(Republished in entirety with permission from Richard Block, dated 8 March 2009. Thanks, Richard!)
No Wonder They Dont Post a Photo First
Like most of you I have seen the eHarmony commercials on T.V., being single I thought why not maybe it will be better than the joke sites like Match.Com or JDate.Com, which at best is an excercise in who isnt what their profile says. So I jumped in, spent an hour filling out the questions and tried to be as honest as possible. In Short order I began to receive those little notices that certain members were interested in me.
My first bad feeling was when I tried to view photos of the members who had contacted me, no such thing existed, well not completely I contacted the eHarmony staff and was promptly notified that these members had chosen not to share thier photos until a certain “stage” in the communication. I was instantly suspicious, men are visual creatures and attraction starts with “what does this person look like”?.
I continued to communicate with several members for some time and finally arranged a date with one of them, I received a somewhat dim photo the day we were supposed to meet at a local bar in Delray Beach. When we did meet she was fairly attractive much better than her picture. She dressed very nicley and could maintain a fairly intellegent conversation, at least initially. She was in a word insane.
She began to describe her religious beliefs which were as far as I could tell a remake of “Aliens” and a Jane Goodall documentry. People should be killed for eating flesh and all earth bound religion was brought to us by alien creatures. Okay we werent going to be seeing each other again.
Now I marked this event down as a learning experience and continued my pursuit for a “Soul Mate” which I was sure to find with the 29 dimensions of compatibility advertised by the site. The next woman I met after again not seeing a photo until I performed a bizzare series of questions, answers, and small animal sacrifices we agreed to a time and place.
Now to set the stage for this, her profile said she enjoyed body art, I assumed that meant tattoo’s or body piercing. I was so wrong, she arrived wearing a low cut top which left her bare at the mid-drift. She had tattoo’s covering her entire body, her breasts, stomach, shoulders, arms, legs everything and everywhere except her neck and face. This wasnt body art it was primitive tribal religion minus the cannibalism.
Okay I gave up after this I notified eHarmony that the women I had met were nuts. The old guy who did these commercials clearly never used the system he put together or he would have run screaming in terror from these women.
Now I dropped my eHarmony membership after this last experience and whats annoying is that I keep geeting all these email invites from the company offering me all these discounts and freebies if I will try it just one more time.
You know when it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck its probably a duck, so eHarmony NO THANKS.
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