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How About We Reviews

    How About We NOT

    It seemed like such a good idea: meet other New Yorkers instantly, go out instantly, cut through the baggage and trepidation, and date that evening. That's what How About We offers initially... but with deceitful graphics that promise a "check it out for one month" scheme but instead trick you into paying a whole year in advance, members who aren't even members, and a demographic of hipster guys all in search of the blonde stick, How About We leaves you with a bad taste.

    Most transparently of all, once you terminate your account, the service pretends you have new messages in order to try to lure you back, and spams you to death with endless entreaties to come back. First, there is no way all these men are suddenly messaging you AFTER YOU LEAVE THE SERVICE. Your profile would not be up anymore so how are they seeing you there? Baloney. How About We reminds me of a hairy-chested douchebag you meet in a bar who lies to you about being the heir of an Israeli shipping magnate and then, when you see through him, and he gropes your chest, and you splash your drink in his face and take a cab home, blows up your phone with text and call begging for the next four months demanding another chance.

    To think they have the nerve to have tried this obvious scam in The City of New York. Philadelphia or Jersey City might have actually worked for them.

    Pros
    All promise. No bs, no waiting around, cut to the chase, instant date. Sounded awesome.

    Cons
    Scammy account setup. Openly deceitful. Doesn't seem to understand that attractive women do not have to pay to meet men. Why not spend that $30-$100 on a mani-pedi, a blowout, and a cab to a bar? At least then, you only get screwed once...

    Lies to you and dangles "you have a sudden new message all of a sudden from a man even though your profile has been taken down" like a carrot to try to bring you back once you see through them and kill your account. Spam bombs your inbox for the rest of eternity ever after.

    Drop a daisy cutter on this service, bury it, and let my dog pee on it. Ridiculous.

    P.S.: I met an AWESOME lad a month later just by riding MTA. He's sexy and a part-time model, and unlike the tragic doofuses on this service, was not looking for Fuzzy Navel Ally McBeal with the tramp stamp on her back for a quick uncomplicated one-night stand. Please, fellas. McBeal is so Nineties. Level Up, please. Evolve... like this online dating idea ought to also.

    Make it simpler!

    If the price was significantly cheaper I think this site would actually work. I think the same applies to other sites as well like match.com. People don't want to pay $30+ If it were 4.99 I think the websites would work. Probably make more money too considering they would generate more users. Even if they broke even at least they would be one of the few sites to have a happy user community. How About We almost has it down considering the user friendliness I feel when I go on, try a 3 day free trial or something Howaboutwe.com!

    Pros
    User friendly, and fun!

    Cons
    Discouraging cost

    DON"T DO IT!!!

    I paid with the assumption that i would be able to send and receive messages..then I realized about 90% of the users are not even subscribed..getting a "i'm Intrigued" message is useless when thats as far as the communication is gonna go....

    Pros
    None

    Cons
    Not enough paying users to actually COMMUNICATE with....

    Another waste....stick to the tried and true methods of meeting someone

    Another Match.com with "auto renew" (read, scam) . They're not upfront about their disclosures, for example, I singed up for $30 for a month and three days into, noticed that several people "viewing" me never responded to my suggestions for a date. I'm a very good looking guy making very good money and a great educ ation. Instead, these "people' if they even existed at all, never respond back. Just to be certain, I messaged several fat pigs and got 0 responses. What? Keep clear. I for one am done with online dating sites.

    Pros
    Cool concept, terrible in practice.

    Cons
    Match.com minus several thousand members

    its all good until you have to pay

    It is not worth it. They have a great idea, but its not worth the price.

    Pros
    It's an awesome idea. Not your typical dating website where you have to type in a long and thoughtful summary of yourself. It's straight to the point. Everyone is from my New York direct area. Not like other sites with random rhode island and jersey people popping up.

    Cons
    So i get my first message and it tells me i have to upgrade to a paid subscription in order to view it. what a scam! You sign up, answer questions, upload pictures, everything is sweet and then bam! You have to pay. Im 21, I dont need to pay to meet men. They should atleast offer a free trial because how do i know this will actually be a worthy investment?

    Waste of money with poor results

    Great idea, poor poor execution. If this was an idea they added onto an already existing dating site, it would have purpose but alone it's just a failed attempt at online dating. The fact they don't offer a decent smart phone app for BOTH droid and iPhone is yet another failure.

    $60 for three months of service BUT there aren't as many verified, paying users for you to write to. Take a look at your outgoing messages box and see how many messages written have been read. You like I would notice that 94% of the messages have not been read. Even messages I sent three months ago. Why? Mainly because many of their users are not paid users and cannot see, respond or delete messages. Meanwhile Howaboutwe.com continues to contact that unpaid user, using your message as bait to get them to pay and join. Nowadays they allow all users to add a personal email address to their profile, so you can contact them offsite. What's the point in paying then????? Wish I knew that earlier, I could have tried it free.

    Another thing, everyone thinks of this site differently. Most like myself look at it as a way to find a single to do different things with. Two individuals hanging out, not necessarily for dating. I think a lot of people think of it as dating and expect the guy to pay every time. Also beware of gold diggers, there are plenty on both sides of the sex.

    Pros
    A larger than usual selection of interesting people. All kinds, shapes, sizes, intelligence, beauty, etc Even those that have never tried a dating site. All kinds of dates posted, free events, food or spirits tasting, find new fantastic ideas about your town or city.

    Cons
    Hardly any paid members to contact. Low response rate due to low census of paid users. A user cannot respond unless they have a paid account. A large percentage of female users have free accounts. A large number of the accounts you view on site as "recent" have never logged in again after creating a free account. False advertising in a sense. Too expensive.

    Unfortunate attempt

    Nice concept, but can do without the teasing notifications and subsequent solicitations to subscribe.

    Another waste of money

    Not enough users...same 30 men I saw on there a week ago. The dates are typical, some of the men right gross comments when they should fill out profile correctly and completely. And they do not respond to 'I'm intrigued'. Disappointed in this site...hate that I paid $60 to try them out. I need to learn my lesson this time.

    Pros
    I thought good idea behind it

    Cons
    Not enough members and they should lower price if they want to keep the members they have...not to mention offer a refund...lol!

    Really good!

    I have gone on 2 dates so far with women from this site. Beautiful, drop dead gorgeous women. I asked about 8 women on dates and about 3 responded, I chose 2. Maybe it's my profile picture, maybe I am just lucky. But after trying everything out there(eharmorny at $60 / month, match.com, plentyoffish.com). Thi site seems to serve my needs. And to think that it's fee, wow!

    Pros
    Free, beautiful women, no pressure/questionnaire like eHarmony. Time from thought to execution (asking for date to going to date) is short and straightforward.

    Cons
    Women you are already dating can see the last time you logged into the site! wink, wink :)

    Waste of Time

    Very simply put. The women on the site, so far, even within my age range, do not respond to anything. I can see they read my messages and private date requests, but that's it! That part sucks, especially since there are so few women on the site. I do like the concept, but until there are more people on the site and a higher class, less rude group of people, I would avoid this site.

    Pros
    Good concept

    Cons
    Women ignore you. Rarely respond
    Not enough members

    Misleading Purpose

    I had placed my photo and profile on the ''how about we..." website thinking that it was a low pressure way to meet activity pals. Well, this has been a very dissapointing experience in what I thought was a nice alternative to the high pressure and superficial dating websites. I wrote to many women of all types and not one had the decency to write back. Why did they register to use the ''how about we..." web service if they are putting men through dating criteria instead of the real purpose of the web service which is to find someone to share the activity. I am removing my profile as this was a waste of time and energy.

    re: another hacked victim

    Like everyone else, I thought this particular site tapped into a fresh idea which gave people an alternative to lengthy profile writing and a multitude of questions. I signed up using a $27 promotion for three months. I started out by being swamped with "I'm intrigued" messages, only to find out that most of the people were flakes. Like the previous post, I deactivated for a week just to detach. When I decided to reactivate I was no longer a paying member. I emailed the site twice but no response. I figure, I might as well cut my losses and deactivate for good. At least I only paid $27. Don't use this site. On top of everything else, the morning after I signed up, BofA called to inform me that my card was hacked. I had to go through the inconvenience of updating all of my billing information with my new card for the bills I pay with auto pay. This service is definitely not worth the headache. Run far away from howaboutwe.com and stick with the mainstream sites.

    Pros
    Fresh idea

    Cons
    See post. Not worth the headaches.

    Not enough subscribers

    There is so much competition amongst dating websites that for this company to charge as much as match.com with its many millions of members is absurd. I only join paid sites because the quality of members is usually better, but I'd never join this one.

    Pros
    Different concept

    Cons
    Too few members
    Too expensive

    Not great at all

    It really is a good concept, but you CAN'T DO ANYTHING W/O PAYING. I tried the one month payment and immediately got a call from my bank saying my card was compromised and they had to send a new one. Also, after getting so much "I'm intrigued" from people, I decided to deactivate for a week to stop the emails. Unfortunately, after I returned to the site, I was back to being a non-paying member even though they accepted the money payment! Suffice to say, I deactivated it again and kept it that way.

    Pros
    None

    Cons
    Everything

    Just another *pay me* website

    When I saw the ad on TV I thought it would be a great service. Little to no profile writing, and the focus on doing things was refreshing. But then I started noticing that you could barely do anything on the site without paying. No visitors, no messages, they have it locked down fairly tight. Then like most other dating sites want to gouge you with their fee structure. 1 month for $35, up to a year for $100? If their service is supposedly so good, why (besides $$) do they want me to buy a year membership? And why do they refuse to give me a month to try it out at a reasonable rate, or even free? I understand charging for extra features, but they getcha hooked, let you send a few messages, then clamp down on your account until you fork over the cash. Greedy business model.

    How sad

    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.

    Hacked

    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.

    Nothing happens here

    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?

    They ignore scammers profiles

    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

    HowAboutWe is such a breath of fresh air!

    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!

    This site is a bad joke

    This site should be avoided at all costs. Among other bad practices mentioned in other reviews, they have spammed every one of my gmail contacts twice now (without my permission).

    Deceitful billing and sign up

    I tried to sign up for the $7.95 membership but instead I received a message saying that I am being billed for approx. $93.00 for an upgrade.

    That was after my credit card was charged.

    Very shady.

    I am trying to find a phone number for them but there is none posted on the web site only an email.

    If they don't take care of this soon my next call will be with the attorney's general office.

    Cons
    see above

    SCAM!!!!!

    So I paid to upgrade my account for 3 months. At the end of those 3 months what did they do, they automatically charged my account again without asking if I wanted to renew. There was no one on there that was even worth talking to anyways. Stay away!

    Potential members beware

    The bottom line is, How About We is a scam. You cannot communicate with anyone unless you upgrade (i.e. pay) which makes absolutely no sense. After reading other comments on the same issue, I posted comments to the site itself and to their Facebook page. What I got back was typical cooperate speak for "sorry you have to pay to play." Then several hours later I got an email saying I had two visitors to my profile. Doesn't really matter if it was 2 or 200, I cannot respond to them unless I upgrade. Not happening. Shame on these jerks for putting this site out there knowing that they will not give anything back in return for your money. Seriously, it's as bad as eHarmony.

    Pros
    None.

    Cons
    How many ways can you say SCAM? Here's the definition of Scam from Webster's
    Noun. An instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value.

    If you're serious about dating - don't bother

    HowAboutWe is a great concept but is plagued by extremely poor implementation. If you're just looking for a random hook-up, it could work. But if you're a serious dater, you're going to have to wade through a boat-load of usernames and posting that far more legitimate dating sites would never even allow. Some username examples: "BangMyWife," "UnhappilyMarried" and "UsuckMeOff."


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