JapanCupid.com Reviews

Review:
I'm an ugly 46 year old man, and I actually got one response and one date off of this site from a girl that was local and was about ten years younger. That's a better result than I got from Plenty of Fish or OK Cupid, so I'm not ready to call it a scam.

Pros:
Chance of responses.

Cons:
Mostly for long distance.

Troy does recommend JapanCupid.com to friends/family

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Review:
I was recommended this site by a friend and thought I'd try it out.

I'm a 26 year old attractive caucasian woman looking for friendship and possibly more. I'm not in Japan right now but I'm planning to go back soon.

I filled in my profile with all details, uploaded a photo and even verified my account.
I didn't even get to browsing before my profile was suddenly "terminated and cannot be reactivated".

I e-mailed them about it but I haven't gotten a reply yet.

I was sort of left with the same feeling that all my white classmates used to give me in Japan; Asian girl or GTFO.

I guess I'll wait and see if they will reply or not..

Pros:
Easy enough to understand.

Nice matching system.

Cons:
Got terminated within 20 minutes with no explanation given.

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Review:
This is my second time on Japancupid paying for a gold membership which I only do a month trial at a time. While the site is good in general, it is very difficult to get a relationship started with the Japanese members unless you fit into the females very small selective category. I have to admit I've been pretty picky too so I'm rather picky... except most of the current women there (from Japan) seem to think there are enough wealthy, movie star Caucasian males willing to take them in like some Hollywood romance comedy film are roaming the site (and just happen to be in Japan) looking for them.

One of the things that does concern me about Japancupids service is when they send you a message saying someone is interested in you and it actually turns out they just sent some random person's profile your way and they never really actually even checked you out. That gets very annoying very fast. I've been fortunate to have a few check out my profile that were actual members and not Japancupid initiated.

Its always good to identify that the people on this dating site are not completely representing the quality of the site.

Unfortunately with my current situation I think it is better to actually be living or visiting Japan to get more hits. I'm in my mid 30s and look a much younger than my age (with at least above average looks) but from my experience I've had more women 19+ checking me out and hitting on me when I'm there in person.

So unless you're there or going there soon, its best to probably avoid signing up until then.

Pros:
Great search engine, free chat and IM, lots of members.

Cons:
The women can be very VERY picky, and rude. Gold membership has some good upgrades but you have to pay a bit too much for Premium which pretty much only gives you some very small additional options.

Darknile does recommend JapanCupid.com to friends/family

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Review:
I am a decent looking guy, I set up an account with Match.com and got 11 winks in an 4 hours - so I'm not hideous at least.
And it's all gone very well, 2 of which are Asian I might add

I joined JapanCupid.com about 2 months ago
Anyway - this site is such a scam it's laughable - unfortunately you only truly find that out after paying for the first month subscription.

Well hopefully this will make some of the people who were ripped off through this site feel a little better.

I'm a great internet marketing professional, and specialise in SEO - and I'm going to regularly attack the site - I can't take the site down but I can make people know about how fake it is if someone tries to check its validity first – I will kick them where it hurts – their cheating wallet!

Pros:
NONE - ITS A SCAM!!!

Cons:
IT'S A SCAM SITE - STAY AWAY!!!

I'm an internet professional and it becomes clear when you pay the first months subscription (which it forces you to do quickly) that it's totally managed by bots (or illiterate people) either way it's a complete scam!

peter does NOT recommend JapanCupid.com to friends/family

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Review:
To many of the other reviewers:
Just because you had no success on this site does not mean that it is: a scam, fraud, rip-off, con etc

First let me ask you this: are you actually in Japan?

As the name implies JapanCupid is primarily intended for dating locally within Japan. If you aren't in Japan then you are of zero interest to most of the users on there.

Even if you are in Japan, do you live in or near a big city?
Most people really can't be bothered to travel much more than 30~45 mins for a date. And this applies universally for all dating sites.

Then, did you actually make a half-decent profile?

Even if you did that did you send a reasonable 1st mail?

Oh wait, you only mailed all the obviously hot girls who are under 25?
Well I hope you are a grade A top choice man (and I mean for real, objectively , not wishful thinking) because those girls are so spoilt for choice that anything less than the best is not going to get a response.

As for the comments about not paying for dating site - why not?
I suppose you only go to bars that are free?
And you eat out of the trash too?
Things cost money, that is how life works, the price of a month on a dating site is often less than a night out drinking.

While it is fair to say that there are some very suspicious profiles that are probably fake, that doesn't mean that Japan Cupid created those profiles. In fact they were probably made by pick-up artist loser douche bags trying to steal some 'intel' from other male users.

I've been a paid member a couple of times, and each time I got plenty of responses and more than enough dates (including both hot and young girls - though frankly not most of the time).

I'm over 30, far from stunning, and not particularly good at Japanese. If you can't get any responses, let alone dates from this site, then you need to look seriously at why you are failing - it is most likely your expectations, or very shoddy profile/mails.

That said, the Japanese online dating scene is notoriously unforgiving for anybody who is not either white or at least not Asian, and JC is no exception to this.

Pros:
- Full of male users who still think it's 1990 and that Japanese women will swoon at their feet for no reason other than they are foreign (so if you are a guy who lives in the now rather than in the past this is great)

-Cupid Media is a general good and time tested system.

- Japan Cupid is popular among Japanese girls and well marketed towards to 20~30 age group in particular. LET ME BE CRYSTAL CLEAR ON THIS - you may still have a hard time getting dates with the cute/young girls, but they are on here and they are real!

- You can now delete your photos

- They have never auto-billed me (unlike worldfriends)

- It is not: fake, a scam, a con, a rip-off etc

Cons:
- Full of male users who still think it's 1990 and that Japanese women will swoon at their feet for no reason other than they are foreign (so if you are a girl you will have to wade through a lot of derps).

- No matter what you write on your profile/ in your mails 90% of the women who respond will just assume that you are a liar and/or a "playboy" . You are going to need to be thick skinned. Japanese women are much less polite on dating sites than they are in real life.

- Granted, the customer service are not that helpful.

- It is pointless if you do not pay for the high grade memberships - but then it's pointless going to bars if you aren't going to shower, shave and put on a clean shirt.

- Life isn't fair

- Nobody loves me

Steve Stev does recommend JapanCupid.com to friends/family

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