Reviews of Match.com

The Match website is old and dated. The system is designed to created anxiety by showing when people last logged in. The biggest flaw is when you become a paying member there is no way to tell if anyone else on the site is a paying member. Send an email to the girl of your dreams and she may never get it if she isn't a paying member. All she gets is anxiety provoking emails from Match that 'someone emailed' and you might miss out, etc. Pay up to see it!

I have been to other sites that distinguish between paying members and non paying members and obviously that technology is simple to display. Match TV ads claim millions of members but never reveal how many are actual paying members.

I smell class action lawsuit. Who's in?

Match.com is great as a website. Ladies!!! Do not ever date Jeff from Palo Alto! He is kind of weird if u know what I mean.... Not only did allow me to pay for his drinks, cover, etc. but then he claimed that he was too busy to text me! Can u believe that guy?

My actual experience on the site was great… I met only one guy but, he couldn’t have been better. However, if you like your privacy, be prepared for some unpleasant surprises, like a friend telling you he saw you on the site 5 months after you were gone. To me that’s unacceptable. We logged in and voila… Despite of having no pictures (which I had deleted just in case, or so I thought)… there I was, pictures and all. I’m giving them 24h. I want all traces of me gone and well, no, I’m not coming back.

I think as many do that match , e harmony and any other site is a joke. I think these people go from site to site and spread their mental illness and baggage to others. And the nigerian and uk scammers speaks for itself. I think the morals of these people are sad. And the viciousness of some of the women I've been involved with is widespread. These are very sick people and you know who you are!

Like many of the other reviews I would like the 1 star to be a zero. The whole matching process is a joke you get match who are looking for someone nothing like you. I look through the matches and the race is wrong, child status and body type. I wonder how we even became a match. I wrote this in my review to match but no response and no change in the matching process. I have joined other sites and gotten hundreds of responses and here nothing. Except a few that contact me tell me how beautiful I am then never reply back to any emails I send them. Same thing happen on eharmony maybe these are fake profiles. Oh and a friend of my who lives in the same city was one of my matches I emailed him personally laughing at the fact that he was my match. Then he told me he had canceled his account a long time ago WOW. They match you with deactivated profiles not what I am paying for. I just joined for a month and wish I could get a refund it was a total waste of time.

I find that there is no good place to meet people online out with friends, the gym, church (the worst). I have joined some local singles groups I don't have high expectation but maybe face to face will be a little better.

Don't waste your time or money on this site!

If I could rate it zero I would.

Truthfully, I found the match experience to be awful. But it taught me alot about online dating. I was on for 3 months then cancelled. I had to. It was just too much drama for me. I was contacted by about 50 men in the first month or so. I am a professional person and used to reading resumes. I screened heavily, I e-mailed cautiously and then met with 10. This is what I found.

Many people are extremely lonely and don't have much of a life and expect match to be the cure all for that. The whole "soul mate" myth is alive and well. Almost, everyone I met believed the commercials and was "desperate" to find "The One" which added a lot of anxiety and urgency to their interactions with me. All 10 supposedly "laid back guys" I met were like a bad romantic homing device on steroids.

The men I interacted with were very, very emotionally needy and some down right unstable. Many did not initiate their divorces and even years later - were looking for confirmation from the outside that they were OK. Very insecure. Emotionally crippled.

They came from every socio-economic background. Lawyers, Investment Bankers, Businesses owners....regular working guys. They posted good pictures, they wrote good profiles...When we met they were also all very aggressive and would not take a polite "thank you, but I don't think we are a good match" as an answer.

Some didn't stop calling... they didn't stop e-mailing. They stalked me on the site - watching to see when I was on just to IM me and confront me about what I thought was "wrong" with them.

P.S. I never dated any of these guys more than once, so we didn't have a "relationship" for them to confront me on.

I am a nice person...I was very gentle about my "no thank you". I was not on match to hurt anybody's feelings. 100% took it personally. It was not pretty. But that is because they expect each person to be the answer to their prayers....that is too much presure for me...I just wanted to go to a movie with a nice person. Being someone's savior was not on my agenda.

I think if you think of it as a huge people warehouse with no checks, balences or promise of any type of truth in advertising ....in which anything goes you may have a more realistic idea of what you are in for.

First, there are no checks, so married people and people actively living with women who troll the site late at night to score...abound.

Next, there is no guarantee of truthfullness. I was lied to about height, weight, employment, age by a lot of years! and degree of "singleness".

There is no guarantee of mental stability...two of these ten gentleman stalked me online...and would not stop. One ( a professional person) bragged about dumping a girl from the site he had slept with who "sucked in bed" (he told me this on our first date).

Another had huge financial problems and told me on the first date he was looking for a wife "to stabilize" his home and care for his three children ages 24 to 16 who still lived at home - I will not describe his home situation as revealed to me but all three children had serious mental health issues. If I wrote this in a book no one would believe me! Even Match was appalled when I told them that when I cancelled.

He continues on the site looking for a wife to shoulder his finances and children.

Another texted me non-stop for days. One told me he didn't need Viagra and could go for hours (he said this on first date). One cried when he told me he was widowed four years before....another called me up to make our first date drunk and incoherent.

If you have the stomach for meeting some potentially sketchy people to maybe find "The One" 100 or more dates later, maybe. But for me peace of mind is more valuable. I opted out of match.

Their customer service person who cancelled me said she didn't blame me. Would you?

I joined match, and yes I told the truth,looking for a wife,I honest,loyal and romantic,live in the country.I asked over 151 profiles to marry me! not one response?this was strange? someone would have said no leave me alone,but nothing,I'm a good looking guy,got some land and a house that's payed for.you would think at least one woman would want that,but no! nothing,I got one IM,but it was clearly a scam,she ?has a masters and can't spell from? sure!I did have some fun sending the scam there own scam it really pissed them off,but they wanted to wast my time,so that's what they get!amigo . com is really bad 300 profiles,not one real one! scam everyone of the 300,so watch out!and never send money,they should be able to take care of them self's , not have you pay them to be with you!or not!it would be nice to be able to meet someone that wants to give you what she says she dose,but that's not going to happen online,in 2 months I've read over 650 profiles,most of these have been someone from some ware else trying to make money off us,if it say's they are from San Jose,and they say they are in Nigeria,or the UK,it is a scam!if they ask for money,it is a scam,if they won't answer what you ask it is a scam!if they say they want to marry you and they will see you tomorrow show up this is real!that's what I did!but she did not!maybe the one you are looking for looks like me? think about that next time you want a man on line?

I have only been on match.com since Memorial Day, but already it's been a disaster. I have never seen so many Nigerians running around - literally. They are easy to spot in their profiles - and each time I do they usually go down fairly fast. But STILL - it's Match's job to approve our profiles - they won't let me even state NO Nigerians or posers in my profile - so why can't they read the profiles and catch them? Why is it up to me? I feel like I am an unpaid moderator for that site - I see so many - from emails, winks, and even in daily matches. It's pathetic - and clear to me that the numbers that Match boasts are way too high as people keep rejoining each month or after their trial period ends - and these Nigerians keep coming back over and over and over again under new emails - and nothing is done and the idiot match screeners don't catch them. What are the real numbers? I know a guy who has been on Match for SIX years - he has met two women.
As for me - why I am I targeted? Well I suspect everyone is, but since I am slightly over 40 and these guys all seem to be looking in the 40-60 age range I am guessing my age has a lot to do with it.
Further, when it comes to the real guys - I am not sure what to think. I am very attractive, am extremely educated, an attorney with several top degrees and honors. My only downside is due to a medical problem - I am slightly overweight - with a beautiful face. In real life and on free sites, I am deluged with mail - and get hit on within an hour of entering every bar I go to..... by very good looking men - although the intentions of these men aren't always honorable. I am very busy so I came here. I do hear from very young men as I look young. But I do not get the volume of mail that I do on other sites. In fact, I would describe the sound coming from Match, other than from the spammers and guys with little more than high school degrees, to be almost a profound defeaning silence. I am greatly disappointed. I have a month. I doubt I will continue. All you guys that say this is a sausage fest must be talking about younger women. Maybe you will say that it is me - but seriously dudes, I am a former beauty queen, well toned, just have some weight to lose after I got fibro and my doctor put me on steroids. I am anything but an ogre, not obese or terribly big - and incredibly successful. Do the doctors, etc with advanced degrees want an equal? Or just a younger, skinnier beauty queen? Lastly - I will ad that I have also been contacted by a lot of much older men too that do look like grandpas. One was "separated" - and I told him I would not get involved with someone with any legal ties to a spouse - even if that spouse was soon to be former. After I sent him that email I found his profile changed to divorced. Goodness, even the elderly are lying! I am just shaking my head. Oh - I should also add that I have complained to Match about all the fake profiles and due to all my complaints - I was banned as a troublemaker and had to sort that out! Can you believe it - an attorney is giving them a free head's up to the scammers on that site - and it is the attorney who gets banned. Seriously - buyers beware. And women - especially beware, especially the older you are. If it's not a Nigerian, what is his problem. And if he doesn't answer - well a lot of these guys are divorced or never married for a reason and that is why they are here. Sorry guys - I know there are good ones out there and clearly ones that have posted here seem to be - but it can be hard to find the diamonds through the mounds of rubbish that exist on that site. One star only because you can do your own searches - unlike eharmony. But at least for the "cougars" - match and eharmony are highly overrated. I am more than willing to bet my life savings that even if I could cure cancer, most of these meathead sports loving single gym rats match dudes wouldn't even care, unless it somehow meant a lot of money - because a lot of intelligence doesn't seem to rate high at all on these men's scales. Thumbs down.

I'd like to give this site zero stars.

I wish I had read these reviews before spending so much time and energy on the confused, non-committal men on this site.

I had 42 men contact me in 3 weeks. As I contacted them, one after another exchanged e-mails until the point when we were to arrange our first meeting. Then they stopped. Two deactivated their profiles. I couldn't take this personally, since we never met. On number 6, match.com screwed up, and sent two of his e-mails only to my personal account, one I never check. I thought that he, too, was running just as we were at the point of meeting. This caused some damage between us, he sent me some nasty e-mails, and we will now never meet.

Silly me - I took this seriously. I didn't realize that so many men feel it's ok to play with a woman's emotions.

I haven't made it through all 42 yet, or the other 10 or so who have contacted me. I don't know how much more of this I can take.

There must be some kind of miraclous divine intervention that happens when people successfully connect.

It is the most miserable thing I have ever done in my life.

Many fake profiles on this site. I wanted to go through one of them to educate other guys on what to look for: LindseyAnne24

1. One picture. Actual real profiles, that is someone really looking to meet a man, will post multiple pictures, and it's just that simple.

2. Overplaying God. Now the South is more religious than most other areas of the country, but here the faker made the mistake of overdoing it, both in the profile body, and the "in my own words" section. The fact is that many people in NC really aren't THAT religious.

3. Spelling the name of your dog wrong. Are we honestly to believe that an individual schooled at Duke and Vanderbilt is going to misspell the name of her dog?

4. Leaving the job and income sections blank. Are we honestly to believe that someone who claims to have attended Vandy and Duke doesn't care what her man does, or what his income is? On top of that, she is seeking someone up to 11 years older, so obviously job and income would be important if you are apparently seeking an older, more established man.

All in all it's just too perfect" I could eat pizza, burritos, and french toast every day."
Please.

Be careful of these. Yes, there are many profiles out there that are too good to be true.