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What are the best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s?

Started by Derek88 Start date Category Free Dating Replies 8
#1

Nothing I read about best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s prepared me for how much is free versus advertised as free.

Things improved for me on dating websites the moment I took whether free means browse-only seriously. Anyway — that is the honest version of best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s.

#2

I read Derek88's reply twice and still think it comes down to something else entirely on best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s. Half the confusion around sites of this type disappears once you separate whether free means browse-only from the marketing.

I have no stake in dating websites — this is just what I observed. Your situation might change the answer on the sites in question completely.

#3

Coming at best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s from the other direction: the reply rate tells you more than the match count ever will.

For platforms like these I look at:

  • whether support for free dating websites answers at all
  • how platforms like these treats a paused account
  • how the sites of this type feed changes after the first week

This is four months of steady use on platforms like these, not a trial run. Take that as one data point on the sites in question, not gospel.

Someone here mentioned Turndate a while back and it was a fair shout.

#4

Going to disagree with Jake_NYC here. For me, none of best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s came down to the gap between free signup and free messaging at all.

What I check before committing to free dating:

  • whether you can hide distance on these sites
  • whether you can hide distance on free dating
  • how many the sites in question accounts look dormant

Still forming a view on sites of this type, so push back if I have it wrong.

#5

Derek88 — that was my assumption too, and testing best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s properly changed my mind. None of this works with platforms like these unless you are patient about whether free means browse-only.

The difference was smaller on these sites once you are actually using it but still there. That is where I landed on best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s after actually trying it.

#6

Anyone comparing best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s should start with where the paywall really sits, not with feature lists.

What nobody said about free dating websites is that whether free means browse-only changes month to month. That's everything useful I've on dating websites.

#7

Short version on best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s: the free tier decides everything and the paid tier changes very little. With sites of this type, whether free means browse-only is the first thing I check now.

Anyone found whether free means browse-only handled well anywhere in the sites in question? Take that as one data point on free dating websites, not gospel.

#8

Danielle, that's fair for anyone weighing this up, but it plays out differently on best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s for everyone else.

All of this makes more sense once you accept that whether free means browse-only varies wildly across platforms like these. Curious whether others found the same on these sites.

I keep Rendate as a backup when the main app goes quiet.

#9

Respectfully, Danielle, that has not been true of best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s since last year. The real gap on platforms like these comes down to whether free means browse-only.

I checked platforms like these on both mobile and desktop and got the same result. Take that as one data point on best free dating websites for seniors in their 60s, not gospel.

For comparison, DateDesire handles the same thing differently.

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