I give match.com 2 stars. I don't evaluate the site on the basis on the software/format, but more the users. I think the premise of the site is fine. But I strongly suspect that very few people actually are meeting face to face from match.com e-mailing. The format allows for an extreme amount of selectivity. I think the more likely scenario is that e-mails are sent out and never responded to. This goes from all the guys e-mailing ladies who don't respond and vice versa. I'm a single, 33 year old professional woman. About 5'5, nice athletic build. About 125 lbs. I'm cute, but I'm no supermodel. My profile id is sunndayo1974. You can look it up if you'd like. Judge for yourself.

Well the short of it is that very very very few guys I e-mail on match.com respond to my interest. And I've sent well over one-hundred e-mails/winks to all kinds of different guys. My e-mails never get replied to or I have received a plethora of the canned 'match.com' form rejections. These rejections come from guys older than myself and younger - even if I meet all 'criteria' specified in their profile. Age doesn't seem to matter. Body type doesn't matter. Similar Interests/education level/goals specified. None of it matters. I've rewritten my profile so many different times and ways that I could fill up the pages of War and Peace :) I've posted different photos. I've tried. I really have.

I think what it comes down to is that guys I e-mail who don't respond are looking for something elusive, something I simply can not meet. Even if I meet their 'match.com' category criteria. Probably they want someone younger no doubt if they don't come out and say it in their profile. And I see these guys who wouldn't take a chance on me with their profiles up month after month. So to all the guys out there who say the women are selective, I would agree with you that it's rough. I'm selective too - so you'd probably have an axe to grind with me as well. I'm probably just as particular as the guys who I write who don't write back. But I'm a woman who has had an equally challenging match.com experience. I've made way more attempts to initiate conversation on match.com than e-mails I've received. That I can vouch for by looking at my sent e-mail box in comparsion to my in box :) So guys don't feel bad you are not alone! In short, I think meeting the old fashioned way is the best way to go. I really think it comes down to luck/timing! Nothing beats meeting someone in the flesh - it's hard to feel chemistry through a computer screen! Good luck to you all!