I joined eHarmony in early 2008. Before I signed up, I researched the internet and find the following website http://www.consumeraffairs.com/dating_services/eharmony.html. One of the most interesting complaints is one by Peggy of Bedminster NJ (02/21/08, http://www.consumeraffairs.com/dating_services/eharmony_p29.html).
Basically, she suspect that eHarmony used decoys to keep subscribers interested. Unfortunately, in the three months that I subscribed to eHarmony last year, I also had similar experiences. In the first case, a match communicated with me up to the end of the 2nd set of questions, right when open communication started. But as soon as we got to that stage, she told me that she need to move because her company moved her job elsewhere. A few weeks later, I pretty much went through the same thing with another match. When we finally agree to meet in person, my match stopped her communicate with me all of a sudden. Thinking I got nothing to lose, I wrote her an e-mail, expressing my disappointment that she and eHarmony used such an unethical tactic to trick people. But lo and behold, she replied me, saying that she meant to meet with me and that her e-mail just didn’t get through for some reasons. Then, she accused me of being an untrusting moron.
My question to you is: Do you have similar experience?
For those who have met weird matches in person, I suspect that at least some of them are employed by eHarmony to entertain its subscribers. The decoys behave as weird as possible so that you will stop bugging them and you will feel that eHarmony does it job…
To validate or invalidate my suspicion, I’d like collect some user experiences to check my gut feeling.
Any comments?
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