Diane, please visit the promo codes page again. The first entry there will always be the most recent code anyone has reportedly used that worked.

Joanne, the two most recent votes of working codes from Canada are 9am this morning and 9:30pm PST last night. Did none of the Canadian codes on the first screen worked for you at all?

also, this was just a FCW and i got to the email part with a few people, but even though we both sent OC messages, I can not view them, or respond now, without subscribing…

anyone?

Came here looking for coupons to join. One worked for a month for $19.95

Though one of the coupons worked, but for the wrong amount. Your page said $19.95 for 3 months it was like $54.00 for three months.

If I were Anonymous I would have spoken with a supervisor.

And, if I remember correctly, everyone is offered a chance to upload photos after he finishes the questionnaire and before he is shown his first set of matches. I remember a “Skip this step” button on this stage of the registration process.

(I wonder how many people were surprised and annoyed because they suddenly received piles and piles of eHarmony emails.)

So what I did to fix the FastTrack situation I discussed above with a non-member (I’m a paying member). So I did talk to eHarmony customer service and that was a waste or time; I e-mailed and called, both gave canned responses and said they cannot change something related to communication with another person within my account. I agree its not that they probably can’t, but they won’t. So I was very annoyed by this and started to think if I could beat their system…and I did.

So given it is FCW, I made a dummy account last night, changed my distance preferences so it would be more likely to match with the same match again. It worked and we exchanged e-mails today. So this also shows two non-members can find each other, even w/o pics. I just e-mailed him about this to let him know I am the person he contacted earlier and I stupidly FastTracked.

I am sure this is too much effort for most but I know there have been people on here who have been in communication and trying to keep in touch during free weekends but they were FastTracked. This would be your way to go back to Guided Communication–just slip in the contact info early on. All you need is a different e-mail address.

Jessica

If I were Anonymous I would have spoken with a supervisor.

And, if I remember correctly, everyone is offered a chance to upload photos after he finishes the questionnaire and before he is shown his first set of matches. I remember a “Skip this step” button on this stage of the registration process.

We on this blog should henceforth refer to being locked in FastTrack as a bug in the system that they need to fix and perhaps that will get their attention. This is one of those things where you can see it boiling down to them making money versus two users finding each other.

Ken:
Excellent comments above.

Regarding your statement “I’ve been hunting for “the one” for decades by now”. This is somewhat of a disconcerting reality. I don’t get it how so many people _ARE_ able to find success on eH and I think that we users should have “transparency” in those statistics.

Thanks for the advice. I called eHarmony and they confirmed that unless matches join you can’t communicate with them nor they with you at all (you can’t go back to Guided Communication). They also say they can’t undo anything that I’ve done. I added my email as suggested above but I don’t know that people will start checking my profile for new info so not sure it will help me out with the match who was interested in talking to me. I shouldn’t have FastTracked it!

If anyone else has any suggestions, let me know.

Thanks!

My impression over the years (ugh!) of online dating is that there are a lot of dabblers out there, women (and probably men too) who don’t really know what (or even *if*!) they want, and so their behavior appears kinda erratic and difficult to understand. Ultimately I’ve no interest in any dabblers anyway, so I guess it all comes out in the wash. I’ve even seen women who state in their profile that they don’t know what/who they’re looking for! Instant PLONK.

Re your “… given how low the likelihood is of finding ‘the one’ in a 4-day trial …”, well, I’ve been hunting for “the one” for decades by now, so, yeah, 4 days is kind of a shot in the dark. But so is much of life, huh?!

Sending e-mail in 1st Q’s I feel is a bit tacky. In 2nd Q’s, it’s reasonable, since there is room and you are still answering their question. I’ve sent my e-mail to folks in 2nd Q’s and sometime in OC and never heard from them, so it is sort of a weird dynamic. I dunno, maybe again, they don’t know you can setup a free e-mail account just for this stuff if they are afraid of giving out their “real” account or how to hide their full identity in their “real” account.

It is SO easy to get to OC and get an e-mail during four days. Heck, I can usually get it done in one day if they bother to check their e-mail with any reasonable frequency.

Your best shot is to send your first questions, and if she answers and sends you hers, you can tuck your email addy into one of your answers.

(Remember, this free “weekend” runs through all of Monday.)

I don’t know if it’s necessary, but I put spaces between all the letters, and I spell out “A T” and “D O T” in all caps … like this …

u s e r n a m e A T c o m c a s t D O T n e t

… just to be sure to get past any possible filters.

Good luck.

I’ve received two today (both from women with no photos posted), one saying something about how my profile made her smile (but NOT responding to the questions I’d sent her a few days ago), and the other saying “let’s chat”. Well if ya wanna chat, why not just send me your first questions?!

It’s almost as if they think that they can’t initiate the process or something. I really don’t get it.

The stupidity of *only* sending an icebreaker on a FCW makes me think twice about even wanting to bother communicating with them at all. Sheesh.