Meetic - Review

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Site address:

www.meetic.co.uk

What the site claims:

• All you need is love

• Several million Europeans are already subscribed to meetic, making it the leading site in Europe and one of the biggest sites worldwide.

Ease of use:

• Registering with the site is relatively simple.

• The site has a help section, with FAQ to guide you.

• Meetic has rather busy pages with flashing adverts that could become annoying over time

Sign up process:

• Register by entering our personal details – general, description, and lifestyle.

• Enter the profile of the type of person you are looking for (which is then used for your searches)

• Then add a photo

• Also able to record a voice ad

• All profiles are checked by Meetic’s team of moderators (site claims that this will happen within 48 to 72 hours, excluding weekends. Should you wish to use the ‘Express Approval’, you need to call a 0906 number at £1 per minute).

Photo’s / Audio / Video

• Upload electronic photos to your profile.

• If you do not have an electronic photo, you can post it to Meetic’s head office in France. We could not deterin if they are returned

• Audio chat, but check cost of calls.

Membership levels & price:

• Free membership

Includes:

• Upload your profile and a photo

• Search for other meetic singles

• meetic Pass

• 1 Month – £20.35

• 3 months - £40.95

• 1 year - £82.20

Includes:

• Once your pass expires, Meetic will automatically renew your membership by periods on one months, using whatever payment method you originally used. The monthly price will be whatever the charge was for a month when you originally signed up. This could be expencive so remember to cancel or resubcribe

• Surf the advert free version of meetic

• Search with Meetshake

• Chat online

• Email other members

Search Tools:

• Simple search by age, region and if they have a photo

• Advanced search includes country, description and lifestyle

• One click search enables you to search by whose birthday it is today, members who were born on the same day as you were, search using key word, or search using login

• Search for people who are online now

Messaging / Instant Chat etc

• Send Teases

• Send voice messages (again, a 0906 number at £1 per minute)

• Standard email messaging

• Chat messaging

Extras:

• Meetshake – the site has its own compatibility calculation software that gives you a list of members who match your search.

• Meetic mobile – Meetic’s WAP service, notifies you by mobile when you have new messages, or your friends are online.

• Meetic friends – you can send invites to ‘friends’. This enables you to easily see if they are online. Meetic friends invitations need to be accepted (or rejected) by the other person.

• Inspire Me – a link to the gift section of lastminute.com

• The site has a quality charter, detailing how it will maintain its integrity.

Number of active members:

• No info as yet - information requested from Meetic

Average new sign ups per month:

• No info as yet - information requested from Meetic

Additional information from site:

• No info as yet - information requested from Meetic

What we found:

• The pages do seem to be quite ‘busy’ until you have looked at them for a while, then you get used to where everything is.

• Becoming a paid member enables to you to access an advert free version of the site. The free version of the site can be a bit distracting with the adverts flashing at the top and side.

• When looking at profiles, they are well laid out, and information is easy to find.

• Not all questions are answered within the FAQ pages, for example, we noticed that some members had several photos, but we were unable to find if there was a limit to the number of photos you could load (whilst being a free member anyway)

Online-Dating-Reviews grading:

Overall score of: 67%

Date of Review:

3rd May 2006