Global Personals - www.globalpersonals.co.uk Review

Global Personals - www.globalpersonals.co.uk
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written by on 27/01/2015

I paid premium to upgrade to full membership from basic on one of Global Personal's sites. I then found that I still had to pay more if I wanted to use all the features that are available to full members on most sites. This was disappointing from the start.

Secondly, I've been on sites before where as a basic member you are enticed to pay for full membership in order to read emails. As a new basic member your mail box quickly fills with emails from other members! You are lead to believe that they are personal and from members who have seen your profile and are interested in you. Yet upon up-grading and looking at the emails you find that they are "round robins" sent to every member. This trick is employed by this company.

Thirdly, if you want to cancel you have to wait until their phone lines are open and wait for them to answer and speak to them personally. I'd advise you to take a screen shot of the cancellation email you may receive from them in case you need it at a later date.

Fourthly, I have never been approached by so many people with fake profiles as on this site. They are easy for anyone with an ounce of intelligence and a minimum of dating site experience to spot. I am suspicious to say the least that some of them may even be employed by the company to string you along for another months membership. This practice was common a while ago though this organization I believe claim to have been one of the first to stop such practices! Maybe?

For more on this see channel 4 Google: Fools for love: how an internet dating firm duped clients. This tells all about Global personals

Finally, if I were staying a member of Global Personal's
Sites (Which obviously I'm not) I wouldn't waste very much time talking to other members by email if they seem reluctant to speak on phone or to meet up. Sure, a bit of caution is normal and advisable but it's also fairly obvious when you're being strung along.

Not sure if you'll publish this but hope you do.

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