Before you join Eharmony, visit the Elaboratory section on the site for free. There you can take the marriage predictor test that will generate your statistical chances of getting married by your age, location, and activities. You can take the quiz repeatedly, if you want to test the weight of each variable. For example, you can see what your chances are if you were trying to find someone online, vs. not trying that way. Actually, no matter what method you try to meet someone, according to this quiz, your results will always be the same. What I learned is that no matter what I do, according to this quiz, I have less than a 5% chance of getting married. A male my same age has 7% chance. I am in my early 50's, so things look depressing. I have a great job, am very attractive and am very fit. None of that is taken into account with the statistics. So all this work and effort to find someone online, not to mention expense, is it worth it? Do you really have the same chances if you did nothing at all to meet someone? There really are some authentic guys out there. But there are probably more slippery characters online at Eharmony, as well with any venue. You may pay more at Eharmony, but you don't get a higher quality. There is no such thing as quality control. Be careful with Eharmony's automatic renewal process. Read the fine print!!! When you try to quit, all your membership info is still available for renewal. And if you don't join, but do complete all the introductory information, you can be sent out as a match to someone else. But until you pay to join, the receiver has no way of telling that you are not yet a full member. So it may appear that you receive plenty of matches, but many are not active ones. I received my best matches at the beginning; it was more than I could handle. So I closed most of them with the thought that I would pursue one match at a time. I even stopped new matches from coming while pursuing one match at a time. This was a futile strategy. Soon after a match did not work out,and I went to find new matches, I stopped receiving new matches altogether. What happened to those masses at the beginning? Apparently there is not a limitless pool.I was an active member for one month. Having just cancelled my membership, I am now waiting out the remaining 2 months of prepaid 3 month membership. Supposedly, the automatic renewal should not go into effect. However, whether I will receive any matches of any hope is a big question. I am very dubious about the membership and regret spending so much money to join. I wish I had discovered and read these reviews first! However, you may be among the lucky few where this works out fine.