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Amigos.com
Membership: 5.4 million
Year Started: 1996
Pricing: Silver membership: $9.99 for one month; $24.99 per quarter ($8.33/mo.); and $69.99 for one year ($5.83/mo.). Gold membership: $19.99 for one month; $34.99 per quarter ($11.66/mo.); and $99.99 for one year ($8.33/mo.). You may choose monthly, quarterly, or annual option.
Services Offered:
Free under Guest membership:
- Profile - Can create a profile.
- Voice Greetings - Upload your own voice greetings and send to other members.
- “Hotlist” - Keep a personal hotlist of your favorite members (200 max.).
- IMs - Can send and receive IMs.
- Chat - Can participate in live, real-time chat rooms. (English, Spanish or Portuguese)
- Searches - Limits # of full profiles that you can view (normally view 3 listings in 24 hour period).
- Cupid service - Emails you matches based on profile criteria. (5 matches max.)
- Personality Test - Can create and view personality test results.
- Emails - Can’t initiate contact with other members. Allowed to reply to one email sent by another member every 24 hours.
Premium (Silver or Gold) membership (includes the above plus):
- “Hotlist” - Keep a personal hotlist of your favorite members (500 max. for Silver &
1,000 for Gold).
- Searches - No limits on full profiles that you can view. Plus view other members’ photos.
- Cupid service - Emails you matches based on profile criteria. (10 matches max. for Silver & 20+ for Gold)
- Faster profile and photo reviews.
- Technical support - emails answered within 24 hours for Silver and within 12 hours for Gold. Plus telephone technical support.
- View past polls and results.
- View member videos.
- Get ICQ, AIM, YIM, & MSN ID’s of members in your network (Gold only).
- Priority listing (Gold only).
- Super Search - Priority form with keywords (Gold only).
Pros: Good selection of features for Free membership; Chat room in English or Spanish; good size membership; Global search not just U.S.; Strict privacy policy; Articles; Online magazine; Profile can be in English or Spanish; inexpensive pricing.
Cons: Searching for members in other countries is more difficult than searching in the U.S.
Editor’s Review: Amigos.com is part of the FriendsFinder network, which consists of 15 web communities that has over 20 million registered members. Founded in 1996, Amigos.com is one of the largest Hispanic dating sites. We recommend them for their services, price and membership size. We give high points to sites that give lots of features to free or trial memberships and Amigos does just that although certain features are very limited.
Another plus of this site is that you are not just limited to the U.S. You can search for members all over the world. So if you are looking for a hot Dominican Latina, you can. Plus you can create profiles, enter chat rooms and do searches in English, Spanish & Portuguese.
Some unique features that Amigos offers are: Flash Instant Messaging; Hotlist; Voice greetings; Photo Ratings; Free e-greeting cards; and interactive Amigos.com magazine written by and for members. The Flash Instant Messaging gives you the ability to instantly and anonymously talk (or video conference) to other members in the FriendsFinder network. Another big but rare feature on Amigos.com is the ability to turn off the auto-renew feature. Other sites will automatically renew your membership when your initial term expires. Unless you cancel before it renews, you are stuck for another term since they do not prorate membership fees. With Amigo, you can turn off this feature. You just can beat their membership size and their price. Definitely worth a try.
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