My UK Date Review

Site address:

http://www.myukdate.com

What My UK Date claims:

• My UK Date is aimed at the more mature and serious end of the market. Their sister site Date The UK caters for the younger more frivolous end.

• My UK Date is the fastest growing site with
  interactive features, makes online dating easy and effective. Try our services for FREE and start looking for a partner now.

• My UK Date - UK's largest interactive
  dating website.

Text/Audio/Video Chats powered by leading edge technology:
See Me, Hear Me, Meet Me ™ chat and see your date before you meet

• My UK Date is a friendly UK Dating Site with all the features of larger sites. We aim to provide a service for over 25s looking for love online or a serious relationship. My UK Date started in April 2004 and has grown rapidly.

• Over 140,000 people registered with My UK Date already

• Grown-up dating for the young at heart

Ease of use:

• My UK Date's site is well laid out, menus simple to use.

• You are able to take a tour of My UK Date's site before joining to see what services are available.

• My UK Date's free membership allows you to search, but not send messages – however, if you upload a photo, you can send up to three messages for free.

Sign up process:

• Sign up to My UK Date by choosing a user name, and inputting your email, selecting your nearest town and giving your postcode.

• Then enter the usual physical / background profile, and descriptions.

• Verification via email

• Sign up including waiting for verification took approx. 5 minutes

Photo’s / Audio / Video

• My UK Date allows you to post up to four pictures

• You can flag three of these as view by friends only, so that you can choose who gets to see them.       

• No scanner? Don't worry you can post pictures to My UK Date for them to upload, My UK Date is also one of the few dating sites to return your photos after scanning, but you must enclose a SAE.

• Instant messenger with Audio / Video for Gold members.

Membership levels & price:

• My UK Date's Free Guest Membership:

Includes:

• Upload pictures

• Browse other members

• Basic Searching

• Flag people as friends

• If you add a picture to your profile, (and it is approved) you can send up to 3 emails, and reply to any online flirts received.

• Gold Membership:

• 2 day pass - £4.99

• 30 day pass – £19.99

• 90 day pass - £39.99

• 6 months pass - £59.99

• Year pass - £89.99

• Soul-mate guarantee - £ 99.99

Includes:

• Chat, Flirt, send mail to any members

• Advanced search & matching tools

• Repeat billing

• Audio/Video chat

• Soul-mate guarantee - if you are not in a happy relationship within 1 year, membership will be extended for another year. If at the end of the second year, you are still not in a happy relationship, your membership will be extended again.

Search Tools:

• My UK Date's search includes gender, age, what you are looking for, by postcode and if they have a photo

• Search Plus, includes the above, and physical and background criteria.

• Also able to search for a specific member

• Also able to search men / women on line now.

Messaging / Instant Chat etc

• Flirting – the sites instant messaging service, to chat to others who are online (Gold members only).

Extras:

• My UK Date does a Monthly Horoscope, see what your future holds for you.

• If you dont find love in the first in the first year. My UK Date will give you up to 2 years free to enable you to find your perfect mate

Number of active members:

• Between Easy Date Limited's five sites they estimate 800,000 active members and 1.2 million registered members

Average new sign ups per month:

Information Requested from My UK Date

Additional information from site:

What is "See Me, Hear Me, Meet Me ™”

• Most online dating members want a real date as quickly as possible.... so they can meet, chat and find out if that person is 'The One'!

• We provide members with the tools to do all this and make that date happen. There is the option of using live audio and visual technology together which creates that virtual date.

• Our unique See Me, Hear Me, Meet Me ™ technology allows you to talk and see each other live.

• If you feel a little shy you can chat first and see how it goes. And on the next date (we hope!) take it to the next level and have a live virtual date!

What we found:

• It would be useful if My UK Date's tour facility was also available once you had signed up, as it contains some useful info on where to find things. We suggest you have a good look through this then sign up.

• Easy to use menus, and search functions.

• My Activity menu shows you what you have been doing on the site; when someone has looked at your profile, flirted with you or mailed you; and whom you have browsed, flirted with or mailed.

• Additional Personality (score system) and Lifestyle (drop down options) information can be added to your profile.

• Overall, a good site, very easy to use. I liked the colour scheme, which was easy on the eye, and not too busy. The site does not contain any adverts; page load times were very quick.

• It is obvious that Easy Date Limited have put a lot of work into My UK Date, they have come up with a dating site that suits the market that it is aimed at, the over 25's seriously looking for a long term relationship

• "My UK Date" is the trading name of "Easy Date Limited" – they own several other dating sites in the UK, such as" You Can Get Me"; "Dating Bridge"; and "Date The UK". (see below)

  
  

Online-Dating-Reviews grading

Overall score of: 83%

Date of Review:

17 th April 2006