(Republished in entirety with permission from Single and Sane. Thank you, Margaret!)
Despite the fact that I am the Scrooge of online dating sites, I gave eHarmony a month more than NBC gave Conan. Unlike Conan, I didn’t come out of the deal with a multi-million dollar settlement. I did, however, come out of it with a handful of posts for my blog, so all was not lost.
For years, well-meaning friends and family have asked me the question no one should ever ask a single, “Why don’t you try eHarmony?”
Believe me, single people are aware that eHarmony exists, although if I hadn’t gone to high school with a girl who really did marry a guy she met on eHarmony, I’d be convinced that all the hype is just an urban myth. I still think it’s mostly a myth. Continue Reading »
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(A fresh review of eHarmony from Maria of Maryland:)
I join the Eharmony dating service a year ago and this is the worst dating company I ever known. They are commiting fraud and are giving false advertisement. I am very disatisfied and I completely frustrated with the service they have provided me with. Not only have they taken my money, I have wasted my time and energy going into their website with no results. Therefore, they need to reimburse me the for their charges. Also, they have only sent me a few matches and there are months were I have only received a match or two.
In fact, for the past three (3) weeks I have not received any matches. They also sent me matches without the individuals’ picture and when I requested the photo, it has not been posted. When I cancelled my subscribtion, they kept sending me email messages with many potential matches to get me hook again. At the begining of year 2010, they sent me several emails and indicated that this is the year I am going to find my soulmate and also offered me a discount so I can subscribe with them again. They also showed me all the possible matches if I re-subscribe. Once I re-subscribed their services, they hardly ever sent me a match and when they did, it did not show the individuals’ picture. Also, when I requested to communicate with individuals, they did not respond to my request to communicate with them.
In addition, I re-subscribed with Eharmony on January 16, 2010 for three (3) months and my subscribtion ends on April 16, 2010. I am concern that once the 3 months past, they are going to automatically deduct the charges out of my bank account without my consent. Furthermore, I have no way of contacting Eharmony because they intentionally do not provide contact information. As far as I am conern, Eharmony should be taken out of business, not only are they economically exploiting people, they are playing with peoples’ feelings and they could care less of our well being.
“I wait with baited breath, though, to hear back from Fashion Man and any other ‘perfect matches’ who, you never know, could turn out to be, well, perfect. After all, I’ve paid an extortionate amount of money in advance. I’m too tight to give up now.” — Valentine Taylor of soFeminine, UK.
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A long time ago, in a dating galaxy far, far away from eHarmony…
…I filled out the Chemistry questionnaire and profile.
Sometime ago, I think about 6 months back, Chemistry.com started to offer free weekends, just like eHarmony, on roughly the same 6 week schedule. So, I figured, what the heck, I’ll give it a try. I gave it a try again, several times during each free weekend, the last one being this weekend.
During these free weekends, not one of them yielded a match going to their “open communication”. In fact, I think maybe at best, two matches ever responded.
In my opinion, Chemistry.com just doesn’t make the grade. It is overpriced compared to eHarmony when you look at multiple month memberships. The website is clunkier to use: first you have to “show interest”, then you have to actually click to send your first questions. Seriously?
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(Republished in entirety with permission from Alice Merrypole, dated 4 December 2009. Article source: Articlebase)
A friend of mine said she was thinking of joining eHarmony, because they have such a high marriage rate – 2% of marriages in the US are of people who met on eHarmony, according to their TV ad, she said. I found this statistic remarkable and started doing some research to find out if it was true.
Not only did I find the ads had been deemed by authorities to be misleading, I also found some other interesting facts about the company which, all added up together, made my friend think twice about joining the site herself
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IMHO I've seen too many women on Eharmony who really aren't what I'm looking for, in terms of appearance, to respond to any profile that does not have both a good facial picture and a full-body picture. Go ahead and call me shallow; personally, I would rather be rejected for who I am (which I'm s …
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