ZooskReviews 3,541

I just became a member of Zoosk and I'm not sure I would sign up again. The site itself is fine, but the up-selling through the use of coins is, in my mind, really lame. Once you PAY for a membership fee, you shouldn't have to keep shelling out more money to see who viewed you, etc. It's like joining a gym and then finding out you have to pay extra to use the treadmill machine or weights. There is a way to "earn" coins by reviewing other members' profiles, but why? Just give me what I paid for! Dumb, dumb, dumb.

When I see the good reviews on here I know they must be fake. This is my experience with Zoosk. Before you sign up you browse and leave a wink for people. Then Zoosk tells you that they have left you a message when in fact it is a message from Zoosk telling you that the person wants more than a wink, but that is from Zoosk not the person... so in order for to send more than a wink you have to sign up.

Once you sign up they charge additonal fees beyond the monthly. Then you have to pay additionally for what they call coins. You are forced to use these coins to interact with people. So even when you are signed up and paying the monthly fees they milk you for these coins.

Thirdly, they tell you in order to be more popular you need to use these coins to raise it.

I think any dating website requires a lot of patience and common sense, It is not going to happen overnight. Looking for a suitable date is a numbers game. You have to contact a lot of potential dates and keep trying until you find the right person. It may not be the first or second person but sooner or later that perfect match will come along. Patience and perseverance are essential in the online dating scene. You will know when the right chemistry is in place.

Zoosk is indeed a SCAM. This is important, read it.

"Views" are not actually someone CLICKING your profile. Say you view someone, and they view you. That's now in their history, and yours. If that someone browses the list who viewed them, it will show up as viewing YOU again.

Do you get it?

If you think someone is clicking your profile over and over, you assume they are interested and waiting for your first move, right? Zoosk knows that.

Zoosk is creating fake interest, just to keep you clicking profiles, sending messages, and viewing more profiles. All to pretend Zoosk has real "action". I'm sure some actuary is quoting those false numbers to some executive who is smiling.

As for "matches" Zoosk selects, it is all ego-stroking. There is no intelligent matching, it's all a lie. Zoosk chooses the most attractive and "matches" you. Wow, you think at the beginning, I'm flattered. But considering the Zoosk business model, by clicking that person's profile and they clicking back, Zoosk ensures that an attractive person will "view" you many times, as I say above. Further stroking your ego.

All to keep you paying Zoosk.

With silly "carousel", purchasing "Zoosk coins" even when a paying member, and "popularity meter", you get a real insight into their mind set. YOU REALLY DO NOT WANT TO BE THERE.

Zoosk is an insult, and the product of a company which thinks very little of you.

That carousel game where you earn 40 coins a day is to keep you and all the people you say "maybe" or 'yes' to (in regards to "are you interested in?") Is just a way to make you think that there is interest in you! It just goes around and around and the caliber of contact is poor. I joined for a month and by week 3 I had one date where the guy was drunk and with his mate. 3 guys boasting of their sexual prowess, one guy that chatted for a while and then got to asking about having an intimate relationship. They all seemed like they were using it for a shop for sex. Boring, over rated and crap dating site.