After reading most of these reviews, I had to log on and write to defend eharmony against the untruthful bashing on this site. Most of the complaints that you people are giving are NOT eharmony's fault. "My matches were too fat, ugly, smelly, stupid, etc, etc!" Oh please! It's not eharmony's job to match you with people that you find physically attractive! Their claim is to match you on personality, likes and dislikes, etc. How are they supposed to determine who you personally will find attractive? I have honestly never seen a bunch of more shallow people in my life! Some of the statements that I have read are as follows: "I have an advanced degree and they matched me with a construction worker! Yuk!" or "I am attractive and skinny and I was matched with nothing but ugly fat people!" News flash: just because you think that you're attractive doesn't mean that the whole world does and your "advanced" degree doesn't make you any better than anyone else. Given the number of glaring spelling mistakes in several of these rants, it's clear that these "advanced" degrees aren't in anything having to do with writing or grammar. Get over yourself! And as far as eharmony ripping you off, that could be further from the truth! If you sign up for a one year membership, it doesn't matter if you chose to pay via the three installment plan. You still signed up for one year! You can't decide after three months that you don't like the service and then whine because they won't give you a refund. That's like buying a loaf of bread and deciding halfway through eating it that you want your money back for the rest of it because you didn't like it. If you only wanted to pay for three months then you should have only signed up for a three month subscription! It doesn't take someone with an "advanced" degree like many of you claim to have to figure that out. Concerning the auto renewal of subscriptions: they absolutely specified that this would happen before you ever clicked the button to submit your payment. Your failure to read what was printed right on the page in front of you (and not in super small mice print either) is no one's fault but yours! If I am about to fork over my money, please believe that I'm going to read every condition that is listed before I do so. Most of you didn't. Your loss! The only legitimate argument that I have seen on this board is that many of your matches seem to be non-paying members. I agree that it makes your match pool seem more dense when your list includes people who have just completed the personality profile but have yet to pay for a subscription. Eharmony should probably allow paid members the choice of opting out of being matched with non-paying members. This would allow a more realistic view of true matches. Other than that, you can't expect them to do much else. When you choose to meet people on line, you run the risk of meeting someone who doesn't look like your ideal or who lied about some of their particulars. Deal with it. We all know that women tend to lie about their weight and men tend to exaggerate their height. It's human nature. Are you REALLY mad if you agree to go out with a guy who claims in his profile to be 5'11" yet is only 5'9" in person? And another thing: if someone"s age is listed as 30, yet the only pic that they have posted is that standard senior high school yearbook photo with the black tux or dress (we all know the one), you should be a little suspicious. If you can't figure out that the posting of a 12 year old picture probably means that they aren't willing to show you a recent one for some reason, then you deserve to have to sit through a date with someone who looks nothing like their pic!

In conclusion, stop blaming eharmony or any other online dating site for you not being able to find a mate. Be smart, use common sense, and understand that Mr/Mrs Right isn't going to just fall out of the sky into your lap and declare their undying love for you. And before people start with the comebacks, no, I do not work for eharmony nor have I yet to meet the love of my life on the site. However, I completely understand what I signed up for and have no intention of blaming the site if my Prince Charming isn't found through them.