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I just posted a lengthy post about my experiences with online dating. I have used many sites with varying success. Yahoo Personals was my favorite back in the day when it was free. When it became a paid service it's effectiveness disappeared.
Match is the largest internet meat market. It's also the most deceptive. Many of the profiles on Match are fake, or are inactive profiles that their system will continue to put in search results as "active". They've actually been sued in US courts over this. Like most profile sites, I don't bother writing to girls. I put up a very compelling profile and let them come to me. It's a paid service so at least the girls on there have a little bit of money to spend. It attracts a younger singles crowd who are more flakey, but they're also more open to being gamed.
Plenty of Fish is another profile site, so the same rules apply (put up a good profile, and use it as bait). It's free and attracts more of the 17-19, single-mom, and Section 8 crowd. Low quality singles there.
Craig's List is probably the bottom of the barrel. Largest percentage of fakes, the real profiles are completely beastly, but the same rules apply. Put up a profile and let the girls come to you. I've met plenty of good looking girls from CL who just go on looking to kill time. Unlike the w4m ads, the m4w ads are mostly real and if you're even a novice PUA you can write a profile that will make the rest of those guys look like total chumps.
Also, for eHarmony you've got me intrigued to try again since that's more what I'm looking for. Only problem is I've tried twice and they denied me... apparently I'm "too special" for them to find me a match... Match is the largest internet meat market. It's also the most deceptive. Many of the profiles on Match are fake, or are inactive profiles that their system will continue to put in search results as "active". They've actually been sued in US courts over this. Like most profile sites, I don't bother writing to girls. I put up a very compelling profile and let them come to me. It's a paid service so at least the girls on there have a little bit of money to spend. It attracts a younger singles crowd who are more flakey, but they're also more open to being gamed.
Plenty of Fish is another profile site, so the same rules apply (put up a good profile, and use it as bait). It's free and attracts more of the 17-19, single-mom, and Section 8 crowd. Low quality singles there.
Craig's List is probably the bottom of the barrel. Largest percentage of fakes, the real profiles are completely beastly, but the same rules apply. Put up a profile and let the girls come to you. I've met plenty of good looking girls from CL who just go on looking to kill time. Unlike the w4m ads, the m4w ads are mostly real and if you're even a novice PUA you can write a profile that will make the rest of those guys look like total chumps.
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And fyi eHarmony suck balls, you have no way to search for girls as they are selected for you.
I disagree with you on this one. All the highest quality girls I've met online that actually became girlfriends of 6 months or longer came from eHarmony. True that you can't sarge on that site, but the chances of actually talking to and meeting the girls that get matched up with are much much higher than on any other site (so long as you take it seriously and do it well) There's also a better chance that the girl is going to smart, fairly savvy, have a job, a decent set of social skills and will generally be someone you want to spend time with vs. some flake chick who might be a good lay but who is dumb as a bag of bricks and only out dating to find some guy to support her.
So any tips on actually getting in?
j/k