EliteSingles: Serious Dating Reviews

by Meemee987

I wish I had read the reviews before signing up. They should really have a free tier so you can see if it’s worth it - I guess that should have been a red flag. There are several settings that should be allowed to be hard and fast - like distance. 50 miles can be over two hours where I live, I’m not doing that and it’s a waste of time to show me people that live that far away. Basically I’m just getting a lot of people that aren’t a match for me at all, and it doesn’t let you set preferences to narrow it down. Don’t waste your money.

by Fenderman2112

I am writing this to echo what other people have said about EliteSingles. Unfortunately, about 90% of the profiles in my match were scammers or bots. It was pretty much the same story every time a profile contacted me: The profile pictures were clearly taken from Instagram models/influencers, the messages were in broken English, they insisted on me giving them my phone number or other personal information before meeting in person. It’s actually astonishing to me how many fake profiles I encountered on an app that you have to pay to join. I’m not sure if the developers are doing a poor job at filtering out scammers, or if all of these scammers are actually associated with the developers so that they can boost their subscriptions on EliteSingles . Either way shame on y Elite Singles developers.

by Full Price Disappointment

Rudimentary development effort to get core functionality, with with little improvement. Filters don’t work well (distance, height,etc). I’m surprised for a full priced app they have development that is years behind other apps: Low user engagement (users don’t complete profiles or upload sufficient photos), no motivational effort on app side to help make connections (regional meet ups, giving roses/bagels/etc), app is slow and laggy in swiping images (frustrating UI), and very little scam filtering.
They DO announce when users have been banned for scamming, which I’ve never seen from other sites. For my first foray into dating apps, this was singularly the worst experience I have had. Hopefully the developer will take my feedback and make improvements. Maybe a future app version fixes these user experience problems.

by JBAnnoyed385

It’s pricey to get started and they provide you a false sense of security that the scammers and duds will be filtered out. NOT TRUE! They also try to sell you on the fact you’ll get quality over quantity in your matches. WRONG AGAIN! Many of the “matches“ they provide are geographically located too far away to be practical (e.g., 1,500+ miles). You cannot search for matches. It is highly unlikely you will have much beyond a quality or hobby in common with the matches that are chosen for you. AND if you happen to have an “elite” education/career (many people on the site do not), you will surely encounter a scammer (a real person not a bot) looking to score a big fish and screw you out of THOUSANDS of dollars if you let them. Customer service is near impossible to reach… Shall I go on? Take the money you were going to spend on this site and buy a new dress or enjoy a nice dinner out. You’ll be far more likely to meet someone that way.

by Jda Bean

I opened EliteSingles for 5 minutes and wanted to delete it immediately after realizing how weird the set up of it was from the blurred photos of the matches to not knowing where to look at prospective matches. Saw it required a premium membership and decided to delete. EliteSingles asked me to enter a password in order to delete the account. The big issue with that is EliteSingles never asked me to create a password during the creation of this account. Then asked me to verify my email, so that I could change a password that I never created. Big issue is that every time I requested an email to be sent for verification, it never sent it. So now I cannot delete EliteSingles and will more than likely have to contact support to delete it. I believe this is a ploy to get you to stay on EliteSingles longer and not to mention my email account crashed not too shortly after using EliteSingles. Whoever created EliteSingles has some serious issues to fix or does not care enough to fix them.

by Magazineguy

It cost $131 to join, and as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community I thought wow a sophisticated app for us? I spent forever answering all the questions, my matches aren’t in any way a match for me. And located 2,300 miles away. I live in one of the gayest cities in USA, so I figured I would at least have some matches close by. I thought well I’ll give these guys who are far away a chance. The one lived in Ohio 2000 miles away, ok he’s supposed to be one of my biggest matches. We exchanged numbers, and he’s a closeted Republican politician. We have absolutely nothing in common!!! He actually tried to argue with me and defend his policies against gay people. We even discussed EliteSingles and both said we are deleting it after our paid time runs out. I had another match in Georgia even further away than the first. We chatted on and off and eventually he said “sorry, you’re really far away and EliteSingles is just a waste of our time.” I laughed and told him I agreed. I wish they had a refund policy!

by Snipes1487

Save your money and time by avoiding EliteSingles.

Complete waste of time and effort, at least for someone in Washington state. It’s expensive and there are too few people on the platform. Those that are on EliteSingles don’t fill out profiles and you receive very few options to begin.

I paid for 30 days and in that period I received a response from one person, that was ultimately a scammer. This was not for lack of effort as I filled out my profile, provided multiple quality pictures, and wrote to dozens of profiles.

by Joemartinez_au

Don’t bother with EliteSingles/service.

I downloaded EliteSingles and paid subscription on Friday, 03 November. Prior to paying my subscription, EliteSingles worked fine and as soon as I paid, I was unable to use EliteSingles .

I submitted a support ticket on Saturday, 04 November. However, I never heard from anyone and resubmitted another ticket on Tuesday, 07 November. Finally, I heard from someone on Friday, 10 November.

In the end I had to petition my payment service for a refund due to no response from Elite (haha) Singles and app not working, which I was able to get refunded.

Then their customer service asked me for a review and feedback on the last interaction with them, which was a support transfer request to delete my if information. That probably happened quickly due to data privacy policies and laws in HQs home country.

by SmugglingMilk

The worst out of the four dating apps I’ve tried lol. The set up is so confusing, and I just HATE the way they set up the match section so awkward and they make it impossible to clear. Limit on how many people you can sift through a day is ridiculous. Not only that, but I hate how all these sites promote you to buy premium or force you to rely on personality, like what kind of message is that sending? Just because image is not the main factor does not mean it’s not important, for all images to be locked behind pay wall is insanity to me.

by Sly Guy 1

EliteSingles isn’t the worst. It does provide “matches” pretty regularly. HOWEVER, most of the people on EliteSingles do not seem to be active. Most are unresponsive, and a lot of straight up scam profiles. After you’ve done online dating enough, you can easily spot people who do not speak English and have either stolen someone else profile info or have googled responses and pasted that in, but it’s very robotic and poor grammar. It would be nice if profile activity was shown so guys don’t waste their time. ALL dating apps cater to women. Women should be limited to how many men can “pounce” on them when it comes to dating apps. Anyways, good luck to anyone that wants to continue throwing their money away on EliteSingles. To me, just another app that’s not worth it.

by Casey96

This is a total scam. They are just taking money and laughing in the background and sending out fake accounts to you. There is NOTHING in EliteSingles that shows any of these so called “matches” are even active. The ‘like’ section doesn’t work. You could tell right away the matches I was sent were fake accounts, appeared to be foreigners posing as real people in my area. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY. This company will never answer your questions and will not give you a refund either. Apple should remove this trash from their App Store because it’s a total scam.

by Taken For 120 Dollars

My profile was blocked 3 times for “inconsistencies” Each time offered me free extensions of memberships as restitution and assured me everything was rectified. People I was conversing with were sent emails telling them to cease contact with me until they investigated me! They never notified me that there were any issue and simply denied me access. 3 days later after questioning customer support they demanded a photograph of my Drivers license both sides. I suspect this is a ruse for identity theft. $120 for harassment and Majority FAKE PROFILES! No thanks! Hopefully I’ll get my money back. I doubt I will. I hope I saved someone $120!

by Rafiss18

I believe I've been misled by EliteSingles. Despite initially thinking it was a serious platform, I now consider it to be a scam. I regret purchasing a membership and am seeking a full refund. EliteSingles requested a significant amount of personal information upon sign-up, leading me to believe it was legitimate. However, after payment, I've encountered numerous issues. EliteSingles 's lack of responsiveness, malfunctioning filter, and inability to preview profiles have all contributed to my dissatisfaction. I suspect that the recommended profiles are not genuine. I would like to open a claim to receive a full refund.
Don't ever think get EliteSingles.

by Shry's Mom

Now I know why they didn’t offer a free trial week! This is the worst dating app I’ve tried. I get to see so few people, have no way to filter, no way to get rid of the ones I’m not interested in other than delete and block. I can’t set the radius smaller than 50 miles and everyone is at the outer edge of that. I’m a busy single mom. I cannot have a relationship that involves an hour+ drive one way to see my partner. I’m so mad right now. And let’s not even discuss the blatant lie that there personality test provides compatible matches. I have nothing in common with most of my matches.

by Cr@zy Ch@rlie

After being on other dating sites, I thought I’d try this to see if it had anything better to offer. As many others have stated, EliteSingles is full of fake profiles. Unfortunately, I paid for a subscription and after a few minutes, regretted that decision.

Most are single-photo profiles. Duplicate content in many (even the age and name was the same but with different photos). Responses within profiles seem generated and unoriginal. There isn’t any way to really weed out if you’re talking to a real person or a scammer. If I ask specifics about them or their area, I get landmarks or other incomprehensible responses.

Steer clear of this one!

by Wu Gambini

EliteSingles will not allow you to delete it without a password yet they allow you to use their app without creating a password so there’s a dilemma for you to even delete your account. I have received a forgotten password email from these guys every single minute overnight and I woke up to over 200 emails from them the exact same forgotten password email. Their support team emailed me and of course it’s a foreigner. These guys are scamming people. They don’t want you to delete their account so they are figuring out ways to prevent you from doing it. When I click the link in the email to change my password. It takes me to a webpage that says technical difficulties. I have no way to change my password and I have no way to delete my account. This company is garbage.

by Shepp316

The majority of the profiles on EliteSingles seem to be nothing but fake or unresponsive and if they do, they are trying to solicit information from you. Most of the pictures on here are very unrealistic. There’s a lot of inconsistencies with most of the profiles on here especially those that are from a completely different state, I have encountered at least 90% of fake profiles on here. Very unrealistic profiles that do not exist or make sense how are these accounts being set up with a large start up fee?

by Linksol

I downloaded EliteSingles and used EliteSingles for a couple of weeks and this dating site is bad. It has a long page to create your profile and you can’t undo any mistakes you made. The people on EliteSingles are limited so you can’t get new matches it’s nothing but the same people. All the profiles for people wanting to date are complete fakes they don’t respond back to you and none of them are interested in relationship. The people here used EliteSingles just for hooked up’s to make some money like they do on the other dating apps. They should just shut down EliteSingles and delete from the store that is why I’m deleting EliteSingles the people who made this are idiots.

by Jd Pdx111

I joined based on recent reviews. There is very little activity. My first month I had 5 suggestions, and no more until I made a complaint (two weeks after I submitted the complaint), and more o have 2-4 weekly recommendations, most of which are out of the area. I feel stuck, as i paid for the membership (3 months), and there is no searchable feature, i am beholden to EliteSingles and their recommendations. Is not worth the time or energy. Did i mention half of my first round of matches were bots?

by Myjamoffice

2 years ago it was not great but still found and met a few nice people…… now I have gotten nothing but fake profiles, scammers, and just a waste…….

It is a shame, if they would have a way to show who is actually able to see messages, and also some sort of authenticity to check the people on EliteSingles it would be a good app……. As it is it is terrible…….do not waste your money till they fix it.

by RenoJones13

I have been in EliteSingles for a few days and keep finding people with similar pictures. Additionally most of the accounts seem to be fake (bots) . Honestly I would ask for a refund but I have no idea how to do that.

What a big waste of time.

by Yup, It Is Unimpressive

Many of the profiles that I’m seeing are basically incomplete. I can’t seem to find a way to only see other paying members. And what’s with so many profiles having one or two pictures? Or none at all? And users aren’t able to “weigh” other critically important dating criteria such as physical fitness level, so that really annoying.
Very disappointing and I won’t be renewing.

by Aspartame4a

I don't know what is Elite about this other than that it is expensive. The men who liked me usually had no photo or bio, and the ones who did were very uninteresting and more than 100miles away. Same when I tried to scroll through people (no photos and/or far far away). I want to call this a scam, but maybe in other areas of the country it's used more (I travel up and down the West Coast).

by Micksime

It doesn’t work well for one. You don’t get the notifications, so even when set up to you miss messages. Then when you have something in your settings marked as very important such as age, distance, smoking or religion, I still get someone 10 years younger, atheist, a smoker or 3 hours away lol. So pay attention to the info and don’t assume. Ugh. Dating through apps is bad enough without being set up for embarrassment in other ways.

by Kmansupreme

It’ll say 10/month and then if you hit okay, you pay for the whole six months, but it makes it look like you’re only about to pay the 10 bucks

breaking more hearts than mending them
I’d like my money back

by Spirtaway

Though EliteSingles may seem all well at the start. The matches very quickly dry up. “ Up to 20 matches a day” I am lucky to see that many in a month. Also there are two “Elite Singles” apps which have the same info but different layout. Very odd/ scamy. Be ware you only have three days to get your money back, I wish I had known that before throwing my money away. This apps also has many bots. They seem real for a moment then they turn out to be fake profiles. Very disappointed.

by LaurenEEEEz

Cost is incredibly high with very few members. Most don’t have profile pictures. The least distance option is 50 miles- you should be able to select a shorter distance. Very disappointed and will not renew my subscription.

by III-3.14

Not just the worst dating app but the worst app. Darn near unusable. And more:
-Crashes frequently
-“whoops that should not have happened”
-weird back-end aspects of the UI randomly show up
-tons of scammers and warnings of security breaches (weekly at least)
-poor quality of postings; folks don’t have pictures, say little or nothing about themselves
-filters not functioning; marching to people 300 miles away
-expensive compared to other apps

I regret spending money on EliteSingles. What a shame. A crying shame.

by Llevalo

Lots of profiles look like they were written by ChatGPT. I received one message in a week. The message was poorly worded and then I later received a notification from EliteSingles that it was a potential scam.

by IConfuzed

EliteSingles is a complete scam and Apple or the developer should be issuing me a full refund.!! Don’t waste your money. First of all the three month subscription was about $30 more than what it says on EliteSingles . I am now going to try to figure out how to get a class action against EliteSingles developer because it is just bots and stealing peoples money.

by ShawnSDCA

I bought premium since they had good offer. Now I can't cancel it through app or website. It says to contact customer service but no way to reach out to them. This is scam practice companies utilize to lock people. Be Aware before signing up! It's not like EliteSingles has that many active users. Tons of bots as well.

by Johns2112

This company has serious problems. The idea is great but the execution is terrible. Most profiles are either people who were curious and never became members, past members who are no longer subscribed, or scammers trying to get you to email their gmail. I want my subscription money back. I’ve used these guys in the past and they are no longer what they once were. Have been using EliteSingles for a couple months and the only activity here are the plentiful scammers. That about sums it up.

by CBI_Gabe07

Was actually looking forward to trying something new and don’t forget, it’s not cheap. But I made the jump and everyone that has contacted me has a fake profile or has tried to talk about how I make financial decisions or if I’d like to get into crypto. Once I say I’m not interested, I get blocked and no more responses.

*I’d like a refund please. This is not what was advertised at all.*

by Facebook Tie-in

All of my interactions in EliteSingles have been with catfish and scammers. The acid test is whether they want to talk on the phone. Thanks to Google voice you don’t need a phone to text but you do to talk. Always ask the prospect to talk on the phone. If they refuse, report them.

by Tamsreviews

I am a tech savvy person, and quite capable of creating accounts profiles and using apps. In this case EliteSingles is horrible the whole platform is terrible. I went through the application process three times. It started rejecting things I couldn’t move onto Pages. I logged out and logged back in and then was never able to get in. I reset my password a dozen times each time doing so it’s telling me that my session expired my credentials don’t match. Complete waste of time. You can’t get anyone in support and on get bot responses back. Don’t anybody use EliteSingles or further the entire platform.

by Jonm465221

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY. Spent thirty minutes answering questions, paid a ton of money, and got literally NOTHING. Very few profiles, terrible features, and very few profiles even have pictures.

by Cg098

I have not been able to log in to EliteSingles for 2 days and I'm getting NO help from customer service...only boilerplate answers which are NO help. I have done everything they have suggested and it "does not recognize my credentials" I can't even request a refund. I'm furious.
I’m adding to this review. Please don’t waste your money on EliteSingles. The owners have it on auto-pilot and they do not listen to their customers. If you look at the reviews here, it appears that they are 90% negative. I sorted the reviews by “most positive”
and there were almost none, so I can’t imagine why they have a 4.0.
Every day I get new matches, but a huge majority of them have no picture and almost NO information. What a waste of time. Why would I want to meet ANYONE that I have literally NO information about? Waste of time, extremely frustrating and again, there doesn’t appear to be any humans involved.
I’m going to ask that they not reply to this with that paragraph that they stick on every negative review. It means nothing. Let’s see what happens.

by TwinSpires

I would like to have control of my profile.
Please do not reject my answers to questions or reject my photos - I have not posted anything inappropriate.

by FabLadyLaura

EliteSingles is practically unusable because it requires you to pay for access to anything. At least other apps allow you to see pictures of people. You have to pay the full monthly fee to see anyone. Further, you and your match would both have to pay for the service in order to talk to each other. So unless your match also paid, they can’t even see what your message says.

by Stace54

It won’t allow me to delete it. I sent customer service emails and screenshot showing this is my account.

by Mssclauu

High charge and few people in EliteSingles. Very bad !

by Jnakemp

This is a fake app

by 1856::&

Don’t waste ur money.

by Robynbirdbutterfly

Thought u get what you pay for but it's Not worth it- not enough options! More luck with match

by MJMJ91

I’m not having success with educated people in my area.

by Gaiaslovechild

I signed up for I thought was a month but was overcharged, they took out 131.70 for 6 no. All at o FE I just found out 24 hrs after the fact, in the interim I made (1)acquaintance and tried to give him my email contact to share some other info and the site deleted him from my views and me from his I’m sure. I was so shocked you cannot share info. They did not respond to either of my problems. I am very disappointed. I have canceled it all. Point being even if I made contact outside of the site it doesn’t mean I would not have stayed on to meet other people! This is so stupid and so yesterday!!!

by ZenAlis

I used three dating apps at the same time and this one has mostly (or all) fake profiles. The other two apps I used, I met some nice people. I read a review before I signed up for Elite stating the site was full of fake profiles but I just thought the person was just bitter. Oh if only one could turn back time. Save your money for another app.

by Tjgator1

All dating apps have scammers, but this may be the worst dating app of all time. 99% of all of the profiles are completely fraudulent. Today, for example, I had three matches. All three of them had the same profile picture with different names and ages and locations. Ridiculous. Stay away!

by UhhApp

You will have to pay to use EliteSingles, even if you can create profile for free… and literally every time someone contacted me, it’s a scammer! There are no promised elite singles; This is really not the quality they advertise and anyway they are not give your money back.. I wish I would buy myself a new dress instead of using EliteSingles. Very disappointed - misrepresented app!

by Spartsmom

You’ve got to love these apps that have 4 stars but when you scroll down all the reviews are horrible! So many of the matches are fraudulent it’s barely worth your time to look for the real folks. They listed where I live incorrectly and it doesn’t let me change it. There is literally NO customer service. Their help page says to contact them with a “customer care” form that as far as I can tell does not exist! There are plenty of dating sites out there which actually seem to have systems for keeping bots off and have staff, there is no reason to join this one unless you are as stupid as I was. If you think there might be more educated/successful folks that might be a little true but it’s hard to tell since it’s hard to tell how many of the entries are actually human.

by Tgr2023

EliteSingles is terrible. You can’t filter out incomplete profiles (had no photo). Can’t put height preferences; Only “close to my height” which is not helpful. The matches haven’t logged in for several years so unlikely they will ever respond. Very few options in pool. When you unsubscribe your profile is still visible to others so they hopelessly smile at you and send messages unknowing that you will never get the message unless you resubscribe possibly years later.

by Fite0121

I joined this site a couple weeks ago & I realize safety is important.. but, I have been locked and asked for a government issued ID (passport or drivers license) & was apprehensive at first and they convinced me it was very safe! I sent it and ‘Crickets!’ Nothing from the company and I am still locked! I can not respond to the people I have been visiting with, no it looks like I have ghosted them. And, there is NO number to contact a live person in customer service to discuss this with! Only a form to send via email.. which I have several times!

by AJA999

I live in a major metropolitan area so figured I would have a better experience than others using EliteSingles. Nope! After answering all of the personality questions I was matched with several men. So the ones I was supposedly most compatible with weren’t at all interested in me. I wasn’t interested in the others. EliteSingles promises to give you new matches every day. Well, after 2-3 days, I guess they ran out of matches because I haven’t received any in a week. It’s going to be a quiet three months until my subscription runs out. They also have a “Have you met?” which gives you some random guys to consider. After awhile that stopped producing any results as well. As far as I can see, the user base is too small for them to live up to their promise of providing new profiles on a daily basis. This is a dying app. On the plus side, I’ve only had one scammer so far. Do not spend money on this.

by HI Chick

I’m am an older, but very much younger looking woman. I prefer dating younger men. I couldn’t find a way to choose a date range. I kept getting really old looking men. I never felt like I had any choices. My subscription was long, probably four or five months, so I gave it a good chance.

I had read that they wanted you to have professional pictures done. But nobody had them but me and I spent over $1000 having them made. A lot of the profiles only had one picture that wasn’t very good. I also found it much more difficult to see the pictures.

It was much harder to eliminate people. So no swipe left kind of thing. You had to go down to the X to delete them.

And much prefer Bumble with its travel feature, so I went back to it. it’s more simple with a lot more good matches.

by Kittypalazzola

Disappointing that you can post a profile with no pics. Why do you allow this? Also always getting the “oops! This wasn’t supposed to happen” and I can’t even login .

by Credit Concerned

I like the site itself and people on there. I've attempted to contact customer service. I can't use the smile icon in any part of EliteSingles . I get new suggestions and can't use smile icon then for some reason all the suggestion just go away. I paid what i consider good money to try out this this site but EliteSingles is not fully functioning correctly for me. I am just considering cancelling all together.

by Pam The Cook

I am amazed that there are so
Many matches for me. Not all of them
Are good, but some are
I have written to CSR a few times and want a call. I need to speak with somebody and all I get is what may have occurred or may not have occurred. But the frustrating part is that except for this morning I have been unable to see the people that have smiled or sent me a message

by SBJIRIS

Been on this site a few months now and messaged three men but didn’t go on.
Also a lot of new people do Not show a picture?
Had a couple men ask for money I deleted them, I guess it’s hard to keep them off all the dating sites.

by Crownsport

All the details that go into a full profile are fantastic as they cover many details. However, seeing photos and messaging require payment. Maybe limiting matches or how many photos you can see would be more reasonable.

by Dr. Pew Pew

The best dating app I’ve used. But can be improved. Matches are sometimes more than 500 miles away even though I specified 100 miles max and said that distance was very important.

by VickNutts

Kinda wish I wasn’t here, but the fact is, I need love too! Hope it’s worthwhile, so far so good!