Comments on: #eharmony EHB, on your side — November 2009 issue http://eharmony-blog.com/1792 Unofficial, comprehensive and commercial-free guide to eHarmony with news, opinion, discussions and advice Mon, 13 May 2013 04:28:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Private http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-2#comment-104314 Private Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:14:54 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-104314 Also wanted to agree with last 2 posts.
Eharmony uses very suspicious tactics.
A few things I noticed:
-Eharmony only accepts credit cards. They refuse paypal & other more secure options.
-Eharmony is notorious for negative billing
-Eharmony does use fake profiles – I know b/c my deleted profile was one of them!
-Eharmony does not allow short trials (e.g. one month).
-Eharmony uses a LOT of “hard sell” tactics, several of which are ethically dubious and manipulative.
-’Free weekends’: As expected, “matches” suddenly initiate communication but wait until after free trial expiry to continue
-Investigative reports have found that many of these sites instruct their own employees to create profiles and send communications to create the illusion of a larger membership that they really have.
-My overall impression: Manipulative hard sell tactics, long & expensive minimum trial, restrictive (difficult-to cancel) payment methods, use of expired profiles and suspicious communication patterns suggests a scam.

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By: Private http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-2#comment-104312 Private Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:36:22 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-104312 Just wanted to agree with “Jan”, msg #17.
I had the EXACT same experience.
I am the same demographic profile. I was also sent utterly ridiculous ‘matches’. Several were also expired.
I DISAGREE WITH THIS SITE EDITOR’S COMMENTS TO YOU. THAT IS NOT LIKELY WHAT HAPPENED. My profile was closed and supposed to have been deleted 5 years ago. Eharmony reactivated it and started using it without my permission a few months ago. It has been impossible to get the profile deleted. Eharmony is very creepy & dishonest.

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By: Art http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-2#comment-102280 Art Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:27:16 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-102280 I have posted this before and people need to start using the technology that is out there available to them to stop this auto-renewal.

If you do not have a pay pal account…get one. With a pay pal account, you can set up secure cards that you control. In general they are one-use cards. So if you sign up and eharmony or anyone else attempts to use the card a second time, it gets declined because it was used one time. If you want a multi-use card for a service (netflix for example), set up a multi-use card. It has a 24-month expiration and you can go into paypal and cancel it at any time. No time during this is your bank account information stored at the vendor so you don’t have to risk them charging you when you don’t want or having to cancel your credit card to get a service to stop.

This is not an ad for paypal but would end people’s nightmares about auto renewal or companies having your credit cards.

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By: DIANE http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-2#comment-102274 DIANE Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:37:19 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-102274 sorry another issue just came to mind, no where does it ask weight ??? hellllooooo EHarmony, i emailed them, they say no they dont want to ask for it, they want their members to look at the inside of the person they are talking to , WTH ??? sorry but I am a plus sz lady, not obese, just plus sz, apparently to the men on EHarmony that does make me an overeater & lazy & why dont I exercise more & lose the weight maybe I will find someone ??? EHarmony wastes a persons time by now allowing this info, they said if I felt that strongly about it I am free to put it on my profile, so I did, next thing I knew 2 of the guys I had go to stage 4 with, poof they closed the communication, so obviously they werent looking at the inside ??? duh

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By: DIANE http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-2#comment-102273 DIANE Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:34:22 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-102273 crock of bull this site is, signed up, get matches, eliminated 12 right off the bat, compatability screening, tests, must haves, cant haves blah blah blah, and I just checked if there was a turn feature for the auto renew & I can find it anywhere, just says it will auto renew, so if I start expressing now to EHarmony that they do not deliver as they claim maybe just maybe they wont renew me on July 5th 2010 ???? that gives me about 10wks to set them straight huh ? Personally I believe most of the matches they are sending me are either 1) fake profiles or 2) inactive former members(explains why I never hear from them & nor do they even look at my profile & no there is not showing any anonymous looks)……sorry i ever signed up, its a scam.

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By: Kim http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-2#comment-101012 Kim Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:47:43 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-101012 This company is a scam. This is not obviously disclosed to the consumer. I recommend a class action suit. Edelman & Combs

Also please know that you can contact your bank or credit card to have these charges stopped.

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By: Bob http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-2#comment-100421 Bob Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:19:27 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100421 Hi
Why do you have to go through Goolge and this site to contact the site?
If you return there mail you get an error.

You also cannot state that you don’t wont contact with matches with no photo’s.
For me no Photo means you don’t really take the site seriously.
No on site contact info is really a no no these days.

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By: SingleGuyInNC http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-2#comment-100383 SingleGuyInNC Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:28:17 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100383 Joe,

I have not seen one cent from eHarmony or anyone else from posting on here. They _SHOULD_ be paying me or give me a free subscription but that’s not going to happen. I’ve had to pay hundreds of dollars for the “privilege” of using their service and 3+ years later, I’m still single.

All the time that I have put into writing articles and commenting comes out of the sheer frustration of not having success. Besides, what else is there to do when most of your matches don’t respond to communication?

Maybe one of these days I’ll drop the pseudonym but until I’m totally done using their service, it stays.

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By: annoymous1 http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-2#comment-100368 annoymous1 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:30:06 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100368 I mean Norman Rockwell. He was a painter who painted a lot of families get togethers and so forth.

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By: annoymous1 http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-100364 annoymous1 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:46:11 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100364 I notice that. Well, good, feel good photos. They do seem a plug for eHarmony. But, I will give you the benefit of the doubt. Almost like Normal Rockwell except for someone who can see beyond the image hype .

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By: eharmonyblog http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-100363 eharmonyblog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:20:50 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100363 Annoymous, in case it isn’t obvious, there is a “Photo credit” link under each and every photo. All 1,100 of them.

Joe, not only will we accept your challenge to publish your comment, we will even invite you to write and submit articles which we will publish unedited. If all goes well, another Joe will come and comment on your article. :) Oh, and we’ll publish his comment, too, unless he’s selling ebooks or pills or something.

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By: annoymous1 http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-100358 annoymous1 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:52:50 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100358 I will say that these photos some of them are really quite touching. The one of the woman sitting down by her partner in a wheel chair. The reality is though that is indeed a small percentage. I have read also that some couples are paid to do this. So who knows. Let me say though when it comes to images there is a photo of me standing by a pedesterian bridge with this “Bridge to eHarmony?” That I used was even complimented. Obviously that image didn’t take.

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By: annoymous1 http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-100357 annoymous1 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:35:20 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100357 Ok, I will give this blog the benefit of the doubt that eHarmony is not paying them. I do wonder though how you get all those photos of the couples on every blog.

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By: annoymous1 http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-100355 annoymous1 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:21:46 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100355 By saying I am not a fan of their I mean the real (mean) eHarmony.

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By: annoymous1 http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-100354 annoymous1 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:20:18 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100354 Well, I do not know if eHarmony is paying them or not. I wonder where they get all the photos of the happily married couples or soon to be married couples. However, if they are maybe they will learn something. So, far they haven’t banned me and I am not exactly a fan of their and that is an understatment.

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By: Joe http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-100351 Joe Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:34:42 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100351 You folks are terrific! You bend over backwards to say that you are NOT eHarmony, BUT your responses and your customer-service-speak makes it SO clear the following: No, you are not eHarmony, but CLEARLY eHarmony is paying you. Please, folks, realize this site for the joke it is.
(And I challenge you folks to publish this comment!)

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By: TMF http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-100071 TMF Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:32:54 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-100071 eHarmony is a total scam from top to bottom! Their deceptive pricing practices should be investigated and a class action suit filed against them. I tried every single day for a week to disable autorenew, only to sign on the next day to find it had been changed back. Then all of a sudden I cannot even access my profile at all. A very very rude “customer service” rep argued with me about whether or not I had ever tried to disable autorenew – would not STFU when I told her I wasn’t interested in any “deals” she had for me to stay. I had to demand an email confirmation that autorenew had been disabled from their end (keeping it for later proof).

The profiles I have received have been completely fake – or at least that is my theory. Of the 400+ profiles sent to me – fewer than 40 have even “looked” at me in the last year. Do that many men really pay handsomely for a site they never use? My guess is no.

Of the 400+ profiles sent to me – 80% have no photos – and I have never once received a photo after asking for one from any profile.

Of the 400+ profiles sent to me – I have met face to face with 2 “gentlemen” over the course of a year. One of them told me within five minutes of meeting that he did not live anywhere near where his profile said he did, and that if we were ever seen in public together we could not tell anyone how we met or why we were together – my guess is MARRIED! The second “gentleman,” get this, one of his profile pics was actually a cropped pic listed in the sex offender registry for the State of Maryland! The reason I know is that I routinely peruse those sites for local sex offenders (I have kids!). By the way, he insisted on praying out loud – very loud – over dinner.

Total, complete scam!

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By: Kenner http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-98037 Kenner Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:15:04 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-98037 I was an eharmony member three years ago, and closed my account after I met someone. It didn’t work out so I recently signed up again. I was quite surprised to see all my personal information – photos, profile, credit card # were still there, after 3 years and me “closing” the account.

Stranger yet, eharmony “never matches you more than once” so my matches from 3 years ago are still there but I can’t communicate with them.

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By: AB http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-96146 AB Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:13:05 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-96146 All,

Let me give you a trick so you never have to deal with eHarmony or any other site auto renewing on you. Never use your credit/Debit card. What you need to do is get paypal credit card plugin. It allows you to set up virtual cards that take funds from your debit card. To eHarmony, its a credit card. The card has a one-time use (unless you set it as multi-use) so they can only hit you one time. Also, you can go into paypal and close down cards at will.

Simple way of ensuring no one automatically hits your card on a recurring basis.

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By: NL http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-96016 NL Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:25:53 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-96016 I just want to thank eharmonyblog for setting up this site. In the past I subscribed to eharmony and was shocked and disappointed by some of their “customer service” and steep pricing. While I shared what I could with some of the nice women I met and dated, this site does an even better job of raising people’s awareness. I do not know if eharmony will ever provide me with my future partner (versus just meeting her in person as I live my life), but their steep pricing, tricky tactics, and clunky website interface and rules can really take away from what might be an otherwise great experience of using their service. If it was not for your site, and the promo codes, I probably would not have re-subscribed after being away for over 1 year.

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By: eharmonyblog http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-95869 eharmonyblog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:31:47 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-95869 Dale, just for info, some people are finding better success and more dates with the “send me matches” format. They say it levels the field. No man or woman receives hundreds of emails a day which they then ignore. Because each of your matches only received a few matches today besides you, she will tend to give each guy more consideration. Just for info.

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By: Dale http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-95562 Dale Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:16:24 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-95562 Generally disapppointed in this format for internet dating – have removed myself from auto-renewal (took a phone call to do that!). I don’t think anything is perfect but I think Match has the right idea – let people scroll and see what appeals to them. EH does the choosing but there is no human factor involved – I don’t computer selection is the way to go in terms of meeting someone.

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By: SingleGuyInNC http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-95544 SingleGuyInNC Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:12:16 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-95544 Four profiles that are identical word for word are likely Nigerian con artists and not a real person interested in a relationship.

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By: Dudley http://eharmony-blog.com/1792/comment-page-1#comment-95504 Dudley Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:20:20 +0000 http://eharmony-blog.com/?p=1792#comment-95504 Ceecee, there are over 20 million profiles on eHarmony. How’d you expect their computer to detect when somebody made several profiles across several months?

Did you report this to them? Did they fix it right away?

Dudley

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