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Note: there is also a free weekend at eHarmony this weekend so it’s a good weekend.

Lavalife is having a free communication weekend this coming weekend starting Saturday, September 4th and running until Monday September 6th 2010. This weekend will be 100% free to communicate with all other members on Lavalife. This event appears to offer the entire service for free: contact any of the other singles through email or instant messenger and you can even take advantage of features such [...]

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Note: there is also a free weekend at Lavalife this weekend so it’s a good weekend.

eHarmony is having another free weekend from September 3rd to September 6th, over this coming Labor Day weekend. The event will be available to both U.S. and Canada residents and will begin at 12:01AM on Friday the 3rd and will end at 11:59PM on Monday the 6th. This means the free “weekend” is actually four days long this time.

Last time eHarmony had a free weekend [...]

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MatchAffinity will be having a free communication weekend this Bank Holiday weekend, Friday the 27th to Sunday the 29th 2010. All members of MatchAffinity (including non-subscribers) can communicate with other singles for free starting at 4PM on Friday and going until 11:59PM on Sunday night.

For those who are unfamiliar, MatchAffinity is a service for singles in the UK. It takes a mixed approach to online dating: where some dating services pick your matches for you and other dating services let [...]

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Chemistry.com is having their next free communication weekend starting Friday, August 20 and running until Sunday, August 22 2010.

When some other services have free events, they limit how you can use their service during the free event. Chemistry.com on the other hand entirely opens up their service: any functionality a paying member can use, you should be able to use also during this free weekend.

If you’re brand-new to online dating or if you are unfamiliar with Chemistry.com, I would recommend [...]

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Match.com offers a free 7-day trial to new members and is one of the few services of its type that does so. By “type” I am referring to the fact that Match.com allows you to contact any member that you want. Free trials and events are more common with the matchmaker type of service, such as eHarmony or Chemistry, where the members that you can contact are limited by the service itself. The fact that a service like Match.com offers [...]

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Lavalife will be providing free use of their instant messenger service to all memeber this Wednesday, July 28 2010.

The email alert I received from them suggested that I:

Log in now and start hot-listing your favorites, then come back first thing Wednesday and start communicating with 1000s of local singles on IM for FREE!

This seems like pretty good advice to me (and I’m actually surprised to see the service offering such clear instructions on how to best take advantage of the [...]

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Chemistry.com is having a free communication weekend starting Friday, July 23 and running until Sunday, July 25, 2010. It is going to be a busy weekend for free events! This is because in addition to this free weekend at chemistry, eHarmony is also having a free communication event starting this Friday (see my previous post for more on this).

While free events are always a good thing, this weekend offers some particular value because of both of these free weekends. A [...]

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This event occurs in the past. See this post for the most up-to-date free events

Update 7/25/2010: It appears that this free event only allows you to take the communication so far – see the comments below for more details. It doesn’t appear that the free weekend is all it is cracked up to be, at least for this event. If anyone has more details or experiences with this, please feel free to comment below. Thanks!

This eHarmony free communication weekend is [...]

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This Wednesday, July 21, 2010, DatingDirect will be offering a free trial to all new subscribers who sign up between 6 PM and midnight (UK residents only). Compared to most free dating events, this is a very small window of time to take advantage of the service.

In addition, it appears that only the users who actually signed up during this six hour period are going to be able to take advantage of the free communication. I see this as [...]

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eHarmony’s next free weekend is July 2nd until July 5th 2010. If you are new to eHarmony, during the eHarmony Free Communication Weekends you can communicate with all of your matches absolutely FREE. While eHarmony almost always refers to these events as weekends, there are actually 4 days of free communication for you to take advantage of (so it is more of a free long-weekend). Generally the events begin at 12AM of the first date and end at 11:59PM of [...]

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For the first time ever, Parship.co.uk is offering a voucher for 50% off of their 3-month subscriptions. To qualify for this promotion you will need to:

Visit this sign-up pagewhich includes an area to enter the voucher.

In the voucher box enter 33A45

Do this on or before July 31st

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Chemistry.com is having another free weekend this June.

Chemistry.com is having this free communication weekend from Friday June 11th until Sunday June 13th. During this free weekend you will be able to communicate with all of your matches absolutely free. No credit card or other type of payment is required: just create your free account and when the weekend arives you’ll be able to talk with all of your matches.

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MatchAffinity, a U.K. base dating service, is having another free weekend starting Friday at 4PM and running until midnight on Sunday June 6th. This will be a great opportunity for U.K. residents to try one of the newest online dating services which has been showing a lot of promise.

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This event has already ended. For the most current eHarmony event, see my post on eHarmony Free Communication Weekends

Another free eHarmony weekend is upon us. Free communication events are available for both eHarmony U.S and eHarmony Canada for May 2010. During these free events, eHarmony users can communicate for FREE with their matches. The sooner you register, the longer you’ll have to communicate for free so if you are considering trying the service out don’t hesitate for too long. When [...]

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Read here about the the current free weekend for June 2010 at MatchAffinity.

For the first time ever, Match Affinity is having a free weekend for singles in the United Kingdom. This free weekend will run from Friday, April 30th at 4pm until midnight on Sunday May 2nd. All users will be able to communicate with each other freely during this event with no payments required. This is a nice change for the U.K. singles out there as most of the [...]

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Online dating promotions are available at many (probably most) of the online dating sites out there. In this article, I wanted to provide a collection these that I am aware of.

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Note: the most recent Chemistry.com Free Communication Weekend is happening June 2010.

This coming weekend is another free weekend at Chemistry.com. This free event will run from 12:01AM on Friday April 30th to Sunday May 2nd at 11:59PM.

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Starting earlier this month, Lavalife is offering 25% off of subscriptions running until May 15th, 2010. This is in part to promote they’re newly designed site which looks pretty good. If you’ve used this service in the past you might want to log in to check out the changes. Below is the promotion code to get the discount (don’t forget to enter “LAVA25″ if you subscribe).

Save 25% on all Lavalife subscriptions! (coupon code: LAVA25, Exp date: 5/15/2010)

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It looks like it is time for another Chemistry free communication weekend. This time it will be running from Friday, March 26th to Sunday March 28th. Everyone with a user account at Chemistry.com will be able to communicate the entire weekend for free. This is generally a great time to sign up and not just because it’s free: other people will be signing up in large numbers from now to this weekend as well and more people means there [...]

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It’s time for another Free Communication Weekend at eHarmony. Starting on March 18th and running March 21st 2010, eHarmony users can communicate with all of their matches for free. This is actually 4 days of free communicating so it’s more of a Free Communication Long Weekend. The Free Communication Weekend officially begins at 12:01AM on Thursday, March 18th and ends on Sunday, March 21st at 11:59PM. This promotion is available for both the eHarmony in the United States and [...]

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