Thai Cupid Review

Overview

"This is the last dating site I'm ever trying." I would recite this falsehood so much that it lost all meaning.

I knew that I felt hopeless in love, and I knew that my online dating experience had felt like nothing but a series of dead ends.

Yet, there seemed to be no real option for me but to continue signing up for sites that weren't doing me any good.

I wasn't signing up for bad sites. These were ones that had thousands, sometimes millions of users and lots of success stories, including ones from people I knew.

However, they weren't appealing to me or the types of people I'm interested in.

Thai Cupid is a site that appealed to me for many reasons, but it was mainly because I was now surrounded by the foreign, exotic members I'm attracted.

Here are all of the pros and cons of this site.

Key Features

Membership

ThaiCupid is reportedly the most-used site for Thai romances. There are some 600,000 users from the United States.

When you count all the members from around the world, it goes past 2.3 million.

About 60 percent of the users are men and 40 percent women. ThaiCupid members tend to be quite involved with the site, answering messages quite quickly.

As you'd imagine, there are plenty of users from Thailand. However, there are also a great deal from Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.

The membership makeup shows just how interested people are in Thai dating.

You can get set up with your ThaiCupid profile quite swiftly. It just requires you to be 18 years or older and to have a good connection.

You have the ability to join through Facebook or your email address.

Some issues can arise after registering. There are reports of ThaiCupid shutting down profiles for unexplained reasons.

If your account is closed without reason, try to get in touch with the team to try and get things sorted out.

Additionally, make sure that you're obeying all the rules, as you might be crossing a line you didn't know was there.

Look over the site's terms until you have full comprehension of them. Completing your profile will also inspire more confidence in your authenticity.

Profiles

Transparency and honesty are very important in dating, and ThaiCupid holds onto those values.

They will sniff out profiles that don't seem real. They also allow for account verification, to help users have a baseline of trust that grows further with more interactions.

A lot of information is solicited from you on ThaiCupid. This isn't them trying to pry into your life without reason. 

The more you include in your profile, the more you can draw in other, dynamic individuals.

Your profile picture is another very important aspect of your ThaiCupid experience.

It should be a photo that makes users happy as can be to click on. It doesn't have to be a professional headshot, although that can definitely help.

Just make sure it shows you in the best and most accurate light possible.

Making Contact

You can't argue that ThaiCupid is limiting when it comes to means for contacting other users.

However, your leash is going to be quite shortened if you have an unpaid, Standard membership.

If you're going to the trouble of making a ThaiCupid account, you might as well go to the trouble of getting the best possible account.

Some ways you can reach out include sending messages, using the Instant Messenger, and the chatroom.

It's completely free to mark a user as a favorite. There are also "Cupid Tags," which help to make your searches more exacting.

A dating site can have the prettiest design or the most ingenious concept, but it won't matter unless the communication methods are lackluster.

As a ThaiCupid premium subscriber, your means for reaching out are so greatly increased. Another thing that's increased is your chance at finding someone.

ThaiCupid Costs & Pricing

Things you can do as a free user on ThaiCupid include making your profile, getting matches, corresponding with Gold and Platinum users, and showing users that you're into them. 

While these are nice perks, they pale in comparison to what premium users get. As a Gold or Platinum user, you get access to everything free users do and more.

All messaging is opened for paying users. If you're wanting to stay incognito, you can put your profile on private.

Searching is also a lot more refined, as is matching. Communication can also be made much easier if you and a match are from different countries, as translation is available.

Platinum membership costs more than Gold, but offers more benefits.

Likewise, a one-year membership costs than a three or six-month one overall, but per-month, the cost is much less.

Think in the long-term for when you're deciding what you want for your ThaiCupid premium account.

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