Same experience, right down to how easy it is to spot a recycled photo.
The gap between good and bad platforms here is how many conversations reach a second message.
My first week on real dating sites free of scammers looked promising; by the second I was only really watching how the pricing behaves once you are invested.
Assuming you are not paying, how thin the pool gets outside big cities is where that one gets tight.
My rule for the room now is simple: check whether the safety tooling is more than a checkbox on day one.
The short checklist I use before trusting anything like real dating sites free of scammers:
- How many real dating sites free of scammers profiles show a recent login rather than a join date
- How fast a report about real dating sites free of scammers gets a human response
- How many real dating sites free of scammers conversations get past a second reply
Whatever you land on, test real dating sites free of scammers for a week before you judge it.
Someone in another thread pointed me at Datewander if you want a smaller pool and it was a fair shout.