I just joined Hookup Hangout (HH) yesterday......

Im a pretty good looking 45 year old man & have very good writing skills.....

I have been a member for 36 hours or so... I do not work for HH or any dating website.... I posted 5 photos of myself dressed, in a bathing suit, bare chested, exercising.....No nudity...

The interface is primitive & defective.....Photos are very small......You do not know who you sent messages to, unless you go back into the sent box......Even messages you send will not be found there............. You will wind up sending messages to the same people.......You will think you have sent messages, but they were not sent....They do not register as sent......

My Inbox on Friday morning says that I have 85 letters......When i became a paid member, after using my credit card, I had 150.........Where did the other 70 letters go?

You will not know who you received messages from, either, unless it was very recent......You will not know if your messages were read..... You will not be able to do a search in your sent & received messages, like you can do on Gmail or yahoo email.....There are very few search boxes.........EVERYTHING is defective or malfunctioning on this website.....

The owners of this website have spent ZERO money in upgrading & modernizing the interface & website.......It is not user friendly.......It is not evenworth $5 a month.......FREE dating websites, such as Plenty of Fish or OK Cupid, use interfaces & communication methods that are 10x better.....

There are practically ZERO active members.......I did a search for MEN who were online in the last 24 hours FOR THE ENTIRE USA, between Wednesday at 10;30pm & Thursday, October 4th at 10:30pm.........There were THREE men!

According to the website owners, there are members......Yet NOBODY comes online....

There are VERY few photos & VERY few profiles.......Almost everybody is anonymous.

I have received 100s of letters in my inbox.......They are mostly from Europe......Women winking at me, wanting my skype or email address...........

I have not received 1 letter that i suspect is legitimate or personal......Everything is automated or copy & paste....

I think they are all copy & paste scams, but i will keep on trying.........

HH also claims that if you pay extra on top of the GOLD membership, you will then be able to contact non paying members............This is a lie, and HH staff have admitted this to me when i questioned them about it on the phone......

Do NOT give your credit card information to this company.....

HH is offering very little in return......They may be offering you ZERO in return, but it is too early for me to conclude that.....

I have already written 100s of members & received 100s of responses in my mailbox..Based on my 36 hour experience, the entire website is a non existent scam.

I do not have 1 SINGLE good thing to say about this website.......Everything is defective or non existent......

How any person could give this website more than 1 star is SHOCKING to me...

If you have any doubts, you can call me at 312 877 9359.....My name is Daniel & I live in Arkansas, USA...

All these adult dating sites are scams. I have a friend who works for a company that own hundreds of these kind of sites worldwide. She sits at home and gets paid to reply to messages. For example, let's say you think you're messaging a woman called Jane - you've exchanged 10 messages with her without realizing that each message is actually coming from a different woman (all paid employees). The idea is to string you along for as long as possible, get you buying more credits with the vague promise that she'll meet you one day. Of course that never happens. Stick to legitimate, normal dating sites, all the hook up sites are cons.

Yes but where's the list of sites containing REAL people who might want to meet up, instead of just chatting??

Can safely say that this site gets better as you go on. First month I was ready to give up but then 2nd things really started to happen for me. I think it just takes time to get going as just because there are real chicks on the site it doesnt mean they will all reply to you. So you have to send so many messages before you start to get a few chats going that lead somewhere. Im in 3rd month now and got laid last weekend (hence me writing the review – least I could do) & sooooo glad I didnt give up early!

Wow, that's a long review.
Is there any other website you got lucky with? I am using HH for quite a while now and I agree you get bombarded with tons of emails (just like on every casual dating website), but if you spend some time on such websites, you can tell whether the messages you receive are genuine or not.
I've been using casual dating sites for around a decade now and I don't think 36 hours is enough to make a statement that the site doesn't work.
PS: perhaps the reason for seeing just a few men online in the US is because your profile is set up as a hetero one, so the system doesn't show you those who you're not interested in.