SkaDate - Dating Software

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• My Experience with Skadate

  Rating: 1 - Poor
  Reviewed by Anonymous on Nov 13th, 2011

  I'm seriously unhappy that I decided to go ahead and purchase SkaDate EVEN AFTER reading all these terrible ratings. I am not one to be deterred by random disgruntled customer/black pr... thought since the "pre-sale" customer service was so good that I'd go ahead and buy it. anyway long story short - a day into buying the product i've already come across a hurdle. installation didn't go through all the way (they blamed it on the hosting company - although i know from past experience and a quick call to my hosting company that it wasn't a problem with hosting). they are so quick and dismissive once teh sale was done. Now i'm scrambling for help in the forum - trying to figure out all this problem with my site crashing randomly. I have NO CLUE and no help certainly... and the best part... when i ask for help through the support system - i get offered the wonderful $95/month plan to pay for support... YEAH RIGHT!! i pay for a product i cannot even customize even though they say it can be! moment you step into the backend to customize css, everything falls apart and no documentation to help us out! This is beyond illegal to scam customers into buying a bugged-out software, with very little to no support (and limited "unique" templates) and then have them scurrying to pay more just to fix YOUR software... we are the customers, we shouldn't be fixing your errors. So if you cannot guarantee a bug-free product - then DON'T charge us for support!!!! I SINCERELY learned my lesson (although it cost me a grand $400 USD). Never buy from a company with real bad PR... there's truth behind it (after all it cannot all be "fake comments") and by the way, before you step on this message board telling me to come forward. I'd be glad to.. except i dont' plan on releasing my personal information on the web. simply contact me (I'm unfortunately still stuck being your customer til I find a more reliable software). So reply back to me if you have a remedy for this ridiculous situation!

  Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

• i will tell you that this script is junk

  Rating: 1 - Poor
  Reviewed by on Jul 1st, 2010

  i went to there crappy chat and i called to them and they would not even tell me how to take there crappy copyright off there stupid script, there nothing but a crappy company, and i'm a pay them for this, do dude don't say that what there saying is not true cause i see it and i know it is, i can't take the copy right have and your crappy company can't help me, ppl needs to stay far away before they loose money like i did, i'm not joking,

  Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

• Buggy script

  Rating: 1 - Poor
  Reviewed by on Dec 23rd, 2009

  Skadate has a very buggy script, and they are dishonest. I say this having fallen to them as a customer. I purchased the script to have on my own hosting and had skadate install it. They stated they needed to have Shell Access for the install. What they needed shell access for was to sabatoge the normal settings of the independent hosting company I was using over theirs, so it would appear that their script did not work on that host, and I would be forced to enter a monthly contract for hosting with them. I say this with knowledge as I later moved to another host on my own, and simply uploaded the zip myself, without any shell access, and guess what? It worked! Fortunately, I had a very good hosting company that alerted me to the sabatoge right after the install, as all of my sites went whacky--I hosted several sites on one account, and when Skadate screwed with the Shell settings, they through off ALL of my sites. Maybe if I had one site I would not have been tripped to this dirty trick of theirs, but it backfired on them. My USA host fixed the sabatoge, and guess what? The skadate script worked fine. If that wasn't enough, the handful of support items I submitted to skadate on my paid support tickets, were incompetently handled. They always seemed not to know how to figure it out, it must have had something to do with egads, my independent hosting company, but of course it would all be fixed if I paid skadate to host me! Fortunately I was able to search online on my own, and figure out and solve the mysterious problems they said they couldn't figure out, and I am no techie! They did solve a couple of little things, but the major support item I needed and wanted---guess what? They tried to find a way to make me pay more money for this item to be fixed. And that has been their tactic---try to milk you for all kinds of money once they have you as a customer. Then if that wasn't bad enough, recently skadate has shut down their forum as a move to remove any searchable help reference to their software and force you to pay they for support. And they have the gall to almost double the price of the support that I found to be next to worthless, but worthless it seemed intentionally to move me to have them host my site and make monthly money off of me. Their former support had been around $50 a month, and now they have the gall to charge $95 a month for support. I mean what kind of software do you purchase that then demands you pay them $95 a month for any kind of support? I mean who of us here who are real citizens of the USA would pay microsoft $95 a month for support on Word or Excel, or any pricey software? And who made sure to shut down access to their user forum? I continue to find bugs, and quite frankly, I am just going to scrap their script and use something like joomla, which is free and reliable, has an open, longstanding user forum, and can be trusted. Simply do not buy skadate dating software; if they were honest and trustworthy, I would say yes. But I have found them to be dishonest, and when paid for support, poorly responsive or not at all. The forum moderator can see my ip is a real us ip, but for my protection from skadate sabatoging my site before I switch it over to another software, I have of course used a different name than they know me as their customer---as they sabatoged my site when I was brand new to them and on good standing! So what will they try to do when they read my unhappy comments. But what I have to say is completely true. I am very disappointed with them, because they could have had good business being honest, but instead they want to bully money out of customers and not give standard support. That's my truthful experience as well as my opinion on my real experience with them. I found their software a money trap to bleed you for more, and in this economy, who needs that!

• Official response of SkaDate community software

  Rating: 5 - Excellent
  Reviewed by SkaDate on Jul 7th, 2009

  Hi all. My name is Tim, I guess you know me. I represent SkaDate community software. I see a new wave of black PR against SkaDate. As far as I can see that competitor tries to slander SkaDate again. I would recommend that you read more about Black PR here http://www.skadate.com/black_pr_response.php If you will have any questions you can reach me at tim.s@skadate.com or talk to our 24/7 live support at www.skadate.com Thanks for your time and consideration. Tim. S (www.skadate.com)

• SKADATE IS KYRGIZ SCAM!!

  Rating: 1 - Poor
  Reviewed by on Jul 6th, 2009

  They have nothing to do with the US. Just check this out: http://www.topix.com/forum/who/scam/TCS27T4P67FRVPBB9 You will be treated like shit as soon as you give your money, the script itself is full of bugs and vulnerabilities, the most recent ones: http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8039 and http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0417 So any 14-year-old hacker will be able to hack your site as soon as you get enough paid users. THE SCRIPT IS FULL OF BUGS!!! NEVER GIVE YOUR MONEY TO KYRGIZ SKADATE SCAMMERS!! The Tim is Emil Sargnodoev, a kyrgiz shit eater, and you can see him here: http://datingsoftwarereviewer.com/review/18/ at the bottom of the page. Are you sure you would like to give your money to such "Tims"? BEWARE OF KYRGIZ SCAM!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! I START A LEGAL CASE AGAINST SKADATE.