Reviews of Match.com

Hi Everyone.
I came across Match.com and just wanted to give myself a chance to meet someone. Unfortunately this was not the case. I requested the service for a month. After the end of it, I just left it. It didn't work.
Surprise surprise, I am checking my bank account today these people billed me for 3 more months of no requested services. I called and spoke with 2 people then they say that a renewal is automatic unless you cancel it... are you serious....I did not use any services after 2weeks of my subscription. They refused to refund me my money except for the last bill. This is $108 lost in that...not worth it. I was totally disappointed by the service and the matching.
I do not recommend it.

I FIGURED MATCH.COM OUT AND MY STRATEGY HAS WORKED OUT VERY WELL THUS FAR; obviously you have to get responses, but if you are interested in women that respond to you, tell them your subscription is about to run out. Email them from your REGULAR EMAIL ADDRESS. The overwhelming response I get from women is that they are glad, more like RELIEVED to be off-line and talking to you. Second, this weeds out any fakes. Fake profiles that match.com creates aren't going to go off the site to e-mail you. This works. Obviously, you have to get responses, but if you do get responses from women you like, you'd be stupid not to use this strategy.

Totally agree with the last guy's assessment. You have to think about it in these terms: Realistically, if a girl isn't going to approach you, or at least be receptive to you when you approach her at a bar, you are wasting your time e-mailing them. Guys have the cards stacked WAY against them on-line as opposed to women. Why? One, there are at least four times the amount of male profiles, women have MUCH MORE choice. Two, in case you haven't caught on yet, match ahem... "enhances" their female membership taking over old profiles, or creating new ones to make the selection of women look bigger. If the women is really attractive at least 50% of the time she isn't real. If the profile has the minimum number of words that % goes up to at least 98% that they are fake or not a paying member.

For me, what I do: First off, I'm good looking and have alot of pictures. If you aren't don't waste your time emailing pretty girls. Even then I still only get responses from 40% of cute girls I e-mail. One, they may not like me, but even more likely they aren't a member, or I am the 500th guy to e-mail them and they never even read my e-mail. Of those 40% I end up meeting at least 95% of those women in person. I blast a midly generic email with maybe one sentence personalized (athletic or girlie-girl, you can tell), to girls I would have a reasonable chance of being attracted to and go from there. Don't waste your time personalizing e-mails, ESPECIALLY with a really pretty girl, as the great odds are that they are a fake or again as above I am the 500th dude to e-mail them.

FOR DUDES:

Bottom line is if you aren't a very good looking guy with tons of uncheesy pics, don't waste your time. You HAVE to understand that HALF-DECENT women get absolutely flooded with emails. Yes, even the half-decent ones because alot of dudes older than dirt will e-mail younger women; surprise, surprise. Also, don't waste time with specific e-mails especially to really good looking girls. 90% of the time they will go unread, or not even respond as a hottie gets at least 50 e-mails a day. I've been out with several girls who honestly just get to the point where they delete email after email and hide their profiles after a short time. Bottom line is this: If you aren't getting very cute girls on the outside, you won't be getting any on match, either. There isn't some magic elixir online.

FOR WOMEN:

Seriously, ladies complaining about match.com? The ratios of guys to girls on match are RIDICULOUS for girls. In most cities 3 times as many dudes. Where I live and my criteria there are 1355 guys and 533 women!! Honestly, if you are a girl and can't find great guys to date somewhere on match, you have ISSUES!!!!!!!

THE DEFINITIVE MATCH HANDBOOK FOR GUYS:

Don't waste your time personalizing e-mails, you are wasting it. Do a canned boiler plate email (but don't make it sound that way), and sound out 50 to girls in your area you think you are cute. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU SAY; Whatever you say you are going to get the one sentence responses from fake profiles (that match created to pique your interest), or interest from the few actual REAL ones who are interested in you because of your PICTURES. Even the most unsuperficial girl isn't going to respond to you if you wrote an email of Ernest Hemingway quality if she doesn't like your pics. Hope this helps!

First, My e-mail address is bucknaked51@yahoo.com, and I will be happy to give women my match username if they want to see me. FYI, match.com blacklists people, so I would be very careful in how you react to situations, even when the girl acts totally off the wall. I got several e-mails my first day on the site, but had women who initially email me suddenly behave very weird, which caused me to politely dismiss them. If the person you happen to "cross" is one of their "creations" /fake profiles, you won't get any responses from anyone thereafter. I sent out 15 e-mails to cute girls and got 12 responses my first day on the site, then got 1 fake response after sending out 26 e-mails 4 days later. This was AFTER politely dismissing one of their fakes. I am a legitimate cute guy with tons of pictures (again email me and I will provide my username), so there is no reason whatsover that I have not beeen getting responses to certain women, other than the fact that match blacklisted me.

Got bombarded with e-mails AFTER I joined ( as opposed to them trying to entice me to join). So, naturally I'm not going to go out with the 15 total that e-mailed or winked at me the first day. However, two days later, I'm down to none basically. At least half of the e-mails were fakes or 3 day memberships who expired. The others had various issues: One who gave me her number but who seems to be half-assing it. Responded by giving her my number and haven't gotten a response to that. Not thinking I'm even going to call her now. The other was 33 and lived with her parents... Uh no. One, just CRAZY annoying, insecure, emotionally totally immature and I couldn't get off the phone with her. Would drive ANYONE nuts. Last one wanted to meet the next night, but then was going out of town every week-end for the next 3 weeks, sister's wedding, her birthday, etc. Uh, it's great that you are going out of town to do things, but maybe not the best time to meet someone until you get back from the trips? Yeah so am not that incredibly picky but give me a break here.

My opinion of Match is "mixed". I never found the love of my life, but I did make a couple of good friendships and unexpected one roll in the hay. At 60, I just have a hard time finding physically attractive and emotionally open women, but I am afraid the online sites are no solution either. I feel alone because I still have illusions of forming a couple with someone and building a FUTURE together whereas most older women, even the few beautiful ones, are totally focused on their kids. They don't give a whack about building a future together with a man, and are just looking for a little companionship and perhaps sex.
As such, I have stopped looking altogether and just respond to a woman if I find her attractive and interesting. There are plenty of dance (Tango, Salsa, etc.) or yoga classes where men can meet lots of attractive women. They are cheaper and much more fun than match!

I've been on it two different times, had no problem with canceling it, and have met many women on here. Went on a lot of dates, nothing serious, but it has been alot of fun... don't know about the fake profiles and all.. I haven't experienced any of that at all.....

I've had friends that have used it to and they are quite pleased..

LOL, I'm amazed by all the negative comments on here because my experience has been totally different. Granted, I am in my early 30's and a really cute guy, but I've received 13 e-mails and 9 winks in my first day. I've already exchanged 3 phone numbers. 11 of the 13 girls have been really cute. Most all of them have sent multi-paragraph e-mails indicating a sincere interest. I guess most of you complaining must not be as great as you think. Maybe you should be looking in the mirror instead of blaming the site?