Yahoo! Personals Review
Overall Score: 94%

As might be expected of an enterprise like Yahoo! Personals, its personals program comes with more bonus features than you're likely to find anywhere else, including dating and relationship advice, articles and tips, an online magazine ("Tango Magazine"), personality tests, and gift subscriptions. If sheer quantity of potential friends, dates, and partners is what you're after, then you need look no further than Yahoo! Click here to learn more!

No other site can or ever will compare to Yahoo! Personals' member pool in terms of sheer volume (unless Google got into the dating game, maybe). Yahoo! may also be the safest and most reliable dating site out there. After all, it's Yahoo! Personals. It has worked long and hard to establish its reputation for honesty, trustworthiness, and reliability of services. It’s one of the only sites that screens members, which for some people is reason enough to choose Yahoo! Personals. For others, it may be the unique and beyond-the-pale relevance of the questions asked in coming up with matches, such as whether you want kids (or more kids than you already have), what kind of persona you exhibit in social situations, your television habits, and what kind of lover you are.

Relationship Types

Heterosexual
Homosexual
Bisexual
Dating/Romance

Regions

Global site serving the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and dozens of other countries.

Free Trial Membership?

Yes!

Features included in free membership:

Create a profile
Browse and search profiles
Flirt using a free Icebreaker message
Take a Relationship Test
Take a Personality & Love Style Test
7-day Free Trial - all guests must become members after viewing their first profile, but the 7-day free trial of any
subscription plan (Yahoo! Personals or Yahoo! Personals Premier) makes it easy.

Cost

Yahoo! Personals (Casual Dates) for:
$25.99 per month
$17.99 per month for 3 months (or $53.95)
$13.99 per month for 6 months (or $83.94)

Yahoo! Personals Premier (Serious Relationships) for:

$39.95 per month
$28.32 per month for 3 months (or $84.95)
$20.83 per month for 6 months (or $124.95)

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Number of Members

Around 1 million members
Ratio: 40% male - 60% female

Safety / Screening Process of Members

Yahoo! Personals does screen members by way of reviewing their profiles for objectionable material or items that violate member guidelines. For member safety they adhere to a "5-Star" system:

Member Controlled Privacy - allowing only other members to contact members

Profile Screening
Mandatory Membership - guests must become at least free members after viewing a single profile
Community Reporting - like a "neighborhood watch" program of member involvement
Member Education - articles, tips, advice, and tests that empower members to have the safest online dating experiences possible.

Yahoo! Personals makes all members adhere to a 6-point Code of Conduct, promising:

To be single
To be honest and respectful
To do their best to present their true selves in words and pictures both
To refrain from being abusive or posting offensive material
To abide by all Yahoo! Personals Guidelines
To help identify members who don't adhere to and abide by the Code of Conduct.

Search Functionality / Options

Browse by State
Basic Search:
Gender
Age range
Location (with geographic proximity search)
Option to show profiles with photos only
(optional) Body Type
(optional) Ethnicity
(optional) Education Level
Advanced Search (includes Basic Search criteria plus):
Eye color
Hair color
Marital status
Have Kids
Want Kids or More Kids
Education level (at or beyond)
Employment Status
Profession
Income level (at or above)
Smoke
Drink
Current living situation
Match's social persona (ie. "life of the party", "homebody", etc.)
TV habits
Languages spoken
Religion
Personality type
Love Style
Members can save various combinations of search criteria by giving it a Search Name.

Receive Matches by Mail - sent to your email inbox
One-Click Matches - Yahoo! Personals makes matches for you
We Match - mutual matches which are made based on the compatibility of user profiles ("About Me") and match criteria.

("About My Match")
I Match - matches are made based on how well you fit other members' match criteria, showing you who's out there
looking for someone just like you.
Keyword Search - enter one or more keywords to find prospective matches based on the attributes, and information.

qualities that matter to you most
See "Who's Viewed Me"
"See if your fit" helps you easily compare any member's criteria to your own.

Relationship Fit Ratings

The ability to Rate your matches in order to hone and improve results.
The option to choose only to allow other Premier members to search your profile
The option to Search all other Premier Subscribers
Saved Profiles
Hidden Profiles.

Organization / Ease of Use

Piece-of-cake to use.

Yahoo! Personals subscribers simply:

Browse profiles
Create your own profile
Contact potential dates
Yahoo! Personals Premier subscribers simply:
Take the relationship test and Yahoo! Will factor the results into your search results

Browse members, including other Premier members

Create your own profile
Contact potential dates.

Member Interactivity

Icebreakers - send and receive them
Private web-based email accounts
Instant Messenger.

Refund Policy

No refund policy on Yahoo! Personals can be found, which leads this reviewer to believe that none exists - or rather, no refunds permitted.

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