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Overall Review
Cougarlife.com is one of the oldest and experienced sites dedicated to cougars. This site has been fulfilling the needs of many mature women and young men alike. Cougarlife.com has created a platform for mature women to try out the young studs full of energy and vice versa. Its countless publications is an epitome in itself.
This site provides two types of membership. The free membership allows the users to view the profiles and limits the user to very little features. Premium or paid members on the other hand, get to enjoy all features that offered by the site. This premium membership however, does not came at a cheap price. This site comprises of more than 7 Million users. It's mostly popular for young men and mature women. However, there are many profiles which belong to young women and older men as well. It is the perfect place for cougars and cubs to interact.
Joining the Site
The sign-up process is very simple and only requires a few basic information and an active email id to begin. The user has to activate the id using the confirmation message sent to the email. Once that is done, the profile is set up and ready to grant basic access into the site until the paid membership is purchased. The basic membership that is free allows the users to look around the site and get a basic overview of all the features. This helps the user in determining whether or not the user should upgrade to the premium membership.
Pricing
While cougarlife.com allows users to join free of cost, but that does not truly allow the users to enjoy much of the features offered by the site. To enjoy all of the features offered by the site, one has to purchase the premium membership. The premium membership packages are offered based on various duration such as:- 1 month membership with 100 credits for $40
- 3 months membership with 500 credits at $87
- 12 months membership with 3000 credits at $144
Key Features
Cougarlife.com, like all other dating sites, has its key features. These features make it easier for users to interact and allows users to freely look up for suitable partners. The key features are:
- Chat service
- Gifts
- Flirts
- Looking up new members
- Looking up recently online users
- Location based search option
- Private photos
- View profile visitors
- Referrals can get the Referrer $20 or a month of free premium membership
- "Find a date" feature allows users to look for a date to spend a lovely evening
- Sending emails to favorite users using priority emailing.
Search Options
The free users can use the standard search options to look up users that match their requirements. However, for the more advanced search options, users are required to purchase the premium membership. The standard search options include:
- Location based search
- Based on distance from the user
- Based on age range
- Based on availability of photos and private photos
- Online/offline status
- Available for date tonight
- Body type
- Eye color
- Ethnicity
- Language
Safety and security
Even though users have to buy the premium membership to enjoy the advanced features, some advanced features are available to the free users as well. These features are in place to ensure the safety of these users. The advanced features that are allotted to free users are:
- Preventing profile from appearing in searches
- Uploading private photos
- Blocking profiles
- Hide personal information
Limitations
Dating sites have their unique attractions. However, there are always opportunity costs. In case of cougarlife.com, there is no scope for ID verification. This is a huge drawback to the safety and security of members as people can put up fake ids, which can jeopardize the safety of all other users. This also allows access to spammers, as a result of which the members often fail to meet a legit counterpart or partner. This can affect the quality of the dating site to a great extent.
Bottom Line
Dating sites of different kinds focus on different features. While cougarlife.com has its limitations, the services it provides are more than enough to meet the needs of general users. The premium membership opens doors to a diverse pool of probable partners that users can meet or date casually. Overall, the site is a very good example of what a cougar dating site should be like. Even though it is a little expensive than other cougar dating sites, the features even out the cost at which they come.