Reviews of Match.com

Match has a website set up which should be working, it is easy to navigate and there are definitely enough profiles , however it does not work,!
I have been on here a few month and received maybe six e-mails of which two were scammers, one lived 2000 miles away, and the other ones were totally not interesting to me at all, !
Also I think that at least half of the profiles are not active and may have not been in awhile!
I was matched with a man who even dated his profile last August said "today is my last day" yet he was one of my matches last week."
I used Match in 2001 and had a really good time, met friends and yes even found a great relationship, !
These people who give four and five stars seems to me are Match employees, I am athletic, attractive and self employed, to get 6 e-mails in 2 month , something is very wrong!

There are definite pluses and minuses to match.

On the plus side, you do meet people you wouldn't meet in your normal routine. No matter how many bars or other things you do, there are just some people you wouldn't run into. Also, the search functions seem to work pretty well and it seems to generally get a mainstream group of people.

On the negative side, if you are a male, the pool of potential matches isn't huge, especially when you filter out the profiles that are on the site but not really active (if you can). The other issue I have found is that it can be hard to reconcile the "online" relationship versus the "real" relationship when you meet someone. It seems that things can be different than both sides expect when going from carefully chosen pictures and planned emails to reality. I have experienced this and have talked to other people about this. I'm not a psychologist, but it seems like you form an image of the person in your mind from the online communication and it can be hard to keep an open mind when things don't end up that way (which is probably the case almost all of the time!).

This is a horrible site full on men pretending
to want relationships when they really want only
to have sex. I have had nothing but horrible experiences
from being on this site. I had one guy (a so called lawyer) tell me
to have sex with all his friends to prove I wanted to really be with
him. And yes, this guy was a lawyer and located in Toronto ( age 50).
Although, he sometimes put his age at 45. Thus site is loaded with
wannabes and perverts. Sure they are all claiming to be looking for love.
Yea, you can believe that if you want too. Don't take my word join the site,
but please come back and share your experiences.

Hey Zack, you are full of crap. You live in Chicago, I think the third biggest city in the US, and are complaining that you can't find a date? I visited Chicago for 3 days in March of 2010 for company training and met 4 really cute girls. Sounds like you have a Zach problem and not a match.com problem.

For me. lol, I'm not a match.com employee, but a sports scout. I meet attractive women on match all the time and I live in frickon Indianapolis.. Sure there are fakes every once in awhile, but I surely don't need to send out 50 e-mails a day to get responses.

Someone made a great point on here recently about the complainers like Zach, and it is true; IF YOU AREN'T MEETING AND DATING THE OPPOSITE SEX OFF-LINE, WHY WOULD YOU EXPECT TO HAVE SUCCESS ON MATCH.COM?

Match.com is NOT a magic elixir, folks. Honestly, before you come on here to complain stop yourself and be honest and ask yourself: "Am I getting dates off-line." If you are dating challenged off-line, don't complain when you don't have success on match.com.

Match is by far the easiest way to meet people of any dating site. You can actually choose who you want to communicate with and not go through the "guided communication" or scientific matching bs like you do on Eharmony. The "problem" with match.com is the "rich getting richer." What I mean is that people like me who have success on the site, have success off of it as well. Chances are over 95% that people complaining about match aren't having success with the opposite sex in any other venue either (bars, just meeting people off-line), so you have to take their review with a grain of salt.

The bottom line is this folks: match.com is a supplement for "the haves," and simply a source of frustration for the "have nots." The best advice I can give folks is this: You HAVE to take self-inventory. Does the opposite sex talk to you and are they receptive to you off-line? Are you getting dates off-line? If they aren't, and you aren't, how do you expect things to magically change by joining match.com?

I received three fraudulent emails. They are easy to pick out as spam and always want to "Correspond" through their personal email. This site is bogus and I feel there are more fake profiles then real profiles. This site has robbed me and I wish for a refund. Also....It seems only way I can cancel is by selecting that I met someone through the site. Seriously, when you go to cancel, if you select Other, It will say "Can not process this request right now.

I was optimistic at first. I have been on this site for over 6 months. I have met 1 person and they were great. It just didn't work out. There is just too many fake profiles mixed in with the real people it's a Gambit not worth wasting your money on.

For those of you who have met someone real off this site. Congratulations, I'm sure eventually I could have met someone after paying more money or just lucking out and getting a real person. Three spam emails in a row is enough for me to quit and write this bad review. Sorry.

anyone who give more than one start to match.com is a paid employee.

unlike any other social site paid or free, this freaking site has limit on how many email you can send, how many people you can wink, and even how many picture you can like !

in one single day you cannot contact more than 50 people using all possible ways combined.

and even if you do your home work, you will be luck if one of the 50 answers you. this prove what I heard that the majority of the profiles are fake.

Match.com is the worst possible dating site. I do not know what do they do with all the subscription money if they don't even spend a tiny part of it to build a good website. simply put it is full of bugs.

I give match.com five stars because it allows me to search for members based on criteria that I specify--which is useful in filtering out men based on critical issues (how much/often they drink, whether they smoke, whether they exercise, etc.). Eharmony, on the other hand, waits and releases only select matches to members (See my review of eharmony from today).

Match.com works for me because I can limit my search to men with photos (Sorry, but physical attraction is one part of the equation), and even to search according to the number of photos in each profile. Of course, MANY men (and probably women, too) abuse this feature, posting pictures of nature, pets, and objects, or of themselves at a far way distance (so that they look the size of dogs), but in those cases, I just skip to the next profile where guys aren't hiding what they look like.

I also appreciate that match.com contains a large number of members and that I can eliminate certain ones from my search so that they don't appear again. A blocking feature is also available to prevent creepers from emailing again.

The keyword search is also useful! I like entering words like "partner" and "romance" or "best friend" to limit my search to men who discuss relationships and not just themselves. In other words, this website gives users some control in their search.

In the end, the site is a little pricy on a month-to-month basis ($40) unless we want to spend a big up-front fee for a greater value across three or six months, but who wants to enter the process thinking that it will take that long to meet someone? I imagine that many members are roped into paying the larger monthly fee with just that in mind. On the upside, if you search, match.com usually offers promotional codes for a discounted monthly rate.

There are a few cons, though. First, for the duration of one hour after logging off the site, it indicates to other web users that you are still online, which is deceptive. Then, during the second hour of being logged off, it tells other members that you were active witin the last hour. Finally, if you're not careful when you log in, you will fail to uncheck the auto sign-in feature, which keeps you logged in interminably, even after you log out--unless you enter your account settings to change this and then uncheck the box every time you reenter the site. This infuriates me because I don't want men to think that I'm surfing the web desperately for hours. This is a sneaky, dirty feature of the site that I don't like.

Match.com is definitely a step up from plentyoffish.com where a number of non-serious players and dirt-bags looking for a hook-up hang out, trolling for women.

I think the site is great. I'm a 32 year-old clean cut guy. My honest opinion is that people, (whether man or woman) who crap all over the site on here have very unrealistic expectations. If you aren't getting positive response from the opposite sex off-line, you're just setting yourself up for disappointment if you think going on-line is going to change this. I get compliments and am approached at bars. I know that I am a cute and engaging guy, so I knew this site would work for me. I go on dates whenever I want. Honestly, I have so many phone numbers that I can actually pick and choose who I want to go out with, and I'm very picky about it. All I have to say to people who are complaining about match: If you think match.com is bad, try Eharmony, where you DON'T get to choose who you can communicate with, and where they DON'T give you last on-line status, so you send an e-mail out to someone who last logged in 2 years ago.

Ladies beware of a very attractive widower on here who has one child,
his wife had an unfortunate accident and who is now looking for a wonderful lady to give himself and the kid a new lease on life, !
He has struck it rich in oil, is ready to buy a fabulous home and land and live happily ever after with you, !
The whole things is a scam naturally, little by little you will see in order to get the huge pay off from oil, he is just short of a few thousand, 20thousand to be exact, he has to pay some Gov. taxes before the money is released, and all his money is tied up naturally till the pay off!
So just think if you just spring up the money to the Gov. a bit beforehand you will live in affluence and splendour with this very handsome man for the rest of your life!
And he writes these melodramatic gushy e-mails, soppy and frankly too much, like some Victorian era porn,...
I don't believe that is his picture either, he stole it somewhere, ...
Do these scammers really think that any of us after having exchanged
two weeks of e-mail with a guy in Cyber space, no matter how handsome, will now get out the check books and be willing to hand over thousands and thousands, ...
I told him just what I thought of the whole Scenario, and of course have not heard anything since!
And there are more of his kind, quite a few actually, so beware!