Dating For Parents www.DatingforParents.com

I signed up for a 3 day trial last summer. The site was rubbish and I did not want to continue after the trial. I found out yesterday that dating for parents under the name NSI holdings have been taking £24.99 a month from my PayPal account fraudulently up to a total of almost £250. I rarely check PayPal account as is only used for small eBay payments. I spoke to their customer service and was spoken to very patronisingly and she was shouting over my voice. I asked to speak to her manager and she said no one was there. A totally dodgy set up and how immoral. Who would sign up for a 3 day trial and expect a subscription . A trial is a trial. PayPal have kindly refunded £50 as goodwill but I'm not sure where to go next. Any advice welcome please.

Do not join this site. I made the mistake after a link from a review in a newspaper website, can only assume it was paid advertorial or something. Sign up is free and at that stage it all seems fine, but it is 99% useless without subscription, there is no way to communicate or even see profile pictures properly. However, they do give you some free 'ice breaker' type messages, so I deployed a few of them - and voila plenty of replies, which I couldn't read. Signed up for the 3 day trial and turned out they were all auto-generated and not from the users at all (most of whom had not logged on for months). And to add insult to injury it somehow managed to charge me an extra 15 pounds after my initial payment. I immediately cancelled the account (you need to go into my account page and find the subscription info where you can turn off the auto-renew', they send another email with a code and a link which just takes you back to the site with nowhere to put it, then you go back and can remove the account, hope that helps someone). Also for final insult if you use the 'forgot password' button, they send it to you in an email. In plain text.

Please steer well clear of this site or anything to do with Cupid.com. Once they have your card details they will go into your account and take any amount of money they choose without your permission, regardless of what you have signed up for. When you ring to complain they tell you it's in the small print. You don't have to agree to a monthly subscription, even if you opt for a three day TRIAL they will take more money every WEEK. I have had to cancel my card to prevent these fraudsters from going into my account, and am in Visa dispute and reporting to Trading Standards. Do not go near them they are fraudsters.

I agree with previous reviewers. When I first joined the site some years ago, I chatted to several real people and had a couple of dates, one with a lovely genuine lady with whom I had a relationship for 2 years. Sadly that came to an end and last year I resubscribed to DfP. What a mistake ! It had changed completely to yet another fake profile, fake email bait and switch scam. Does anyone else here feel like jointly suing them for fraud ?

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I first used dating for parents back in 2007. was a really good site back then, and met some really nice people. Now its just a scam with fake messages that never get opened. Very difficult to to cancel your membership!

Yes, I can prove it's a scam site. It's easy to find out. All you have to do is message every single fake message you recieve and you will never get a response.

All the photo's and profiles, apart from the few who, like me, are MUG enough to believe the fake bullsht they advertise, are fake and from OTHER website's also owned by CUPID PLC. Yes, Cupid is a PLC shares company and all they do is build scam dating websites for money.

FACT: Search google for Cupid PLC and see 100's of dating websites created and managed by THEM!

I think that Cupid PLC, the company that runs the website must have a whole team dedicated to creating fake profiles, and sending messages to random members.

In my short 2 weeks I have been a member I have received over 100 message, all of them clearly fake profiles. They are very easy to spot as the message will sound like a computer has generated it, and if you reply - what a surprise, your message will never get opened.

In addition to this because Cupid is a network of dating websites if you carry out a search you will receive lots of matches from its sister sites... some of which contain people who are not looking to be with people who have children.

Avoid at all costs.

This site has just got worse and worse over the 5 months I have used it with video and chat calls almost impossible will not connect or connects and disconnects just can't chat to anyone! And well as for customer care.....you just get the same message every time no matter what you say!! I think this site and its affiliate site Horny Asia use the same server somewhere in outer Mongolia!!! AVOID AT ALL COST'S

This site used to be really good, but now it has become like most of the others. If you want to be in control of who you wink/reply to be sure to turn off 'auto-reply'. Be aware that b4 u join, as has been stated on a previous review, there will be a lot of interest from fake people.

But my number one gripe with this site is that they collaborate with other dating sites- so it is not just parents on there and able to contact u. Even though I tick yes for having children in my profile- I can't count how many guys have contacted me and then been shocked that I have a kid. The point is that everyone is supposed to know everyone else has kids without having to read the 'HAVE KIDS box'- this can be not only annoying but rather confusing and hurtful causing more problems than solving them.

I actually have joined on and off over the years and have been on some dates though nothing major although that was of my own choosing. I find the site easy to use but non desperate and genuine people who like to do things the natural way will find the site quite forced. Date casts also completely defeat the object of reading peoples profile and seeing if u like them. I can only see these as being for people who have no standards.

Also it would be nice to be able to click on sometimes and not be visible as 'online now': if u can do this and I haven't found the settings then my apologies. But when u have become interested in one person but don't feel ready to give them your personal details yet, it isn't much fun logging on to have a million people pop up in the chat window. I had some very psychoish emails "hi I know you were online today cos I checked why haven't u emailed me back."

As usual with dating sites there are tons of people who are fake and you have to be cautious, but dating for parents could make this easier by not letting NON parents join the site/be able to view d4p members profile.

It is expensive as well for what you are getting and I would not recommend it anymore due to its new transformation. I want the old d4p back. It was so much more intimate and you only met parents. In this way d4p has betrayed its mission 'you're there for your children, we're there for you'. - Oh Please- give me a break!