There is a lot to love, and hate, about PlatinumRomance.com. You’ll have to read my entire review in order to get the complete story. Lets get started… Over the past thirty days I have dated three woman I met on this site. I must tell you, all of these women were stunning (I’m a guy, I can say that!). Sexier than Pamela at a VIP wrap party. But I’m sure you don’t want to hear about my actual dates! If I’m wrong, visit our new Dating Message Board and leave me a message and I will share some of those juicy details.
PlatinumRomance.com claims to have over 1 million profiles online. An average of 1,500 members are online most of the time. 4,000 new profiles are added each week. So you should have a lot of people in your area. I searched through about 10,000 “thirty something ladies†near my place in Southern California. I found the site slow on my fast cox.net broadband connection.
When you first join the site you’re given the option to send a 50 character message announcing you’ve arrived on the site. The message goes to everyone in your search set (age & ethnic preference). They also give you the option to add the site to your browser’s “favorite†list. It also prompts you, if you want, to save your login information so you don’t have to type your username and password each time. I actually wish more sites did this. I’m the only one who uses my computer, and I think I should have the choice and convenience. As nice as those features are, every once in awhile when I go to their site they play a stupid music file. Am I the only guy who thinks .wav files on websites are stupid?
PlatinumRomance does a pretty good job of catering to everyone. You can define what you’re looking for (WebPal, Friend, Dating, Romance and Intimacy). Most of the search results I received were in the Dating and Romance area. The site looks pretty well balanced in terms of age, I searched between 18 to 65 and received a pretty balanced results list. I found more than enough women to contact in my age group 28 – 35. A lot of woman in Los Angeles too, I noticed!
If you decide to try this dating site you will find the sign-up process is one of the easiest I’ve used in a long time. No long questionnaires to fill out. Only one essay question to answer. I breezed through it. Like many dating sites, they struggle to get people to post their pictures. One nice feature they have when people don’t have a picture is, they show a thumbnail cartoon showing their body type (slender, average, Voluptous, etc..) I found it useful as a visual scan, but still focus mainly on women with real pictures.
This site is a bit more expensive on a monthly basis, almost $30 bucks. It’s cheaper if you sign-up for six months. I just think most of us don’t want to hang out on one dating site for that long. Am I wrong?
You’ll need to join if you want to send/receive email or chat (they support one-on-one chat and chat rooms). Non-paying members can send three types of canned messages to tell someone you’re interested. You can smile, wink or kiss depending on your mood. I think it is cool that they show you who the most popular profiles are based on who got the most hits, smiles, winks or kisses. No, I’m not even close to the top of that list!
You can post up to 10 pictures and they allow you to catalog each picture, like “close upâ€, “full lengthâ€, “My Petâ€, “My Rideâ€, stuff like that. I think it gives people more ideas on the types of pictures to upload. They have two other features I really didn’t use, one is a calendar option where you can add notes in a calendar, like “remember to write sally†and a “flirt card†which is like business cards you can print out on your printer which has your PlatinumRomance.com user name on it. I guess they think you’ll hand it out at bars or leave it for that hot waitress at Denny’s with your tip. If any of you actually think this is a great idea, write and let me know, ok! I guess I would just walk up to her and ask her for her phone number, but I’m direct.
I don’t want to bag on them too bad because I met some great girls on PlatinumRomance.com, and one girl wrote to me first (I love forward women!). The primary thing a dating site needs to do is hook people up and this site did just that for me. But, I just don’t like the site layout. It’s slow, the use of frames is clunky and my IE browser and it did not get along. They don’t have previous buttons on the site and pressing the [back] button on my browser always confused the crap out of site. I had to close and reopen my browser a lot. My last bitch is, they don’t human screen the profiles (if they do, they suck at it) so the site has a lot of gender errors. I click on a lot of search results only to find out they were guys looking for women. This should never happen and it happen so often, it dampened my enthusiasm regarding this site. When you click on a profile it tells you if they’re seeking a male or female, but they don’t tell you if THEY are a male or female. This causes a lot of confusion when browsing search results.
Having said all that I met three hotties, the site is free to browse. Give it a try, and then let me know what you think of PlantinumRomance.com