Reviews of Chemistry.com

I wish I had read the reviews before I signed up. I, too, had been duped into believing in the fancy scientific method used by Chemistry.com to match people, and foolish enough to think that if you paid more you'd get better quality matches. How totally wrong I was! In less than 2 weeks I canceled my 6-month paid subscription, and demanded a refund. (I'm waiting to see if it comes through.) The matches were few and far between, and half were the same people from Match.com. Then there are these cryptic announcements like "You have been noticed by him" (what? that he merely looked at my profile?); "Ever wonder who's searching for someone like you?" (then what? you click the site and the same old profiles show up); and "You are about to miss out on a match" (again, what? you click the site and nothing shows up!). Furthermore, the site is user-unfriendly. It's frustrating to navigate your way through the few matches you get, and not a lot of choices on what to do with them. I will never return to this site again and strongly urge those who are thinking of signing up to stay away. Thank you, eDateReview.com, for allowing me to post this review.

After trying eharmony and match with bad results i figured i would try one more time and chemistry seemed to be a "decent" site. Boy was i wrong!!! I have to agree with the last review about chemistry being the most deceptive. No one ever responds to the questions you have to send out first. No one ever contacts you on top of it so its a catch 22, the same baloney i dealt with on the other sites. What made chemistry stand out to me is thier deceptive practices. They would send me several emails informing me that "this person" is interested in me. I go to log back on and what do i find, that my interest column is a 0!!! The name was not even a match they gave me on top of it. They did this 6 times to me in the month i subscribed for. What a heartbreaker, you are happy someone showed interest in you, you log on and just like magic, they aren't even there, they must of just vanished!!!

Responding to the last statement as well, its not fair to say that guys online must be losers, the same can be said for most of the women as well. at least i sent many emails out so i can complain. Most women who complain about there being no attractive men that aren't losers don't even have a right to say that because most women are too lazy online to even look at guys profiles that don't email them first, and even if they see someone they might like they still won't email or wink them first. Even on eharmony when i would get emails occasionly, even from attractive women i would still look at other profiles. Not every guy is over 6 ft, looks like a model and makes over $100,000 a year. I am actually a very attractive guy, i am in good shape, i'm not over 6ft but i'm still taller than most women at 5'9. I don't make $100,000 a year but i don't think i'm a loser at $45,000 a year and i'm always upgrading myself so i can make even more. To even get women to look at your profile online is a task. I live in a very rural area and its hard to meet anybody. Online dating doesn't work for men because there are too many men per women and most of the women are too lazy online to actually make any effort to find a decent guy. They'll just complain about what comes to them. Chemistry was my last online experience and i am done with online dating altogether.

I've tried a couple of different dating sites--eharmony and match.com and a few others--and I had by far the worst time on chemistry.

First of all, they're dishonest. They do the bait-and-switch deal that other sites are also known for--luring you with someone really good-looking and interesting who then turns out to not be active or perhaps not even real. I signed up one time for a free trial, and what do you know, I was matched with this too-good-to-be-true guy named "Jorge" who, get this, said he was "interested" in me. He had a good job and wasn't too old or too far away from me ... I was suspicious--not because such guys don't exist--but because, in my experience, they don't exist online. Well, I decided to throw down fifty bucks anyway, what the hell. I reciprocated his "interest" ... and nothing. Not a peep. Never heard from the guy again. It became clear that he wasn't active and probably hadn't sent the "I'm interested" message in the first place.

The other guys I were matched with were closer to what you'd expect--unattractive. I'm sorry, but these had to be the ugliest guys I'd ever seen in my life. Well, I'm not shallow and believe that true beauty is inner, so I chatted up one of them, sent a few emails, and went ahead and arranged a date. Bad move. Worst date of my life. The guy ended up being a creepy loser still living at home with his parents, etc. etc., and that wasn't the worst of it. The quality and subject of our "interaction" drew some pretty strange and amused stares from the patrons around us. I fled from the Starbucks after 20 minutes.

My other matches on chemistry were pretty much of the same quality--unattractive, socially awkward guys posting their college portraits as their profile pictures. I cancelled my membership after a month after not hearing another word from "Jorge."

Chemistry.com is a complete waste of time. If you are looking to meet Mr./Mrs. right, look somewhere else. I was matched with people who did not even fit the parameters of what I was looking for. The site asks you to fill out an extensive questionnaire and then ignores your answers. My guess is that there are not very many people on this site so they have no choice but to deceive their customers. I would recommend joining any other site but this one. If I could give this site a "0" Star I would.

I was a free member for about 2 weeks, when I would get a lot of matches...nearly 10 a day. I was excited to sign up, so decided to try it out for a month. I'm so glad that I only paid for a month, because as soon as I signed up, I only get about 3 matches a day, and most are very far away or have a huge difference in ages. Seems like you pay a lot of money for only a select few matches, most of whom don't respond! I feel like it's a waste of $50.

The idea of having matches selected for you had appeal so I paid a 6 month subscription. As others have noted you get selected matches, but have no idea if they are paid up members of the site, if they are not then they cannot respond. There needs to be some filtering based on someone having a subscription. It is bordering on unethical to take my money and send me useless matches.

Then there are the 'You may also like' and 'You have been noticed' profiles sent to you. In less then one month I have received profiles of people who either live hundreds of miles away, or are looking for someone with a different ethnic background. What really gets me is there is no way to delete, or archive these profiles, all you can do is show interest.

Chemistry.com really needs to invest in improving this site. I guess people like me pay their money and regret it. It will be interesting to see how easy it is to close my membership as the auto renewal date approaches. Maybe I will try eHarmony next.

Did you hear about the woman who backed into a lawn mower? Dis-assed her! In a word, Chemistry.com is a disaster, and I was a fool to subscribe for 6 months. The customer care "concierge" is a total joke!

Think twice before signing up for this. I wasn't even on there a month and got paired up with "Mick" the 6'2" Mechanical Engineer who was half-Italian, college educated in Indonesia - lost both his parents (his father was a gold merchant) in the 2004 tsunami and was widowed (never did tell me how he lost both his wife and son). He was here in Texas mining (yes that's what he said) for oil ... needless to say I reported him and they yanked him. Or how about the guy I did actually meet who said he was divorced well ... he was almost divorced. Chemistry naturally doesn't REFUND any $$ but with luck like that I would think they'd feel ASHAMED charging me but no not them.

I definitely feel like Chemistry.com is a waste. First, they kept bombarding me with matches who had NOTHING in common with me. Then, when I decided that I was not going to keep my membership past one month, I went to go cancel it, but they stated they had already re-billed me for the second month. It took quite a bit of wrangling that got the BBB involved to finally get my money back. I have not tried other services so I cannot compare, but Chemistry.com has definitely turned me off to the world of online matchmaking services.

Was subject to an untwated billing renewal after I discontinued the service and they would only give half my money back. I will never use this dating site again.

Good security initially. Average in all otherways. VERY expensive for what you get compared to similar services.

Got lots of matches at first, but then figured out most of those matches were old and/or deactive. Once I started getting matches they were the same people I saw on the local free dating pages.