LA-Dates is a pit for money – do NOT fall for it. I spent a lot of effort with this web site because the women were pretty and wanted to connect. The site’s rules and costs are ridiculous – crazy when compared to every other dating site. To give you an idea, you have to SPEND 3,000 credits on just one woman by chatting or communicating ONLY through the app – and 3,000 credits cost more than $500 – FOR ONE WOMAN TO JUST TALK ON A PHONE. So you are forced into chasing the possibility of one woman you are continuously chatting with being real and being someone you think you would like to meet – and spend $500+ before you can actually talk to her by phone. TERRIBLE business model for the guys – and a total sinkhole for a money pit. And their cyber cops are quick – on my very first chat with one woman out of dozens I had flagged I had put my contact info in the chat to try and connect with her out of the App. One minute later I got blocked forever and banned from the app. It was then that I found out about how this site is basically a scam for sucking your wallet dry. DON”T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE – Skip this site as enticing as it looks. Its “credits’ are just like a casino – keep pumping in the money and if your first contact turns out to be a lemon for $500, spend another $500 so you can talk with another woman and find out if she is real and can speak some English – something you cannot uncover in simple chats. So even threshold issues are something you take a huge risk with – tough for you if the photos turned out to be years old or the woman fibbed and chatted she could understand English or whatever…..DO NOT FALL FOR THIS TRAP.