Yahoo Personals Reviews

Costs:

• Free 7-day trial!
• There are three paid subscription options:
  • 1 Month: $29.99 ($29.99 per month, billed monthly after free trial expires)
  • 3 Months: $59.97 ($19.99 per month, billed quarterly after free trial expires)
  • 6 Months : $95.94 ($15.99 per month, billed every 6 months after free trial expires)

Features:

• Free 7-day trial!
• Really quick and easy to set up a free profile.
• 5-star safety program:
  • Member-controlled privacy
  • Profile screening
  • Mandatory membership
  • Community Reporting
  • Member Education
• 6-month promise: if you do not find someone special by the end of your six-month subscription, Yahoo! Personals will give you another six months for free. See their site to see if you're eligible.
• Over 10 million registered members.
• Over 13 different sites in a variety of languages
• Use your Yahoo! ID to create your free profile
• Upload up to 10 photos, in multiple file formats.
• Add captions to your pictures.
• Browse full member profiles in detail, and view full sized member photographs as a free member
• Advanced search engine, allowing you to search profiles by keyword. What else would you expect from Yahoo!?
• Search to within a 1 mile radius of your zip or postal code
• Ability to save searches
• Send pre-written ice-breaker messages.
• Send emails to other members using built-in email tool.
• Record and view personalized video and voice greetings - add them to your profile.
• A "View Similar Profiles" feature.
• Instant messaging tool available to send instant messages to other members.
• See when a member had last logged in.
• Sort search results by when members had last logged in
• SmartFit matching system to help you find your best match
• Matches sent to you by email
• Ability to block members from contacting you
• Ability to see who's viewed your profile.
• You can elect to let other members know whether you've viewed their profile or not.
• Online magazine and advice columns with tips on first dates, readers questions and answers, a fun life and times section, crosswords, puzzles and more.
• Ability to make your profile searchable on Yahoo! Personals only (default setting), make it searchable on Yahoo! Personals and partner sites, or not make it searchable at all - in this last case you will have to do all the legwork of finding other members to contact - no one will be able to find your profile by performing a search.
• Yahoo! Personals UK is powered by Match.com UK, our No. 1 rated UK dating site!
• Easily turn your profile on and off, so you can choose whether it's visible to other members.
• Complete privacy protection - no one will know your identity unless you explicitly tell them!
• Excellent technical support.

Joining:

• Joining is very easy and free - the registration form is split into 3 parts:
  • The first part is multiple choice and asks you many questions about your appearance, personality and living conditions
  • The second part is also multiple choice and asks you all about your ideal partner
  • The third parts asks you to complete a paragraph or two about yourself and what you're looking for

Performing a Search:

• An advanced search facility is available, allowing members to search by:
  • gender
  • sexual orientation
  • age range
  • body type
  • personality type
  • location
  • zip code
  • radius to within 1 mile of your location
  • whether the member has pictures posted
  • keyword search, includes any part of profile like appearance, interests and lifestyles.
  • photo caption search
  • who's online now
  • when user was last online
  • all other aspects of someone's profile!

Please note that Yahoo Personals has now been discontinued.