I first tried Datemyage 2 years ago for the same reason everyone else does. I was ready and wanted a relationship. Creating my account was breeze and my well curated profile was up in less than 2 minutes. Whitin 5 minutes, I had at least 35 chat requests and emails. I was more than surprised. It think that's when I first noticed the designation on participants profiles that reads "Featured Member*. If you are at a lost as to what a Featured Member is or does, that's ok, I also had no idea. It turns out, that only goodlucking members get the designation of "Featured Member". If you perhaps believe that my comment is missguide and based on misandry, I invite you to check. The polarity between the Feature Members and the "others" is more than obvious. If you thought there was a chance that the guy with the extra weight but beautiful smile and fantastic attitude was going to how up to be a "Featured Member", think again. All 35 of my chat requests and emails were from "Featured Members. Not a single non Featured. I found that odd. I am a middle of the road looking woman and only the most handsome Featureds reached out? But guess what, you can talk for free to non Featured Members. For Featured Members you have to pay for every single interaction no matter however miniscule you think it is. And by the way the boys pay NOTHING. The entire expense of this quest for love will be yours, even if you miraculously find it with an actual Featured Member.
Within a couple of days the candidate pool had started to dry and one man stood out. He seemed very interested and I was getting excited and unfortunately feeling hopeful. We chatted and texted CONSTANTLY for about a month. Think about this, a month of dollar texts and $30 dollar calls. Several daily. And here I am going to take a second to explain what communicating with a Featured actually costs. On average a token costs anywhere from $0.30 to $0.55. This is what each interaction actually costs. CATEGORY COST PER ITEM
Basic Chat 1 Credit per minute
One-Way Video Chat 4 Credits perminute
Two-Way Video Chat 6 Creditsperminute
Panorama View Video Chat 24 Credits per minute
VR Video Chat 6 Credits per minute
Offline Message sending 1 Credit per item up to 160 symbols
Mobile App Message sending 1 Credit per item up to 160 symbols
Email (Love Note) 10 Credits per item
Sending/Viewing photos or videos 15 Credits per item
Sending/Listening voice messages 10 Credits per item
Sending stickers up to 20 Credits per item
Sending animated smileys 1 Credit per item
Sending Virtual gifts from 1 to ******* Credits per item
Virtual Space 200 credits per item
Items in a Virtual Space from 50 to 1000 Credits per item
Viewing video in profile 10 Credits per item
Let's Mingle 5 Credits per use
Present delivery up to 6500 Credits per item
Cost of present delivery 49 Credits per delivery So, to spend $50 dla on 150 credits buys you 50 texts(160 characters only) and 17 minutes on a two way video call. How many credits do you think you need when you're doing your part so things flourish? And you're the only one paying for calls and texts and "gifts". After about a month I brought up again the fact that I thought it was time to move platforms, I really didn't want to spend like I was and a couple of days earlier he had agreed. He kept making excuses and asking me for more time and I did capitulate for a couple of days while bleeding money I didn't have because in my idiocy and loneliness I had let him convince me that we were on a great path and things were moving forward. When I put my foot down and finally told him I was quitting the site, he didn't even want my number. He had said everything he had to say to make me have hope and lower my defenses. And I ended up loosing a lot of money to Datemyage. But I couldn't blame the app then. It was a one off by a bad man as far as I knew. But again I got lonely and I ended up there. Hoping that I would not run into that twisted person who get pleasure from inflicting pain on others... and I didn't. But the same thing happened, as if orchestrated and rehearsed. This time I decided to ask the Featured their options on the fact that they do not have to pay for the service, I asked all of them if they'd ever actually had met and had a relationship with anyone outside of the platform or why it is that the members classified as Featured can interact with anyone on the site, except oppsit sex Featured? Not a single one answerd me and they all quickly disappeared from the screen one by one. I think I now believe that this is a scam behind the fasad of a legitimate online dating app. I think Datemyage is taking advantage of the deep loneliness, sadness and need for connection the world craves at the moment. And that makes them ugly. I forgot to mention that I have looked and tried to find them but not one of the Featured Members I have looked up had ANY social presence.