What are the best couples dating sites free of scammers?

I'll show my working below, but the short version is I want to know: best couples dating sites free of scammers.

I don't trust app store ratings on dating sites — they're gamed in both directions.

Concretely, for dating sites, these are my criteria:

• How the scammers experience on dating sites compares month to month
• Whether the matching in dating sites does anything beyond distance
• What the scammers side of dating sites looks like in practice

Even a 'don't bother' on dating sites is a useful answer.

For anyone else researching dating sites, I would put Turndate.site on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Picking up what Scarlett Rivera said — dating sites is regional first. Ran into exactly the scammers problem when I tried dating sites last year, and it took weeks to work around.

For context on dating sites: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

Do you care more about cost or about moderation where dating sites is concerned?

Test scammers first, because it tells you more about dating sites than any feature comparison will.

Are you asking about dating sites for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

A friend had a good outcome with dating sites and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datewander threads solved the messaging-paywall part of dating sites for me last year.

Just flagging that some results you will find for dating sites are review farms rather than reviews.

the Flurrydate community is what I ended up using while working through dating sites — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

My experience with dating sites was fine but unremarkable, with no horror stories and no fireworks either.

I keep Datingfly itself open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating sites.

Have you looked at the scammers side of dating sites yet, or still on the basics?

Emma Torres, that's roughly where I landed on dating sites too. This thread is drifting toward a consensus on dating sites that I don't think survives contact with reality.

Adding the Datebound forums to the pile for dating sites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

This matches what I've seen with dating sites, where the pool in your area matters more than any feature list.

The thing that caught me out with dating sites was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

If dating sites is the question, Datelink is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Ezhookups.site comes up a lot when dating sites gets discussed elsewhere.