Online Dating at True.com:
Greatest Strength: Comprehensive approach to dating and searching.
Greatest Weakness: Pricey!
Cost: Seven day free trial; if you do not cancel before that expires, your credit card is billed $49.99 per month.
Additional $9.98 charge if desired for profile coaching and chat.
Attraction at True.com:
Truly, True is not a dating site for the faint of heart. These singles are true to themselves, their dating, and their credit accounts—and if that kind of commitment to online dating doesn’t sound like what you are looking for, don’t leave just yet. True allows pretty easy searching of available profiles and has a large range of users from all sorts of backgrounds. This may be an expensive site, but there are other singles out there who know the same thing that we do. Here, we’ll let you in on it: for True, price means value.
True allows for extensive profile creation and very specific searching. You name the personality, the body type, the occupation, the sexual preference—almost any qualification can be used to sort your search results. And like we said: there are some pretty attractive, available singles at True.
True seems to spin itself a little towards the young singles but its professional layout and attractive (even provocative) design has the ability to appeal to almost anyone, anywhere. True is easy to navigate, with well-organized sidebars and headers to get you where you need. Until you subscribe, frequent reminders are added into the page and navigation tools to let you know that the best online dating comes from fully committing. Rather than confusing you in your online dating experience, though, these simply add a little color and variety. Well—that, and they remind you to pay up.
True doesn’t need any complicated scientific, psychological, or mathematical matching techniques. That sort of thing would be too much for True. Their approach is simple but elegant. Using their extensive profile-creation templates, you are able to build a personal ad that allows for ease of compatibility matching. You not only tell True who and what you are, but you can clarify what you want and how important that is to you and your dating life. This isn’t to say that True charges all that money just to give you a few forms to fill out. In addition to the profile building, you can add a personal flavor to your web dating by taking a series of interest, love, and sex tests. The results for these help you search for compatible profiles as well as making you a more attractive prospect to other singles out on the searching scene.
Ultimately, True is like other dating sites in that the money serves to run the site and help maintain privacy. When it comes to a free membership, you can not only build your profile and take quizzes, but actually rate users and match yourself (via searching) with those that attract you. Photos and profiles are almost one-hundred-percent accessible at the free level and you will find yourself coming to like the singles you see. When the time comes to pay, the only real additions to your abilities are more extensive communication options. True already allows free “winks” and a limited degree of free email. Payment increases your available resources to include chat, video chat, voice communication options, and coaching through the online dating scene.
There’s a lot to do at True. Love is no cakewalk here—but if you play your cards right (and by cards, we mean Visa, Master, and American Express as well as your hearts, queens, and kings), you’ll have a great online dating experience.
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