After doing some review of free dating sites, I wanted to try out some paid dating sites that require a payment to use some of their premium services. These sites do offer some free features such as the sign-up period (which in essence should not be counted) and allow you to browse other profiles without payment for a subscription. The site we are reviewing here is called datingtorelating.net.

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Once you are registered you don’t  get any confirmation mail and you are pretty much able to login into the site and play around. Registration to this site you must be above 17 years or over.

Logging & Customizing Profiles

You login to the  site using your userid and password. After logging in, you can see your profile menus placed vertically at right side of the website looking unusually nice. The menus offered include Profile, Quick search, Detail search, Save list, Favorite list, Black list, View, Note, IM, Emotions, Chat 1, Chat2, Forum, Blog, Radio and many types of feature related to your profile.

In the customizing part of your profile, you can change your userid, email, date of birth, city,  zip code, address, personality details- height, body shape, your activities, occupation, studying and earning.

Privacy features of this site  are very good.

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Photo Profile Section

In the photo section you can upload up to 1 Mb size per photo only and in jpeg/jpg format only. If you have any other format like – bmp, gif, png or any other you wont be able to upload to the site as they will likely to be too big. You can also set your photos as a primary photo and profile photo(s).

Browse & Search Feature

On top of the the web site pages you can find menus – Home, Free Join, Profile, Gallery, Photo, Video, Rate me, Chat room, Blogs, Forum , Radio, Classifieds.

After logging into your profile section, you will find menus where you can search for a match using Quick search and the Detail Search. In quick search you can search your date by filling some details like- which kind of person you are searching for, username, age criteria, location, state, city, zip code and you can also save your Quick search.

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Quick search is not all that user friendly because most of my search results led me to a message ‘No records Found’. You need to be fairly specific in the search criteria to find any useful results. Part of their improvement programme should include a revisit to this section and making the generic search a lot better than what it is.

For using the detailed search facility of this site you must have premium dating account which means a paid subscription.

Messaging

Messaging is also a very important feature of this site like all other dating sites. You can send email, emotions, pc to pc call, and IM.

You can also use the chat room for global chats with every online persons like the Yahoo Chat Room and use feature like smiles and video chat. Again, these features are for premium dating account holders only.

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Other Features

This web site has also some common features like video/webcam chatting, add persons to favorite list, black list, blogs, forum and rate me on any profiles. However, what attracted me was the most uncommon features to any dating site and that is their online radio, mp3 songs and video uploading.

Features missing

Some of the feature in this site that I saw including the limited customizing, quick search is only for the basic user and all the other good features are only for premium account users only.

Member Base

It was difficult to say how many users reside on this site but what was clear is that most of the users are based in US and Canada.

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