Global Personals - www.globalpersonals.co.uk

People beware don't sign up with global personals it's a scheme unless you want your money to go walk about

Absolutely rubbish site with enough so called "free" features that to make any use of you need to pay a subscription. It says that you can send members messages for free, which you can, however this is totally useless as they aren't able to read your message unless they have upgraded and the same goes for you reading a message. Also, something quite suspicious I've noticed is within the first 2 days of joining there were what appeared to be quite a few women winking, wanting to meet me and sending messages. What's wrong with this you ask? Well every single one of these profiles had no picture and they were all at least 10 years younger than me. I am pretty certain these are fake profiles and a ploy to play on men's ego. In other words, attention and flattery to get you to upgrade. I didn't fall for this, but can see why someone would very easily.

I lost my husband and couldn't find adequate support anywhere, so I eventually turned to "Local Widowed" dating site. I firstly was stunned how many non-widowed users there, but chatting to users gave me support and used the free time that I appeared to have plenty. I only paid for one month just under £30. I am sure I have ticked a box saying no automatic re-subscription, which has disappeared from their terms and conditions very soon after. Every time I was online a member of the company was available for a chat if you have problem with the payment or want a new feature (which means more payments). I did receive lots of flirty messages, I didn't know they were using fake profiles and messaging genuine users!!! Still after a month I tried to stop subscription, which needed to be done by a Skype call!!!! But as it was weekend nobody was available! On Sunday they taken another £30 from my bank account! at the same time members of stuff were still available for a chat but only if you need to buy an extra feature, not for ending my subscription! I found it appalling!! On Monday I contacted Paypal, explained all situation and they had refunded me my second payment straight away! I now can see that there is no Paypal option to pay for your subscription any more! I now know there are tens of the sites that belong to Global Personals, to name the few: Over40 Dating, Mature Dating, Evening Standard dating, etc, they all look the same and offer free subscription. Please save your money and don't be fooled by fake messages from non-existing members!!!!

This company aggregates dating web sites and you will get served up to all and sundry. It is not possible to know whether people are truly members or just browsers until you look at whether they have filled in their forms. And then many of them have been inactive or have not paid any subscription so are not really members available to date.

The selection criteria on the mobile site are not remembered so every time you have to go back you have to enter the data again ... extremely frustrating. And then this week none of the profiles in the selection were available as there was a problem!!!

The encounters section could be good but why don't they filter this with your basis requirements - e.g. smoker/non smoker, short/tall, married or not.

I paid for a 3 month subscription. My money was taken from my account. then I couldn't log in any more. I emailed them. no reply. after 2 days a reply: ''we feel you are not genuine and we will not activate the profile''. AFTER they have taken my money. now I am chasing them to get my money back. please stay away from those criminals. in their email to me they even didn't address me with my name.

Global Personals? How many sites have the got? Loads! Be aware when joining that you may be joining another of their websites under a different title. I joined 2 different sites not knowing they were Global Personals. Tried to rip me off both times but fortunately my bank alerted me the second time as they were trying to take more money than i registered for. Please keep away!

I heard the flirtify ad on Kiss radio and thought i'd see what all the fuss was about. I'm so glad I did becuase after creating my profile page i was contacted the next day by my now boyfriend!

Yes you have to pay to talk to other members but its alot cheaper than Match and the other dating sites. I'm not including Tinder in this comparison cause thats full of idiots who just want one thing not people who are looking for a serious relationship. Flirtify cost me £9.99 whereas they all start at about £30 for the same service from what i can see.

It has all the usual functions to search for potential matches, email, uk customer care etc. So at half the price its great value.

The only negative is that it doesn't have an app, but you can access the site from your mobile and it looks ok.

I'd definately recommend Flirtify to anyone else looking for a serious relationship.

They took over £100 from my bank account without permission, I eventually got the money back from barclays, whom I advised to stop the payments. I only wanted a one month trial-they took 4 months from my bank account-Then when I complained to global- the insults and telephone calls started- I was called from "global computing" they told me my computer was not working correctly and I needed to log into "global computing" and they would fix my computer. I spoke with my son and he advised these people would probably download a virus to destroy my computer. I called them back, the person I spoke with was a foreigner, an arab I think, and sure, as my son said they wanted me to log on to their site and download "a fix". I put down the phone at that point. Days later my phone was bombarded with sex requests-these requests have continued to the present day- Iam sure vodaphone could trace all this back to global personals-as I still have the phone and the calls keep coming-HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL PERSONALS_OR VIVASTREET_they are one and the same.

I telephoned to cancel my membership 72 hours before my rebilling date as asked.The operator stated that my billing account had been cancelled. Then she offered 2 weeks free of charge,I accepted this but did question why i had to telephone before the end of the 2 weeks to confirm cancellation. Was told this is what has to be done before the end of the 2 weeks .

I was 2 days late in my telephone call and Global Personals took a months payment from my bank account that they said they had cancelled.

When i telephoned to complain i was just quoted the terms of cancellation. No refund. Global Personals have quite a few dating sites. Be careful look into reviews for all sites.Giving your bank details to any online site is very very difficult to control, Terms and conditions are lengthy and confusing.

I was joined onto one of this companies websites, by my friend, as a prank. Within hours of finding out I asked for my money back.....now 30 days later still no money despite their terms and conditions stating otherwise.

This organisation pretends to offer 'high-end' dating websites, but is just a front for scamming money and it doesn't abide by its own termination terms or by the distance selling regulations.

I will be contacting the Police and Trading standards concerning this organisation based in Windsor.