Secret Benefits has a rating of 2.9 stars from 445 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Secret Benefits most frequently mention fake profiles, phone number and real girls. Secret Benefits ranks 656th among Dating sites.
It's been a whole week waiting for my account to be verified it's still locked I've sent email after email after video verification and nothing
I received 2 replies and met with one with whom I could not come to terms. She was extremely demanding
Like many other in this review forum my experience was: join, decide to pay some $$ for credits, received almost daily messages from women, then go to respond to the ones I actually find attractive and nothing but silence. I had an exchange with one 24yo beauty - who wrote me first - then after responding with "Hi, you are gorgeous! I'd love to be your sugar daddy - how can I spoil you? " etc. then after weeks of nothing, the girl not online for 3+ weeks, and similar experience with other top-tier attractive women, I had had it with SB. I decided that indeed something fishy is gong on on that site. I believe SB pays for model type 18-25yo women to create these fake profiles. I wrote to her asking to meet one more time just to prove that she's actually on the site looking for someone/sugar daddy as I had decided that the entire site was a scam. She THEN responds with "I'm real - see my verification video?" She did have a verification video - but what does that prove? The funny thing is the video didn't even really match the photos. Anyway - I've decided this:
Either the SB site pays some # of truly beautiful young women to join/create the videos but none of them are there to meet you - or - the site does carry out some of this pernicious behavior and I was just unlucky enough to not contact the beautiful "real" ones. Either way - at least for the model-type women the site is a scam. I finally told SB my opinion and that I wanted a refund for my remaining credits for me to leave, At first SB would not refund. Then I took a couple of photos from one of the model types and plugged them into images.google.com. And voila! I had evidence of a totally fake profile. Remember - images.google.com is your friend. I then wrote SB claiming the site is a scam - here's some proof! Within hours they are refunding my credits and I'm off the site.
This site is pretty simple to use, if only it had serious prospects that are actually wanting to connect. The site spams your inbox with what appears to be bots or AI messages from women that are interested. "Disclaimer: I am not the greatest PUA to ever live and I am also no Don Juan, but I am descent at starting a conversation and building rapport with women."
Now back to the site, You have to pay for conversations and pay for private photos through a credit system that you buy which is not cheap. You then receive more unsolicited conversations that you must pay for to unlock. Usually within two to three exchanges, you realize that this is not a human interaction and not a serious interaction. The conversation starts out generically and when you ask or require in depth responses or responses that require more than a yes or no answer, end of the Ruze.
Don't be fooled by the profiles, because even if the profiles tell you what it wants and you are providing exactly that, you find that conversation and setting in person meet ups are flaky. This is where some other reviews have disclosed that it appears when you are lucky enough to get into a real interaction with a woman, she may be on the payroll for the site. Which means, she's only there to waste your time.
I really wanted this site to be what it claimed to be, but after a couple of months, I cannot in good conscious give it a good review. I'm not sure how things work for women who sign up, but men be ware. My advice is focus on your hobbies and meet someone live while doing what you love instead of wasting time and money here.
Hope this helps someone and good luck!
Sorry ladies but I just scooped up the best catch off here and he is rockin my world! My expectations have been fulfilled and the some. Bye🥰
Not enough women in my area. I don't live in a big town, but I was expecting more women to choose from.
I don't live in a big town, but I was expecting more women to choose from. Not enough women in my area.
I'm sorry to hear that but please check in again soon as we have thousands of new members signing up every day. Just don't forget to update your review when things improve ;)
Scam site... Get messages so you have to use credits, then never get replies back. I think the fake profiles get credits for there messages
I’m sorry you haven’t enjoyed your experience on the site. We have tried to reach out to your to help but have not received any response. Your claims are incorrect, I’m sorry you haven’t received more responses but as with any dating site it can sometimes take awhile to find someone you match well with. It’s helpful to have a complete profile that let’s others know your likes, dislikes and what you are looking for. You can also greatly improve the responses you get by sending a good first message that entices them into responding. Please keep in mind that sometimes people can take a few days to reply to their messages and some might join and decide not to stick around for long.
I've been trying new sites and SB has turned out to be a great surprise. I've been on several sites and best results has been this one by far.
I've been enjoying SecretBenefits, I'm currently chatting with 3 girls who are out of my league and hope to meet up with them on my next trip.
The team contacted me and resolved the credit buy issue and I was also compensated. Kudos to the team.
Joined Secret Benefits based on other reviews.
I confirm it is a good one unless you are after random hookup or marriage material.
I just closed my account on secretbenefits. After 6 months on the site and staying on point, I finally met an amazing woman. Many thanks!
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Found my baby boo bear on SB. He tske such good care of his princess. All I could hope for and more with him!
Fantastic option for those looking to arrange an agreeable relationship without the drama or expectations of something more taraditional.
I HAD WASTED SO MUCH TIME AND MONEY ON OTHER DATING SITES. SECRET BENEFITS HAS ATTRACTED SERIOUS SINGLES AND IT'S A FABULOUS WEBSITE.
I'll admit it can be a bit of a crap shoot, but c'mon guys, so are the regular escort sites. The difference is that if you happen to luck out, which I did (beginner's luck possibly), you can score really big. I'm going to shill for the site, even though they aren't paying me, which they should, in all fairness, for what I'm going to say, because even they have not yet thought to pitch their service in quite that way. So here goes:
1. I really don't think they're lying or bull$#*!ting - I got laid with benefits, man, by a cute, basically reserved, college student
2. The service is a cross between regular impersonal escort sites and those highly frustrating dating sites where you end up begging and pleading for a little bit of a**, and going round-and-round with this
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3. To the guys who don't get callbacks after spending credits (I'm one of them too), that's where the "crap shoot" aspect of the service comes in - making it similar to regular dating sites with one big difference, your odds of scoring big w/o strings attached are almost infinitely better
4. Don't blame SB if you don't get callbacks - it's like a lottery - you keep buying lottery tickets, don't you, even though you keep getting stiffed. As they say in that business, YOU NEVER KNOW.
5. For guys whose basic interest is getting laid in a meaningful way by desirable females, It might help to think of the service as a SEXUAL LOTTERY, where "you pays you money and you takes you chances/choices". Boo hoo to those crybabies expecting more - do you go crying to the lottery companies calling them scammers, even though they regularly "scam" you out of gadzillions?
Hi Dave, thanks for the great review, your check's in the mail ;) Seriously though, we are really glad you have enjoyed the site and stay tuned as we have plans in place that should make it like even less of a lottery.
Yes Secrets Benefits did try to contact me but as I only check that email account occasionally I read and replied to about a month later which they did not respond. But really they would have to change their business plan to resolve my issues.
After an arrangement with a lady that I met on Seeking ended suddenly I decided to give Secret Benefits another go so I purchased 200 credits (if you read my previous article that's effectively 20 actions) for $US89. I intially contacted 2 ladies who didn't respond so a day later I purchased a months membership with Seeking $US89. I used the same photo's and profile on both sites. On SB I received just over 50 messages replying to 16 of them. Which means I have 40 credits left or 4 actions) as I have not opened any hidden photo's. Six ladies responded but I only got into one conversation. I actually don't know if the others even read my messages because SB now charge you 10 credits (1 action) to allow you to see if the person you have opened a conversation with has read you messages. Along with the fact that any messages that are older than 28 days old are removed for "security purposes" I now have to reduce SB to 2 star.
I realise that a reader may be thinking its my approach. But.
After 10 days of my $US89 on month renewed membership on Seeking. Exact same Profile, Exact same initial message and language. I initiated 60 conversations to ladies whose tags matched what I was looking for. I probably got into conversations with 20 of them. Some didn't read my message, which is ok (thats their choice) but at least I knew. And I received access to 20 hidden photo's at no extra cost.
Yes some promising discussions stalled and there were ladies wanting to rip me off but I have started an arrangement with a lady who is "way out of my league" and will be seeing seeing her for the third time in a few days. The real telling thing is that I have told since told 3 interested "way out of my league" ladies that I am taken. I am still receiving (another 3) very positive enquiries 8 days after I stopped initiating conversations.
Yes I can see the issues that others raise about being kicked off the site but for the life of me I can't understand why SB is rated in the mid 4's while Seeking is in the mid 2's.
I was an active member of Secret Benefits for 20 months. I am 61 and was pursuing mainly ladies under 30. My aim was to always seek a lady for an ongoing arrangement (both company and intimacy). Over the 20 month period I met 26 ladies an average of 2 and a half times (Estimate) - Mostly in the 18-27 age group but there were a couple in their 30's and one 43 year old. I'm told that the compensation I offer was probably the median maybe a touch lower.
So I was successful but its a lot of work.
Yes joining is free but you can't actually chat to anybody unless buy credits. I tended to buy 500 credits which cost $169 USD or about $250 Australian dollars. Everything you need to do (start a conversation or view somebodies secret photo's) cost 10 credits so every action cost $5.00. When you get down to 10 or 20 credits the site offers a bonus (twice as many) if you repurchase in 10min.
I have no doubt that the majority of Ladies were real and secret Benefits did their best to ensure this but whenever a lady viewed my profile they were encouraged to message me (and others) by a prompt. Its free for ladies to message which I totally understand but most of them had no idea that cost me money to initiate a conversation even if I was replying. So a significant number (probably about 80%) of my replies received a no reply. About 30% of them weren't even read.
It doesn't take long to churn through 500 credits - $250 for nothing. Checking through a profile can help but a lot of them are vague. Its a lot of work.
I tried also Ashley Madison - 0 out of 5.
A few ladies suggested I try Seeking.Com. This is not a review on Seeking so all I will say is that I had more conversations in 4 days than than 4 months on Secret Benefits.
A week ago I would have rated this a 4 out of 5 but after seeing the alternative its a 3.
This site scams you. Also if you leave a review and they can determine which SB account you have, they'll delete it.
You will encounter numerous SB accounts simultaneously viewing/admiring/requesting+granting gallery access/messaging you but when you spend credits to send them a nice reply to their short and generic message, you never hear back, even if your reply was only a minute after their message. Then these profiles will some days later again request private gallery access and grant access to their private gallery, while still not replying to your messages (because I write again after their gallery request). One person finally wrote back and said they had never sent the original message to me and had not logged into the site for some weeks (their last login info said they'd been visiting the site regularly).
I kept a second blank profile as a test (didn't add a picture, didn't fill out the stats). I even wrote a line about this profile not being in use and don't bother contacting me. It still got people admiring and messaging me, inc several people who'd also admired/messaged my main/complete profile.
When I complained to the site support, saying I felt scammed, they decided the best way to "fix" the problem was to deactivate my account. On the plus side they also refunded all the money I'd wasted which I really appreciated. I got my account back to finalise some unfinished conversations.
Now if I want to buy credits, I cannot. I had credit card payments disabled by Support and I get told I need to contact Support to pay with Bitcoin. I wrote to Support saying their help section still says we can use credit/debit cards. They responded saying they will update the help section but made no effort to allow me to buy credits with Bitcoin. If I create a new account on the same PC - still Bitcoin. If I change my IP address and create a new account on a different device, guess what? I can buy credits with my credit card.
I also noticed a large reduction in the number of people viewing/admiring/messaging/requesting gallery access.
I suspect some profiles are not legitimate as they seem to have the same headlines and I have never found a SD site before where most sugar ladies seem to only want "a helpful mentor" or "weekly dinner dates".
That said, there are a number of real people you will converse with. Just be thoughtful before deciding to buy credits as you'll waste the marjority of them trying to find a legitimate lady.
You're better off going to seeking.com. More cost effective; 1 flat all inclusive monthly fee rather than a fee for every little thing you want to do including blinking and breathing. You'll spend more money on Secret Benefits in 1 to 2 weeks than you would in a month on Seeking.
Answer: Hi Jane, have you contacted our customer support team via the website? They are available nearly 24x7 and will be able to look into your account and provide you with an answer.
Answer: No it's not too old. Age does not matter... go for it
Answer: Hi Andy, We have thousands of members signing up on a daily basis. If you happen to live in an area without many profiles, the best advice we can offer is to check back frequently as the site is growing all the time.
Hi Shelby, I believe this was sorted out for you? Sorry for the delay in getting your profile verified.