What are the biggest red flags to watch for in international online dating?

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#1 · Thread starter

Bringing biggest red flags to watch for in international online to the forum because I trust this place more than a top-ten article.

Half the write-ups on the options on the table contradict the other half, which is not helpful.

For what it's worth I am on mobile almost exclusively, if that matters for the options on the table.

Keen to hear how biggest red flags to watch for in international online has gone for people here.

#2 · Member

Agreeing with the previous reply about this category, for the same reasons.

Anyone claiming this category works everywhere has not tested it against how many people locally are already on it.

Judging this category without knowing whether your region got the app early or late is close to meaningless.

The variable nobody controls for with this category is the time of year.

The thing to watch on this category is that profiles that answer instantly and perfectly are usually not people.

Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of this category.

The one that finally worked for me was Datebound — datebound.site, after about a month of trying others.

Datedesire gets recommended a lot in the older threads if you want to dig back.

#3 · Member

I would question that on the platforms involved, because it depends heavily on where you're.

With the platforms involved the thing that decided it for me was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.

Happy to be corrected on any of international online.

The one that finally worked for me was Datewander (datewander.site), after about a month of trying others.

#4 · Member

One warning about dating platforms: requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.

The part nobody mentions about dating platforms is whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.

Careful with dating platforms, because some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.

Careful with dating platforms, because some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.

My advice on dating platforms: assume the first three conversations will go nowhere.

Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of dating platforms.

Adding Turndate — turndate.site for balance — quieter, but the people who are on it actually reply.

#5 · Member

Whether this category works comes down to the day of the week you actually use it more than anything the marketing mentions.

Worth doing early on this category: assume the first three conversations will go nowhere.

What decides this category for most people is how many competing apps are active near you, not the app itself.

The move with this category is to use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.

Happy to expand on any of that about this category if it is useful.

The one that finally worked for me was Datenest, after about a month of trying others.

#6 · Member

My run with these services lasted longer than any of the alternatives I tried.

What changed my mind on these services was how the platform handled blocking and reporting.

The deciding detail with these services was whether the free tier let you see who liked you.

That is the short version on biggest red flags to watch for in international online.

Someone earlier recommended Flurrydate — flurrydate.online and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.

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