Reviews of Chemistry.com

I wouldn't even give Chemistry.com a 1 star rating if I had the option of a 0! Either there are no men on that site or I'm totally unappealing to the man species! I live in a small town and it's hard to meet people here so I thought it was worth a shot. Also, it seems like the few guys that are actually out there around my age are looking for a different kind of relationship than I am. I am 25 years old and Chemistry.com keeps sending me matches that are in their late 40s. I specifically requested a certain age range but they obviously don't care about actual "chemistry."

chemistry.com is about the biggest waste of time a person could involve themselves in. Either these people and profiles are just flat out plain fake, or im just a guy that no chic wants and that cant be the case. I am a successful buisness owner grossing over 250 yearly. i love kids and pets. and of course tall dark and handsome, which brings me to another discourse with the site. Its full of women that will only date white or caucasian men..... well, sorry but its more men in this world than just the one's with white skin. With all that being said.... screw chemistry.com.... it aint worth even saying the name!!

I am subscribed to Chemistry.com but am unable to access the matches. Every time I try to access a profile, it gives me an error saying "We are updating the website" or something to that effect. Anyone else seen this problem?

I also had a less than positive experience with chemistry.com. Sure enough...the day you cancel you all of a sudden get a swell of people who are interested. Also, it is tricky getting them to stop charging your credit card -- I've gotten wise and have also called my credit card to block any charges after my expiration date. They also do match you up *after you've cancelled your membership*!!! I would not recommend chemistry.com.

I've been a member of Chemistry.com for a long time. I was drawn to them because they used a matching system that was designed to bring people together for something longer term. I dont think they do as good a job with their matching as eHarmony. With that said, I dont get a whole lot of people who are way out of the ballpark as matches, so to speak. I do tend to get some matches who are farther than I should be getting - Im in St Louis, and I've gotten matches in Decatur, IL (130 miles away) and as far away as Chicago (300 miles); I specified a search radius of around 50 or 60 miles. These are rare though; maybe one every 3 months or so. Really, I like what the site tries to do, but it just doesnt work.
Another annoying feature is that if you like one of your matches and you click the "interested" button, it gives you the option to email them. But its a small little box - am I supposed to just write a few short lines, or do I write a full up email? If you choose not to write, you have to go to a separate screen where all your matches are (and its not always in chronological order), and you have the option to choose one of a few icebreakers. But most of the icebreakers are either stupid or I believe they are more likely to drive people apart.
Like other sites, there's a lot of dead profiles they match you up with and most people you show interest in dont respond. It does however show the last time the person was active.

I'm an educated, attractive and accomplished woman of a "certain" age - yikes! 60 plus. I fell for the hard sell and joined Chemistry.com. Good grief. Not even a semblance of "matching". I'm an atheist - I was matched with a good number of fervent Christians (not that their Christianity is a bad thing - just not my thing); I was matched with men in their forties living everywhere from Dubai to Nice; I'm an active outdoors person with a particular dislike of golf and football - guess how many matches were fanatical players or followers. You gather now that I use the term "matched" very loosely! I had been forewarned about the auto renewal scam so the very day I joined I went through the excruciatingly difficult steps of disabling the auto renewal process - it involved two calls to customer service. And guess what - the day my membership expired I received no less than five notifications of emails waiting for me. Run ladies, run guys - this is one miserable sham. I would recommend Science Connection for anyone with strong scientific interests - small membership but the quality is there, the women who run it are real, your concerns are given weight. I've met a wonderful man through that venue.
Had to give these Chemistry creeps 1 star - no way to post without that.

I met my husband on chemistry.com 11/15/2009. We just got married last week. I always suggest this website because I met the love of my life in just a few months. It was well worth the investment to me.

First I tried match.com and quit after a month. The matching methodology is very crude and finding the right person requires a lot of searching, sorting, and dumb luck.

Then, inspired by a New Yorker article, I tried chemistry.com. It was better and more sophisticated, but as others have noted, after a short time the actual pool is fished out and they send you matches only marginally in your criteria. I quit that before my trial month was out and gave the reason of not enough referrals, and, even though I had resigned, they flooded my mailbox with the names of interested potential partners. But I'd had enough by that time.

The problem with these sites is that there are three things about you that are overwhelmingly important: your age, your appearance, and where you live. If your age begins with a 6 or higher, you are old. Your 1950 model may be in great shape, but it was still made in 1950. Get used to it. If you provide no photo, most people will steer clear of you. If you provide one and are not strikingly attractive, your appearance will count against you. After all, they have no chance to hear your voice or note your warmth or wit. Finally, if you live in a small town, the mostly urban crowd will make other choices. They know where your town is and don't want to live there.

I learned my lesson, and it was worth the money for two short-term memberships: if you want to meet people, you have to go to places where they physically are. At least now I know.

Chemistry.com was my first foray into online dating so I don't have anything else to compare it with. That being said, I was not impressed at all. I would agree with many of the other reviewers complaints. (matches waaaay out of specified area, matches that were not my ethcnic specification, out of my age range, and oodles with no picture) Overall, I found the site to be very frustrating. I hate that you have to "show interest" in a person to read the email that they send you. Why??!! I don't know if I am interested until I read what the person has to say. Like any online site, there are plenty of people grossly misrepresenting themselves. The capper for me was getting my former boss as a match. (I can assure you we are NOT compatible in any way) He had shaved about 10 years off his age and posted pictures of himself from about 15 years ago. I couldn't even count the lies he had on his information profile. As far being a scam and using unethical business practices...I don't know. Too early to tell, but you can guarantee I will be going over my next few credit card statements with a fine-toothed comb. Proceed with caution!!

My experience with this site over the past month or so is that it's not quite as horrendous as other reviewers have indicated, but it's definitely not worth the money.

They trick people from Match into signing up by luring them to take the personality test. Then, bam, you have an account, and they keep sending you emails telling you you have matches or someone is interested until your curiosity gets the better of you and you sign up. I think that happens to a lot of people, so as a result there are some real people on there, though probably the same ones that are on Match.

Anyway, the personality test is total bs - it means nothing. Your search criteria don't mean much either. They send me 2 matches per day, at about the same time of day, so it totally seems automated. MANY of them have no pic and just a short, badly written profile blurb. They are either totally fake, or maybe just half-assed profiles from non-paying guys who got suckered into the personality test but didn't want to go through with setting up a profile.

And yeah, the level of attractiveness among those who do have pictures is really low. A lot of awful-looking guys and really sad cases. Many don't know they should crop their WIFE or ex out of the picture and just happily leave her in there. One guy had a studio portrait from Sears or something where he and his wife were wearing matching red Christmas sweaters! Dude, if this is you, get help.

And yes, they do send you a ton of "you may also like" matches who are way out of your geographical bounds, or even more wildly inappropriate for you.

All of that said, I can't give it 1 star, for a couple of reasons: 1) Since guys can't search for you, and I suspect there are very few actual active members, you don't get a lot of gross random emails that give you the creeps, and 2) in the past few weeks I actually have set up dates with 2 guys who both seem like real people, in my immediate area, who are normal and in no way creepy. I went on one, and another is confirmed for next week. I have exchanged a few emails with a couple of other guys who also seem normal and will either ask me out in the next email exchange or I'll just stop emailing with them and move on.

Now is that worth paying for? I would say no, since these same guys are probably on Match and if you're going to pay for a site, you'd definitely choose Match over Chemistry. There is NOTHING on this site worth paying for. If it actually used your personality test to match you with compatible people who are active, paying members and meet your search criteria, then yes. But that's absolutely not the case. Don't fall for it.