[Resolved]  Shaadi.com — total scam artists !

Shaadi.com - the biggest rip-off online matrimonial agency in the world. Sure they have had some successes but the whole website is designed to rip you off your hard earned money. You will notice they don't publish their success rates anywhere because I suspect it is as low as 2% or maybe 3%. So they try their best, via their website, to ensure that the remaining 97% of their visitors off their meagre savings in the false hope that they will find someone suitable to marry!

Here is an unbiased opinion, I have visited and registered with Shaadi.com on several occasions over the last 10 years so I am talking from personal experience as a single man in the U.K. who still has not found anyone even worthy of considering as a partner let alone marrying her.

Ok so lets get started with the website, it is very easy to navigate and also very user friendly. You will definitely know where to click but its like being in POP UP hell, anything useful you try to click on, is securely locked and you will get millions of popups during your vist to remind you that you are not a paid PREMIUM MEMBER so that function is unavailable to you.

At the bottom of most pages you will be shown adverts of their other website: makaan.com (for non Indians, MAKAAN means house and yes makaan.com is desperately trying to sell you property in India). Could it be that shaadi.com is NOT doing so well so they are now plugging makaan.com on the assumption that if we can't sell them a non existent bride, lets sell them a property instead?

I am only speaking for the UK but the majority of women on Shaadi.com in the UK, are totally unmarriable. They are stuck up, snotty nosed, selfish, self centred, who despite their good looks have failed to find a mate into their forties and will never find one after too. Sure some of them hold down good jobs but their parents have taught them NOTHING - not even basic cooking or in some cases even making basic Indian tea with the usual masaala! They may be good looking (hey what woman looks bad with a good hairstyle, lots of makeup and a professional photo that looks nothing like reality) but they lack modesty, humility and reality. Life has moved on they are still single in their forties, some of them never even married and yet they persist in their quest via a website in the remote hope that they will find a good looking filmstar, with lots of money and a mansion to marry them.

So how does Shaadi.com exploit these sad, rich old women, it provides a convenient avenue or website where they can coast along, in the safety of their homes, untouched by any man and doomed to remain untouched. They happily pay the fees to basically email or chat with a prospective candidate who they reject in the end anyways because no man is good enough for them. Divorced women with 3 kids on the side to keep them company are looking for young men who will marry them. Ofcourse the young men they choose are only after sex so they quickly reject them, much as they desire them. For it is only a website after all, you pay for the thrill of chatting or emailing or even phoning someone who will never be suitable for you.

Here are some points to watch out for if you are a lowlife UNPAID member that I supposedly am according to the website:

UPLOADING YOUR OWN PHOTO.
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Never upload your own photo unless you want it to be there permanently, Shaadi.com will lock up any photo you upload forever and will refuse you to remove it unless you upload another one! Only paid PREMIUM MEMBERS can choose to password protect or display their photos or remove them completely. Once you have uploaded your photo as a non paying member, they will lock it to your profile forever! You cannot change your mind and remove it.

CHATTING
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Forget about chatting with anyone who may be online whilst you are - unless you are - A FULLY PAID UP PREMIUM MEMBER. I have tested this feature by trying to chat with fully paid up women online, but no luck. Yes you BOTH HAVE TO BE PREMIUM MEMBERS before you can chat online within the website. The lonely frustrated women who have paid for membership fail to realise this anomaly, I mean if you have paid money to Shaadi.com, why can't you chat with any member paid or unpaid?

EXPRESSING INTEREST
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If you express interest in any woman on the website, you will not be able to talk to them, see their password protected photos, or even send them a single message until you have paid for - you guessed it - PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP. However to give the paid up women a cheap thrill, Shaadi.com actually allow them to send messages - one way only - to the lonely frustrated UNPAID member who has hesitatingly expressed in them. So these women DO get some value for money, they can send messages to non member men one way only.


VERIFIED PHONE NUMBER
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Small glimmer of hope for the unpaid membership consisting mainly of single, divorce or never married men who refuse to pay the Shaadi membership fees. If you register your mobile number with the website, paid up Women members will be able to see your phone and email address and the Queens can then choose to email or phone you if they please. In most cases they won't even bother to say a word to you - they will simply click on a button requesting the man to UPLOAD HIS PHOTO FIRST!. Yes these lonely old women will not even say hello to you until and unless you upload your photo on your profile first so that they can determine if you are good looking enough for them. So if you did upload your photo, aged 45 years plus you simply have NO CHANCE of catching their fancy as they are expecting to see an indian David Beckham in the photo. Message for the old women on Shaadi.com - honey have you looked in a mirror lately? Are you sure a filmstar would fancy you??

In conclusion this website has thousands of single women of all ages, who have failed to find a man through normal means and are now looking to Shaadi.com to release their pent up frustrations for a short while as they command who they talk to, email or demand photos of. The sad fact remains however that they still remain single at the end of it all. Only Shaadi.com makes money out of this venture - most people don't gain anything from this pathetic website other than an education in life!

If any of the lonely, desperate women out there are reading this article, my message sadly is: Keep on paying your membership fees to Shaadi.com and thrilling yourself with the power to accept and reject men on the internet for you will never find a real mate (of YOUR choice) on this website, all you will end up doing is lots of typing and maybe lots of talking a load of men who you will reject in the end anyways.

Good Luck being single and like me...enjoy being single! It is far cheaper and easier to find a stunning ### for the night or the weekend then wasting your time and money on Shaadi.com dealing with the lonely, frustrated, psychotic women on the website.

Shaadi.com — Fake profile

Please note that a profile has been created by my name giving all my personal datas. Thus many people are calling me up for marriage. Where as I am already married. My id is [protected]@sify.com.

Request to please delete the profile.

I agree that Shaadi.com is a big scam and I had doubts that several of the profiles who accepted my interest never revealed anything about themselves and slowly faded away by deleting their accounts/ email addresses and phone numbers

I agree that Shaadi.com is a big scam and I had doubts that several of the profiles who accepted my interest never revealed anything about themselves and slowly faded away by deleting their accounts/ email addresses and phone numbers

I didn't sign up for Shaadi.com but am receiving mails.This is disgusting.I hate it

so how else do you find someone to marry? reading this has been a depressing way to spend the last 30 minutes or so. i have a profile there too. i earn well, i take care of my family, i am pretty and no professional photos, i cook, can clean, witty, humorous, well read and all that! but in the early days there used to be advertisements in the newpapers. now its these portals. so if it's not one then it has to be the other. does that mean i am never gonna find anyone for no fault of my own? :'(

I was told that I had to submit my ID or passport, my high school and college records and the P and L from my business...set off identity theft alarms big time. From reading here it sounds like there are many scams associated with this site and all should stay away.

Yes, shaadi is I am finding a troubling experience. I must admit that when I joined, the first two years were ok, there were genuine profiles on there. But over the past year, nearly all are fake. There is a profile on their by the name of Gerald Amos who keeps sending you interests. They all have 1 child, their partner cheated or died. Most of them say they work for an Oil Company, alarm bells should start ringing. Well I am a big believer in Karma and to do this to innocent vulnerable women is very very cruel. There is only one place that these people are guaranteed to end up in and that is hell one day. It really is quite disturbing what goes on in the minds of people. There is also another man who is based in London who has lied about his age, his job, his marriage(s), on his profile he is listed as living in Hammersmith. He is in his 60s to 70s but states on his profile that he is 49. He calls himself D Rao.
So people please be vigilant and perhaps may extra and go to an authentic site.

They guys will take money and never listen to you...

They will fool you like government exactly...they will only talk once nicely at the time of money and than will never get back to you ...

they will tell you ..we will tell our team to solve but guess what NO SUCH TEAM EXIST...

Fraud 1. They will only allow 10 contacts per day ( although you paid full )

Fraud 2. They will not tell you that their membership limit you with limited phone numbers you can get...so less value of your money

Fraud 3. Half of the phone numbers on profiles were wrong...

Fraud 4. There is no use of membership at all ..

Fraud 5. There chat department sucks...they will type in fraction of seconds...so that means they are mean people who just copy the statement as per your issue and will never get solved...

Never be the PAID member of it..IT REALLY SUCKS...

i have met a guy via shaadi.com his name he said is ali kashif, his id ali khan from antwerp Belgium
he said he had been caring for his mother for the past 8 years as she was ill and after she died he got into a depression and was now again looking for a nice girl. He has totally fooled me. He says he lives in Antwerp Belgium and in Amsterdam. I have met him in Amsterdam he has taken a lot of money from me. He operates with his friends and he is a total fraud. If you know this man please contact me

Shaadi.com is a big cheater. They will trick to pay for membership by fraud.

When i registered on Shaadi.com, within 1 day I got two interest which looked fishy (very beautiful looking girls), hence i did not accept it. The third was from a homely girl and she asked for my photo. When i tried to accept her interest Shaadi.com asked for fees, which I paid.

When i uploaded my pic there was a message saying that the pic will be uploaded after verification.

While still the picture was getting verified the same girl who had sent me interest and asked for photo sent a cancel of interest. i.e. without even seeing my photo she declined.

This means that they will use baits (interest from girls - not only model type knowing that people understand the trick, but from homely looking genuine girls) to trick you into paying money, but once you pay you will be left like a piece of waste...

The government should do something about this cheater website Shiity.com

All I can say is be cautious. Shaadi, like most companies are out to get money. That being said, they are more interested in their profit margin then in your safety. I complained to them about a guy whom I'd gotten a interest from. I never accepted it. But did make contact w/ him. His profile said nothing about having been married or having children. During our first contact he told me had a little girl. So I asked him why didn't he have this info on his profile. No reply.. he just vanished. The next morning he texts me bright and early w/ some poetry and said he was sorry for not replying but he'd fallen asleep.

He led me to believe that he was in the US. During our 2nd conversation he confided to me that he was in Nigeria taking care of his sick mother. He than said that he hoped this fact didn't discourage me. I told him no.. .as long as he didn't write me later saying that he'd had some troubles and need me to send him money. He said he was not like that. but then disappeared again. Since he hasn't replied to any of my texts.

So I started doing some research online. I found his picture and a complaint from another female on a forum who he'd scammed out of several hundred dollars by telling her he needed money for various things like meds for his mom, care for her and things for his daughter. I immediately filed a complaint w/ shaadi. Sent them a transcript of our conversation and a link to the forum w/ his picture and the females complaint. I thought he was under investigation anyhow because his id was unavailable. I'd also gotten an email from shaadi telling me to rest assured the issue had been handled. However a day or so later his acct was again available. So I wrote them again and expressed how bad it was that a person like him was allowed freedom to pray on innocent females on shaadi. I also suggested to them how unethical their company must be to not shut down his account considering all of the information and evidence I'd sent them to support my complaint. I was written another letter stating that a new case had been opened.

Now days later I see that his acct is still active. Nothing has been done. So it's either the fact that he's a premium member or this acct has been set up by shaadi themselves and this company is using this and other profiles like it to cheat unsuspecting females. Ladies be careful of this id SH32938698. Men be careful as well. They probably have the same dummy female profiles set up as well. Anyone who would do this or allow this to continue has no ethics or shame and are liable to do anything. As I said in my complaint letter, SHAME ON YOU SHAADI!

All I can say is be cautious. Shaadi, like most companies are out to get money. That being said, they are more interested in their profit margin then in your safety. I complained to them about a guy whom I'd gotten a interest from. I never accepted it. But did make contact w/ him. His profile said nothing about having been married or having children. During our first contact he told me had a little girl. So I asked him why didn't he have this info on his profile. No reply.. he just vanished. The next morning he texts me bright and early w/ some poetry and said he was sorry for not replying but he'd fallen asleep.

He led me to believe that he was in the US. During our 2nd conversation he confided to me that he was in Nigeria taking care of his sick mother. He than said that he hoped this fact didn't discourage me. I told him no.. .as long as he didn't write me later saying that he'd had some troubles and need me to send him money. He said he was not like that. but then disappeared again. Since he hasn't replied to any of my texts.

So I started doing some research online. I found his picture and a complaint from another female on a forum who he'd scammed out of several hundred dollars by telling her he needed money for various things like meds for his mom, care for her and things for his daughter. I immediately filed a complaint w/ shaadi. Sent them a transcript of our conversation and a link to the forum w/ his picture and the females complaint. I thought he was under investigation anyhow because his id was unavailable. I'd also gotten an email from shaadi telling me to rest assured the issue had been handled. However a day or so later his acct was again available. So I wrote them again and expressed how bad it was that a person like him was allowed freedom to pray on innocent females on shaadi. I also suggested to them how unethical their company must be to not shut down his account considering all of the information and evidence I'd sent them to support my complaint. I was written another letter stating that a new case had been opened.

Now days later I see that his acct is still active. Nothing has been done. So it's either the fact that he's a premium member or this acct has been set up by shaadi themselves and this company is using this and other profiles like it to cheat unsuspecting females. Ladies be careful of this id SH32938698. Men be careful as well. They probably have the same dummy female profiles set up as well. Anyone who would do this or allow this to continue has no ethics or shame and are liable to do anything. As I said in my complaint letter, SHAME ON YOU SHAADI!

Just to add to Neel979's story. I'm talking to this girl claiming to be Mona patel with the same story about taking care of her foster mom. I knew from the get go that there was something fishy about this girl since she sent me long emails about her life. I mean no-one starts being that frank in first email. Before coming to this website I did a IP trace of my own and found out that the email are being sent from Virginia. What's interesting is the fact that this person sent me multiple pictures of some girl. Probably some girl who this person duped. I will never send money to this person anyhow but I will play along and see how far they go. This is a serious problem though. We don't come to this website to waste time.

Just to add to Neel979's story. I'm talking to this girl claiming to be Mona patel with the same story about taking care of her foster mom. I knew from the get go that there was something fishy about this girl since she sent me long emails about her life. I mean no-one starts being that frank in first email. Before coming to this website I did a IP trace of my own and found out that the email are being sent from Virginia. What's interesting is the fact that this person sent me multiple pictures of some girl. Probably some girl who this person duped. I will never send money to this person anyhow but I will play along and see how far they go. The one thing that I'm concerned about is that I sent my pictures to this person in my first email which I'm worried will end up at some website to create another fake profile. Anyone have any thoughts on how to track and find out if someone is using your pictures online? I've tried the Google Image search but that doesn't really help. Also wanted to find out the unsuspecting poor girl whose pictures this person is used to contact me. She probably doesn't even know someone is using her pictures. And where in US can we lodge complaints about this type of online behavior?

Dear friends, Please be informed

SHAADI.COM IS A SCAM SITE

DONT BE FOOLED BY POSITIVE REVIEWS ON THE NET

THESE REVIEWS ARE CREATED BY SHAADI TEAM

DONT BE FOOLED BY SHAADI SUCCESS STORIES

THESE ARE SHAADI STAFF MEMBERS POSING FOR PHOTO

If you want to lose your money go ahead

but if you plan on getting married follow the counsel of family members, friends

Relatives may be old fashioned but they have your interests in mind

Shaadi.com is a team out to make money on you

We empathize with you and regret the inconvenience caused due to the conduct of few members on Shaadi.com.

Shaadi.com is committed to providing a quality meeting ground for our members and takes utmost care to ensure that it remains a serious platform for match-seekers. But despite all precautions, we do come across some erring members who give a bad name to the entire system. Even then, we try to minimize the number by taking prompt action against those members who are proven guilty of abusing the system.

We have a process in place to deal with such cases, and assure you that we will take necessary action against the member. However, please understand that it is imperative that we base the complaint on documented evidence that can be used to incriminate the member.

For the same, may we please request you to forward any relevant mails which would substantiate your complaint. This will not only expedite the action process, but will also strengthen your complaint.

You may forward the same as an attachment to [protected]@shaadi.com. We assure you that necessary action will be taken as soon as we get the relevant information from your end

Regards,
Shaadi.com - Customer Relations Team

Shaadi.com should be called uglybengalitamiltelegu.com.

It should be called uglyshaadi.com. I have not seen that many ugly ladies in a nation.

Shaadi.com — Stay away from this site...total scammers

#1) girls here not attractive at all and mostly tamils, talaygoos #2) bunch of loser ladies - gold diggers #3) most of the women here are free subscribers. It is like happy hours for the ladies in a bar on Friday night #4) garbage, lot of liars.