The 5 Worst Casual Dating Sites Online

Being a dating blogger on the scene, I’ve seen my share of casual dating sites. There are certainly plenty of good ones out there, no doubt about it. I urge all of you to read my earlier post on that very subject. But like Sturgeon’s Law states, and nowhere but the internet is this more true: 90% of everything is crap. Here are a few of the real doozies of sites out there that I couldn’t recommend less. But of course an educated consumer is a better consumer, so without further ado, let’s get started on a few of the casual dating sites out there that are best avoided:

1. C-Date.com

C-Date takes the cake as perhaps one of the worst sites that I have found out there for casual dating. Perhaps I should call this post, “Best Examples Of Online Dating Scams”, in which case C-Date would likewise get top billing. The site tries to advertise itself as the benchmark of what a casual dating site should be, and yet they seem to do everything wrong, maybe out of ineptitude, or more likely because they found a good way to snare unsuspecting victims of their massive scam. After signing up and being forced to pay what is approximately $160 USD, you’ll soon discover that there isn’t any such selection of singles that are available to message and set up some good casual hookups, but rather a convoluted matchmaking premise where they’ll pair you up with one or two people in your area who might share a mutual interest in oral sex for instance. Oh goody. I paid how much to be allowed to message one blurry photo and hope that I don’t find them totally hideous while we aim to set up a casual encounter? No thank you. Of course, I haven’t even started on the convoluted sign-up process and odd layout and design choices that C-Date thinks is appropriate for a dating site. And here’s the best part (or worst part, more like it). When you’re finally fed up with C-Date and have naturally concluded that you’ve been duped into a pretty bad deal, their cancellation process is one of the most complex and headache inducing that I’ve ever encountered. You have to request a cancellation code which they email to you and then you have to fax them a form with the number as well as some personal info. That’s right, they require you to send them a fax just so that they stop charging your credit card in perpetuity. Do half of C-Date’s users even know what a fax is? I cannot recommend this site less.

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CasualDates.com is another doozy of a site that acts like it’s the cock of the walk but turns out to be a big load of crap. At least they try to look like they’re well populated with members. Unfortunately they also happen to be well populated with spammy links, fake profiles, dead profiles, prostitutes, and ads that flood your senses the moment you log on. When I first signed up for CasualDates,com, one of the first things I noticed was how frequently I was messaged by all sorts of girls, which doesn’t sound like a problem at all, until I realized that these weren’t real girls at all, but most likely bots of the site that were trying to make me think that the site was a lot more popular than it actually was. It was nearly impossible on this site to differentiate the relevant parts from the ad spam that inundates you the moment you log in. There’s so much chaff on this site that I wonder what the point of paying for it was at all. I didn’t get a single date out of it, but rather got a lot of porn thrown in my face, something that I could have easily found for free. This is the internet, after all. Porn comes cheap. This site is not worth your time.

3. XDating.com

I feel a little bit bad about putting XDating up on this list, because I can tell that they’re trying their best to make a decent casual dating site. The truth is, however, that XDating is bush league compared to what your average casual dater should expect in 2013. They do make the site easy to sign up, but once you’ve done that, then you’re looking at paying at least $30 just to get anywhere with this site. On top of that, they have no instant messaging option, which as far as I’m concerned is absolutely paramount for a successful dating site, especially one that focusses on casual dating. In my experience casually dating, IMing is one of my prime tools to get a date started, and I’m willing to accept that some people might work differently, but at least make this available so that those who love instant message a chance to work their magic. Also, there’s only one search function, so that you’re basically just browsing the main list of users, trying to find someone to get in contact with. We’re talking about sex here, everyone has their tastes. It can get rather dreary sifting through mountains of profiles of people you don’t care for to find the one that you might actually be interested in. Well at least they’re not C-Date. Did I mention that they’re the worst?

4. Passion.com

So Passion.com aims to pass itself off as a legit casual dating site in it’s own right, but in reality this is just AdultFriendFinder with a different shell. Passion.com’s database is the same as AdultFriendFinder’s no doubt because it’s owned by the same parent company and they’re either too lazy or just lacking the resources to keep the two databases separate. So Passion.com advertises that it has 34 million members, that would be a liberal bending of the truth. Not only that, but if you were to cancel your membership with Passion.com (and I can only assume AdultFriendFinder as well), you’re profile never goes away, so who can really say how much of that 34 million amount is simply dead profiles. A site with lots of dead profiles can create a frustrating dating experience online since you’ll be busy emailing these amazing looking girls or whatever, and it turns out that they might have been on this site for about five minutes back in 2007 or something. Hell, AdultFriendFinder has been around for seventeen years (!) which should be a testament to it’s success, but it also is indicative of just how many dead profiles would be occupying these sites. Also, like XDating, there isn’t an IM feature. Be prepared to send a lot of sexy emails to a lot of ghosts if you bother to sign up for Passion.com.

5. OnlineBootyCall.com

OnlineBootyCall is another great example of a casual dating site that, on the surface looks like it would be a quality product with a lot of great features that could facilitate your online dating life. What we get instead is a labyrinthine quagmire of hidden charges and fake profiles. Will this site hook me up with a similar puzzle piece for some hot puzzle piece on puzzle piece sex? In spite of the cute graphics that OnlineBootyCall offers, the straight answer is no. After signing up, you have to pay a membership fee to simply view other profiles, who appear to be a lot of bots and prostitutes. In order to instant message any of them, you’re expected to pay an additional fee. Didn’t I pay for a membership already? From what I found, even after paying all of the hidden charges to get anywhere with this site, was that there wasn’t really any actual people on this site, not in my area, really not anywhere. They do their best to look cute and have some features that you’d think would be useful for a good casual dating site. What they’re lacking, however, is anything that could actually help you get a date and not dump tons of cash into this site for really nothing. Here’s why I’m giving it my SCAM stamp.

Well there you have it. Here’s just a few of the sites out there to steer clear of in your casual dating adventures. It’s not like there aren’t other bad sites out there. Believe you me, the web is full of them, and eventually I’ll get to more of them. For now, take these as a marker of the sites to avoid. For what I’ve find would give you better success, I suggest you read my selection of good casual dating sites. In the mean time, happy dating!