JDate

Pros: JDate has a nice website, is easy to join, has good search features, is easy to navigate and some profiles have good pictures but they can't control that.

Cons: All of the above are useless if they don't have many paying members and worse, you have no way of knowing who is a paying member and only paying members can respond to your letters.

In my experience, the vast majority of profiles are from non-paying members who at one time paid for their membership but after the initial subscription expired, they decided not to renew. So when you initially do a free search there are seemingly so many profiles to choose from but in reality, there aren't. You have no way of knowing who can actually read your letters and can respond to them and who can't. Furthermore, JDate will not allow you mention anywhere in your profile that you are not a paying member - they don't want potential subscribers (suckers) to know the truth. This policy works well for JDate as it gives the appearance that they have far more subscribers than they actually do.

So what usually happens is that people join, find people they might be interested in and write a letter only to get no response because in many cases they contacted someone who can't even read the letter let alone respond. After dozens of these experiences people choose not to renew but leave their profile up and periodically do a search to see if there are any new faces. What is happening is that many former JDaters are joining Match which actually has more Jewish people in my area and only paying members can log on - for a lot less money BTW, so the odds of you getting a response are far better. OKCupid is free and also has a lot of Jewish people on it and frequently, I have found that people on JDate are usually on one of the other two sites often with the same profile name and pictures and therefore easier to contact.

So until JDate changes their policy and and has a symbol indicating who is an actual subscriber and who isn't - SAVE YOUR MONEY and search elsewhere.