Interracial dating as well as dating within one community has become easier thanks to many online dating sites. With so many sites to choose from, how do you decide which site to join? Is InterracialCupid.com a great dating platform as many claim it to be? Read our review of InterracialCupid.com to know the truth.
Costs
The site, as said above, offers two types of membership—free and paid. Free members enjoy only limited access, perhaps not enough to find a mate on the site. To enjoy the full benefit of online dating, you might need the paid membership.
| Membership | ||
| 1 month | Gold$29.98 | Platinum$39.99 |
| 3 month | Gold$59.99 | Platinum$79.98 |
| 12 month | Gold$119.98 | Platinum$149.99 |
The Sign-up Process
Signing up to InterracialCupid.com is easy, simple, and quick. It doesn’t take more than a few minutes to sign-up and create your profile and all you need to do is follow the screen prompts one after another.
To sign-up, click the Search Now button on the homepage. Next, you would be asked to select your gender as well as whether whom you are looking for, a man or woman. Other details you would need to provide are your location, user name, date of birth, and email address (Interracial Cupid does not share your email address with others).
After filling the information required for signing-up, next you would be prompted to complete your profile. You would be asked to upload your photo, which is highly recommended as people with a photo get more invites than others on dating sites, and provide a brief description of yourself. You would also be asked to subscribe and showed the added benefits enjoyed by paid members. However, a subscription is not compulsory. You can join as a free member, but then your access would be limited to just a few basic features.
Ease of Use
The interface of InterracialCupid.com is basic. However, that’s not a bad thing at all. Locating and accessing a feature becomes easier.
One big put off is the advertisements, which appear on the right-hand side of the screen and towards the bottom. So all the tabs of use to users actually take up only a portion of the whole screen and a big part is reserved for displaying adverts. This practice, in turn, affects users’ experience and is also irritating.
Another no less negative feature is the reminder to upgrade your membership, which flashes at the top. While it’s good that the site is offering a special price, flashing it inside the user’s profile page is extremely annoying.
Almost all good interracial or mixed people dating sites refrain from displaying adverts or a reminder to subscribe. The only thing in defense of this site that can be said is that its subscription fee is lower than most, and hence the attempt to earn money through displaying adverts and the constant reminder to upgrade your membership. Nevertheless, the site would have been so much better without these two annoying features.
Features
Thanks to an easy layout, locating and accessing features is a cinch. There are different combinations that you can use to search a mate. You can search members by their age, location, ethnicity, etc.
Free members can view the profile other members, mark them as favorite, and like another member. However, that’s pretty much all they can do. To access other features, you need to be a paid member.
Paid members can send messages to other members and view members who have liked or favorited their photos. However, many advanced features available in most top interracial dating sites are missing, like first date ideas, one-to-one web cam chat, and dating advice on different aspects of interracial dating.
Some key features of this site are:
·Search members who are online
This feature allows you to locate and speak with members who are online at the moment.
·See members who have favorited you
Just like as you can favorite other members, others can favorite you. With this feature, you can see such members.·My flirts
See members who have flirted with you with this feature.Privacy
InterracialCupid.com does not run a background check on other members. Its privacy policy is unambiguous and can be read by clicking the Privacy tab at the bottom of the site.
Customer Service
The site disappoints on this aspect, mainly because there is no direct link to access the customer service team. You need to first click the Help section, where towards the bottom of the screen you will find a link to contact the customer team. Also there’s no number listed there which you can dial to speak to a customer service agent. You can forward your query or concern only through a text message.
Verdict
This is a good dating site, but it is certainly not among the top dating sites. It doesn’t offer some advanced features you can find in almost every premier dating site and does two things that are a big put off—display adverts and a reminder to upgrade your membership. One good thing about it, though, is its subscription fee is less than some other sites.
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