Dating Services

The unofficial eHarmony Blog noticed that a few months ago eHarmony lowered their member age requirements to 18. Back in 2006 the minimum age to join eHarmony was 21. The maximum age has never change and is 110 years old.

For more details visit the unofficial eHarmony Blog and for more information about this dating service, read our eHarmony review.

MillionaireMatch.com now displays a member count on their homepage. As of writing, there are 1,071,634 member profiles available on this dating service. Since it is free to place a lifetime ad at MillionaireMatch.com, this number shouldn't be confused with the number of active members. The number being displayed is the number of members who have joined MillionaireMatch.com since it started, which was around 2001. Active members refers to members who routinely log in and use the site. Unfortunately there is no standard measurement for this so some dating sites count an active member as someone who has logged in within 2 years while others count a member as active when someone logs in at least once a month.

While this number is not the number of active members it still represents a large number of profiles. This probably means that Millionaire Match has tens of thousands active members. You should also remember that all free members can reply to a paid members email so this can greatly increase your chances of finding a match when you compare Millionaire Match to other Sugar Daddy dating sites.

Read our full Millionaire Match review for more information on this popular and award winning dating service.

For the second year in a row MillionaireMatch.com is the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Wealthy Award. This dating site is the most popular wealthy matchmaking site that we know of. This is in large part due to all of the exposure this online dating site has received on TV and news print over the last couple of years. They have been featured and talked about on CNN and daytime talk shows from all 3 major networks, ABC, CBS and NBC.

There are two main features that makes Millionaire Match stand out from the rest in their dating niche. First is they allow Guest members (Free) to reply to emails. This means as a paying member anyone can reply to your emails and not just other paying members. This greatly increases your chance of success since all members can reply to messages . The other feature which makes this dating site more popular than other Sugar Daddy dating services is, they will verify up to 5 different attributes of a members profile. All the member has to do is send in the proper documentation. This means income level, occupation, education, photo and age can be verified. For a dating site that promotes wealthy singles, this takes out the guess work of wondering if someone has just lied about their successes. If you are unsure about someone's credentials and they are not verified, then you can just move on.

The most important aspect of MillionaireMatch.com is that it offers wealthy singles and singles looking for someone who has done well financially in life, a large number of high quality members. This dating service has over 1 million members since it's debut.

Read our review of MillionaireMatch.com for more information about this dating service or visit MillionaireMatch.com directly.

This Years Runner Ups for this award include (in no particular order): Sugardaddie.com and MillionaireMate.com.

I've been sick lately (and still am) so I have some catching up to do on news posting.

On December 23, 2008 FriendFinder Networks filed for a $460 million IPO. My first thought was it is an interesting time to file with the downturn of the economy. Adult FriendFinder is the major revenue generator of the FriendFinder Networks and with the latest posts about dating sites doing better in these market conditions, maybe the recession is not as much a concern. Still, there are less people out there with money to invest.

The other big issue is the proceeds of this will be used for the most part to pay off debt. Most investors tend not to like this type of scenario. I'm not sure where this debt came from. FriendFinder Networks was bought last December (see Story) by Penthouse for $500 million. I assume at this point, the FriendFinder accounting books where in a positive territory. I can't see Penthouse buying them for so much money if FriendFinder had a huge debt. This new debt must of come from Penthouse.

eHarmony is planning an extra long Free Communication Weekend this New Year. Starting next Thursday, January 1st to January 4th 2009 new members of eHarmony will be able to not only review matches for free but communicate with them as well (just like a paid member).

Since we started counting, this makes it, Free Communication Weekend number 14 for eHarmony. The last two were in November, 2008. This would be a good time to see if eHarmony is the type of dating service for you as the next time this promotion most likely will be available (if history is any indication) is in February, on the Valentine's Day weekend.

Read our eHarmony review for more information on this award winning dating site.

On December 3rd in a story called New Features & Design at Match.com we reported that on Match.com's fact sheet at their parent company website, IAC reported that Match.com receive 60,000 new registered members every day. Well, it appears they have updated this information. IAC now reports "more than 71,000 new people register on Match.com every day". That is roughly a 18 percent increase in new registered members. Recently Match.com also reported that they had their best November in 7 years. Things seem to be on the upswing for Match.com who's membership levels have remained stagnate in recent years.

For more information on this popular dating site, read our Match.com review.