Is EliteSingles Closing Down?

No. The EliteSingles website is live, and its pages list EliteSingles.com / SuccessfulMatch.com, Inc. as the copyright holder. What has changed for some men is the account system, and that is the likely reason you are asking. If your old login stopped working, EliteSingles says to create a fresh account on its website.

Open the site and read the bottom of the page. The copyright line names EliteSingles.com / SuccessfulMatch.com, Inc. A company that has closed does not keep its pages up and its sign-up open.

The site and the app share one account, so you can check both. If the website loads and offers you a sign-up, the service is running.

This is evidence for today, not a promise about next year. Nobody can promise that about any dating site. What you can do is judge the service on whether it works for you right now, which is the sensible way to treat every paid app.

EliteSingles says it runs on a different account system from before. Account data from the previous operator was not transferred to the platform it uses today.

That matters to a man who joined years ago. His email and password may simply not exist on the current system. The site did not close. His old account is not there to log in to.

If EliteSingles cannot find your old account, it tells you to create a new one on its website. That means starting from a blank page, with your answers, your photos and your conversations gone from the new side.

A member who once had a paid subscription is not told to give up. EliteSingles says to contact support with proof of purchase, such as a receipt or a screenshot of the payment, so the case can be reviewed.

Gather what you have before you write. A receipt in your email, a card statement line, or a screenshot from your app store history all count as proof. Send them in one message with your email address and the approximate dates.

Keep the message short and factual. Support reads many of these, and a clear note with dates and amounts gets looked at faster than a long complaint.

If you create a fresh account, resist the urge to rewrite it exactly as it was. The old one was written for the man you were then.

Use the restart as a free chance to fix what did not work. Write about one specific thing in your life, a place you go or something you cook, instead of a list of traits. Pick recent, clear photos of your face. A site built for serious dating lets women read in detail, so the extra effort shows.

a dating coach's rule for any dating app or site is to treat it as a test. Spend a short stretch of time on it, and count four things: women you wrote to, replies you got, numbers you collected and dates you set.

If you pay for a plan, pay for as little time as the site allows and set a reminder before it renews. Cancel in the place where you subscribed. A charge through Apple or Google has to be stopped with Apple or Google.

If, after two weeks, you have messages going nowhere and no dates, the site is not for you in your area. That is a result, and it costs you less than months of hoping.

Men who ask whether a site is dying are often asking a different question: why are my matches so quiet? A site can be perfectly healthy and still produce nothing for a man whose first message is "Hi" and whose pictures were taken three years ago.

Check what you control first. Write to her about something in her write-up, in two or three sentences. Ask a real question. Suggest a call or a coffee within a handful of messages instead of letting it run for weeks.

If you do those things and still get nothing, another dating app with more people near you will give you more chances to practice. Run the same test there.

EliteSingles is open. The trouble some members hit is an old account that did not move across. Create a fresh one if yours cannot be found, send proof of purchase if you used to pay, and judge the site by your own numbers.