tries of trying to find someone decent (that are over 1.000 miles away!!) and you finally come to the end of your rope and cancel, oops! Too bad, you’ve lost ALL your money. Once you decide to give it another try... Oops.. too ** bad! You have to pay for a brand new subscription!!! Oh, we don’t care that you still had time left on your old one... That’s your ** problem!!! STAY AWAY.
Reviewed May 1, 2020
This will be a longer review, but will give you some guidance on navigating your way on Zoosk. First of all, if you've read other reviews, you will repeatedly see claims that Zoosk has lots of fake profiles, would be scammers and obsolete profiles. Unfortunately, all very true. However, there are quite a few legitimate users as well. Here are the suggestions that I would make to the guys, but I caution you, you probably won't like what you hear, but it's the cold hard truth.
First of all, just use common sense. Since the beginning of time, guys have wanted pretty, sexy and nice girls. The reality is, that pretty, sexy, nice girls don't typically need to meet men online. So, when you see a girls picture and she's a 8, 9 or the ultra rare 10, there is a 99% chance, that she's not legitimate. Also, in today's day and age, when women don't want to be judged by their looks, or objectified, when a user doesn't put anything in her bio section and thus she is solely using her looks to get attention, RED FLAG!
When she looks 20, but says she's 45, she really is 20 (RED FLAG!). When she only posts 1 picture and it looks like a model photography shot, RED FLAG! When her bio is in broken English, but she says she is from small town America, RED FLAG! Girls born in America don't say things like "Im nut two gud at sellin meself owt." RED FLAG!
So, what's my suggestion you ask. First of all, have realistic expectations, shoot for 5's, 6's and if you are feeling crazy, reach for an ever elusive 7. But, remember this, on Zoosk, I've found that 99% of the women over 40 are divorced and have kids. So, you are potentially signing up for a package deal (kids) and about to date someone that some other guy got sick of, or maybe she got sick of the guy, or in my case anyway, a mutual sick of scenario.
Also, I see a lot of men on here that are dissatisfied, because they message a girl and they don't hear back from her. Don't be upset by that, just be realistic and honest with yourself. Many girls (8's, 9's and 10's) are in fact, fake profiles, that are auto generated. Many others are obsolete. I saw one the other day that said how busy she was going to be with graduate school through the summer of 2016. Yet another who said she was moving to New York in 2017. Now add to that the women that really aren't available at all, but set up a free account to see if they "still have it". They can't respond to you, because they're married with 3 kids. Then, add to that, the women that are just here to flirt online.
My point is that I think 1 out of 10 Zoosk members are probably legitimate and are legitimately looking to meet a guy face to face, Then, just remember this. As shallow as you and I might be as men, looking for a pretty face and a nice body, women are often looking for the same in a man. So, you send her a message, she clicks on your picture and says I can do better, or I already have better, then you're not going to hear from her.
Finally, remember that most Zoosk members are on Zoosk initially for free. So, if you send a woman a message and she's a "free member", for her to even respond to you, it's going to cost her $60 for a minimum 3 month membership. So, my conclusion is to have fun with this online potential dating thing, but have very low expectations, because you and every other guy is going to have very low results. That's just the reality of the thing.
Most dating sites have a 1 star rating. I signed up for a well known paid site that starts with an e and they sent me over 200 moderately local potential matches. I tried this because I figured there were no free users just messing around or fake profiles since it required a several hundred dollar commitment up front and you know what I got? 190 women with kids that were 3's 4's and 5's and about 10 never married women, that made it clear that they didn't need a man, but for the right handsome man, well educated, well traveled, physically fit, finically well off, could read their every thought, melt their hearts with his mere existence, they would grace a man with her company. Funny part is, they were also 3's 4's and 5's that I wouldn't give the time of day to.
Reviewed April 30, 2020
I emailed them and asked that my profile be kept private after receiving emails from another site. I cancelled subscription once they did not action this. When I cancelled they said it was cancelled for six months, this is the time they can bill my credit card again. It is a rip off site. I will have to phone them now and express my displeasure and likely cancel credit card.
Reviewed April 28, 2020
So after removing myself from 3 other sites because they seemed to be just hook up sites, I decided to give Zoosk a try.. From day one, I like all others started getting want to meet messages..You could have a different date every day if you wanted to..Just saying.. I stumbled on a couple of people that I was really interested in...However I clicked the like button and waited..The "one" that I was very interested in sent me a message the next day explaining that he worked third shift and was just now getting to write me. We exchanged a couple of messages on the site and then I gave him my number so I wouldn't have to keep on getting on the site to talk..That was 5 days ago and we have talked for hours daily since. We have a date this friday and neither of us can wait! I was concerned because he lives in Alabama and I am in Ga. But he has assured me that distance is no issue if we are right for each other..
I also met another man from the site this past week and he is who he says. He only lives a few miles away but I am so much more interested in Alabama..So we will see.. However I do have to agree to a lot on this site..Like you getting the same hits over and over and or having the same people "view" you daily which makes no sense..
It has shown that Alabama has viewed me every day and I keep forgetting to ask him if he is doing that. He only had like 2 photos which were head shots, and has the most beautiful smile..He asked me on day 2 if I wanted to view his facebook page and I thought, ok that will show me he is real..So I accepted..When I saw his FB page, there was a picture there that led me to believe he may be a little heavier than I like so I just nicely asked him to send me a selfie of his whole self..Hes gorgeous!! And it's not him in the heavy picture..Thank God!! I think this may really go somewhere unless the decision. Is made after we meet in person that we arent a fit..I don't see that happening but we will see friday ..
I have only tried to talk to maybe 5 guys on the site and have gotten responses from every one..And it's not the same message!! However if you look around on the site, you can choose to send out a predetermined message sent by the site to a lot of people..Like one was "Hi..I'm interested..If you are too, get back to me"..So that may be what you are getting..I dont know ..But so far so good as far as I see it. And if Alabama doesnt work out which I dont foresee, I will be back looking again..The one near me is a great guy..So you never know..Just relax, and if one dont work for ya. Move on..And If you arent happy, cancel..But before you do remove your pictures and credit card info and they cant keep using it..Also report it to your bank or "lose" that card and get it replaced. Yes that's an inconvenience..But it beats getting charged when you dont want to.. Good Luck..Happy Hunting...
Reviewed April 27, 2020
It seems this company preys on the free users. As a free user, you get notifications that users like you or want to meet you. You are unable to reply to them unless you get a paid subscription. Once you pay, voila! those "users" are gone or do not reply to your message. I live in a large metropolitan area, so one would think there would be a lot of real users in my area. However, when doing a search, I find the majority of users have photos (often just one photo), but nothing filled out in their profiles. I would not be surprised if ALL of those are fake accounts or old accounts resurrected by Zoosk to create the illusion of having active members. Think about it... Why would anyone open an account and post their photo(s) for the purpose of finding a companion, yet they are unwilling to say ANYTHING about themselves or what they are looking for.
I also do not trust the views (of my profile) that we are notified of. I get views from some of the same "users" several times EACH DAY. Unsurprisingly, they have blank or useless info in their profiles. When I send them a message, no response. If they are real, why would they keep viewing me with no intention of any communication at all? They are just bots trolling us. Finally, just for fun, I managed to make a Connection with what I assume was a fake account. Now, whenever I sign on (any time of the morning, day, or night) in 5 - 10 minutes my "Connection" shows up online as well. Really?! This is only possible with a bot account.
Shame on Zoosk for manufacturing and selling false hope. I think the only chance you really have at meeting someone on the site is to check often for new accounts to show up in your area. Then, act fast on meeting them. PS - If you put anything on your profile mentioning fake accounts, the Zoosk moderators delete that section. Can't expose or even hint at that dirty little secret.
Reviewed April 23, 2020
They do not keep up with the cancelled scammers. They keep getting back on for more scamming. For example a girl writes her phone number across her picture and by passes the site she didn't pay a dime to be on. Women can post pictures for free and browse. Men cannot. Plus you quit and your pics stays up for the next year. They have far far less people active than the pictures show. They are greedy people and have a stupid ** name. Think about it ZOOSK. Anybody can come up with a far better name than that pathetic Loser Name. Plus they are overpriced by far. Don't waste your time on this substandard junk site!!!!
Reviewed April 19, 2020
The masterminds behind Zoosk are dishonest, unethical, the whole thing reeks of PURE FRAUD! I paid for the service, yet they dictate every detail of content of my profile. It actually doesn't function unless you comply with all their dictates, especially entering a photo. To start out I chose not put a photo in the profile. Immediately, there were multiple messages from men, "Hey, you don't have a picture", every one, without exception, said the same thing.
One man (a photo probably grabbed off internet!) who first appeared to be at Isle of Palms, South Carolina, made the usual statement, "Hey, you don't have a photo". At that time, I put a photo on my profile. Then he requested my phone number, not to talk, but to text, "So WE can learn more about you," verbatim! His sad story was that he is widowed four years and is a GAS AND OIL ENGINEER, has worked, traveled, for government and big companies, was returning from Canada in two weeks.
Well, we all know engineers are smart, well educated people. This man was NO engineer. His use of words, spelling, language generally all indicates to me he was either a third-grade dropout or was of a different native language, not English. At that point, there was no doubt in my mind that he was a fraud, I got back on Zoosk, and there was the EXACT SAME photo, same man in a suit, in the state of WEST VIRGINIA, not S. Car. I'm sure that the photo was randomly picked from the internet, not of a legitimate "man seeking woman" Zoosk website claims people to be. Another man who purported to be a reasonable distance from me, the same language, "Hey, you don't have a photo." Each and every one were the same words. He completely disappeared after my photo was visible.
I called Zoosk to complain, 16 people ahead, I chose to wait. A minute or so, there were 19 people ahead, another minute or so, announcing 23 people ahead. I was being pushed farther down the line, so I entered information for them to return my call. Whenever I answered my 6s-plus iPhone, the behavior of the phone was erratic, different from anything I've ever seen after using the phone for three years. Instead of the phone app information remaining visible after answering, it immediately FLIPPED TO THE TEXT MESSAGE I'D RECEIVED, that became visible, from "Zoosk photo of non-member man in suit."
All this tells me that this website is perpetrating fraud and deceit on the public, are misrepresenting their true intention of simply scamming the public for every dollar they can get. A state prosecutor somewhere should look into this, and/or a lawyer who sues lowlife scum for money! This is a scam, people!! Don't be ripped of by ZOOSK!!!!
Reviewed April 12, 2020
Complete rip off! Had just about every negative experience shared by others on this page! Twice locked out of site, made the mistake of reactivating only to find out another payment charged to my Google account. Useless.
Reviewed April 10, 2020
This site looks to be best for cross town dating. I live in a sparsely populated rural area where distance goes with the territory and most people don't want anything except cross town dating. Also the fact that is like to meet someone away from my immediate area. I also will not furnish any financial info to their offshore credit processor. I suspect some kind of scam when someone likes me and there is a phone number written on their profile picture - I get a lot of that which sets off my alarm bells.
Reviewed March 27, 2020
Site doesn't seem to care at all about members security. If you choose to post a picture and they don't seem it revealing enough they delete it. If you add comments to have others reach out to see a picture rather than post one for safety concerns they delete that post as well. I guess ** run this company.
Reviewed March 22, 2020
Do not pay for any dating sites without reading the online reviews from a trustworthy site. This site is a total garbage. They will show you some fake profiles just so you can pay for it. Once you do all you see is people that are 300 miles away, fake profiles, scammers, and of course leftovers and then they will notify you when someone looks at you, what's special about that I see people on the streets everyday lol. Run. Save your money and time. They will never get me again or any of my friends. Disgusting. I hope someone will find this helpful.
Reviewed March 18, 2020
Fake people, fake profiles and fake information provided on Zoosk. This site cannot be relied for any long term relationship. If you are looking for just one night stand then you will find many wolves there (that too if the wolf is real). It can be named as sex sites than dating site. I believe there are many ways to verify the real identity of the person signing on the dating sites. I am surprised people who designed these websites never thought about it. Your engineers just thought about getting more and more subscriptions (this is dumb thought and short term income) rather than getting a good image in market and become leader (this is smart thought and long term income).
Please come up with smart ideas to add checks in your software to rule out fake people. Trust me your site will be leader if you could at least get real profiles on your site. More than 70% of the men there mentioned incorrect age. For example they are 54 and mentioned as 39. Even the name and marital status is incorrect. Even the location can be tweaked on the app. It should be auto selected. When someone reports a fake profile (like I did) it should be manually reviewed by your engineers and that person should be contacted for more verification.
Reviewed March 13, 2020
I'm glad I found this site to gain info on their procedures. I made a profile with pics of myself just to look around and see the profiles before paying the money. I have 10+ messages and numerous want to meet mes. I started feeling guilty since I had not paid and could not read nor respond to anyone. I edited my profile and stated I was not a paying customer and could not respond to their messages, but my edit saying this was deleted by Zoosk so the ladies who wrote me will never know the truth and think I am just ignoring them and that bothers me. I am very disappointed with their doing this and realize all the negative reviews are with a doubt legit. This site is bogus.
Reviewed Feb. 29, 2020
I tried the site 6 months ago for a month then cancelled my subscription, now I received an email where tells me the account has been reactivated and got a $10 charge. I went to the website and tried to deactivate the account and it always reply with "Opps there has been a problem." I went to the phone app and when tried to deactivate the account the button to deactivate spins forever and won't do anything. Then I tried to remove the Credit Card info and THERE IS NO WAY TO REMOVE THE CC. Totally SCAM site, stay away... I'll be reporting the fraudulent transaction to my credit card company.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2020
I have been a Zoosk client for many years and recently paid to update my 3-month subscription. Someone hacked into my account, even though I never disclosed my password. This hacker sent a strange long message to many women on Zoosk in South Africa, a similar message to one I received last week. Zoosk sent me a prompt to change my password, which I did, but was informed my account was blocked. I have sent many emails to Zoosk to reactivate my account....to communicate with me. Their customer service is useless/hopeless/non-existent. They have not communicated in any way with me. It is impossible to get a human being on email or any other way. I have sent many emails to support@zoosk.com, to no avail.
They take your money and then block your account, despite my years of being a customer...and fail to respond or communicate in any way. I strongly advise other consumers to boycott them and not to pay a cent to them. They are shockingly poor. It was their system that allowed my account to be hacked. Why should I, a long-time customer, be penalized????
Reviewed Feb. 20, 2020
They let you review their members for free...which I and others have done, but you cannot communicate with them until you subscribe...which is fair....I kept track of five members that were perfect matches. The instant I subscribed, every one of those members disappeared. Along with those five, most of the attractive, classy, and educated members also disappeared...I and others get left with folks that my grandmother may have known...and she passed 20 years ago. You may still find someone, but you're not likely to get what you saw when you had your free look. The time span between my being able to see the members I was interested in and the time it took me to subscribe and try to find them again was less than 12 minutes. Don't waste your money, or more importantly your time.
Reviewed Feb. 15, 2020
I’ve been on the site for a while despite the problems and it is not getting better. Zoosk does not monitor profiles. There are many fake profiles by scammers. I’ve met about (10) real people and had over (100) scam attempts. Zoosk leaves the profiles of women up long after they cancel service creating g the impression of active accounts. They will even “match” you with someone who then never respond to messages. This is all designed to keep men onsite paying fees as opposed to providing a real service to its customers.
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2020
Although I was very successful on Zoosk, meeting my husband, my concern is that I deactivated my account/removed my account and have written confirmation from Zoosk that I did so 3 years ago. In my profile I stated that I had met a wonderful man and was married. Now, 3 YEARS later, I am still receiving daily Zoosk emails telling me about the people reviewing my profile. My profile was supposed to have been removed 3 years ago! That means they are perpetrating fraud on the public. Plus, you can pay real money to send "flowers" to someone on Zoosk. They're not real flowers of course, but the sender is paying real money. If they are sending them to me...I am not even supposed to be on the Zoosk site! I am concerned about this fraudulent, in my opinion, aspect of Zoosk.
Reviewed Feb. 7, 2020
Signed up for a month just to test it out. Shortly after, I got a message from someone and then after responding I logged off and an hour later my acct had been hacked! Contacted customer service and that just became a waste of time. Had to completely sign up again from scratch. Forget it. I will never go back and would advise anyone else to go to a different site.
Reviewed Feb. 4, 2020
Zoosk worked for me in meeting a man with whom I formed a long term relationship. However, once I cancelled from Zoosk, I continued to get messages that this one and that one wanted to meet me. I have been off Zoosk for 18 months now. I think it is a shame that men are still seeing my photo and info and then feeling cheated by never getting any replies. From that point of view, I think that people could easily become depressed if they are reaching out to profiles and never getting any replies. I think that dating sites should be forced to remove all your info once you have cancelled or allowed your membership to lapse.
Reviewed Feb. 4, 2020
This is a repeated problem for me with Zoosk…. Over the past several months I cannot sign in. Only the first time were they able to rectify the problem. The techs, of which there have been many, are unable to assist...or are unwilling. Now they tell me to sign in with another email. The excuses are varied. The biggest problem is that I am a newer user and as I only have the one email, I have had very limited use of the site. I have asked for my money back but it only gets me nasty responses and then they're gone. I am still stuck with the problem and, apparently, no chance of a refund!
In addition, because I am older (upper 60's) the number of male members is very limited and I received the photos and bios of the same people over again. Sometimes twice in the same email! They don't want to hear that either. I just want the problem to be over. I think I deserve that. I treat everyone the way I want to be treated. I don't believe in getting nasty or rude. It gets you nowhere and it's unnecessary. However, in this instance, manners and patience do not work. I do not know whether it is retribution but every day I receive an email asking if my problem is rectified! It's shocking to see that they're so disorganized and unwilling to help me. I would NOT recommend anyone join this dating site if you're over the age of 60.
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2020
Joined Oct 2019, discovered on Jan 31st that my profile name, story, and photos were changed via email. However as I did not do this. Called to find out what happened and was told there was suspicious activity on my account and it was closed. Asked for a refund and was told I was past the time that a refund could be processed and would have to go through my bank. Well guess what? It is also past the time for the bank to do anything as well. What a rip off this company is that they can't protect your information. The website is awful too. DON'T JOIN THIS COMPANY.
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2020
I set up criteria which included: maximum distance, age range, and no smoking and marked them all as highest of priorities. None of these priorities seem to be used in the search results, as I am CONSTANTLY getting likes and hearts and messages from men way older (as much as 13 yrs!), distances up to 200+miles away, Also, when I select the “X” to say I’m not interested, these same men show over and over again in the carousel and picks that Zoosk sends me. How many times do I have to say “No” to the same person? Also, some of the results they send come through really small when you get the option to read the profile. Why?
Finally, the location distances are definitely not accurate as Zoosk will state a person is say 50 miles away and you learn that they are really more like 90 miles away. It’s deceiving. The good thing is that Zoosk appears to be growing in membership so hopefully they will address these issues as it’s a little disconcerting to new, nervous women (and maybe men) to not trust the company to adhere and respect our profile requirements and responses once we provide them.
Reviewed Jan. 24, 2020
I subscribed to Zoosk briefly in 2019 and stopped using my account after a short period of time. In 2020, I was notified of charges being placed by Zoosk on my credit card. When I contacted Zoosk, they informed me that they would refund the money. They did not address how or why the card was charged on an account I had not logged into in nearly a year.
After further communication with their customer service team, they informed me the account had been logged into that day and the charge was authorized in the account - my account had been hacked. When I asked Zoosk for any and all information related to the hack in order for me to report it to the police, Zoosk informed me that I would need to obtain a subpoena in order to get access to my own account information. Hacking an account is illegal. Fraudulent use of a credit card is also illegal. Zoosk's refusal to provide any information on my account, thus preventing me from filing a police report, is deeply troubling. I would not trust any business like that with my payment information much less personal information.
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2020
Firstly I paid as others have a lot of money to meet a Lady, you only get half the text messages of individuals contacting appeased to the fact they advise you will receive a text each time. Secondly the women who contact you never send a message but only a Love heart. When I response in a very nice way I only get about 5% that will chat but then switch off and I have hardly said much but, Thank you and I appreciate your time etc or you look great. I believe this site is a TOTAL SCAM as it Sucks Your Money when credits run dry and I TRULY Believe that they put up FAKE Profiles to Suck in people that want Genuine Love. You will find out if you Join - Good Luck in LOSING MONEY for no Love.
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2020
DO NOT PAY FOR A ZOOSK SUBSCRIPTION! I made the mistake of paying for a 6 month membership and have been fed with nothing but fake profiles. If you have friends who are trying online dating please share this with them so they don't make the same mistake I did. This one girl mysteriously messaged me almost immediately after I complained to Zoosk about fake profiles and requesting a refund. We chatted for roughly an hour, I sent a few questions designed to get a specific response, which she answered incorrectly. The conversation eventually led to us agreeing that online communication was lame, and that we should meet. When I asked her when she'd like to meet, that's when the messages stopped.
I suspected her profile to be fake, and mysteriously after I reported her profile (and without a single response from Zoosk), it disappeared. Zoosk does not seem to be a "company" that is legitimately trying to help singles meet. It seems quite clear with the MULTIPLE in app purchases to do even the smallest things, that they are just in it for the money and will go to great lengths to keep members paying.
Reviewed Jan. 21, 2020
The company deceives its users by contacting others on your behalf. I have received many messages from Men responding to my initial contact when I never sent them a message. Many many fake users and scams on the site. I did not feel safe using it any longer and deactivated my account six weeks before the end of my subscription. I have contacted Zoosk regarding their deception and never received a response.
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2020
I was a member of Zoosk dating service for several months. I never gave my phone number out. A week ago, I got a phone call on my cell from a stranger stating that I was communicating with my on Zoosk and I gave him his phone number. I told him I did not and to stop calling me. He told me to calm down. When I went to my Zoosk account, I could not get in. I changed my password, got in and someone had taken over my account. She had replaced my picture with hers. I contacted Zoosk. Their response (a week later) was to send me an email that they had blocked my account, and I was to set up a new account with a new email. And they would give me 30 days free. They did not address how someone could hack my account and they did not answer how the security on my account was being handled. If this dating website cannot do a better job of protecting subscribers, you are better off not using Zoosk.
Reviewed Jan. 17, 2020
Been a member for several months now. I have seen/met only mediocre members and less to what I expected. There seems to be a trend with 'ghost' members or perhaps more accurately robo members that will view you dozens of times in a day (24hrs). I believe these are fake profiles generated by Zoosk to get you going. Have been on various dating sites before, nothing new here: scammers, prostitutes, fake profiles, phishers....
Reviewed Jan. 13, 2020
I had a paid membership on Zoosk and used it for about 10 days before I could no longer log on. I received a message that my account had been blocked by a Zoosk Administrator. I contacted customer service and their solution was for me to use another email and create a new account. They said they would transfer over my information so I had the days I had already paid for still available. I had no desire to start over and create a whole new profile with an alternate email address. I googled this and found that this happens a LOT! I'm not sure what their game is but I choose not to play.
Reviewed Jan. 8, 2020
My account has apparently been hacked. It APPEARS that I have tried to connect other people to ,"a friend" - I have NEVER done that!!! I am sick of this. I see no way on the site to contact administrators. If this is not corrected I will remove the app and MY SUBSCRIPTION ONEY WILL BE A TOTAL WASTE!!! I need this fixed! Lou **
Reviewed Jan. 4, 2020
Been looking on Zoosk found some nice ladies that I’d like to talk to so I wanted to join. Besides the prices of the basic membership there are upgrades and you can not find the prices of those upgrades anywhere. Emailed customer service and they gave me the runaround. If you join and the person you want to date is not a member you can’t communicate unless you upgrade. The site also send notifications of who viewed you and the notification says “online now” yet when you go to whose on line, they aren’t. I believe this site to be little more than bots and trolls.

Reviewed Jan. 3, 2020
The site seemed to work ok, but then I could not log on anymore. They said my email got corrupted, told me to assign a new email. It was stupid but I made another one up just for them. Week later the same thing happened. Again told me to make another one up...told them they have a problem on their end. After weeks of getting them to fix it I decided I wanted my money back and they refused. Said it wasn't their policy to refund monies. I do not suggest going long term because they will keep your money when it fails. I also am not the only person that had this problem...BEWARE.
Reviewed Jan. 3, 2020
Be careful using this app. I cancelled my subscription over 30 days ago and was told there would be no more charges. When I didn't see the cancellation on the app, I called and was told that the cancellation won't show until the end of the subscription. When it ended, they put another $59 charge on my account. When I called about this charge, I was now told that it was officially cancelled, but they offered no refund. So they charged me for January 2020, but cancelled my subscription. These people are a bunch of criminals.
Reviewed Jan. 2, 2020
First want to say this site is a hoax and it is full of non real girls anyhow and also full of bots to view your site. I think it is a different experience for a few people - very few. I had a couple of friends try this site and also never had any luck. I did meet 1 actual girl (I think) that had a good experience if she was real as I never met her but she contacted me and seemed to be friendly but keep in mind a lot of people on this site are frauds. All they are after is your subscription and token money.
Reviewed Dec. 31, 2019
At first glance the site seems legit enough but after a while you notice that the responses. Are automated, they try and convince you you are getting messages from actual women but when you look at the responses they are the same, like it's a script pr program that is installed. The other tell is that when you respond to the text, there is no answer, that's because there really was no real person texting you. Like I said, it's a scam, do not waste your money or time on this site.
Reviewed Dec. 31, 2019
I was involved in a long term con. I tried to report him to customer service. They didn't even bother to respond to my request. This man now has the ability to go back to their site to con other women. I offered pics and evidence. They were not interested.
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2019
I joined four days ago. Got notices that so and so wants to chat. I type something but get no response. I wait, write, am patient, never insisting. Finally one or two out of dozens who want to contact me, write. The message is inane. One said "I sleep with a pillow between my legs naked." Okay...interesting but said completely out of context. Another says, "I'm friendly, want a relationship," blah blah blah. I write...NADA! One can only assume the site is bogus. Now, as I read and research, others are saying basically the same thing. What is curious, though, is that you occasionally run into testimonies that claim "I found my mate on this website." Uh huh. You know what two positive words in the English together make a negative? "Yeah, right!"
There seem to be a propaganda machine pushing the site. The first dozen or more Google searches claim Zoosk is one of the top sites to meet people. Hah! I only saw pictures. Nope, don't fall for it, people! The site is rigged for ripping the public off. I joined for the minimum of one month, $30, and canceled a few days later (along with my credit card as a safety measure) after being strung along.
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2019
I wasted a year trying to find a decent, attractive woman to date near where I live. If by chance I did get a response she lived over a hundred miles away or wasn't attractive in the least. Now and then I'd get messages that an attractive woman wanted to meet me. I'd send her a message and there wouldn't be any response at all. I thought certain I'd meet somebody online but using Zoosk was a complete waste of time and money.
Reviewed Dec. 20, 2019
Good Dating Site. I have met and dated several different gentleman I met on Zoosk. My only complaint is when you click on the bell which takes you to alerts, if someone has only sent you a heart or smiley face you can not access their profile. You can only choose no, maybe or yes. I would like to access their profile before I chose no, maybe or yes. I would also like to be polite and acknowledge them in the event I am not interested.
Reviewed Dec. 17, 2019
The site looks nice, has good qualities, but their algorithms were written to make deceptive interaction. For example, there is a bright green dot indicator by a member's profile photo to indicate the member is online. That's nice. But at 3:00 am many of the members you might view will appear offline yet send you a 'message' after they are viewed.
In many instances such 'messages' were never sent as verified by paying subscriber fees and sending a real response message only to be told by the member there was never a message sent by them in the first place. This does NOT happen rarely, it happens everyday on multiple occasions. This is Zoosk trying to entice non-paying members to pay subscription fees to communicate with what appears to be an interested member who in fact has no intention to communicate. Zoosk should be sued for this.
Reviewed Dec. 12, 2019
Not only were the potential men not at all viable, they have fun billing you after you close your account. Even Amex takes 6-8 weeks to look into this fraud. Do yourself a favor, don’t sign up. Also it is hard to get a hold of them. Their 415 phone is always busy even during the hours they claim they are closed.
Reviewed Dec. 11, 2019
PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY. YOU WILL FIND THAT IS FULL OF BOTS OR ROBOTS WITH A LOW QUALITY BS. They have no idea how to lie, at least they can make it better, no. They used pics and profile that are fake and non existent. Be very concern, do not put any money.
Reviewed Dec. 3, 2019
I refuse to be "nickel & dimed" by an "activation fee" atop a subscription fee. There is no help given on how to have a profile deleted once it appears on the Zoosk site; neither has there been any response from Zoosk to remove my profile.
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2019
This site seems to be full of one nighters, those looking for financially advantageous relationships, and people who post old photographs of themselves along with false representation. More than likely not going to result in a meaningful relationship.
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2019
This is another dating site with fake profiles and fake personalities that do not exist. Sometimes I feel they have hired people just to play games with customers showing themselves as interested parties but the reality is that there are none or very few women on there. I have been on this site for 3 days and it is very simple to see that they are playing games with everyone.
Reviewed Nov. 30, 2019
A total waste of time and money. I’d be “matched” with men hundreds of miles away and/or 10-20 years my junior or senior. I got the feeling there were few matches in my area because the site is not very popular so they’d send me any profiles randomly. When I paused the 3 month subscription after the first month to give myself time to get over a breakup, I tried to start it up and unpause the service a couple months later and they refused to give me the 2 months I’d paid for, saying my subscription had terminated. Customer service was unable to show me where they stated my account would be terminated if left paused too long and they just kept offering me discounts to sign up again. By refusing to give me the 2 months I’d paid for, they basically ripped me off about $40. Save your money and yourself from disappointment and wasted time. AVOID ZOOSK.
Reviewed Nov. 30, 2019
I have been on Zoosk for just over a month and have found that most of the profiles that seem to be quality women are indeed fake. Most of the constant looks at your profile are fake. Much of this is bad business on the part of Zoosk using fake profile to make customers think they are getting attention. The other is bad people trying to lure real people into giving up personal information for nefarious reasons. My advise - if you want to find a quality date - someone who has it all together >>> stay far away from Zoosk!
Reviewed Nov. 29, 2019
I had Zoosk for 6 months. In the 6 month probably sent out thousands of messages, and said yes to as many smart picks or other ways to match on the site. In all that time, I had 0 replies. Not a single one on anything the entire time. OK maybe not everyone has a premium account and maybe I am not prefect for everyone, but absolutely nothing is pretty bad.
But here is the kicker. On the same day that my subscription was scheduled to expire, but after it expired I received a notification that I have a new message in my account. The first message ever on Zoosk minutes after my subscription ran out. What a coincidence. And obviously it wants me to pay to even see it or reply. This is the most completely obvious bait and switch I have ever seen. Immediately after expiration I have a message. I am completely sure it is completely fake, just like the rest of the site seems to be. I have tried Match and Eharmony and others and even though I did not find a match I did talk and meet people there. Zoosk, it just complexity useless and simply takes your money for absolutely nothing.
Reviewed Nov. 28, 2019
I read and understood the terms and conditions of pausing my account. There was no renewal fees till I reactivated my account. In less than a month Zoosk reactivated my account and charged me. I reread the terms. Found they violated the term of the agreement. I write, try to call, get nothing. Had immediately repaired my account. This morning again zoosk unpaused my account and charged me. But this time they posted a new term of agreement. This one says you can pause your account but they can still monthly charge you. Now why would I want to keep paying them 30 bucks a month for something I'm not using. This is how they're trying to get around being sued for fraud the first few times they broke their own terms to steal money.
If anyone else has had this same experience please contact me at **. I'm attempting to bring class action suit on zoosk for theft and all the others they have done this to should band with me to send up to zoosk and close them down and get your money they stole back. Thanks for reading zoosk phone number had you like to say something to them yourself. Good luck. They won't answer their phones ever. How else do you steal and not have to deal with the people. Make it so they can't get a hold of you. Way most thiefs are a ghost. 1 888 939 6675 zoosk contact number.
Reviewed Nov. 27, 2019
Horrible site. Old accounts of people who are no longer there. They also make it almost impossible to cancel your account, and when you think it is canceled you get suckered into another payment. Worst dating site with the worst customer service. I do not recommend this site.
Reviewed Nov. 26, 2019
My satisfaction level would range from almost dissatisfied to somewhat satisfied or: got what you can pretty much expect, I guess. I talked to a few (real) females on there, from relatively nearby. Went on maybe 2 to 3 dates or meet-ups, tops. Being on there for months. They send matches from far away typically; the site's parameters do not seem to understand or respect what would perhaps be rather common sense distance preferences (you'll regularly get people as your suggested matches who are from out of state, or 50, 60-some or even 100-some plus miles from where you live, etc).
Lot of fakes, they come and go, you get messages (several in a row) from obviously fake pics (1 pic only; very attractive or desirable looking person) no username ("Zoosk user" only), next to no profile body (or poorly or oddly written profile). If you respond saying, "Hi how are you?", to their smiley face or heart, you get in response something like: "Am good, you?"; chat a couple messages more, if even, and you will know for sure by their awkward wording that this is a foreigner from somewhere trying to scam people for something or other. Sometimes they'll say flat-out that they're from out of the country, or they are living outside the country for some reason right now (despite being listed as from nearby where you live).
The best thing about the site or app is that you can 'block' anyone's profile easily after any interaction (unlike on some other sites where you have to keep seeing the same people you've already interacted with, even though you've perhaps blocked them from messaging you). So insta-block any fakes or suspected fakes. Having said all that, from time to time you will get real messages from real (pretty much obviously real) people. Use your own judgement though, because I experienced a few that looked like legit real profiles but by how they interacted in chat had to be fakes or bots or something (perhaps a formerly legit and inactive profile was taken over by a false user).
Anyway, biggest problems are: fakes, distance and so-so to poor matching issues, and it also has a strange way of showing again and again (I think) that you are "viewing" someone's profile, when you're not necessarily doing so. (You might be just scrolling and they keep coming up, or you might be viewing your OWN recorded views, and it shows the person that you're looking at them if they have looked at you before, and so on). It will cost you typically around 40 a month, realistically (39.94), if you buy the month package (go by the month, instead of multi-month package) + the thing where anyone can reply to you even if they're a non-member. You Must cancel your subscription or it will auto renew. After you cancel it, it won't. Is it worth a try? For a month or two maybe, but if nothing comes of it after 6 or 8 weeks I'd cut my losses.
Reviewed Nov. 26, 2019
They tell me ladies are (1) Viewing my profile, 2 ladies who I got repeated notifications about denied it when I asked them. (2) Want to chat, but when I message them I get no reply. I have the upgrade that allows anyone to reply to me. (3) Want to meet me, but they don't reply in chat either.
Reviewed Nov. 23, 2019
Tried Zoosk as a free member. Found 3 lady profiles using precise age and distance criteria that I would like to contact. Interested in meeting each of them so I joined. Once I joined I used precisely the same criteria to search. Not one of them showed up. Did this a dozen times or so - still not one of the three showed up. Now began to suspect this company is a scam.
Had a buddy sign in as a free member. He and I checked with two computers, side by side. As a paid member, none of the three came up. As a free member, he had all three come up. We repeated this little exercise 6 times with EXACTLY the same criteria and at the same time. Every time, the same result happened - I found none of the three and he found all three each and every time. CON JOB BY ZOOSK.
Wow, did I get taken in so I called asking for any plausible reason for this happening. The lady tried her best but could not explain much of anything. Essentially, she just tried to pull excuses out of the air. She said she would give it to member feedback but told me I would not be contacted for follow up. Obviously Zoosk themselves are 'salting' the mine (adding in attractive members to bring in sales - a con job to take your money) to make it look like they have a few very attractive paid members along with those who are real people.
Hope a few lawyers read this post and mount a class action against them as I will be the first to join. Bad enough to be searching for someone without having CON artists take you to the cleaners. Do not get taken in by Zoosk and its scams. Bad experience and if you don't believe what I say here, try it out for yourself. THEN DEMAND YOUR MONEY BACK ALONG WITH TREBLE PUNITIVE DAMAGES AS AT BEST, THEY ARE CON ARTISTS.
Reviewed Nov. 22, 2019
I was very hesitant in doing a dating site as I had a horrible experience a year earlier with another site that rhymes with Hatch. I found the quality of men to be better than other sites but did have my share of weirdos. I met my husband the day after i joined and he joined the day prior to me joining. So, we met each other right away; that was October 2017. We were married 2 months ago. He is the best thing that has EVER happened to me (aside from my grandsons).
Reviewed Nov. 21, 2019
Zoosk!! I’m the founder of a website similar to ConsumerAffairs.com. An online publication, information-rich resource organization, which assists victims, helps prevent financial crimes, protects consumers, and the public from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices. With my experience for recognizing less than authentic individuals, companies, websites etc. who often pose as someone or something you’re interested in or may be interested in. I recently signed up with a paid account with Zoosk. I contacted Zoosk shortly after joining and notified them of the two scammers and a third possible one that I experienced within the first day of joining. They were removed from my view although I’m not sure if they closed their accounts. I did give them reliable evidence.
In my experience these posers always asked for my number and they respond by giving a "text subscriber number" refusing to give their cell number. A 'text subscriber number" is most often used by scammers to avoid identification. Be assured I asked questions that would identify if they’re authentic or not. Their answers and avoiding answers clearly exposed them. Additionally, their answers were classic scammer stories. There is a tactful strategy. On and off I visited Zoosk.com to casually browse the profiles on Zoosk and I noticed it was flooded with profiles that are highly questionable. Today I experienced another likely fake profile who realized I was on to them and stopped our chat midstream. Stay away from Zoosk and DO NOT give any personal information until you cautiously investigate who you’re corresponding with on the other end.
Reviewed Nov. 21, 2019
I was on Zoosk for 3 days. I was inundated with scam requests and decided it wasn't worth it. I unsubscribed and deleted my account. They charged me the following month and didn't delete my account. Not worth it!
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2019
Is it perhaps because Zoosk doesn't maintain its user database, or because they don't act upon Reported users? Whatever the reason, this Dating App/Site is absolutely loaded with fake profiles and scammers. Steer clear of this one, the single advice you need.
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