AdultLocals.com
AdultLocals.com is a little bit of a disappointment. It joins the multitude of online sex dating sites that promise to deliver real life encounters with people in your area. Unfortunately, if your idea is not particularly original, you have to produce something better — or at least equally as well as the competition. Otherwise, you’ll never emerge from the crowd as a true contender. This site just doesn’t have the numbers required to convincingly guarantee paid subscribers that they are going to get any real bang for their buck.
So what’s a little site supposed to do? We all know that “little guys” normally try to compensate in other ways, be it fast cars or diamond rings. If companies make a big deal out of nothing, they normally do it with a lot of flash and panache. Adult Locals seems to be in denial since instead of using features to dazzle and distract us from the limited membership, the few options that are available only further draw attention to the low membership numbers. For example, the search fields include the gender that you are seeking and whether you are “a man looking for a woman” or “a man looking for a lesbian woman” or “a man looking for a bisexual woman”. Great idea, except that no matter what you put, you get the same results returned all three times. Excuse me, but we’re not amused or confused into thinking there are multiple listings here.
What I found even more annoying was that there was no way to actually narrow down my search to my true local area. I could select state and city but with no zip/postal code “distance from” feature. I ended up with people who were a good 60 miles away. When you put “local” right into your site name, it kind of goes without saying that you should be helping your members target right down to the neighbour next door — not someone two hours away by car on any given day, and then only if the traffic’s good.
The only reason why I would sign up for Adult Locals is if I saw someone with whom I was almost certain something could happen. Strangely enough, you can’t send a “flirt” for free but you can send e-mail. The other member can’t read the message without paying for a subscription though. There is no chat or instant messaging on the site either, so forget about any direct contact — whether you’ve already paid or not. This earned the site a zero on quick contact. Being sure in advance of someone’s genuine intentions would be mostly a risky guess, so if you have nothing to lose and you live somewhere where the member numbers are healthier, you could always take a chance. At almost $25 a month, it seems to offer a less-than-average service for a same-as-average price.
Visit Adult Locals but check out the profiles for free before spending your money.