SingleSeeker.net review

The dating website SingleSeeker.net provided by the operator ECHTY.COM, from Breda in the Netherlands, attracts users with a professional layout. Their slogan is “find sex, friends, flirts and dates.” You can simply create a profile that shows your personality and interests. If you are a music enthusiast, an adventurous traveler, or a bookworm, you can let your profile reflect who you are, and what you are looking for.

The provider baits you with immediate free credits, to start talking with wonderful singles. But with these free offers you must be careful, as you will see in the next paragraph.

Real and fictive profiles

Seeing half-naked profile pictures after registration makes us curious about whether these profiles are authentic. We looked at the Terms and Conditions, and quickly found out that this platform uses both real members and fictive members, called “SingleBuddies.” The problematic thing is that we cannot figure out who is real, or not, when we click on a profile. There is no indication if someone is acting as a fictional member. To find out, we must start texting.

Excerpt from the Terms & Conditions (as of 25/09/2023)

The user should take that into account ECHTY.COM offers chats with both real member profiles and fictitious member profiles (called SingleBuddies) on its website. The uses was informed about this when he first visited the website. The SingleBuddies can have fictional conversations, role play or have other fictional communication with the user and other users of the website. SingleBuddies are deployed with the aim of stimulating interactions within the website and having conversations with users. The user agrees that all content originating from such SingleBuddies, information, texts and images are fictional and are only intended as entertainment.

No coins, no messages

The platform uses a coin system to send messages. You can send messages, a gift, or a photo, by paying 10 coins. The premium 100 package gives you 100 credits for the price of AUD29.00, which means one message will cost you AUD2.90. There are three more packages, but the least expensive one still costs you AUD1.74 per message. That is extortionate, especially when you do not know if you are sending a message to a real person or a fictive profile.

Most of these suspect providers operate a rip-off with exorbitant prices. Our experience is that such high prices are always suspicious, and a sign of a possible scam.