Twice as much women than men on FilipinoCupid
Unique membership ratios are setting FilipinoCupid.com apart in the online dating industry. With at least two female members for every male member that signs up, a distinctive and interactive Filipino dating environment has developed on the site. FilipinoCupid.com continues to dominate the Filipino dating market with over 2 million Filipina women now actively using the popular dating ... [...]
I just started out
hhhhhmmmmm. I've only been on a few days but am definitely getting a lot of hits. The ladies are by in large reasonably good looking but luckily some don't look like fashion models so it gives a sense of honesty and sincerity. These women appear real and very interested. The on line prompt feature is nice---while you are viewing their profile you wre informed if they are on line. Some of the reviews were very helpful. I estimated $10---$12,000 for the whole process from meeting to marriage so that seems good. The problem is how credible and reliable is the info and how serious are the ladies? I wonder if there is some kind of local service in the Philippines that will independently vette the ladies and set up an "arranged meeting"? Does this site do that? That would be a big help.
Pros
Rea,l reasonably good looking women who seem genuinely interested. The pictures and info definitely get you motivated to look.
Cons
Apparent lack of the ability to get any reliable 3rd party verification of the info in the profiles. But any search for love is going to have its risks...this does have promise. I will have to see where I'm at in a month. The other reviews were helpful.
It worked for me!
I met my fianc?e on this website. I'm 34 and she is an attractive, sweet, and down-to-earth 21-year-old. I paid $60 for a 3 month membership and got over 700 interests and 200 e-mails. You have to sift through a lot of garbage, but if you use the right strategy, then you can be successful. 1) Don't go for the perfect 10's. If it's too good to be true, then it probably is. My fianc?e considers herself average looking in the Philippines but I like Asian women, so she's beautiful to me. She doesn't realize how pretty she is. Women who do know, learn to use their looks to manipulate men. 2) Go for a country girl. My fianc?e is from a town with 40,000 people, lives with her parents, and all her siblings live in that town. She's innocent. It's harder to trust women in Manila because people often learn how to be corrupt to survive in big cities. The provincial women tend to be more kind and simple people and are very connected/family-oriented. 3) Make it a requirement in your profile that she has to have a yahoo messenger or Skype account and a webcam and microphone. If you can't see and hear her, then you're missing out on a lot of verbal and non-verbal cues that help you tell if she is really into you or not. 4) Act fast. Once you make contact with a woman you like, try to get her to talk to you on Skype for at least an hour everyday. Really get to know her. 5) Get on a plane and go see her. I talked to my fianc?e on Skype for 6 weeks and then went to her town and lived in her parents' house with her and her relatives for 3 weeks. Get to know her family and what kind of people they are. 6) Trust your instincts. By the end of the 3 weeks, I knew I had the right woman for me. We've talked on Skype everyday since and are working on the K-1 fianc?e visa process right now, which in America takes 8 to 10 months to complete. 7) Before you even think of starting this process, make sure you're committed to it. Have 10,000 USD saved up. That's how much you should budget for the whole process. You have to pay for courting, plane tickets, hotels, and immigration fees (medical check up, interview, transportation to get your fianc?e to the embassy, application costs, etc.). It adds up! And the immigration process is very tedious. If you don't have that kind of time and savings, then don't waste your time or the Filipinas by casually posting a profile on FilipinoCupid. Good luck!
Pros
The match feature is good. Also, you can save multiple searches and name them. In each one you can specify what you're looking for: height, weight, education level, English ability, age, location and km radius, etc. They also let you keep track of all your favorites.
Cons
The Filipinas can e-mail you for free, but you have to pay to read their e-mails. Also, I spent dozens of hours on that site sifting through profiles and sending out e-mails. It's addictive. A lot of women may appear online, but when you try to chat with them, they don't answer. Also, you can't see them in real-time unless you pay extra. That's why in my first e-mail to a woman, I would ask for her yahoo or Skype usernames. I made a big list of contacts on yahoo and Skype knowing my FilipinoCupid membership was only temporary. Also, it's good to become FB friends, so you can see all their pics on there and read their posts and see who their friends are, so get their e-mail addresses and send out friend requests.
be smart
i agree wholeheartedly with stein. i have been a paid member of this site on and off. many of the young real pretty girls are scammers but they are fairly easy to weed out if u use your head between your shoulders instead of the other one. when i have found a scammer, i would send the site my proof, like they asked for money and their profile is turned off imediately. there were many times a cutie sent me a mail and i go to her profile and its gone already. so they do try to get rid of them.
if you are a middle aged man, go for an older women, the old men that get young girls are not liked much there and most of those women are looking for a sugar daddy
philipino women in general are very sweet, i have found a few nice women, just not one i am ready to make the big trip for yet.
Do it the right way!
FilipinoCupid is a first class site IF you use the site the right way - and follow the advices given by site management. Like:
- NEVER send money to anyone you meet online.
- NEVER reveal passwords and a few more.
My own advices:
- If you are in the fifties - like many male members are - don't change personality and believe you are the greatest gift to women in the world. Ignore ALL approaches from women under 28 or so. Then you have shaken off almost ALL the scammers.
- Break off contact with any woman asking for money. AT ONCE. There ate still a lot of fish in the sea.
- NEVER ask for undecent exposure - it will turn off the really valuable women there.. There are LTS of scammers - it's up to you if you will be a victim! And the site management actually do all they can to help you succeed :)
Pros
- Enormous number of members - also real, honest women.
- VERY well functioning site. In many ways better than Facebook ;)
Cons
- You MUST follow good advice, because scammers are EVERYWHERE and are NEW members and members in vulnerable age, which is the oldest group of men, weak for attention from very YOUNG women. IF NOT filipinocupid is a school with NO MERCY :)
FilipinoCupid.com Is a Genuine Site Worth Your While
We sympathize with your unfortunate experience on FilipinoCupid.com. We highly appreciate your feedback and we will continue to use it to get rid of unscrupulous individuals making your search for a genuine spouse a difficult one. Our goal at FilipinoCupid.com is to ensure that all our members find the desired partner that they are seeking. For this reason our dedicated fraud prevention team has continually made it its priority to ensure that there are no fraudulent members on our site. However being an internet based company it is impossible to verify everyone?s true intentions when they register on the site.
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Pros
Very many serious members seeking genuine partners.
Easy to use.
Free to join.
Online dating safety tips provided.