Their 29 dimension of compatibility matching is overrated and flawed. So I’ve ended up dating two girls from this site. Both were nice people but we just weren’t compatible in every way imaginable. While we tried to make it work for a few months, in the end – it was futile. No one was at fault; we just had fundamentally different views and expectations. They should call it 29 dimensions of separation :)

Another drawback of eHarmony was that you have to wait for eHarmony to find you a potential partner. This happens very sporadically. In my case I had 24 to 28 matches a month. This seems like a decent number of matches on the surface but for me 80% of the matches were either 1) in a different country or 2) inactive profile. So realistically I was looking at 4 to 5 matches a month. Out of those 4 to 5 matches, I was interested in the matches roughly 30% of the time. So I had maybe 1 or 2 interesting matches. When you factor in the girl’s response rate (they’re getting bombarded I’m sure) – you get the picture.

So I got very little value for $60/month in terms of introductions. If I did find someone potentially interesting we were incompatible in every way imaginable. I’ve had much better success just going out and meeting people.