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DateYou Experiences & Opinions USA

Experiences and opinions of other visitors that were mediated via DateYou.
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DateYou is a dating site for singles looking for fun and real relationships, with customizable search filters
  • Customizable search filters and matching algorithms
  • Free and easy registration
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Is DateYou right for me?
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Members in the USA300,000
Women / Men 20% 80%
From$4.99
Age 25-34 45-54 55+

72 DateYou experiences from real users in the USA

1.5/ 5
★★★★★
13%
recommend DateYou
6%
got a date
72 reader reports
What readers liked
  • Many women and incoming messages
  • Attractive profile pictures
What readers complained about
  • Fake profiles, bots, and paid operators
  • Expensive coin-based messaging
  • Women refuse calls or meetings
  • Canned and immediate automated responses
  • Scam allegations and financial losses
66 years
JerryVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

It pays people to keep other people in conversation with you to run your coins down and keep you buying more to chat with (I call them the predators ) the person that you hope is an actual connection at last, only to find as I have its all a scam!!

Does not recommend DateYou
38 years
CareVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

I like

Recommends DateYou
70 years
MelVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

Most so called women who matched, or text me, seemed like AI.

Does not recommend DateYou
39 years
KyleVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

All the girls are fake. They will try to get you to message non-stop even after giving them your phone number. I think the site is a scam to get you to spend money on coins, but no one is real and will really contact you. This is the same with the One Night Stand website. I have had over 100 messages from people wanting to meet up, but they will never call or text me. They will just try to keep getting me to respond by spending money on coins that allow you to message back and forth. I wish I could give it no stars.

Does not recommend DateYou
61 years
JamesVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

DateYou is the worst of all the online dating sites because every single woman appears to be a paid worker (or an animated profile, as they call it). These women have no interest in ever meeting you; they just want to chat and make you buy more coins to continue chatting. Realize they are not paying for coins. Although many online dating companies use a similar business model, DateYou is the worst of all. They refused to refund my unused coins when I presented them with facts showing that all the women are fake actors. DateYou is based in Cyprus, making it difficult, if not impossible, to press charges against them. Avoid DateYou; it is the worst online scam ever.

Does not recommend DateYou
45 years
MattVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

It is a complete rip-off!!ยก!!! It is the worst dating app there is. I would give it negative 5 stars if I could. Don't waste your time and money

Does not recommend DateYou
60 years
DonVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

Mostly fake profiles. They want to keep you talking on the site to cost you more.

Does not recommend DateYou
59 years
Eric ★★★★★

IT IS A SCAM from the minute you get on the site to the minute you write a message..... then it is a SCAM with all the responses. Many of which are robotic and come from multiple women. Most of the responses are pre-written with a lot of " Darling, Honey, sweetheart, my dear, HIHI, etc." You will see the same messages from many women

Does not recommend DateYou
49 years
ChrisVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

Iโ€™m very skeptical. Less than two minutes after I finished my profile, I had three different people contact me. So I immediately went through $50 in coins. Then I got up at 3 oโ€™clock in the morning and I went through the profiles. Every single profile had a green dot. It says they are online. Thatโ€™s impossible. I think itโ€™s a complete scam.

Does not recommend DateYou
72 years
STEPHENVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

All fake female profiles. When you buy "coins" the charge your card several times. Call your customer service to tell them of the fraud. They only want you to buy "coins" to pay 50 coins per message you send. Profiles message you and try to get you to message more. Go to chat and tell them to email you and give email address and they never email you they just try to get you to message them more. ALL of them./ There are no real profiles that I found.

Does not recommend DateYou
57 years
JeffVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

Everything I said above, plus I had three women messaged me within the first 10 minutes of me being on there. I didn't even have a picture posted to tell me how good-looking I was and that they wanted to meet me. And they wanted to know if I was interested in more than just chatting. So I said 'sure', they were close supposedly. I said I'll be right over where you're at, then they were all technical like I just don't do that. And they had to get to know me first then, so those are all pretty much telltale signs of a scam. Maybe not a scam everywhere like in big cities, but in rural areas it's a scam. You can bet your ass too old queen Malaysian men talking to 60 to 70-year-old white guys.

Does not recommend DateYou
44 years
ClintonVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

Nothing do not spend money on it a con

Does not recommend DateYou
71 years
AllanVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

They do not 'tag' fake profiles. I believe they have a very high number of fake profiles,

Does not recommend DateYou
81 years
RonVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

They all are working for the house, shills like in las vegas, not one girl would even meet at the most public resturant or any other place. We feel safe here. Hog wash i know they are paid by the site.

Does not recommend DateYou
58 years
JeffVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

All the robots in the back just play arounfd ansd want you to chat and aspend money. I smell a rat...:)

Does not recommend DateYou
39 years
SteveVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

The women are not real, you can send a message at 4AM or anytime and within 2 minutes you will get a canned fake response. The whole site just wants you to keep messaging so that you can spend money.

Does not recommend DateYou
74 years
PatrickVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

I'm looking to file a federal class action lawsuit. pjcurro@yahoo.com

Does not recommend DateYou
74 years
PatrickVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

It's all a fraud. Each one ends up sexually exciting you, even the bad looking ones.

Recommends DateYou
74 years
PatrickVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

The women do not answer questions but lead you on wit h more questions. They can't even read messages, correctly.

Recommends DateYou
62 years
BrianVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

This site uses many fake accounts This site uses many fake accounts. Bots, using AI answer most of the questions. Averaged 90 e-mails a day received. It is a scam site that just wants you to buy more tokens to chat. If you say something like I just received 400 messages in 5 days, the answer will be " Thank you for sending your phone number, but I prefer we communicate on this site". Very poor AI. A total ripoff and scam.

Does not recommend DateYou
28 years
AdamVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

They donโ€™t have a phone number to contact them!! They took two charges of 24.99 from my account without authorization and wonโ€™t respond to messages through the only Option of contact on there site!

Does not recommend DateYou
66 years
RobertVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

I found it highly suspicious that many of the women started using non-USA vernacular. Since this is a United Kingdom operation it all became clear. These women may be real in some place, some where, but not here! I read all of the other reviews and have had the same experience. There is only one man that claims he had a good experience. I totally disbelieve him. I am sure he works for them or was paid by them. I only spent $25.00. They will not get another cent. Someone professionally wrote a review saying it was a fine site. There is a special place in Hell for him. Thank you to all that shared their stories. You confirmed my suspicions.

Does not recommend DateYou
64 years
DanVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

I found that close to 99% of the female profiles on this site were fake or robot profiles. These profiles were placed there by DateYou solely for the purpose of getting men to chat with them and spend more money on the site. In all of the many profiles I communicated with, it was obvious after a short time that the goal of the profile was to get me to send a reply with no intention or ability to actually meet in person. I could tell these things by the wording of the text or the pictures in the profiles. DateYou is nothing but a scam, preying on lonely people

Does not recommend DateYou
38 years
Gary ★★★★★

Keeps sending you free texts to signup for coins total waste of time and money !!!!

Does not recommend DateYou
39 years
AndrewVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

It is to expensive

Does not recommend DateYou
61 years
RonVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

Everyone that is reasonably attractive is a fake with short, duplicate "canned" responses designed to con you into using coins to keep responding. Out of 20 contacts everyone loves me but refuses to offer an email address or call back even if you ask them to block their number. Really. This site is simply a con-job

Does not recommend DateYou
53 years
RonVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

I Don't believe people are real and fake automated responses are generated by the site. Responded to several email at 2am to women in my area and almost got an immediate response. Really? These women are up at 2am?? Since the site charges per email you send, almost all responses seemed canned. Most unsolicited Emails I received were aggressive and wanted to meet or know more about me. I tried to give out my phone number so they could call/text me further and even suggested blocking their number. Tried this tactic 10 times where every response was essentially "like to get to know you better by emailing back to me using this site". Don't waste you money on this con job site.

Does not recommend DateYou
40 years
Pablo MorasVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

Everything about the Site is Fake!!!!

Does not recommend DateYou
70 years
MichaelVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

After a while longer - I had to replenish my coins, which of course meant more money. Still the love notes kept coming with "love, honey, sweetheart" every other sentence. Several "ladies" at a time were competing for my attention. It was exciting but then exhausting - and expensive. Then the light went on, and I realized I was being swindled. These people are assholes!

Does not recommend DateYou
38 years
MikeVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

It's all fake

Does not recommend DateYou
52 years
David B ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
42 years
Seth Gitter ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
53 years
jack ★★★★★
Recommends DateYou
54 years
Donald Johnson ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
60 years
Frank Browerd ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
65 years
john ★★★★★

Too many ugly women

Does not recommend DateYou
67 years
Randy Hilliary ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
49 years
Joe ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
53 years
Brent Cramer ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
62 years
Stockytoe ★★★★★
Recommends DateYou
64 years
MattM ★★★★★
Recommends DateYou
58 years
Bill ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
60 years
Ed Anderson ★★★★★
Recommends DateYou
59 years
Al ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
70 years
Bruce ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
63 years
Rob McGregor ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
75 years
KEN EAISE ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
48 years
kevin ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
59 years
Hangn0ut ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
58 years
Wayne 880 ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
68 years
Phil ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
58 years
Kevin ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
52 years
Donald Skjolf ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
99 years
George Castanza ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
37 years
acidjazzok ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
40 years
Ahetf8080 ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
39 years
Matt ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
58 years
Diverdug ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
59 years
Jess ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
47 years
Dann caruso ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
25 years
steve wilson ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
65 years
David ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
59 years
Miguel Roberts ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
59 years
Hangn0ut ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
60 years
V Mattera ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
40 years
eric weiss ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
65 years
Dave Bell ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
67 years
Jerry ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
60 years
redpool ★★★★★
Does not recommend DateYou
59 years
KVerified DateYou user ★★★★★

Definitely fake site, with many fake profiles and automated messages sent to you hourly urging you to buy coin and reply. You could check easily to reveal the messages are not from real person but software generated by writing your text phone number in your profile and choosing a user name such as "textme" then see messages pouring in saying: Dear textme send me or let's exchange text number or just read your profile what is your text number? Also from experience I know when a dating site has Cypress address, it is very unwise to use credit card or else to buy coins or subscriptions as it will follow with assortments of other charges to credit card with virtually no way to cancel as the listed phone numbers put you on everlasting holds if you select any option other than buying more from them.

Does not recommend DateYou
63 years
Stockytoe ★★★★★
Recommends DateYou
84 years
Arthur Smith ★★★★★
Recommends DateYou
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