Ive had several sucesful dates through ok Cupid which is a free service. Also Meetup.com is free.Meetup has face to face meetings and singles groups however if your interested in someones profile you can send them a greeting or email message and get together that way. its not meant to be used  as a online dating but it can be.

Also you can attend their singles groups meetups and meet folk that way. I met someone in person this week just by a spiritual meetup, were both interested in the spiritual part and phoned each other figured out the group was kind of a con or somethings wrong with it and decided to get together in person and go to other spiritual services together instead.

So you see how it works we didnt even go to the spiritual meetup but because you can contact other members of your group through email the ability to meet people is theres its interesting so you might try joining some singles groups through meetup.com