BromoDates.com reviewed: Top Features and Flaws in 2024
1/6
Positive and negative characteristics of BromoDates.com
Positive
- No positive characteristics
Negative
- -Fake chat rip-off
- -Fake Operator
- -Fake Profiles
- -Unlikely to meet
- -Negative comments
- -Very expensive
Report for BromoDates.com review
The gay online dating site BromoDates.com offers free registration. The landing page shows a romantic picture of a gay couple and the text explains that finding a perfect gay match here is easy. Apart from general information about the convenience of using this dating platform, we cannot find any useful information. As usual, to write our review, we register and read the terms and conditions.
We found out that this site is a subscription rip-off. The company behind this platform is Norfex Holdings LTD, based in Tortola, the British Virgin Islands. We know this company quite well, and not for good reasons. Our experience is that the platforms operated by this company are typically subscription rip-offs. There are many negative reviews about this company on the internet.
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BromoDates.com is not so different from other websites from Norfex Holdings LTD. All of them are scams and subscription rip-offs. Probably the main difference is that BromoDates.com is designed for the gay community. Apart from that, all the rest, including the interface, is basically the same as all the websites from Norfex Holdings LTD. Of course, this includes the subscription traps.
We could not find any information about prices before registering. However, right after registration, the costs showed up. Basically, any action we tried on the platform, including chatting, or seeing any profile, ended up on the payment page. Prices for a month are around 35 USD. Nevertheless, we got an offer for a cheap 3-day trial for just a dollar. This sounds fishy because we have experience with this kind of cheap membership. So, we read the billing policy to find out if this could be a subscription rip-off.
Excerpt from the Terms & Conditions (as of 10/05/2021)
To make it simpler for you, the three-day trial membership plan will automatically convert to our monthly package at the standard non-promotional rate at the end of your three-day trial period, if you don’t cancel your membership before the trial expires.
All paid subscriptions automatically renew for the period and price that you signed up to. You may cancel the auto-renew feature to avoid recurring charges, but you must act at least 3 days (that is, 72 hours) prior to the renewal date if you subscribed via desktop application.
The auto-renewal is not always a scam. But our experience made us read once again the cancellation policy in the terms and conditions, and here is what we found. This means, that if we subscribe to the cheap 3-day trial, and we do not cancel right away, it will be converted into a monthly package. This is certainly a subscription trap and a scam.
The conclusion from our BromoDates.com review
Our review from BromoDates.com proves that this is a subscription rip-off. They trick potential users by offering a cheap trial membership which will convert automatically into a costly monthly subscription. Cancellation in time is almost impossible, as the trial period and the cancellation period are precisely the same. This website is a scam and therefore not recommended.
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A complete rip-off. I rang to cancel my subscription and thought this had been carried out as per my request, but no. Instead, in a recent email regarding this, I was informed that they had transferred me from one site to another (JHive.com to Bromodates) - this is a comolete lie. Avoid at all costs.
There is much more to be concerned about than subscription scams with Bromodate.com. Every time I log into my account on PalTalk, a subscription-based chat service based on Long Island, NY, my secured browser, an Avast.com product, notifies me that a connection to Bromodates.com has been detected and aborted because the site is infected with scam software. In other words, simply connecting to the site is toxic. Exactly what they can do once the connection is made is unknown, at least to me. But it could be anything from finding and using financial information to steal from you to infecting your computer and holding your files for ransom. The connection between Bromodates and PalTalk, if one exists, is also unknown at this time. PalTalk is not a dating site per se, but they do provide chatrooms focused on meeting other people including self-monitored chatrooms rated for adult language and nudity. PalTalk requires a secured login to their site using their proprietary software. They offer three levels of membership with increasing amounts of features once your free trial membership expires but there are no "teaser" rates or memberships that renew before you have a chance to cancel or any other such warning signs of scam. They've been in business for more than 20 years with a spotless reputation. How it is that while connected to PalTalk, my computer establishes a connection to Bromodates is beyond my understanding and technical knowledge, but the connection clearly exists.
Having used bromodates and its twin brother buddygays (one of many variants I'm sure), every contact I made turned out to be a scammer. I caught one in action, and all conversations immediately dried up. I tried to cancel both subscriptions by phone, but they merely wanted to switch me over to other (identical) sites. Even the cancelation e-mails hint that I'm not completely canceled. I notified my credit card company, which is now on high alert.