Too many fake female profiles/escorts plying trade
Review about Illicit EncountersIt's quite re-assuring to read some of the males having a similar experience on here.
I have to say the first time I joined I did have a couple of meets and successes (in 08) but subsequently upon re-joining it seems that it's now become a commercial exercise to extract one-off member with the extortionate joining fee. I set up two very different profiles (non Gold member) and each was contacted (in the first instance) by exactly the same women, with similar generic names and very similar profile content. It seems they are just enticing you to join one off, it doesn't matter if you don't come back due to the high fee you paid.
This is a shame as there are a few genuine women on there but it does seem quite an effort to find those. Another issue is that because the females don't have to pay it seems that a few just use it an ego massaging exercise rather than seriously for who it is trying to match up (you can tell as they are still there after a few years!). So you have a huge mismatch of guys thinking they will message everything and anything just because of the outlay. In this case I think there should be a nominal fee for women to weed out time wasters ... but I guess it's all about supply and demand then? eh?!
Pros
Not a huge amount of men (probably due to price!)
Cons
Illicit Encounters using fake profiles and messaging to entice men to upgrade membership.
A fair few non-serious women using it as a validation tool (but then which dating site doesn't?!) and a number of escorts looking to hook up a guy who will spend on something like this.