Reviews of Chemistry.com

I wasted my time and money on Chemistry.com. The matches who even contacted me, 4 of them, were scam/con artists, who weren't even living in Virginia, much less the U.S.A. --I checked their IP addresses after I caught on!-- One had the audacity to call me for a month before pulling a story about being robbed in Dubai and asked me for money. Charles Jones is still going back on Chemistry and scamming other women with his story. I am more than disappointed that Chemistry/Match is not taking their dating site responsibilities seriously, allowing scam/con artists to sign up, using profiles of men who weren't interested in being matched (I would have gotten some kind of response). I'm going back to a site with REAL people.

Do NOT give these people your email address! They will spam you CONSTANTLY all the while claiming they are working to remove your email address..... while they continue to spam you!

Awful company to do business with, associated with Match.com who solicits the spam addressess for these folks. I'd be very cautious about Match specifically because their the ones who forward your email address to Chemistry.com

10 Things I Hate About Online Dating

a list of cliche things girls put in their dating profiles

1. The Interests

Everybody likes music, and art, and traveling, and the outdoors, and sunshine, and having fun. These are not things that give any insight as to who you are as an individual. I wouldn’t even really describe them as interests but more just standard features that come with any human being. It’d be like shopping for a used car and coming across an ad that says “Great vehicle, runs on gasoline, tires are round, has matter and density.” I still don’t know the make, model, year, milage, accident history, horse power etc. If anything I view the vaugness as a trap into buying a lemon.

2. I’m shy but I’m not shy

A lot of girls can’t decide on what they are. “I’m shy but I can also be very outgoing.” “I’m just a jeans and t-shirt kinda girl that loves to get dressed up and go out too.” “I’m a realist but I have a bit of a hopeless romantic side. . .” When filling out your “about me” section you should use a “Which of the following best describes me?” approach. Like an SAT question, choose the letter that best answers the problem, don’t fill in every bubble.

to read the rest copy and paste the link to my blog

http://www.ourthursday.com/2010/06/25/10-things-i-hate-about-online-dating/

I do not recommend Chemistry at all. The matches I had were highly incompatible, and most seemed socially inept that I did try to connect with. I consider myself a down-to-earth, modern woman who is cool, sociable and active. I work in the entertainment industry and was looking to date outside of it, since it can be a very small world. My age range was set to 31-45. Unfortunately I was was getting matched with men that looked like they could be old enough to be my father, or aging frat guys that never quite grew out of their glory days. And a lot of unattractive men. A lot.

In my 3-month membership, I had to call customer service several times to re-tweak my settings as I kept getting matches outside my local radius. The 1st 3 weeks seemed to be the best of their database, then all profiles after that looked to be inactive, many with no photo. I tried to get customer service to convert me to Match since it might be better for me, but they said they couldn't, and again tried to adjust my settings. The rep (male) had the nerve to say, "well I'm looking at your pictures right now, and you shouldn't have ANY problem finding someone." Downright inappropriate and creepy.

I even had 1 match that seemed suspiciously like scam artist. With pictures of a handsome, distinguished man who claimed he was an oil field explorer and spiritually minded, he seemed like an intriguing possibility. However, he never addressed my emails personally, it was like a cut & paste barrage of mushy poetry that he was sending to everyone, and couldn't seem to remember who he sent what. Even after I told him I was not interested, he sent another email that acted as if I was a new match. Deleted.

Additionally, the user interface is beyond obnoxious, requiring several redundant clicks before you can reject a profile. Even after rejecting those matches, they still were able to contact me.

There was no chemistry for this girl on Chemistry!

really deserve no stars-
over 90% of my matches were from out of state and I wanted matches to be in the closest radius of where I reside-also, for days and days there would be no matches at all, whatsoever-then there are the "fake" matches, probably matches who are no longer members or just made up ones because they don't respond and the worse thing is that there is no last log in time for the matches-
I called after a week's membership and wanted to cancel and get my money back and was told to tweak my criteria, I wanted a refund and off the site-but was told we had to tweak first, give it another chance-there wasn't much to tweak except make sure my match location radius was made most important on the scale-it already was-I was to give it another 2 weeks and then call back-I waited one week and tried to cancel and they don't give refunds, so I called my credit card company and disputed-they didn't deliver as promised-after 3 months I finally got my money back.
stay away from chemistry.com, I was surprised it was so bad , being owned by Match.com I expected much better. eHarmony is better, I think.

If the experience was disappointing, why would you give it three stars? LOL. No, the icebreaker option is NOT good. ANY option you can use on ANY dating site which is free, and does not require a membership. is bad news. Why? One, you can't determine a paying member from a non-paying one. Two, a segue to one, you can't actually communicate with a non-paying one, so as a customer who actually paid for a monthly subscription, you are getting screwed.

That mess out of the way, this site is a watered down version of match.com. It's like they took all the undesireable women from match and stuck them on their site. Seriously, not one attractive woman and the selection is much less than match.

Chemistry provides some great icebreaker options...or you can go straight to email. Unfortunately, I rarely had any matches, and of course, you cannot search on their site. Overall, I found the experience disappointing.

To the person below me, DON'T join a dating site that does not show individual profile site activity/last logged in times. It's quite obvious that when they do that they are creating fake profiles, or sending you profiles that have not been active in weeks, months, etc. They are scamming quite obviously. Some other sites are like this.

Chemistry.com was a terrible disappointment and I would not recommend it to anyone. I actually give it no stars. Most of my "Matches" were from out of state although I specified a 50 mile radius. I live in the DC area and 50 miles is actually quite large. The matches that were within my radius never responded to my "interest" and it turns out that there are members that have never subscribed and join on the free weekends. You cannot communicate with those individuals, but you don't know that. I believe those are the men I was matched with. The key point to this review is that Chemistry is misleading with their matches because they do not inform the paying members the likelihood of being matched with someone they cannot communicate with. When I communicated with Chemistry I was told to broaden my profile. I believe this site is a scam and I will not resubscribe when my membership is up.

My preferences were: White Female, 45 to 56 years old, thin to average, non smoker living within 25 miles of Vero Beach.
Nearly EVERY "she's a match" Chemistry sent was either black, 60 years old +,
heavy to obese, smoked and/or lived half way across the state. After 5 days I emailed and pointed out that these "matches" did not meet my preferences and asked them to tweak their program to send me matches that did. I also told them that if they were not able to provide matches based on my preferences to cancel my account and credit my credit card, I had only been on the site for 5 days and they had not sent one appropriate match.
Chemistry's response was to cancel my account. They assured me that I could use the site for the rest of the period I signed up for but NO REFUND.
They continue to send new matches every day but none match my preferences and they are useless. I gave them one star because there was no "NO Star" Rating.
Quite a SCAM !!!!!