However, now I have used it for a while I cannot recommend it. Biggest complaint is that there is no way to see when someone was last online. Most other dating sites have this feature. I believe this is because there are a lot of defunct profiles out there that OurTime uses to pad their user numbers, so they do not want you to have this info. This is confirmed by the low number of responses I have gotten from OurTime, much lower than any other dating website. There is also no way to bookmark a profile so you can come back to it, and the site is generally clunky to use and not well designed. I have not been able to log in. No one can't get things straight. Cannot get any messages or anything. I did get in once to see my account and stop the renewal, I had another account that showed payment and the free account. I am so annoyed that no one can fix. I consider that just plain wrong. And you will receive an initial screen requesting an upload before continuing. EVERYTIME I logged on I uploaded a very nice semi silhouette of myself. It was rejected as not a clear picture. As a single female I'm cautious... Used the same pic on another dating website with no problem. I would steer clear of this site. Shop but don't invest. I also suspect fake profiles are on there. I've tried and still subscribe to two of the popular dating sites and I tried OurTime simply because I wanted to increase my exposure to single women. Furthermore, this site allows people to send more than one or two communications and that means one screwy person can fill your inbox and waste your time. There doesn't seem to be a way to filter out the inappropriate people and that can get quite annoying, especially for non-paying members who want to 'test-the-waters' before subscribing. From their vantage point it looks as if many people are interested in communicating when in fact it's only a few... What makes things even worse... And I report this from my masculine personal perspective: The women on this site are the least attractive lot I've seen on any dating site. These people are UNATTRACTIVE in almost all regards. I'd recommend the other popular sites like Plenty of Fish which also has its flaws or better, Match. I've also tried eHarmony but, I think leaving romance to a stupid computer algorithm is NOT a good idea, no matter how they package their success stories. I'm not sure how to wind this down except to say that if you do decide to give this OurTime. Just so you don't feel like a dope when you realize your mistake. For more information about reviews on ConsumerAffairs. I signed up for a month and was immediately taken to an upsell page. Foolishly, I admit, I fell for it, thinking that it would still be deducted monthly and that I'd be able to cancel if I felt the need. Wrong on both counts, which would have been fine if it had not been for the disturbing experience I had with the site. Widowed 10 months ago and now 63, I was feeling lonely - knowing no single men my age. I guess when you're happily married, you only hang out with other married couples. At least, that's what we did. My son suggested I try the site. I was skittish about online dating, but I gave it a try. In less than 24 hours, I was contacted by over a dozen men, most of whom may have been nice, legitimate seekers I suppose. But 3 of them messaged me 'for a friend' or 'for a cousin' they had been showing the site to when my picture came up. Supposedly, I was the only woman who caught the eye of this phony friend or cousin. And then they said, they'd found their own gal, so we're going to delete their account, so would I 'Please give love a chance' and email the friend or cousin at his own email address, as he lived nearby my location. Ok, I fell for it the first time. But when I got the exact same email from the other 2 usernames on THE SAME DAY, that was just too suspicious. That's when I felt unsafe - as I'd already sent an email to the first guy's 'friend'. I was unable to delete it, so I contacted them again. No help, just an email from some other. At any rate, PLEASE take care when using OurTime. My experience wasn't good, and I fear what may become of it. I wish I could give them a minus 5 star rating, but the system won't let me. I've contacted them 5 times with no resolution. Having been in Christian ministry for 40 years, I am devastated. Who knows what else will come from this stupid mistake? Messages going out that I did not send and my profile completely changed. OurTime did NOT care! At least until I posted my ended subscription and non-membership. They made sure to help me understand I could not do this. Had no responses or all the flirts look generated. When you cancel it's amazing how your account gets 12 flirts and 4 emails. As soon as you pay. There are nothing but false emails. Go old school and have the courage to ask someone on a date in your area. A lot more less discouraging. I got men from all over the US and Canada while I requested a 50 mile radius of Atlanta. My age group was 55-70 and I kept getting men from 70-95 yo. The hacker had conversations with the men and was able to get their personal information like name, address, phone number and even street address. They could have cared less! CANCELLED before renewal date but they had no record so no refund. Guess they really need my 30 dollars. MY ACCOUNT AND PROFILE WAS HACKED!!! Again, no reply from OURTIME. Also automatically hooks you up with their other websites that sends you profiles but when you click you have to pay AGAIN. DO NOT GET ON THIS WEBSITE OR SENIORPEOPLEMEET. You got my money so what do you care? I paid for the 6 month special which I regretted within 1 week on the site. Are you telling me there are no new members within a 50 mile radius of my location? When I perform the search, it doesn't keep my original search criteria! If this is a 50+ dating website, why does the criteria start at age 18? I've blocked some profiles, however, somehow, they show back up a week later! My profile was HACKED TWICE within ONE week. My Profile picture was changed and sent out to hundreds of men across the US and BC. Then the second time the HACKER put her picture on my profile ALONG with my picture and added her email address for men to contact her. When I called OurTime for a refund they only offered to extend my membership a couple of days. This site is HORRIBLE. I had been warned what to watch for, but I did find it easy to fall into their initial trap. Things to watch out for are texting only, the texted grammar is not always correct, they say they are going away to a foreign country and then need money, they are widowed for 5 - 6 years, may have 2 children, are engineers, have several degrees, etc. I did not send anyone money or give out any information, except one of them got my email address. I checked some phone numbers that I was given by the dating prospects to contact them. The phones all lead to landlines that they text from. I went on several phone line websites and posted warnings about some of the numbers as Potential Scam. I don't think OurTime does anything to check their customers' legitimacy, I canceled my membership after two week. The scammers are rampant and even though I cannot get a refund I will cancel my membership. I recently started getting emails from persons on OurTime. How would they ever get my email. I never give it out. I have had only had 3 legitimate interchanges and although there was not a match it was such a relief that there is someone who isn't out for something. It is so obvious that the scams are happening. BOTH parties need to be paid wasn't always this way ala Match. One day he was receiving views from all over the US. When contacting People Media, the first rep we spoke to argued with us that if some suspicious happened they would have contacted us. We were never contacted. We wanted a refund and to cancel the acct but she would not let us. After giving us an temp password... After an hour of being on the phone a different rep was able to get us into acct. Come to find out birthday was changed, profile changes and pictures of another man was on my dad's profile. After inputting the correct information, the acct was changed again and at the moment cannot get into the acct. We have to wait to call until our timezone matches theirs. People Media oversees about 22 websites according to their rep. There is no supervisor you are able to contact. Please be aware and get your information off their sites ASAP. Saw I already had correspondence, so I clicked on it. I contacted them 3 minutes after all this and told them to please refund me. They said no because I opened the correspondence. Sadly I stayed, to no avail. So that they would not resell my space and earn more money. My experience was negative all the way, and awful. Wasting my time and theirs. They kept on changing parts of my profile. Not worth the money. There is no way to block users that are miles and miles away from you from seeing your profile and contacting you. I can't log in at all right now and I can't even google how to contact them. I don't know if it is their site or a hacker doing that. They lure you in by telling you that you can see who is on there but you cannot. So they post your pic and personal info when you aren't a member. Then they email you telling you how many people are messaging you. Things that you think that would be included as a service to the customer show up as pop ups asking you to purchase as extras. Example: confirmation that the person you are sending an e-mail actually gets it. It seems like at every turn, a pop up appears asking for some extra money for something. I live in Arizona and wanted my search for a friendship person to be local. I don't want to have to drive across the USA to pick someone up for a dinner date. No chance of that happening. When I got their searches these people were from all over the USA. The daily matches that they send are the same people over and over again. One would think that if you looked at a match and didn't like it that it would not keep showing up. Deleting such unwanted matches is impossible. Selections on their website to isolate certain types of individuals that one is looking for is very limited. It seems like their selection process is non existent. Same old, Same old. Example: I would like to have the option of selecting an age group of people that I would like. Their search for matches is based on your birthday. I am a healthy individual and I have found that a lot of people my age are unfortunately bothered with severe age related illnesses and cannot do a lot of the things that I enjoy doing, yet I keep getting those individuals on my match. I could go on and on regarding their shortcomings, so do yourself a favor and go elsewhere. Do yourself a favor and save your money and your time by avoiding this site. Having a one star rating is being very generous. This dating site is no better than pof. Obviously, they don't screen their clients. I was also sent messages from scammers. To top it off, my account was hacked. I called customer service only to be told since I used their dating site, I can't receive a partial refund. She reinstated my original profile and pictures. Currently the pictures are of me, but the profile has changed back to what the hacker wrote. Please don't waste your money on Ourtime. It isn't worth it! As Bonnie has stated on the ConsumerAffairs website, I have also received messages from women, old men with no shirt no teeth, men who look inebriated or high on drugs? I received the almost same exact message from 2 men, with only a change in which they were born. The one I chose to respond to communicated that we should exchange email to communicate off the site. The next thing I knew he was planning our life together, the same thing Bonnie alluded to in her post. At one point I discussed speaking with him on the phone to set-up a time to meet in person. I wanted to know he was real. He originally provided his number and I responded likewise. Chris, if that his real name? After an email of a really bad day, I decided to call the number he provided. His voice sounded very young for a 71 year old. He then proceeded to tell me he was at work even though it was only 6am his time. He originally stated he worked 8:30a-5-5:30p. Caught in a lie? At this point my friends and I went to Google, obits, public records and guess what? No info on Chris or his wife who died in a car crash 6 years ago. And so I sent an email bidding Chris adieu. Obviously, he had no idea what this meant. He then proceeded to email with a plea for money. This site is a scammer paradise. Save your money, your time, and your mind as there is NOTHING REAL on this site. Hopefully, ConsumerAffairs can address the issues quite a few of us have now notified them of. Later a lot of messages being sent were accidental including 12 I sent without knowing it. Well you get the idea, you click the wrong place and you've sent a message or flirt without your knowledge. There are good people on OurTime, but the site itself is a joke and ripoff in my opinion. One was about 150 lbs heavier than his pic the next was planning my life before I met him in person. I can only describe this site as looking at a prison line up!!! I would guess I'm lucky because 80% of contacts have been real. But that might be my achilles heel. My problem has been more with the quality of men I have met and dated men with moderate to severe mental health issues. I even had to beg OurTime to take steps to consider removing one after proof. Some of these men could actually be a danger. What I'm looking for is to spread the word about some of these very challenged men so women don't waste their time and possibly heart on some of these guys. My most recent nut no showed twice and then called me a stalker. We didn't speak until 3 weeks later when all of a sudden he had to meet me. He began his initial introduction on OurTime with he just wanted to meet a woman his age that still wanted to be intimate. Yet twice he wanted to break off talking because he'd never please me due to ED. Next day break up. Yep you guessed it... I invested a lot of time and patience into this man. I think there should be a place to let someone else know his name at least first and where he lives. The guy is a fearful nut. It's just been guy after guy like this. And those who say the same picture floats through continuously are correct. Every time I attempted to sign in, it stated something was wrong. I could not sign on. I called customer service immediately, could not get a refund. But I did cancel any further charges, I hope. WORST SITE TO DATE, PUN INTENDED! OurTime is the largest dating site created specifically for the baby boomer market. This helps make your profile more visible to prospective matches. Harvard Business School graduate, Mark Brooks, has been an expert in the Internet dating business since 1998. 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