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Note: This free has ended but Lavalife offers a free 7 day trial you can use if you are still interested in trying the service.

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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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In my last post I discussed some of the good and the bad regarding the usefulness of Chemistry’s 14-day trial. This time I wanted to offer tips to those who do decided to take advantage of this offer. My hope is to provide advice that will help make the most of the dating service while it’s free.

1. Mention You’re Trying the Free Trial

One part that is difficult with any online dating service trial is that the people you contact don’t [...]

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Lavalife is having another free email weekend starting Saturday December 19th at 12:01am and running until December 20th at 11:59pm. This free weekend is a little shorter than their previous weekends and, as has been the case before, they seem to alert people that this is happening at the last minute (I found out after the free weekend had already started).

For those unaware, the Lavalife free email weekend basically makes the entire site free (as far as communicating with other [...]

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For the second time Lavalife is having a free email weekend (the first free weekend was back in October). The Free Email Weekend begins Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 12:01am local time and ends Monday, November 30, 2009 at 11:59am local time. This actually provides two-and-a-half days of free communicating.

Lavalife is an open service like Match.com where you can contact any other user as you wish. This is in contrast to eHarmony, which picks your matches for you and [...]

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