JDate

I signed up for a $ 30 one-​month service, never send a single message and deleted the app after one day, and was then charged over $ 70. I tried to dispute it and they refused and said I signed up for premium services. They even fought my credit card company on it.
Terrible service.

Terrible customer service and the website is a freaking mess with no people and inactive profiles. they will not refund the money even though its less than 24 hrs since joined membership.
update: I filed a complaint with BBB. and disputed a charge with my credit card. My Visa refunded me money right away and a jdate shut down my profile permanently.

Like many others, I got sucked in by a promotion then screwed by a shady auto-​renewal that I hadn’t knowingly consented to– be careful of this company (under the «Spark» corporation). Lots of love to the Yidden and none to this company!

This site like eharmony and
are overly rated, they are all a rip off. They charge you an arm and a leg to sent a simple email and contact with others.
Jdate plan are from 43 a mon and goes from there. Who can afford that? This ridiculous and crazy! They should make it affordable. This isnt affordable it is a waste of money.
Same for eharmony’s 80 bucks. Sheesh! Are you joking me? You people know average folks cant afford your rate? The service isnt as good either
Match is the same at 40 a month.
Yes i want to find someone to spend the rest of my life with but I am not that desparate to spend close to 100 bucks a month to do it. Bring your prices down and I mean way down for people to afford. You people are ripoff artists. Only desperate people or rich people can afford these prices. Discusting. Even the bundles are 20 a mon for a certain period of mons is expensive. Those prices should be regulated so it could be affordable. Not be taken for a ride

Shame on Jdate for sueing the little guy. Jdate is also sister companies with christianmingle and blacksingles. In the honor of small business owners I believe we should boycott this company. I would never sign up for something like this when the owners of the company are greedy.

I hate admitting it but I rejoined Jdate due to a special promotion they were doing over the 4^th of July where a 6 month membership was $ 75 which imo is pretty good. They seem to run promotions like this around every major US and Jewish holiday.
I’ve been back on Jdate for a few now and haven’t had any dates lined up. On average I get messages from guys who live out of state (probably want me to send them dirty pictures), local guys who are ugly, or local guys who are either much younger or much older than me.
Out of every paid online dating website, IMO jdate is the trickiest to cancel.

Seriously shocking… should not even get one star. Go to Plentyof Fish. JDate is a scam and the biggest waste of every penny. No don’t do it.

I am so upset I feel ill. In Spring of 2013 I enrolled for three months. Didn’t like it so I ended it. And it has been auto renewing every three months. I remember getting emails that I had messages waiting for me, but I would not be able to open them until I reactivated or something.
Anyway, they are refusing to give me my money back. After constant calls and haranguing they have given me the past nine months back, but there is still another year of refunds to go. Going to look into the Attorney General complaint mentioned on here.
Also, the people there are extremely rude. One of them even hung up on you. And when you request a supervisor there is never one available. They call asking for a supervisor «escalation.»

1207AGENT SKYLAR was very rude and not recommend this service to anybody. They will rip you off for the 80 dollars a month. Its not 30 dollar just let you know. It may sounds reasonable it is not. They will pinch out of every opportunity and dime you have.

Everyone else has basically said it all. I have filed a complaint with the California Attorney General’s office and am planning to do the same with the Utah Attorney General’s office. (JDate’s parent company is Sparks Networks in Los Angeles [they also do Christian Mingle as well as dating sites targeting blacks, seniors and Mormons; I guess they’re equal-​opportunity scammers], but their call center is in Utah.) Hopefully these Attorney Generals’ offices will take the case. Then THEY can do some matchmaking of their own – like matching Brett Zane, the Chief Financial Officer for Sparks Network, and Greg Franchina, their Chief Information Officer, with a couple of separate, shiny jail cells (each including a 300 lb. mega-​muscled and gang-​etched boyfriend, free of charge!) for the rest of their lives.

If you are a woman living in the Los Angeles County and are in your forties, even early forties I suggest you move on. I only lasted 2 weeks with Jdate because almost all of guy’s who’s profile’s I read stated in their profile that they were looking for someone at least ten years younger. Jdate did not refund my forty dollars either, instead they told me that I should go out with guys in their 60’s who would consider dating someone in their 40’s. No thanks. It is not that there is anything wrong with being older. What I find gross is men who will only consider dating women 10 – 30 years younger.

Here is a comparison compared to OKcupid. I’ve used both services extensively.
Price: Jdate is twice as much. OKC is willing to refund you if you are unsatisfied with their service. Jdate won’t refund you ever and will also automatically sign you up too without asking unless you cancel at just the right moment.
Membership: Both services have about the same number of jewish members at the moment. Though the trend is OKC is increasing while Jdate is steady/​declining. Often times there are same users on both sites.
Jdate’s search options are minimal outside of the most basic filters for such as age, height, education. Jdate’s matching capability is nothing more than a gimmick — it’s non existent as logic behind it goes. With OKC, if you know what you are looking for, you are able to search membership much more efficiently. So if your idea of a nice evening is going through each and every profile one by one, Jdate is a great destination for that.

What other reviewers have said is true — pricey, and have to watch out for auto billing.
I was hopeful at first — there are lots of profiles and it seems promising. If you’re at all reasonably attractive, you’ll get a flurry of interest at the outset.
BUT
1. Many profiles are inactive — people that signed up months ago and are no longer really on the site.
2. If you don’t live in a handful of major metros, your pickings are pretty slim, and there aren’t many people truly looking to cast the net wide looking for the one right person regardless of location.
3. You get the same issues as you’d get just meeting/​dating people offline… and if this involves unethical and potentially dangerous-​to-​others’ health behavior, JDate won’t do a darn thing about it. The only thing they’re interested in stopping people from is posting contact info on their profiles, since people could then avoid paying for a membership. Otherwise… anything goes. Buyer beware.
I am never going back on the site after my personal experience..

I got scammed by their auto renew. They say that they have it posted everywhere but that is a lie. They are thieves and should be held accountable. I dont charge peoples credit card without asking them first. Scam. Stay away.

I received an email from Jody from Jdate with subject line: «there may be a problem with your profile.» I realize if you’re not active enough, that date sites might make suggestions. I only subscribed for 1 month. I PAID for 1 month, but I was busy and I dated someone 2 – 3 times at that time and I’m not one to juggle dates so I didnt visit Jdate much. so to assure them that it wasnt my profile, I replied to them saying that I wasn’t active and that I met someone.
They cancelled my subscription with 1 week to go! … without warning!
It was some time before I realized and contacted them, but they won’t reimburse me for the 1 week.
This is about fairness & principal… something they don’t know about. it’s bad business.
so BEWARE of Jdate. they will cancel your subscription without warning over any misunderstanding. buyer beware.

Be careful with jdate auto renewal. They will rob you dry even if you do not want to subscribe again!
I am bring charged for a service that I am
Not using because of auto renewal. The BBB needs to be advised of this scandal!
Shame on You JDATE SHAME ON YOU!
Give me back my MONEY!!!

I really don’t understand JDate. In the first month or so of last year (I signed up on November 2012), I would be getting some responses and I actually got dates out of it but as of August 2013, it’s like pulling teeth trying to get dates.
Understand, as a guy, I’m not being pushy nor am I saying stupid things that are instant red flags for women I want to go out with. All I do is be casual and straight-​forward just like I am in the business professional world. However, all the matches for me on JDate are mostly just viewing my profile after my e-​mail but appear not at all interested in e-​mailing back, e-​mailing after a bit or even going on a date or even going on more than one date. There’s a reason why guys like myself utilize online dating and that’s to chat with women and date whereas always trying to date meeting someone in person can be competitive and tricky all the time. Perhaps women on JDate are expecting Hugh Jackman or are all Carrie types from «Sex & the City» (i.e. looking for the perfect man) while continuing to burn out $ 30+ per month in subscription payments. Seriously, JDate really should do us serious daters a favor and remove profiles of people who don’t seriously use the service for dating. Why are women continuing to pay money for a service and not actually going on dates?
What JDate and other services like
don’t realize is that the large amount of people who date DON’T want to spend a $ 30 or so monthly subscription to an online dating service. That could be partially why JDate doesn’t have enough users (and I’ve contacted just about nearly every woman in my age range local to the Bay Area, where I live) compared to most services. Oh sure, it’s the largest Jewish dating site but it’s not large enough in my opinion. Why do you think Ok Cupid has the fastest-​growing user base in the online dating world? Because it’s FREE and you only pay if you want to maximize the ability to get dates and promote yourself, not if you simply want to send messages, receive messages or chat. I should also note that as a fact, I’m seeing a lot of women with profiles on JDate (I recognize their faces) join Ok Cupid. I guess they figured, «Meh. I’d rather use a service where I don’t have to pay.» I don’t know how the CEO of JDate sleeps at night knowing the JDate user base continues to shrink.
Women on JDate, in my experience, also are either way picky, judgmental or simply are lousy dates for the most part. I’ve had maybe two decent dates but they’ve never led to anything over time. Somehow women on JDate might be getting dating advice from the worst sources but then again, if you go to chatrooms on the service, you’ll meet quite a number of regulars just as frustrated with JDate as you are. JDate really needs to serve it’s base better because there are more people dissatisfied than satisfied.

Horrible site!!! A vast majority of people on this site have not been on line for 60 + days… I also had and issue with my enrollment and got no response after three emails!!! Still waiting??? I would NOT recommend this site to ANYONE!!! save your money… they are not cheap!!!

Overpriced, almost everyone is on other free or cheaper sites, and they rip you off — I used it and set it to not auto-​renew. When it auto-​renewed, I requested a refund and they wouldn’t provide one. So both not very useful and scammy. Avoid.