Secret Benefits is even worse!! It's "credit" based, so you pay credits to unlock messages. Which is usually the girl saying "Hello" and then you'll never hear back from her. If you do it will be a canned response. If you see the girl on both SB and Seeking, you have found a real one.
Originally Posted by DrivesAllDay
Yep. And usually when you get one of those "hello" messages, it's actually an automatic message that the person you got it from was not even involved in sending (and maybe be completely unaware that automatic message are being sent out in her name).
When I first signed up there, I was getting a couple of those a day, for a while. So I bought a credit package to be able to read them. Any replies I sent were generally ignored. There were a couple i was interested enough in that I bought the "read receipt" option to see if they were reading my messages, and it always said they were. But I found out that those are faked too - the one I was most interested in (who I got to talk to elsewhere, much later) told me that she hadn't even logged into SB in ages, and hadn't seen any of my messages there (while the messages were being flagged as "read by recipient", and she was showing up as "online" on the site regularly).
Once I burned through my credits (only having successfully contacted three people, only one of which resulted in an actual in-person meeting), and their algorithm figured out that I wasn't going to buy more, the daily automatic messages (from people who never actually sent me anything) stopped. I haven't gotten an automatic message on SB in over a year...