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BBWHarmony.com is an online personals service bringing together big, beautiful women and men. In this day and age of borderline anorexic models and actresses, it’s nice to know that there is still a solid appreciation a real men and woman. It’s equally reassuring to see people that have remained true to themselves rather than caving in to stereotypical ideals of the perfect body. Ironically, a few of the men and women I saw on the site seem barely overweight, but it does give them a chance to meet others that aren’t so obsessed by the weight of the person they’re dating and more interested in person being themselves and having natural beauty.

BBW Harmony’s profile process has a reasonable amount of mandatory information to fill out when creating your description. As with other member sites from the same company’s network, there are many good quality profiles. Many have photos and most are well written. You can also add a video introduction to attract even more interest in your advertisement. I didn’t see too many videos added yet but it normally takes a while for a newer option to catch on.

“One notable feature regarding the instant messaging is that it’s more than just plain text interaction.”

Your free membership gives you limited access to the site’s services. As is commonplace with online dating sites, you can send a free “flirt” to demonstrate interest in any profiles you find. For any other way of initiating contact, you’ll need to upgrade to a paid membership. Once you become a full subscriber you can start a one-on-one conversation with other members online by using the instant messaging program, have access to sending and receiving email and be able to checkout who looked at your profile in the last couple of weeks. One notable feature regarding the instant messaging is that it’s more than just plain text interaction. You can send voice and video instant messages, too.

Search Options on BBW Harmony are substantial. Beyond the ability to conduct localized searches based upon zip/postal codes, there is even a keyword search option. Results can also be shown as a photo gallery. You can save your searches so you don’t have to keep re-entering the same options over and over. As far as a compatibility system, there’s a very straightforward ‘my matches’ section that finds members in real-time based on the replies entered in your profile describing the perfect partner. With no automatic e-mailing of matches here, you have to keep checking back to the ‘my matches’ page to see any changes.

Niche sites fight an uphill battle when it comes to membership numbers. This is a big worry for BBW Harmony because it seems that the number of active members is rather small. However, membership costs less than $15 US, so you’re not risking a lot of dough to give the site a full tryout.

BBW Harmony is an opportunity for real women to meet genuine men in a friendly and safe environment.

ChnLove.com is not your regular online dating site. Instead it is more along the lines of the now old-fashioned concept of mail order brides. I say such a concept is outmoded merely because things have come a long way during the last 10 years as far as to how a man can meet a potential wife from halfway across the globe. This site works in conjunction with 17 local marriage agencies in 13 major cities in China to facilitate connections via the Internet between Western men and Chinese women, many of whom would not otherwise have the computer skills, language knowledge or access to computers and the Internet to meet someone online. There seem to be many stories of successful matches that have led to long-term relationships and happy marriages.

As a man, the profile process is relatively brief. However, you will be required to provide personal information that you normally wouldn’t on other dating sites such as your real full name, home address and telephone number. The site promises that this private contact information will be held strictly confidential and will only be used with your permission when you engage one of their full services.

“ChnLove is for Western men who want to meet sincere, marriage-minded women from China.”

Currently there are over 3200 profiles of Chinese women looking to meet Western men for long-term relationships on ChnLove. In China, the affiliated marriage agencies which the women make initial contact with forward a photo and personal details to the website. They provide the women with help in translating their descriptions into clear and precise English, so the online information about each female member is well written and easy to understand. It definitely seems to help create a more complete idea of each woman beyond merely a pretty photograph.

On the Western side of things, ChnLove offers several unique services. You can have flowers delivered to the woman that interests you if she lives in one of the major cities serviced by the company. The affiliated marriage agencies will also forward your emails to the women by phone or by standard post after translating them into Chinese. The agencies will also collect the women’s reply and translate them to English and email them back to Western men. Additional services available include advice on helping your new love immigrate to your country from China and help with planning a visit to China to meet your potential partner in person.

Some services, like sending flowers, have a specific additional cost associated with them but most of the communication options are charged against a system of credits on a per-use basis. For example, it costs one credit for each mail sent or received through the marriage agency phone/post mail forwarding system. Credits cost between $4.25 and $6.25 depending on how many are bought at one time.

ChnLove is for Western men who want to meet sincere, marriage-minded women from China. It offers a different way to make lasting connections online.

KoreanFriendFinder.com is specialized in joining singles who enjoy all things Korean together. Here you’re going to find people that share at least a modicum of interest in Korean culture even if they themselves are not Korean. I must emphasize that not only is joining not limited to your being Korean, but there appears to be lots of members who have already joined that are neither Korean nor living in Korea. There are lots of individuals living in Korea who want to connect in a safe and secure way. Also many people who have moved from Korea or who have previously visited the country seek to reconnect with its culture. Others simply yearn to explore something new. The beautiful Korean people offer a special exotic style and unique Asian charm as individuals.

Sign up for free and you’ll immediately be able to look through the ads and even zoom in on few of the ones you like the most. On the search page you’ll always have the option to at least send a wink to let that preferred person know that you are interested in a profile. If you add the description to your hot list, an e-mail will immediately be dispatched to that member’s inbox so your stamp of approval becomes evident. Free contact otherwise can be limited, although you can always e-mail a few individuals and some subscribers pay a special extra fee so they are reachable from any level of membership. Otherwise, in the FriendFinder Network tradition, if you post a truly popular profile you may receive exceptional membership rewards, which could allow you free access to premium services.

Now for the online communication options available to you. First of all, let me mention that Korean Friend Finder is available in Korean as well as English. All links have been translated and anything produced by the site itself has been transposed to Korean, however a lot of subscriber submitted information is in English. You’re going to have the chance to enjoy live chat, post messages in the Groups section and read those from others, and check out an online magazine with articles written by fellow members. Keep up-to-date daily with your favourite real-life personalities by checking out the “blogs” page. If you see an interesting visitor in the online gallery you can send him or her, an instant message for free.

You’re going to make loads of new friends, Korean or otherwise, so you need to have an easy way to keep track of them all. Enter the Network, which is you personalized list of members with whom you want to stay in regular contact. As a group you’re going to be able to share bulletins and special private photo albums. Your online buddies can also add special commentary describing how wonderful and interesting you are right onto your individual profile.

Upgraded memberships of either Silver or Gold provide many advantages beyond the obvious one of unlimited contact with other members. You treated as top in search results and priority queues for customer service and profile approvals too. Gold also offers a unique opportunity to search the member galleries based on keywords. The number of subscribers is less than on some other less specialized sites, so the monthly rates are a slightly lower on Korean Friend Finder.

Visit Korean Friend Finder where everyone who enjoys the uniqueness of Korean culture is welcome.

Asia Friend Finder is a total-package site, but you have to hand over the money before you really get to see what it’s about. This can make anyone new to the online dating scene cringe, but Friend Finder has a track record of producing high-quality, member-driven sites and Asia Friend Finder is no exception.

The profile quality at Asia Friend Finder is extremely high. There are more questions than you could ever need and opportunities to fill out profiles to a greater or lesser extent as you please. The one problem is that you can’t see what other members have written about themselves or what other pictures they’ve posted until you pay for a membership. The only other profiles you will be able to see are those of paid members, but even these have been handicapped in certain ways, such as the inability to see larger pictures, to encourage you to pay for a membership.

Asia Friend Finder looks pretty solid from a visual perspective. There’s a lot going on at times as far as what’s on the screen, and the designers didn’t shy away from highlighting it all through color. The blend of choices doesn’t sit perfectly with my taste, but it’s a subjective area. No matter what your tastes are, however, you won’t find that the presentation gets in the way of your search for love and romance.

“Asia Friend Finder is a quality product at an acceptable price.”

The site scores full points when it comes to local searching. The most accurate local search you have at your disposal as a free member trying to find users in your area is by zip code. Zip code searches should be enough to give you an idea of who is online in your immediate area. You have more options available if you join, such as searches by city, which can be helpful.

It might be surprising to some that a site with so much going on can end up scoring a zero in any category. Asia Friend Finder proves the case by not allowing guest members to view profiles in detail. This is something that usually sets off warning bells. Our criteria says that any site that hides profiles gets an automatic zero as it usually signals a shady site operator. However, in this case, it just isn’t an accurate reflection on reputation. The Friend Finder network has proven itself to be dedicated to providing first-class sites. Preventing guests from viewing other profiles is just an unfortunate quirk. Still, if you’re new to online dating and don’t want to take the chance, this is the time to bow out.

Asia Friend Finder has a very large following online. What that means is that there are enough members on this site to make it worth your time to sign up for a free membership and run some searches for people in your area. That’s the only sure way to see if any site is worth your time.

If your searches on Asia Friend Finder turn up enough results to make a membership worth your while, you can be assured that there’s more fun to be had once you join. The site has built a digital community and included elements such as chat rooms, an online publication, groups and blogs to ensure you’re entertained.

If you are still reading and looking for Asian connections, take a look at the site. Asia Friend Finder is a quality product at an acceptable price. It will take a leap of faith at the beginning, but you shouldn’t be disappointed once you find your footing inside AFF!

ArabLounge.com uses the tag line, “Connecting Arabs worldwide.” The site certainly seems to have its focus and delivers the target market it says it will. Not only that, the site gives you more than enough free access to really get a handle on its value and does so in the confines of a pleasant and impressive site design. Here’s what else we found…

ArabLounge challenges you with an involved profile creation process. Generally speaking, the more info you provide, the more chances you’ll have of catching someone’s interest. This may not seem worthwhile to new users, but you should commit yourself to filling out your profile in detail if you plan on staying for any length of time.

“Arab Lounge is certainly one site that seems to have its act together.”

The worry with niche dating sites is that they don’t have the opportunity to reach the masses like a general dating site would. This site has done rather well. It has a solid following of members, no doubt due to the amount of access it grants users.

As for access, Arab Lounge really lets you get a feel for what’s available on the site. New users can search profiles, see when people last logged in and they can even be contacted by paid members. What you can’t do is search for members closer than 150 miles. This is the one drawback. However, if you pay for a membership, you can be a lot more specific on your search radius.

Pricing for the site is more expensive than average – at least on a one-month membership. You pay an introductory fee of $34.95 that renews at a more reasonable $29.95. You also pay less if you subscribe for multiple months. Price isn’t everything, though, especially if you can serve up a decent amount of members from a specific demographic for any given area, but it’s certainly worth mention when other sites often charge significantly less.

The search options available to free members are limited compared to those of paid members. It gives you the basics: seaches by distance from your location, age, profiles with pictures only, etc. As mentioned, though, 150 miles is the narrowest search you can perform. However, if you decide to buy a month or more of access time, you can select from a plethora or criteria that you, and hopefully most others, filled out when signing up for the site.

You will have more than enough free access to ArabLounge.com to make an informed decision on its worth. As a free member, you can surf and sort through members with no limitations. You can even receive and respond to members who contact you. What you can’t do without paying is initiate contact, post on the message boards or see who has viewed your profile. Although important and interesting features, the limitations imposed by ArabLounge on its members are few and inconsequential to the decision making process.

Arab Lounge is certainly one site that seems to have its act together. It gives you all the tools and information you need to make an informed decision about how much it has to offer and that goes a long way to suggesting that this site is even worth the extra money they’re asking you to pay.

Despite our natural affinity for its aptly named domain, we appreciated Cupid.com for slightly deeper reasons. For starters, it’s a popular site and once you see its professional user-friendly design, you’ll understand its broad appeal with folks. However, let’s look a little closer to see how well Cupid lived up to its mythological namesake.

When filling out a profile, Cupid immediately encourages us to add a photo and to complete a series of in-depth questionnaires. Sure, we can skip the forms to get in faster but each time we return we’re prompted to complete the missing info. Perhaps, the site hopes to encourage more complete member descriptions by the constant reminders.

“…with all the free access you can get for just signing up, you can be sure that Cupid is worth a tour at the very least.”

Nevertheless, despite the prompting we found that the number of descriptions that include pics varied from as low as 25 percent right up to as good as 60 percent depending on what search criteria was used. There also appeared to be a positive correlation between people with pictures and the amount of pertinent details they filled out on their profiles.

Cupid.com has search options down pat. Besides allowing us to search from typical criteria such as education level and religious faith or as unique as what pets a person owns, it also has a gallery mode to view results by photos. The text-based method reveals more profiles at once in detail, but either way you can see right away a member’s approximate last login date.

Cupid is exactly on target as far as free access goes. It lets you build a profile, search for members and even respond to members that send you messages – all without dropping a dime. That makes it a great choice for anyone new to the online dating scene who just wants to try the site out to see if it fits.

As far as contact methods go, besides email, Cupid.com only has one – instant messaging. Quick contact can be important, but as long as there’s at least one way to reach out and touch someone, that should be enough. Besides, what’s great is that paid members can initiate conversations even with non-pay visitors who are online.

Cupid has a solid selection of extra features to advise and entertain you. They have a dating advice section and blogs, which seem quite active. The site sets up speed dating events in a number of cities in North America, too. Finally, as far as the matchmaking system goes, you can turn it on after you’ve filled out your profile details and see what results come back for you.

Overall, Cupid.com has scored well. As with any site, it will come down to how many members are in your area. However, with all the free access you can get for just signing up, you can be sure that Cupid is worth a tour at the very least.

Wealthy Men promotes itself as web personals designed as a place for people of a higher caliber to meet. I’ll say straightaway that I had to lie in my profile since the lowest income range starts at over $100,000. That’s a little more than I can boast that my reviewer’s post pays. All is fair in love and war, I suppose.

I’ve often heard that the hallmark of truly refined taste is its simplicity. Simple is exactly how I would define the interface of WealthyMen. You provide few physical details beyond height and body type. You do include your profession and salary, of course. Then you describe yourself and potential date, in essay form. Whether you’re male or female, the same process applies.

“Not seeing profile details before upgrading makes one hesitant to join WealthyMen.”

WealthyMen.com has a few extra features related to verifying the info you provide. You need to send in a letter from your accountant or even an old income tax form to prove your wealth. You can verify your employment or your photo through other processes as well. That’s as fancy as the site gets, since otherwise it offers little else as far as advanced features go.

Browsing is limited to US zip codes, Canadian postal codes (enter it without spaces where it states US zips only and it does work) or a few major American cities. Outside the United States or Canada, one is out of luck as you are stuck browsing entire countries. I thought that WealthyMen should be more sensitive to the needs of the globetrotting elite that are supposedly its niche.

Moreover, until you upgrade, you can’t see anything but a few basic profile details. You can’t tell whether a member has recently visited the site even. However, what is perhaps odder is that even as a premium subscriber, there doesn’t appear to be any advanced search options. There is no online chat or even instant messaging, just email.

Silver membership allows you to see detailed profiles and to use email. Gold level subscriptions, besides being listed first on browsing results, allow correspondence with non-paying site members. Overall, in comparison to most online dating sites, Wealthy Men seems overly simplistic. Its most redeeming quality is providing verified details regarding what might otherwise be exaggerated claims made by members.

I may not be well off, but I do know that generally rich folks enjoy free samples before deciding to shell out any cash. Not seeing profile details before upgrading makes one hesitant to join WealthyMen. Having to decide whether it’s worth its monthly fee based solely on verified income status and a picture doesn’t seem to scream a higher-class of dating.

Wealthy dating brings together successful people sharing similar lifestyles and goals. Money can’t buy you happiness or love, but making a decent living shouldn’t stand in your way to making genuine romantic connections online. There are specific sites that connect well off singles allowing them to enjoy each other’s company and to share in the privileges of having achieved financial success. Any reputable millionaire dating service makes sure that only high-quality profiles carefully screened and verified are allowed to be posted thus insuring members make worthwhile and appropriate love matches. Why settle for anyone less than ideal when you can browse through ads tailored to your specific expectations and dating needs? Our reviews explain the signup process, contact methods each one includes as well as letting you know, which sites seem are the most popular. Keep reading to find out more to help choose the site that’s right for you.

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