How About We - Reviews

Review:
HowAboutWe.com is yet another match.com, plain and simple. It's this (stupid) business model centered around greedy people trying to take advantage of the desperate. Of course it's free to join and immediately create a profile. The concept looks slick/cute and yet you realize that nobody is using the website or so it seems. There's an influx of new dates and yet nothing happens on the website because the messages you send go into limbo--the recipient doesn't receive their date notification until they've paid. Yep. It's just like match.com and is just as dysfunctional as a result.

Like someone once said "There's no *there* there".

Pros:
None that I can think of. Perhaps if you were in a big enough city with enough people willing to throw away their money maybe this website has a few dates happening. There aren't enough paid subscribers on it otherwise to make it worthwhile.

Cons:
It's the standard match.com business model where the desperate feed the system only to find that few others are also desperate enough to pay. They lose their money and move on.

Justin does NOT recommend How About We to friends/family

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Review:
I recently signed up for howaboutwe.com, because I thought it was a cute concept. Well, I was experiencing the same nonsense as most dating websites where people didn't follow up and you find a plethora of fake profiles. I accept that. However, I don't accept the fact that this morning my bank contacted me to let me know that my account was hacked through their website. This company has yet to let me know that the bank account was hacked, because of their mediocre security. It is unprofessional and truly disappointing. Of course if you want to contact them the only options they give you are an email address or a physical address. If I don't hear from them in 24 hours I will be contacting the attorney general myself.

Pros:
NONE

Cons:
You will be hacked simply as that.

Jenee does NOT recommend How About We to friends/family

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Review:
Like many reviewers have already mentioned, howaboutwe is a great concept...in theory.

Aside from essentially being forced to pay for a membership in order to read your messages and view your visitors, nothing really happens here unless someone specifically asks you for a "private date." You post dates and get "I'm intrigued" notifications but an overwhelming majority of the people on the site lack follow up, as if pressing "I'm intrigued" was enough to guarantee a date.

Pros:
- Quality of people here are better here than on plentyoffish and okcupid
- Swift reply from staff if you email them with questions

Cons:
- Very difficult to find website explanation on what buttons on the site do and what they mean
- Sending someone a "I'm intrigued" on their date suggestions is akin to sending a facebook poke. What are you suppose to do afterward?

Jessie does NOT recommend How About We to friends/family

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Review:
I joined after they got some press in glamour (had previously thought they were reputable chic mag!). My how about we exp....There is little to no Uk coverage and 70% of the emails I received were from scammers who had nicked other people's photo's.

How did I know they were scammers? Colloquialisms really, very bad diction and strange expressions of phrase all framed with religion in some cases. I reported a number of these time and money wasting profiles but none were removed by the site owners/moderators.

I think if your Us based this site is worth a look for women seeking men, I browsed the new York area to compare with London and there was loads of talent!!! (assumption being they are not all Nigerian scammers!)

But a total waste of money if your UK based

Pros:
Good concept

Cons:
Fake profiles are prolific

Vez does NOT recommend How About We to friends/family

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Review:
Gotta say, I’m totally floored by all these comments. I’ve had a *great* experience on HowAboutWe and I actually just read this article about them in Entrepreneur magazine that details their pretty aggressive efforts against spammers. I don’t know what other dating websites do, but these guys seem like they’re on top of it and take user security really seriously.

I signed up a month ago, and have been going out on awesome dates every week since then. The guys I’ve found have been really sweet and it was soooo nice to have something – the date itself – that instantly connected us. I even convinced a couple of my friends to join, too – even friends who swore they would never use an online date site. None of us had issues with billing or anything. I knew what I was getting into when I signed up, and I’m totally okay with paying to meet up with high-quality people on a high-quality site.

Bottom line, I think HowAboutWe is a breath of fresh air. I’m so excited to see what they come up with next!

Pros:
beautiful design, high-quality users, fun and totally addictive content (the dates and quirky questions), spam protection

Cons:
hmm, it's been great so far!

Tanya does recommend How About We to friends/family

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