Are there any safe free video dating sites to meet people face-to-face?

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Mia Thornton
Joined: Jan 2023
Messages: 640
#1

I want to be wrong about any safe free video dating sites to meet people face-to-face, so tell me if I am. My problem with video dating sites so far has been the point where it starts charging.

I have tried a few options across free dating apps already and none of them stuck. For most people in this thread, the video dating sites experience lives or dies on the trial that quietly renews and almost nothing else.

The open questions I have on video dating sites:

  • Log in at the hours you would actually go out; video dating sites activity is nothing like flat
  • Ask people replying above what video dating sites is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
  • Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on video dating sites
  • Screenshot anything odd on video dating sites before you report it — a free tier that is not free claims need evidence

If you have tried any safe free video dating sites to meet people face-to-face recently, I would rather hear that than read another review site.

Alex Torres
Joined: Feb 2024
Messages: 1026
#2

@Mia Thornton makes a fair point about video dating sites, but not my read at all: for regulars here, video dating sites was the only thing that produced anything. Honestly, the paywall was less of a problem on video dating sites than the sheer time it ate.

There is no version of video dating sites where the trial that quietly renews sorts itself out without you doing something. I keep two accounts running to compare the pay-to-see-likes trick across free platforms, and video dating sites sits mid-table.

LaurenP
Joined: Dec 2020
Messages: 222
#3

That has not been my experience of video dating sites, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread.

You can work around a free tier that's not free on video dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it. Not saying video dating sites suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

My video dating sites baseline these days is Luvdate, mostly because the trial that quietly renews is measurable there.

Lauren_B
Joined: Mar 2022
Messages: 1028
#4

Agreed, although with video dating sites I would frame a free tier that's not free as a symptom rather than the cause.

The thing people underrate about video dating sites is how much the upgrade nag depends on your own city.

The usual video dating sites alternatives people list are datescout.site, datebound.site.

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AnnaK
Joined: Dec 2022
Messages: 862
#5

Not my read at all: for people replying above, video dating sites was the only thing that produced anything.

I keep two accounts running to compare the trial that quietly renews across free dating apps, and video dating sites sits mid-table.

I keep Datelink open as a control while testing video dating sites — useful for judging surprise billing honestly.

Taylor_V
Joined: Dec 2020
Messages: 809
#6

Same experience on video dating sites: I gave it six weeks before the upgrade nag got tiresome. Honestly, a free tier that is not free was less of a problem on video dating sites than the sheer time it ate. There is no version of video dating sites where surprise billing sorts itself out without you doing something.

Nobody warns you that surprise billing on video dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours. I judge video dating sites by one thing now: whether a free tier that is not free improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. That is my read on video dating sites, and others here clearly disagree.

Justin Case
Joined: Jul 2022
Messages: 799
#7

Taylor_V put the video dating sites case better than I would have, though agreed, although with video dating sites I would frame locked messaging as a symptom rather than the cause.

There is no version of video dating sites where the pay-to-see-likes trick sorts itself out without you doing something. You can work around locked messaging on video dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it.

SophieR
Joined: Feb 2021
Messages: 877
#8

Reading this back, my video dating sites notes say almost the same thing about surprise billing.

Nobody warns you that the upgrade nag on video dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Three things that changed my video dating sites results:

  • Treat your first video dating sites profile as a draft, because surprise billing punishes lazy ones
  • Check what video dating sites does about surprise billing before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Give video dating sites a fortnight of daily use before calling a free tier that is not free a dealbreaker

For completeness on video dating sites, ezhookups.online, souldate.site get mentioned a lot too.

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