OurTime

After using OurTime for 6 weeks, I am fairly satisfied with its performance.

I am an 80-year-old male and am looking for a woman who would join me in bicycling around the city for at least 25 miles at least once a week, and for bicycle trips to other parts of the world.

Unfortunately, women about my age generally have all kinds of leg, knee, balance, or another physical ailment which prohibit them from biking, and I find myself looking for women in their young 60s.

So far I have dated two women I found on OurTime who are in their 70s who can't ride a bike, but at least we can dance and do other things together. However, from research on another dating site, I found that most women in their young 60s are looking for men who are younger or very slightly older than them. So this is my problem.

OurTime's search engine lets you set up age limits and mileage limits from your home and works very well. I found many women in their younger 60s who live reasonably close to me. Unfortunately, they don't generally respond to my messages.

In this regard, I can't set these limits on OurTime Matches or Online notices. All of these seem to be controlled by OurTime, and for me, the minimum age they select seems to be about 70 and from anywhere in this country. So they are worthless to me except for penpal purposes, which I'm not interested in.

The first thing that annoyed me with OurTime was the good looking, English deprived, scamming women (probably men) with their phone numbers or email addressed embedded in their picture or profile asking you to email or call them. I blocked them when they occurred and their occurrence rate has decreased considerably.

As far as the coins, I never used them and never will.

I read the small print when I signed on for six months with OurTime, but realized from the start that I need to follow their instructions to the letter in order to keep them from charging my credit card again when the six months time limit approaches.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

I was pretty naive when I got on the site, which is NOT free, and the first guy to come along was a scammer. It's the guys who say they're in a foreign country to watch out for. After about a dozen scammers, I tried to find someone local and that didn't work too well, either. I learned their M.O. and started tossing them to the curb right and left. Then I started meeting real locals.

It didn't work for me because I've been single and independent for too long.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Not a user-friendly sigh up site. Almost gave up. Member for two months and bailed. Scammers a-plenty, and most members are insincere. Looking for a sugar daddy I suspect. However, best member profiles I have encountered when genuine.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

I find it extremely aggravating that every SINGLE time I go to log in, and I mean every time, it says it doesn't recognize my email and password. So I have to keep changing my passwords. So I have to keep a log because it won't let you reuse an old password and I've gone through so many. I tried changing browsers, no help. The site itself is decent. I had no luck getting guys to respond on Match at all and I consider myself a decent looking 64-year-old woman. Although Match does provide more detail in the profile, which I like.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

The site OurtRime.com serves the UK! Although I eventually found a website at us.ourtime.com most of my attempts to access don't go there but instead offer me OurTime.com - which is the UK (British) site which either offers me dates in Manchester and Birmingham, England!

Both websites are very confusing - maybe deliberately designed to lead one to subscribe, hoping that subscriber things will become clearer?

I am very glad to have discovered this site (HighYa.com) to find I am not alone in being frustrated and aggravated by OurTime.com.

Proceed with extreme caution, or just stay away.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

If you want to lose more money than you plan on losing, I say join. All the online reviews should tell you to steer clear of them. Once they get your credit card info they are like leaches, you can't back out and they've got you. Now you will have to jump through more hoops than a circus dog to keep them from helping themselves to your cash. They are just another class action lawsuit waiting to happen. I cant wait to see them go down with their ship.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

IN MY OPINION:

OurTime is promoting the use of its site by scammers as the following examples demonstrate:

1) Allowing the use of Tags which include phrases like "Text me", "at six 7 2", "GEmail", etc. People that create these tags have no intention of communicating via OurTime. Their only desire is to get you off of the OurTime system as fast as possible before someone reports them to OurTime​ as scammers. OurTime should stop allowing the use of scam Tags which is a very simple program change.

2) Several scammers have utilized the same profile information. Example "I am a teacher in a musical store". Commonly used profile phrases that are not common to the use of English here in the USA should be absolutely flagged as scammers. Very simple program change.

3) Stop the scammers from signing up. It would be very simple for the OurTime programmers to capture the IP address of the person signing up for the service and compare this to the physical location where they claim to reside. When the IP address of the scammer sending the email is interrogated more times than not they are not physically located in the US. Rather they are located in Russia, Nigeria, California or the Midwest - not where they claim to live.

4) Use of "promote me" tokens is a magnet for scammers. I've used tokens to promote me over 20 times and EVERY SINGLE TIME I've received replies for numerous scammers.

Bottom line: OurTime and other dating sites should be held liable for fraud committed against their clients as they do little or nothing to limit the fraud activity.

Last bit of advice: Most scammers will want to jump to email quickly.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

I feel that the site was not worth the money at all.

1. Profile space is limited by character to much less than other sites.
2. The automation is hyperactive and the layout confusing. It give you the impression there is activity there when there is none.
3. The automation asks you to compare two member photos and if you like one image more than the other, it generates an interest message to them, whether you intended to or not.
4. There is a start that indicated I was someone;s favorite every time I open it, and when I try to find out who, it just disappears.
5. Search tool has very few search options compared to other sites.
6. The available to chat markers are always on, and when I type a message, it always changes to user off-line 99 percent of the time.

I think it's a completely bogus dating web site.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

I lasted five days on this site, and just wrote their customer service that I want to quit. The people I was matched up with were gross, and I have never been so insulted in my life. I now understand why only homeless, toothless and nasty men sign up, because no OTHER site would have them! Save your time and money.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

This site has very few "real" people on it. A lot of FAKE profiles. It is nothing but a huge HEADACHE. Do not waste your time.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

I signed up for one month of OurTime to see who all the mail was from. Fifteen minutes later I knew my money was wasted. Oh, well, I didn't think about it again until I looked closely at my credit card statement four months later. Without mentioning it in anywhere that I noticed, OurTime automatically renewed the subscription for $29 and change.

I called when I found this, was told by their recording that this was their standard thing to do, and was connected to a call center who told me she could only erase two of the three charges. Eventually, I persuaded her to erase all three, which she did, thankfully.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend