| Personal Ad Sites |
| Name |
Rating |
General Description |
Pluses |
Minuses |
| ERA Personal Ads |
 |
Combines Internet,
newspaper, and even voice personal ads into one searchable database. You can also read a more in-depth review. |
Tracks "matches"
for your stored profile, over 400,000 listings, allows photos, anonymous re-mailing, can
place and search ads at no cost. |
|
| American Singles |
 |
One of the longest lived,
and most informative, of the personals sites. And, yes, it includes ads from locales
outside the USA, also. |
Free, many listings, allows
pictures, sorted by geography, easy to navigate. |
Little allowance for
anonymous mailing. |
| Match.Com |
|
Link removed due to
encouraging their affiliates to e-mail "spam." |
|
|
| Classifieds
2000 |
 |
An apparently critical mass
of ads . . . in other words, enough to make a visit worthwhile. |
Can place and/or answer ads
for no cost, allows pictures, searchable by geography and other criteria |
Ads interspersed with ad
listings, some links broken. |
| The Web Personals |
 |
As my memory allows, this
was one of the first commercial sites (of any sort) to be successfully developed and then
sold. And by a woman, no less. Why should you care? I've no idea. |
Geographical searching, many
listings, allows photos, anonymous re-mailing. |
Relatively short free trial
period. |
| MeetMeOnline |
 |
Another of the earlier
established sites. |
Can place and/or answer ads
for no cost, allows pictures, searchable by geography and other criteria. |
Not as many ads as other
sites, browsing "photo album" returns many listings with no photoe(!), no
anonymous re-mailing for people responding to ads. |
| Particularly
since we're no longer using these services, your site
suggestions will be considered for inclusion. |
