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Help FAQs About Loveandfriends This page contains FAQs about loveandfriends that people often ask before joining. Stuff about internet dating, our site, ourselves and our members. These FAQs are designed to give you a better flavour of what we're about.. Why should I join you? It's free to join but we don't want to waste your time if we don't have what you're looking for. What are your main USPs? Not just a gimmick - it allows some genuine free dating. How many members do you have? Since we started way back in 1999 we have had over 300,000 people register profiles with us. We think the flow of good, new members is more important than absolute numbers. As a member you want to be seeing new people week after week. Typically we get 500-1000 members joining per week. The amount depends on what marketing we do. Are all your members actively dating? Some people use the site much more than others. We encourage people to delete or suspend their profile when they don't need our site any more. Some members are more passive and want to remain online waiting for people to contact them rather than logging in themselves to proactively search. They might have a last login date of some time ago but we know they still visit the site to look around and are receiving our emails. We do archive unused and unvisited profiles from time to time. You can tell when a person last visited the site from their profile. Are you just a UK + Ireland based dating agency? The majority of our members live in the UK and Ireland. However, we do increasingly have significant numbers of members from abroad. We are popular with people that want to meet someone in the UK e. Americans , expats English speakers living in France, Spain, etc and travellers Brits backpacking across India. Genuine people from anywhere in the world are always welcome. We spend a lot of time and resources blocking fake profiles of scammers and spammers who try to join. We're proud that the quality of our database is much 'cleaner' than many other sites, whilst still having a bit of international 'flavour' that some strictly 'UK only' sites lack. We would ask anyone from places like Eastern Europe, Philippines, etc to make sure you have a fully written profile all 'Wordy Stuff' sections completed in good English with some good photos and to email our admin team when joining so as you are not suspended. If you are a nice, literate Moscow or Manilla based Economics Lecturer who likes to come to London from time to time then of course we want you aboard. Are you just for dating? We're called 'Loveandfriends' as we're not just a dating site - although most people joining are indeed looking for a partner. However, lots of the people who join for 'dating' are open to meet new people and do make friends along the way or at least some interesting new acquaintances. The ' andfriends' bit is very important to us as it adds a more relaxed flavour to our site and does help facilitate the dating aspect in a more friendly manner. What's your success rate? Checkout our success stories page - where you will see literally hundreds of emails from happy former members! We have had thousands of people email in over the years. We can't give an accurate actual percentage success rate as lots of people just put their profiles 'on hold' and don't tell us why. At some point in the future we'll do a survey or something - however we have so many other good ideas to work on that this may be some time Is your 'Free' membership genuine? We have 2 levels of membership. The idea is you can join on free and have a basic use of the site if you wish. The main reason we offer a usable free membership is so that you can heartily recommend us to your friends. What's the difference between free and full membership? FREE FULL MESSAGES: You can send a limited number of short messages MESSAGES: Send as many messages as you want to whoever you want. SEARCH: You can do a simple search on basic criteria - age, location, etc. The matching and compatibility parts of the site are for full members. Have a private photo on the site only available to selected members. Attach your private photo on messages to members. Access all photos immediately i. POWER: You need to sort everything out for yourself as a free members POWER: Find out who likes you. Find out who has marked you as a favourite. View and contact new members immediately... We also have 20 dating features only available to full members like our compatibility questionnaire, advanced search, partner matching, etc. Loveandfriends is a bit like your local independent pub... Some of our members in top jobs take a fiendish delight in using the site to the max whilst not paying for membership ;- Whilst the joy of getting something for nothing is not to be underestimated, paying members prefer to pay to cut out the hassle and get better service. Paying members also tend to get more dates. How much does full membership cost? Our rates are 1 month - £19. We watch our competitors and these rates are pretty competitive. We want to be totally up front: These memberships are auto-rebilling 'subscription' memberships. This is the same as all dating sites that we know of. Cancelling rebilling is easy peasy. You just have to press a button on our 'Pay' page. You can do this 1 minute after paying if you wish. Cancelling rebilling does not delete your profile - you can still use the site until your 'Paid for' time is used up. Auto rebilling is common practice with the online dating sites and helps us minimise admin and marketing i. Any plans to get rid of free membership? We envisage there always being some form of free membership. However, we may well fine-tune what you get as a free member. Our full members keep us in a job we love doing... This means we are happy to give them any advantage over free members that results in more dating and more happy endings for full members. We are aimed slightly more towards educated professionals than other sites. Our members tend to be a little more likely to read quality papers like the Times, Guardian, Telegraph than the Sunday Sport. We have quite a few Daily Mail readers and even if you read The Sun we don't kick you off ;- What makes us different is that we have loads of members in what we would say are 'Interesting' or 'Challenging' jobs - percentage wise more so than other dating sites we genuinely believe. Some of these pay well, some not so. We also have students, the unemployed and the retired. All in all we think it is a good mix. As well as the main www. Some examples include a site for Ecology minded people, one for animal lovers and one for readers of a national magazine. Having a 'Network' of sites in this way helps us attract a good mix of interesting people. If we take the Ecology site as an example - we have lots of members of our main site who are into 'Ecology' so the special 'EcoSearch' facility on the Ecology themed site will search these out as well as members of the Ecology site itself. How do you compare to other sites? We are not the largest dating site in the UK, nor do we wish to be. However, the larger sites tend to take a much more mass market approach and have more 'vanilla' flavour as they need to appeal to everyone. There are smaller UK sites that focus on even more specific 'niches' than loveandfriends. These tend to have substantially fewer members than we have. They may focus on people who are affluent, upmarket, clever, gorgeous, ethical, etc. A place where an actress could meet a banker, a teacher a train driver or an au pair a millionaire. Checkout our profiles - we have bucket loads of brainpower and more gorgeous people than you can shake a stick at but also loads of regular folk as well. Quantity of members is important. If your database is small then the service is unlikely to be good - you do need a certain 'critical mass' of members. We went beyond that years ago. However once you get beyond a certain point then quantity does not matter so much as the type of people. It is a bit like a big birthday party. If there are only 3 people in the room it's a bit sad, 10 is better, 20+ is good, but once you get beyond say 150 people adding more people doesn't make it a better party as guests haven't the time to meet all the compatible people anyway. Much better to have 150 compatible ish people than a complete mixed bag of 500. What we're getting at is whilst the larger sites make a big song and dance of 'We have 1 million members'... The internet dating landscape has changed markedly since we setup in 1999. Where do your members come from? We are very happy to say that our largest single source of members is recommendations from existing members... Our members also bring us the best new members We top this up with considerable online advertising through Google and other advertising. A lot of your membership fees we throw straight back out on advertising to get new members. We also have a straightforward affiliate scheme - whereby if you have a website we pay up to 100% commission on referrals. Are your members genuine? We don't want to come accross as holier-than-thou but our site is simply just not designed for this. There are lots of sites for this sort of thing - just Google 'Adult dating' or 'Casual dating'. We do get some 'Dodgy' people joining - most we block before their profile goes live the rest who slip through our net we boot these off as soon as they get reported by members. We say to potential members if you are after this sort of thing then please don't sign up with loveandfriends as you will be wasting both your time and ours. We particularly spend loads of time and resources on blocking the spammers and scammers. We zap nearly all of these before they manage to send any messages. The small remainder that occasionally slip through get reported and zapped asap. We can also assure you that we have never - ever - make up profiles to attract members. What advice can you give me on online dating? Upload a good photo. More than 3 million people in the UK are dating online - so there is no need to be bashful. Profiles with a decent photo get a much better response. In fact if you don't have a photo you might as well be invisible. You could get away with not having a photo in 1999 but not in 2012 - people will most likely just assume the worst if there is no photo on your profile and not bother contacting you. Don't upload just any old photo or a webscam shot! If you haven't a good photo invest in one. At the very least get a friend to take loads 50++ of photos of you with a digital camera or the like... Checkout our success stories page called 'Statistics of Success'. Ok some people got lucky quickly - but you'll see that most wrote quite a lot of emails before finding their partner. Women - take the initiative and send some emails or winks... Take knockbacks in your stride. Not everyone will want to meet you. Also you probably won't want to meet everyone that shows an interest in you. Often people don't bother responding rather than saying 'Thanks but no thanks'. We're sorry about this but this is part an parcel of Internet Dating. Use it as part of your portfolio of meeting people. Loveandfriends is a great way of meeting new people but it is not a silver bullet. Loveandfriends is more likely to work if you are doing other interesting stuff as well. Do some other stuff that involves meeting people - dance classes, sports, evening classes, walking, pub quiz, book groups, speed dating, toastmasters, charity work, church stuff, etc. Don't be too specific on who you'd consider. Remember we are love and friends. There is the chance you could meet an interesting person who turns out to be a friend or acquaintance. If you are 21, female and beautiful or similarly eligible then you can somewhat call the shots. Everyone else: you need to 'get real' with the sort of people you are prepared to meet. Of course - go for the babes or hunks but don't just focus on them. Looks aren't everything but they are significant for most people. Consider that most people end up with someone within a 2 points range of their own attractiveness. So If you are say 7 out of 10 then 6-8 is a reasonable range of people to go for. Get your friends aboard: going to social events with friends or on a double date improves your chances. Also they might meet someone who is no good for them but great for you and vice versa. It could even be a friend of a friend. The point is when you add more people to the mix - your opportunities multiply. Take a long term view. Evidence from our 'Statistics of Success' page shows that some members plugged away for ages before striking gold. Take a break for a few weeks by all means. If you find someone quickly that's a bonus. However, don't expect to do this as you may be disappointed. We offer annual memberships for a reason - so you can take things at a relaxed pace as opposed to trying to get sorted within a month. Loveandfriends Ltd is a private UK limited company founded in 1999 by Andy Maccabe and Mary Balfour. Andy is the full time Managing Director and in charge of running the business. The company was founded in 1999 - in the corner of the Drawing Down the Moon office by Andy using one PC and a book on Internet Programming for Dummies. Andy is pleased to note that he is now able to employ a number of talented programming and admin staff to maintain the dating sites. Do you read all our private emails? We only access emails to occasionally system check that delivery is working correctly, or if there is a question from you relating to a specific email. We do check random mails from new members to ensure that we catch any spammers or scammers who are attempting to circumvent our systems. Once we have verified the veracity of the account, we have no need to check further unless alerted to do so. © Love and Friends 1999 - 2018.
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