Hot Match Up Reviews

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No. of Active Members: Currently Unknown

Membership Costs:

FREE basic membership! There is a membership fee for Gold membership, which opens up access to all of the features of the site:

• Gold - 1 Month $24.95
• Gold - 3 Months $39.95
  

Features:

• Members' area contains thousands of explicit pictures - browse though member photos and enjoy!
• Great Search features
• HotMatchUp magazine where you can submit your own articles for fun
• Articles, opinions and guides on sexy topics like swinging and masturbation
• 'All About Sex' e-zine
• Check out "who's interested" and see who has viewed your profile!
• Specifically view all "new" or "highly rated" photos
• View member videos and contact those who interest you!
• Rate member photos and check out who is hottest
• HotMatchUp store selling a number of different apparel items!
• Easily turn your profile on and off, so you can choose whether it's visible to other members.
• Complete privacy protection - no one will know your identity unless you explicitly tell them!
• An extensive FAQ section
• Excellent technical support.

Joining HotMatchUp.com:

Like most adult dating sites, HotMatchUp.com has a free membership section plus a paid premium section. Here's how they differ...

• Basic Membership
  • Create a profile
  • Perform a basic search
  • Send internal email to other users
    
    
• Gold Membership offers all the above plus:
  • Complete access to HotMatchUp
  • Full inbox privileges
  • Reading email from other members
  • Viewing other photos
  • Viewing X-rated photos
  • Advanced searching, and more...
    

Performing a Search:

• Basic Search
  • Gender
  • Seeking
  • Age
  • Searching For
  • Only New
  • Only Photo
  • Gallery View
• Advanced Search
• Browse
• Matches Search
  

Editor's Verdict:

HotMatchUp is the sister site of IMatchUp.com, a fairly successful site based in the US. While IMatchUp is focussed around online dating, HotMatchUp is more sex-orientated in nature and concentrates primarily on hookups for sex and swinging. The site overall does pretty well, but the unknown brand means that the membership base is much smaller that some other sites (notably our highest rated site in this section - AdultFriendFinder.com) and does little to invite the confidence that is so inherent in other, more established sites. The site does however promise to be “intimate, anonymous and uncut”, so we were particularly interested to see if it lived up to expectations.

One thing that we were a bit disappointed by was the lack of an Instant Messaging feature on the site. This is a function that most other dating sites, especially those who charge a monthly subscription fee, have included and it is a shame not to see it here. We would strongly suggest that HotMatchUp develop such a function, as it is crucial to many of our users, and is a feature that is included elsewhere as a matter of course. By way of some compensation, however, the site does allow you to publish your ID for your favourite instant messaging site (such as MSN, AIM, YIM etc) so that other users can contact you using this address. While this is not preferable for all users, some will find this a perfectly acceptable alternative.

We found the site’s navigation to be particularly complex and difficult to work out. Although the site does offer a number of additional features, we feel that it has lost touch with the basics of internet adult dating and as a results fails to offer features common in other sites. While a store, selling a range of HotMatchUp clothing will appeal to some, we are confident that this is not something that everyone will be interested in and feel that HotMatchUp should concentrate upon providing more features to its members so that their monthly subscription is better value for money. Certainly, we were shocked when we were refused the possibility of upgrading our membership because the site is unable to take any more premium members. We hope that this is a limited problem, but it certainly does not invite a great deal of confidence in the service and its ability to support a growing consumer base.

It was extremely difficult to discover information regarding the cost to upgrade, as it was not readily published on the site. When we finally did, we were again a little disappointed as we felt that, for the cost of membership, users would be far better advised to use one of our higher rated sites and save their money. As a final point of note, McAfee internet security have reported that problems regarding spyware and adware are endemic with the use of HotMatchUp, and so we would advise our users to take this into consideration when thinking about joining the site.

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