RSVP, Australia's largest dating site, was founded Valentine's Day in 1997. RSVP has consistently been ranked as the #1 online dating site (determined by number of visits) by several popular internet traffic measurement companies. With more than 1.6 million profiles, it is free to join and browse this Australian online dating service. One of the best features at RSVP is the ability to use the stamp credit system to reply to members via email for free. This way, you only pay for the service if you wish to initiate contact with a member.
RSVP gets a lot of things right, from how the dating site is organized to the email and messaging tools they offer for communication between members. Searching is easy and offers all of the important attributes needed, including filtering out any members who have not signed onto the dating site for a period of time.
If you live in Australia, are single and are looking for a partner online, then the dating site RSVP is one choice you should consider.
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Positive Features
- More than 1,200 new singles from Australia join the site every day
- Free to reply to members’ emails
- Members can only contact each other once their profile is mostly completed
- When searching, you can filter out inactive profiles by specifying the date the members must have last logged into RSVP
- Many single events hosted by RSVP, available in all parts of Australia
Negative Features
- Even though singles in other countries can join, this site is really only designed for people in Australia
- Too many sponsored links and advertisements on the website, making it visually cluttered
- No membership type that gives you complete access to all members at any time
At a Glance
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| Dating Site: | RSVP.com.au |
| Members: | 1,000,000 |
| Cost per Month: | From $4.59 / month |
| Membership Types: | Free - Basic + Contact
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- Yes (unlimited)
- Included:
- Create a profile
- Your RSVP account
- RSVP user name, email address, first and last names, date of birth and gender
- Your details
- About you
- Your relationship status and the type of relationship you are interested in
- The gender and age range you are looking for
- Do you HAVE children and how important should this be to your matches
- Do you WANT children and how important should this be to your matches
- Your location, including country and postcode / suburb
- Your contact details (not required)
- Home, work and mobile phone numbers
- When confirmed, allows you to use SMS alerts and other mobile services
- Your contact phone numbers are securely stored, and will never be given to other members
- These services are only available to Australian phone numbers
- Appearance
- Height, body type, hair color, eye color
- You also specify here these attributes you want in a match
- Likes and dislikes (not required)
- Personality types, food preferences, pets, smoking, drinking and political persuasion
- Background (not required)
- Nationality, ethnic / cultural background, religion
- Education and career (not required)
- Level of education, industry you work in and job role
- Headline
- Your headline is shown in search results and your profile—it’s the first thing people will read about you, so make sure it grabs attention
- About me
- An essay question which gives other singles an insight into what you're all about and what makes you someone that they will want to contact
- Interests (not required)
- Music, reading, movies & TV, sports and other
- These are essay questions
- Ideal partner description
- Upload one primary photo and up to 15 gallery photos; photos can be password protected
- Send and receive Kisses
- Searching
- Receiving messages from members
- See who's online
- Privacy options
- Not included:
- Cannot initiate emails or instant messages
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| Costs |
- Membership costs last updated April 25, 2009. Please check RSVP for most recent pricing
- Unlike most other dating sites, RSVP uses stamps to allow you to contact members. At its basic level, one stamp allows you to contact one member for 30 days
- Along with stamps, you may also purchase a VIP membership that gives you extra perks above and beyond what a stamp offers
- Stamp Books
- Stamps are used to contact other members on RSVP
- Cost per contact approach allows you to contact members at your own pace
- Stamps mean you can contact any member and not just other paid members (like how most dating sites work)
- Each stamp allows you to send unlimited personal messages for 30 days to any other RSVP member
- Costs in AUD:
- 6 stamps for $59.95, approximate price per stamp is $9.99 and are valid for 2 months
- 12 stamps for $79.95, approximate price per stamp is $6.69 and are valid for 3 months
- 24 stamps for $109.95, approximate price per stamp is $4.59 and are valid for 6 months
- RSViP membership includes:
- Priority ranking
- Gold highlighted profiles in search results
- Advanced search tools
- Unlimited daily kisses and a bigger selection of kiss messages
- Who has viewed you
- Stamps that don't expire
- Costs in AUD:
- 1 month for $14.90
- 3 months for $34.90, which is $11.69 per month - save 22%
- 6 months for $59.90, which is $9.99 per month - save 33%
- 12 months for $79.90, which is $6.69 per month - save 55%
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- Straight
- Gay
- Lesbian
- Bisexual
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- Dating
- Friends
- Long-Term
- Marriage
- Penpal
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| Viewing & Communication Tools |
- RSVP profile
- Photo gallery
- Favorites
- Kisses
- Similar to Winks or Express Interest from other dating services
- Allows you to flirt with RSVP members and see if there is an initial attraction between you and the other single
- Private, secure, anonymous email
- Instant messaging
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| Search By |
- Quick search
- Specify relationship type, age range and location as close as 10 km from your location
- Specify photos available, last activity, new member, smoking habits and children
- Advance search
- All attributes from quick search
- Plus, search on any attribute mentioned in your profile
- You can select more than one option for profile attributes
- Keyword search
- Specify one or more statements or keywords of interest, like tennis, pets, etc.
- Allows you to search based on words that are found in other member's profile
- Two-way search
- Same as advanced search, but it also checks your results to ensure that each match for you is also a match for them (a “two-way” match). Therefore, your search results will be searched over again for those who are looking for someone like you
- Top 100 search
- Generated on a daily basis and is determined by a number of factors, including amount of contacts members have sent / received and replied to
- Cupid match
- An email service that automatically matches you with other RSVP members. This is done by comparing member profiles against your Ideal Partner Profile
- Who is online
- Members have viewed you
- RSVP name search
- Search for members by their user names
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| Other Info |
- RSVP has a range of mobile products and services
- This includes uploading a photo from your mobile phone to your RSVP profile (free), and SMS alerts
- SMS alerts notify you by text message each time you receive contact from another member
- You will need to register and confirm your mobile phone; your mobile phone number will never be given to anyone
- RSVP events and social activities
- Events cater to many types of interests and age groups; they range from *censored*tail parties to three course dinner dating to speed dating
- You'll meet other likeminded singles face-to-face in a fun and safe environment
- Ticket prices usually around $10
- Speed dating events
- Weekly speed dating events are in partnership with Fast Impressions
- Allows you to mingle with 10-12 singles in your age group
- The way it works is that the women remain seated at their own table and the men move from table to table. You spend eight minutes chatting with each of your dates anonymously. You write down who you would like to see again. The following day you are sent the contact details of the people that liked you too, and you take it from there
- RSVP is owned by Fairfax Digital
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BEWARE OF PREDATORS ON RSVP Met a Lady 12mths ago apprared to be wonderful however all she wanted was money/gifts et. as she would say "If you love me you will buy it for me and it makes me feel sexy when you buy me gifts" extremely charming when she wants however is also controlling, also appears to be well off so why does she need you to support her - Oh well well 60k later she has moved on 10 to 12mths is about her stay contacted a previous BF he lost less bur same storeys . RSVP can do very little or ar not interested oh cany give any more information as she has taken out an AVO on me although i have never been violent to her but it stops me from talking - Be carefill she is ruthless - Oh she was also interested in my 87 yr old father as she realised he had a few dollars mind you her previous husband was 30yrs older than her when she married him so my dad was young.
Many 40yo+ women with really optimistic male criteria; many 50yo+ with even more demanding criteria; many scammers, transvestities, young women from not your local area with scant clothing and impressive chests.
1/3 are real actual women with reasonably current photos, but they take some finding.
Better than many other sites which I cannot mention here. This site deleted without warning a previous identical comment of mine when I included names for these sites for comparison by name.
Just don't expect too much.
Reading these comments I'm actually concerned that the guys on here are unstable (nutcases?).
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I've found email replies when requested are reasonable but kiss reply rate is very low. I've met quite a few from RSVP but that was some years ago and the number of positive responses now is very low. I've also had 3 reasonably long relationships with women I've met from RSVP.
To be honest I think that guys are substantially disadvantaged. We are "supposed" to take the initiative and this use such sites as they represent the "marketplace" but are then faced with women with substantial issues and game players.
This site is now ridden with arrogant, self-indulgent, stuck-up self-centred woman, blatant liars who wouldn't have a clue what the word relationship means, who have absolutely zero substance and abysmal double standards.
Woman on there think that the whole world revolves around them & their absolutely pathetic wants & lists of what you must be to be worthy of them. No one is ever good enough for them.
This site and most of its members are just another sad indictment & are contributing to a massive worldwide downward spiral of the most basic of human interaction. Respect and standards in society like common courtesy, replies to kisses or emails, even after they say they are interested are virtually non-existent on here. It is just full of materialistic gold digging creeps that are only interested in a man as an accessory or a way to provide them with what they want.
Woman on there are only interested in brain dead stereotypical men with lots of money or muscular attributes because it makes for bragging rights to their pea brained girlfriends or provides them with a lifestyle they think they deserve.
This site is driven and financially kept afloat by genuine guys looking for genuine ladies to hopefully have some sort of meaningful relationship with, while the reality is it is an illusion perpetuated by a greedy corporate company seeking to make profits by any means necessary and full of woman that wouldn't have a clue what the word relationship means because they are solely & utterly focussed on themselves at all times.
I am not surprised in the least most woman on there are single! If this is even a mild indication of what is out there I have absolutely no problem staying single myself, because there is not a woman on the planet that is out of my league!
There all fakes on that site, RSVP blantly just ripping off the decent aussie guy to keep themselves afloat.
luck if you get and women to reply its just rejection one after another. Once agin I think its controller by the scammers.
I have met 5 scammers from Ghana, which i new where scammers, and ask then to close down their profile, I also mentioned I worked for RSVP, with ten profiles of my own to catch these scammers.
I agree with lots of the comments the woman have change on this site, i was on 8 years ago and met my partner, 7 years latter she left.
This site is not as good as it used to be.
Amedeo
So the following are my deductions from my variables:
On other sites women were not discriminative
On other sites Aussi women came to meet me
Therefore Aussi women are not discriminative
On RSVP my own ethnicity rejected me
On RSVP the ones who rejected me were not necessarily good looking
On other sites even better looking women came to meet me giving me a chance
From all the above I can come up with only two conclusions
1. RSVP women have unrealistic expectations
2. RSVP women are not real.
Any comments are welcome. I am in research and this is the way one should come to conclusions. Thanks fellowmen
However I have to agree that I did not have this experience on other sites and met plenty of women on match. In fact I had a long lasting relationship with someone I met on yahoo. But this was in the US. Guess women here are more closed to dating foreigners.
But at the same time I have to also say that there have been Aussi women who have travelled more than a hour to come and have lunch with me when I was on match.
So the simple deduction of a well educated and analytical man is that it is RSVP that sucks. I don't know if the members are genuine or not but even the ugly ducklings here turn down men much better looking and successful than themselves. Don't you agree?
It happens all the time. I have had 2 dates from rsvp. and i have been with them a few times in the last 4 yrs. I have sent about 200 kisses at least and had about 4 legitimate replies including 2 that i dated. I am not ugly and my profile seems ok. Woman here have a profile just incase mr perfect looking and rich comes along. other than that theyll keep using the guy thay have. i have contacted woman i dont think are good for me or they can do a lot worse and i keep getting rejected. The site is very average and australian woman have average personalities.
Thats my two bobs worth. I am going to try to sue them for misleading advertising and i am trying to get my money back. But its not just rsvp , theyre all doing it, because it must be very lucrative.
The men on the site are all "normal" good guys and all the women are unrealistic, demanding nutcases with impossibly high standards. SERIOUSLY?! You boys need to get some new material. No wonder you can't get a date.
Online dating is what it is. A numbers game. Completely random & accounting for about 20% of ways people partner up now days. I've met some lovely men. I've met some decidedly UNlovely ones. And am yet to have a relationship with any one met there.
It is not that difficult to pick the fakes from the genuine. It's the age of the internet; plenty of free verification out there of people's identities! (Scary but true!!)
And for pity's sake GET OFFLINE ASAP. All the supposed chemistry & connection in the world online is no substitute for meeting face to face for a chat. Not to mention it's another sure way to quickly weed out the scammers & not to form some weird overly-intimate relationship with a complete stranger which inevitably leads to awkwardness & feeling very 'out of sync' when you do meet face to face.
Take it for what it is. Just another way to 'meet' random strangers. No different to a crowded pub really. And probably a bit better. Definitely A LOT cheaper! Just don't take it too seriously or rely on it as your only option.
RSVP IS A SCAM
EVIDENCE: Same picture used for different women, only zoomed in or out; found three profiles that had virtually identical reading/film interests; Will receive a kiss when im not using stamps to encourage further stamp purchases but no real responses ever received from women; two women sent me a kiss and i used a stamp to contact them and i received a system generated reply from RSVP not contact them again; i receieved one reply to an email and after i responded to her email i received another system generated reply. Of course, after youve run out of stamps you'll be flooded with kisses from really keen women, so you purchase more stamps to contact them and the same thing happens. It is an absolute SCAM.
The comments from others here are correct. I used to meet girls thru RSVP fine. Now, it's just full of these women with such high expectations that a decent guy who would actually be a good match is automatically rejected.
There is a guy that is NUMBER #1 Rated in AUSTRALIA. He has NOTHING WRITTEN on his profile (@ time of post).
It's just a good looking dude. That's what it's come to, people. Completely based on image alone.
The kicker is, in the small success i've had online, in meeting girls, there's a good chance they are 1) Single for a very good reason 2) Nutcases 3) Online because for some reason in real life they have issues.
So we have girls who think too highly of themselves, expect more then exists in reality, rejecting potentially good & decent men.
I'm sure they have a different side of the story, but from where i'm standing, the site has become a money sink. Avoid.
Its kind of a weird "culture of the site" thing. When rsvp was first created I became a member. Had a middling success rate in getting replies... say 1 in 5 or so. Not great but about par for the course in the online world I find. A long time later, Fairfax (a local newspaper/magazine group) bought them and somehow the culture of the place changed. Now, I seem to average 1 in 50 or worse, replies to the their free kisses (i.e. either no reply or a "not interested" reply). Its possible that now they're simply attracting fussier women (and yes I agree with the earlier posts that many there seem to waiting for the Adonis with millions to come rescue them from their humdrum existance) and I don't measure up or as has also been noted that all the same old faces are there (I may be one of them in my gender group too...). Whatever the cause, the current dating pool there is very fussy/judgemental and seems unwillinging to take any sort of chance outside the narrow range of types they are used to dating. In short, while the site is quite legitimite, you may not have any great success for your money there.
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Expect low response rates from kisses, 1 in 20 would be above average. For Emails, be prepared to waste 1 in 2. As previously mentioned it is legitimate site and there are genuine people both male and feamle looking. The drawback is that low repsonse rate that may lead to frustration. Entering it with eyes wide open, keep the expectations fairly conservative. In consideration, getting one date, from a month of searching, kissing and email would be considered a fairly successful month. If you're expecting more than a date, the site will most likley fail to meet expectations.
J
I just got a hidden charge for 34$. I paid my membership fee, and my stamp fee, i got no idea what the 34$ was for.
I am pretty sure they have people sending out KISSES and then when they say they would like to hear from you, they dont reply. But you just spent $10 on a stamp!. Not cheap!!!!
I found out another dating company was doing this. Theey would contact you, lead you on, and fake it. The way I found this out, is because although the profiles said Brisbane, the english used in them was very bad, and often mentioned foreign generally american football teams which no one hear, specially girls follow. So I think the low success rate is this in action. Fake ppl made by the company, to make you keep wanting to reply more.
Can someone get me a telephone number? there is no customer service here at all that I can find. I would like to report this crap.. $150 - 200 they have got from me in the last 3 weeks, because I thought I was writing to girls who would actually write back. Instead I just spent stamps, and never got any reply. DONT USE ONLINE DATING. Its all a scam, 95% anyway.
Paid $70 on Stamps at RSVP.com.au a few days ago, haven't used 'em all and now am locked out of my account, as if they deactivated it without ANY email! They haven't replied to the numerous emails to support and as the guys above say, there is no number to call them. It really is an absolute SCAM for some (I say for some, because I have known one person who actually met her bf through it, but I guess they carefully scam a small percentage to keep up the business)! Will be reporting them and contacting the bank to get back the 70 bucks.
I am a female and have had no success whatsoever! I disagree about the big wish list! Am just looking for an honest soul who enjoys nature (and I dont think that is too big a wish list or too much to ask for?!)
Every time I email someone they go offline! It has happened so often I am wondering if the whole thing is a scam! As mentioned it is costly (approx $10 a stamp).All kisses either rejected or not answered and I am not so bad!! So I agree about the poor rate of reply.
Also on RSVP you cant talk to them online first, like some of the other sites where you get to know each other quite well first by "chatting"in real time.
I have been surprised by the comments here...I am a guy in my 30s and was on RSVP in 2008 for a month and went on dates with 3 different (and all really nice) girls, one of them I hooked up with for a while but whilst we got on really well, lives were going in opposite directions. I am no oil painting and just wrote a regular profile...my experience was that you could pick the genuine ones and the ones that were scamming, just like in real life. I have found the response rates pretty good. Back on again recently and same experience...maybe I have been lucky or maybe it is the way you approach it...
Overrated, same old faces, woman with the Friday night blues & nothing to do!!
On there shopping list they just want too much!! They expect heaps!! They overate them themselves, & are just window shopping. Why do women post photos being hugged my a male????? Beware overseas scammers!! Rate it the same as all the other sites, full of crap, & the site is just after your money, no customer service!!
I agree they are all crap, Womens wish list is crazy.
Couldn't agree more, heavily populated with women who just like to 'browze', have massive shopping lists, form online 'relationships' and have no intention of meeting people in the REAL world for REAL relationships (because neurotic head-cases are attracted to online dating sites), or want Prince Charming even though they may be nothing special themselves, oh and it would be nice to see some RECENT, ACCURATE photos. Also the same crap occurs on other sites too so guys don't waste your time and money, might as well take your hard-earned to a brothel or go overseas if you want to search for a long-term partner.
As a guy expect a 50% reply rate to you emails (stamps) plus tons of scammers from China, Russia and OZ (eg 20 yr old wishes to meet a guy 50-120 yrs old). Don't waste your stamps unless you want to get fleeced.