Love Match Dating
Review

Site address:

www.love-match-dating.co.uk

What the site claims:

• Find dates locally, Where ever you are in the UK the system will show you profiles from your local area.

• Search the whole of the UK too

• Unbeatable Value.

• One of Britans fastest growing dating sites

• Total users – 67,144

Ease of use:

• Simple list of menus on left hand side.

• Members area displays a list of

• New female, and new male users;

• Top female / top male members, and

• Top female users with pics / top male users with pics.

• Profiles are easy to read at a glace, and well laid out, and also include info on when the user was last logged on.

Sign up process:

• Signing up for free membership is simple; enter email, user name, and your address.

• Then select from drop down menus for your personal profile (height, eye & hair colour etc)

• Type in a few details about yourself, your interests.

• Wait for your access code to be emailed, then you are ready to login, and start searching.

Photo’s / Audio / Video

• Upload a picture, and then you are able to have a gallery with four additional photos.

• If you do not have an electronic photo, you can use the sites Freepost address to send your photos for scanning and loading.

• No audio / video at this stage, but the site claims to be working on this, and should be available shortly.

Membership levels & price:

• Free membership:

Register, login and you are able to:

• Edit your profile

• Quick search (using your preset details)

• New search (changing your pre set details

• Add a photos to your profile

• Suspend your membership

• Paid Membership

• Monthly recurring payment – £9.99

• 3 months - £24.99

• 6 months - £44.99

• 1 year - £64.99

Includes:

• Unlimited searches

• Send and read messages

• Chat online with other users

• Add people to your favourites and see who has added you to theirs.

• Create a gallery of your images.

• Send in your photo by Freepost to be scanned and loaded. Send SAE for your photo to be returned.

Search Tools:

• Quick search – by gender, age and area

• Photo search – by gender, age and county (but you can search the whole of the UK if you want)

• Pre-set search - From the details you entered in what you are looking for in a partner.

Messaging / Instant Chat etc

• Standard messaging.

• Chat room.

Extras:

• Articles including:

• Dating Safety;

• The Science of Flirting;

• Dating Tips; and

• Better Profiles.

• Able to contact the Support Team via email for help.

Number of active members:

•  This is hard to estimate as new members are joining all the time and existing members are falling in love and don’t need us any more. Our members seem to be very good at deleting their profiles when they meet their soulmate, so I would estimate that out of nearly 70,000 members around 60 to 65,000 are active

Average new sign ups per month:

•  We are currently getting between 1000 and 1500 new members joining each month, but this is growing each month

Additional information from Love Match Dating

• We are in the process of upgrading our system the new system will include our own in house audio/video chat. We developed our own to eliminate compatibility problems between server software and third party audio/video that you will often come across. It also has a new improved and very powerful photo upload system that lets the user do modifications to their photo before posting it

What we found:

• Whilst the site does not have any help pages, we found that the site very well laid out, easy to navigate and we felt that help pages were not required.

• Profiles are well structured and easy to read.

• You can see at a glance if you have new messages, how many people have viewed your profile, how many favourites you have, and how many users are online

• Love Match Dating has offered users of Online Dating Reviews a 25% discount on a 3 month membership. To claim just enter the dicount code ODR25 when paying for your membership

• A very well designed site, easy to use, with plenty of members.

Online-Dating-Reviews grading:

Overall score of: 89%

Date of Review:

29 th April 2006 - last updated 15-11-06