Online Dating Ratings
Features
19/20
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Credibility
19.5/20
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Safety
9.5/10
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Ease of Use
9.5/10
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Pricing
9.5/10
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Overall Grade:
96%

Yahoo! Personals is an online dating super center that is sure to attract any single searching for love! Members of Yahoo! Personal may create a profile and make a connection in any one of their many single networking areas, including Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, Black dating as well as Yahoo! Gay.

Yahoo! Personals offers online dating articles from actual members to help new subscribers create a profile, add pictures and even advice for choosing a match on Yahoo! Gay. This feature not only allows new subscribers to become familiar with the website, but also welcomes them into the world of online dating!

Members of Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay can browse the website on their own terms. They are able to seek people who share the same interests or simply reside in the same location. Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay allow members to use the websites' matching tools to connect with people at their own pace.

Yahoo! Gay allow members to chat, flirt and e-mail each other just after opening an account and creating a short profile. Members of Yahoo! Personals can also perform a more advanced search to narrow down matches, if desired.
Features
Features

Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay offer services in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, US, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.


Subscribe to any Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay account and receive a FREE 7 day trail period.

Trial features include:

  • View member profiles
  • Receive messages from other singles
  • See who views your member profile
  • Send free Icebreakers to people

Yahoo! Personals membership features include all of the trial features as well as:

  • Option of posting a picture
  • Send messages to other members
  • Option of making a profile private


Member Interactivity:

Members of Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay are able to browse and choose their potential matches by looking at profiles or sending a message to other members. Matches are also sent by Yahoo! Personals, via e-mail, as often as members indicate to the website. Yahoo! Personals members are able to set their profile to private where it can be viewed only if the member invites people to view it.

Credibility
Credibility

Yahoo! Gay has plenty of members posting about their online dating experience in their success stories section. Other members can respond to posts and ask questions.

Yahoo! Personals claims that true love and happiness may not happen for everyone, but they believe it can happen for anyone. Yahoo! Personals helps members find a date by giving them the tools they need on the website as well as the right combination of singles – the rest is up to the individual member to decide!

Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay have many success stories posted on the website, but finding a match appears to remain up to the individual member, for the most part. For this reason, subscribers must continue to search for members using an advanced search if they wish to find specific matches. It is up to the individual to find people that have similar interests.

Safety
Safety

Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay abide by a 5-Star Safety Program:

  1. Member-Controlled Privacy – Members can choose to share their last names, personal email addresses, or contact information with other members on Yahoo! Personals, as well as make their profiles private, block selected members from contacting them, and permanently exclude members from their new searches.

  2. Profile Screening – Customer Care agents work diligently to review profiles and take action against those profiles that violate guidelines as stated in the terms of services or member guidelines.

  3. Mandatory Membership – Non-members are required to join, accept Yahoo! Personals terms of service, and post a profile before they can do anything on the site.

  4. Community Reporting – There are “report concern” links on Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay, including on all member profile detail pages. Every member complaint is reviewed by the Yahoo! Personals Customer Care Team.

  5. Member EducationYahoo! Personals encourages members to review the safety information about online dating, use common sense and trust their instincts.


Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay allow members to choose how much information they want to give out. Safety is a personal responsibility. Pictures are optional, but if Yahoo! Personals or Yahoo! Gay members decide to post a picture, it will appear on their profile. Yahoo! Personals users can choose to make their profiles private to all members.

Yahoo! Personals constantly reminds users that they do not conduct background checks.

Ease of Use
Ease of Use

The Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay website is very easy to navigate. The site map is very useful to find different areas and options to search for matches.

Yahoo! Personals and Yahoo! Gay provide optional questions for profile entries about:

  • Appearance
  • Lifestyle
  • Home Life
  • Personality

There is also a place for members to write a description of what they are looking for in a mate, as well as an area in each profile section for qualities they are looking for in a match in the above categories.

Registration and payment is very straightforward, and members are not required to give too much information.

Pricing
Pricing

  • $29.99 for 1month
  • $59.97 for 3 months (Save 33%)
  • $95.94 for 6 months (Save 47%)

*This subscription is not only the best price, but includes the websites 6-Month Promise: If the member does not find a match in 6 months, Yahoo! Personals or Yahoo! Gay will pay for an additional 6 months.

Refund Policy:

All plans come with a 7 day trial period in which members may cancel the subscription within the 7 days. If a member wishes to cancel after the 7 day trial, they may cancel, but will be automatically billed for the full subscription they signed up for.