BlackPeopleMeet

I was on blackpeople meet in 2013. Met men from all over the country. I was disappointed at first. Got off. I tried it one more time and then I met this person who turned out to be very crazy! I rushed to get off the site. I get a message from someone. I paused and saw he lived near me in Texas. Very attractive, he's atrracted to me. We talked for months. I found out he had the same diapointments I had and was rushing to get off as well. We had so much in common. We finally met it was August 2013. We became unseperable! We know that it was meant for us to meet. He is the most loving man I have ever met. You know that you know it is love! Well we are in our 2nd year together. Engaged and love each other dearly.
What I am saying to any of you who gets on this site. If you are truly looking or hoping to meet your soul mate. You will have to really search yourself, be patient, you will know when it's time to get off the site. Listen to what is being said to you. Use good sense if you have good sense you can easily discern if someone is deceiving you. I wish you all luck.
By the grace of God, we found each other at this time of our lives. Who would have thought that I would be saying thank you blackpeoplemeet. I Finally can say after all these years I feel loved and I can let the love that I have always wanted to express in my hear to someone who excepts me as I am unconditionally. Where there is God, there is Love.
I love you Michael.

I've been a member of this site for over a month (I said I'd give it 2 months) and am amazed at how many of the men can't spell or string a few words together for a grammatically correct sentence. Many do not even bother to fill out their profiles and have blurry weird or dark photos or selfies in bathrooms or their car. There are lots of old men who I think are lying about their ages. I am an educated, professional woman and am looking for an intelligent man with good values who really wants something special. While I had a lot of men contact me, most sent flirts and photo likes that said NOTHING! Many of the profiles on the site seemed fake and used the exact same language, usually with bad grammar. So many of them love walks on the beach even when they don't live near a beach, want new adventures around every corner or seem to play in some middle-age flag football league! LOL!

Most of the men I actually chatted with had NOTHING to say beyond stuff like "I like your picture" "hey beautiful" "how was your day" "watcha doin?" etc. Others claimed their membership was ending in a day and they tried to move the conversation offline right away. When I would ask them to tell me more about themselves first, they wouldn't respond. But then they popped up on the site again not long after they claimed the membership was ending.

A few men I corresponded with briefly via chat and messaging seemed to give off negative or other weird vibes, or just had NOTHING to say, and I wasn't comfortable progressing to a phone conversation with any one at all. I don't know what kind of choices the men have, but ladies, my recommendation is to use your hard earned money to join a gym, attend professional networking groups/conferences, take up a hobby, etc. to try and meet potential dates face to face. I know there are good guys out there, but BPM is just not where the quality black men are at.

My first experience wasn't good and vowed never to come back and should have listened to myself. After much convincing from my friends I came back. I thought it was just me and decided to try again but I see from other reviews that it wasn't! This site is crazy as hell and I could go on & on but here are my thoughts. First time, met a guy that wanted me to sell pork skins out of my salon (wtf)! The rest were total turn offs. This time around I really tried to give it a chance but I met a guy who told me he only wanted sex after his profile said he wanted serious relationship. One guy said he was from Tennessee but he was from another state. Same people everyday. Was stalked by one guy. The men constantly want you to send pics... for what? (What's up with that anyway?) Always wanting to text, no real conversation and don't want to date or really have serious connections or relationships. They may talk text for a while like a week or two but they go ghost quick. I'm not the one for disappearing acts! You become the chaser. Guys don't know how to date or want to... its more a hook up thing. (No matter the age!) Profiles are vague. They are not truthful. The site sends robo text and flirts. Your profile stays up and they deny you access after you cancel regardless if you have more time. For someone that really wanted to connect with someone and I had two dates that turned out not to be connections at all! I was very disappointed and found it to be a waste of time. I'm sure men have issues too but this is why traditional dating is the way I will go and will wait on God to send him my way. Good luck to those who did find love and for those still seeking. I feel overall that this site is the worst of all sites ( but I'm done with them all cause they are generally the same). This site is a fluke and a horrible scam!

! I needed to share this with you

In December 2012 I did something that I couldnt believe. I signed up on black people. Com it was the best thing that I could of ever done for myself that $18.00 trail fee sign up was one of the best investments that could of ever taken place in my life. I met this wonderful man name Gregory v Johnson he was very open, to the point with what he was looking for in this life. He made me smile every day that we talked on the phone. I made him wait a week to see me and that first date was like stars with a back ground of water falls (wow). Never in my life thru it all, have I ever felt this way for any man. On that day I was open to miracles. My meaning of miracles had just took place Amen and that meaning was, an event by supernatural being (God) again lord Thank You for sending me someone that completes me. We left voicemails on black people. Com for them to call us so that we can tell our store of finding our true love, but with no return phone calls, we wanted to be in the contest and drawing that they offered. We are looking to get married on 07/14/2015 hoping all goes well.
Gregory v Johnson ask me to be his wife on 12/25/2013 and I said yes with tears
It has been very hard for us, Because I had a disease called (flicalties hair disease) it was on my face for the world to see and Gregory still was there for me. We are still paying for my treatments my face will be clearing up soon Amen. If there are any wedding programs that we can enter to help the cost with our wedding that would be wonderful or can we just be put on your wedding site showing the world that we found our true love on your website that would be great. My meaning of miracles is that they can come true.
Gregory v Johnson & LaTonya D Thornton would like to say thanks for your website and believing in love like we do! But please take out time to return peoples phone calls having great customer service is the key to success in business.
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Thank you for taken out time to read our story we have been together since our first date.

LaTonya D Thornton

I decided to try blackpeolemeet.com because other sites that I've used have predominately white members, and most of the white men on those sites don't seem particularly interested in dating someone who is non-white, so needless to say I wasn't having much luck. I thought blackpeoplemeet.com would give me more options, and opportunities to me someone who I actually connected with. Well needless to say that did not happen.

They definitely inflate your messages to make it seem like you have more activity than you actually do. They send you two messages if someone "flirts" with you; one is the actual flirt, the other is a notification that you received a flirt.

Also, there were not enough members in my area that met my requirements... age, no kids, etc. And the site would always suggest people who were in an entirely different state than myself, which was annoying.

Lastly, the billing practices at blackpeoplemeet.com are abhorrent! They automatically renew your account for another term without notifying you. They don't even send a message letting you know that a charge is pending to your account. I didn't realize that I had been charged until I viewed my monthly bank statements. And to top it off when you send them a complaint their automatic response is that they do not offer refunds. Really?

I responded to the auto-reply message, explaining that it did not resolve my issue. To their credit, after I replied to the auto-reply message I did receive an email response from an actual person in less than 48 hours. She gave me a customer service number to call, to formally request the refund. That's done, and now I'm just waiting for them to "approve" it. So hopefully that goes through without any further incident.

The customer service number is *******920. They are available Monday - Friday (8:00am - 5:00pm) Central Time. I hope this helps anyone who is having a similar billing issue with them!

I've been a member of BlackPeopleMeet.com for 2 months. My experience has been somewhat unpleasant, but I can't necessarily blame the site. Because they have no control over the member's personality flaws, nor do they screen the members. I've talked to a few guys on the telephone. But they seem to all have unnecessary baggage etc. And I just have to add, all of these men were college educated with professional jobs. So the caliber of men I talked to were pretty decent as far as credentials, education, and aesthetics. But they were lacking in personality and I didn't feel a connection. I only linked up with one guy in person. We went out on a few dates, but I kept feeling there was something no quiet right about him. Well by the 3rd date he hysterically cussed me out because I refused to go to his condo. After he yelled at me in a condescending tone, I "politely" told his a$$ where to go then ended the conversation. It was obvious he was only looking for sex, even though he claimed he was looking for a serious relationship. But I have no regrets because I see all of my interactions as a learning experience.

The site is easy to use, but you have to be careful to not select the AUTOMATIC RENEWAL. I accidentally did, and was charged almost $70. I sent an email to customer service, and within about 8 days or so the money was credited back into my account. Another pet peeve of mine are those corny Flirts! Lol. They need to get rid of those stupid "Flirts, because their annoying. I just gives lazy people a way to contact you with sending a personalized message. Also there's a lot of fake profiles that the company creates to make it seem as though they have more members than they actually do. So don't get fooled. If a guy constantly "likes" all of your pictures, and continuously sends you flirts, chances are it's a fake profile. If a man is truly interested in getting to know you he will send you a personalized message. I do believe there are a few quality men on Black People Meet that are sincerely looking for a significant other. However, you have to decipher through a lot of trash in order to find that diamond in the rough.