Reviews of eHarmony

After seeing all the negative reviews I have to say to those trying dating sites that I loved eharmony. I was matched with several very nice men. Chatted with many and decided to go out with two. I am now engaged to simply the most wonerful man in the world. All thanks to eharmony! It was a fun and safe way to meet some very nice men. I would highly recommend eharmony to anyone interested in a long term relationship.

I am highly disappointed with EHarmony. It is very expensive and the "matches" are nothing that I would even be remotely interested in. I must have put on the lengthy questionairre that I was looking for a man old enough to be my father. Since I am a very attractive (in my opinion), take good care of myself, educated, etc I thought I could at least attract a man of the same. Instead all matches are at least 10-20 years older. I have had only one communication that went absolutely no where. I have tried to get a refund because what was promised is not what has been received but no that is why the contract is NO REFUND. Read it carefully before signing on. My advice is that if you feel you have that much money to waste just flush it down the toilet you will have as much luck as finding the man of your dreams trying to flush it out than you will on EHarmony. I am giving one star because 0 is not an option

If I could give a negative star, I would. My year on eHarmony was a waste of money--and time. They matched me with a motley of characters that I would have never chosen myself. How about the guy who had just gotten separated four weeks before. There was another one who enjoyed hunting and killing animals, and enjoyed spending time polishing his guns (I'm a vegetarian). I could go on and on. Many of the men were 10 to 20 years older than me--really weird and unacceptable. They sent me one man who was in a wheel chair--had had cancer and a heart attack, and needed a women to take care of him (and he was 18 years older than me). Oh, how about the guy who was severly depressed, or the one who didn't have a job and needed someone to help support him. I can't repeat enough about how eHarmony is a joke and a waste of time. I did have a one date with someone who had bleach spots all over the shirt he wore, and he kept laughing constantly in a high, nervous squeal.
However, my friends and relatives enjoyed my stories about the kind of men eHarmony matched me up with--we laughed and laughed.
If this review can help save someone time and money, then it was worth my time to tell of my experience.

I just signed up again with EHarmony, hoping that just one lady will return my emails. What I have learned in the past is that many of the women (in Indiana anyhow) have an inflated view of themselves. Many are significantly overweight, are lacking in the attractiveness category, have meaningless jobs, are not well educated, and have a grudge against men. I may not be a prize, but I have a well paying job, own my home, am well educated, and in excellent shape from exercising 6 days a week. I am well rounded in my interests, a contemporary jazz aficionado, and I can cook. And I am certainly not looking for a Vogue-esque woman to serve as eye-candy. Yet - unattractive, overweight, self-centered women with low-paying jobs in dead end careers continue to want a Brad Pitt look-a-like who is 8 to 10 years younger, has wash-board abs, and a six-figure salary. What gives? Get over yourselves.

EHK

I signed up on EHarmony attracted by two things: 1) Their personality based matching and 2) the fact that non-paying users can't see profiles. I work with a lot of women / gossips who prowl the dating sites from work literally daily looking for people they know. I hope none of them subscribe to eHarmony!

Anyway, what I've found is that eHarmony is lacking in several areas. Number one is the lack of a "body type" category. I'm a young-ish (33) guy who is fit and athletic. If a woman is 100 pounds overweight, we aren't compatible. I don't care what her views on family relations or religion are. EHarmony is an absolute clearing house for morbidly obese women. I diligently open my daily matches, and end up shuddering or laughing at most.

So I let matches build up for a few weeks, and then opened every single one to find a woman I would consider even remotely attractive. I did find a few. In fact, out of the 110 matches I accumulated, I found five. That's 4.5% for you math lovers. Which means that if you're like me, you'll find 95.5% of your matches a waste of time and money.

Now if even one of my 4.5% ends up being the girl of my dreams (I'm still waiting on responses, I tried a mixture of the guided communications and a couple of emails.) then I will come back and edit this review. But for now, I would describe eHarmony as a colossal waste of time and money.

Though if you must try it, google "eHarmony coupons" and you can get it for $10 a month. I wouldn't consider it for anything more than that.

The strange thing about eHarmony is that it's set up for rejection. I am intelligent,attractive and interesting, although older (but generally taken for late 40s, early 50s).I've tried it twice. Every the time I logged on, I would discover that a good percentage of the 50-something and 60-something guys who were recommended for me had "closed" the communication, before I even got to look at their profiles! I found it a very depressing site to use - so never again.

I see that alot of people give bad reviews. Well I guess i can atleast leave a great one. I was a member for a year, and even though i did not meet the love of my life, i wouldnt give any of the blame to the site. Yes there are alot of bogus profiles and inactive profiles but, this is online dating people. Its going to happen. I had a decent amount of dates out of the site, and some of those men are still fabulous friends of mine. i think eharmony has a great agenda in mind, just dont fret over the petty stuff, be persistent, and im sure you can find someone!!

The site is way too expensive. The selections are poor and to get to an open communication is pretty much an act of God. Response time between the questionaires are take too long. Basically I cannot find anything good about this site.
I just could not get anyone to respond. My profile was correctly filled out with tons of pictures. I am very fit, educated, employed and young looking with all of my hair and teeth and still it wasn't enough.
This site does the picking for you, unlike other sites where you can browse. I felt, after seeing what the site has selected for me, like Ellis Island..." Give me your weak, overweight and unemployed POS. Give me your old, tired and worthless women who cannot stand on their own and let me waste my time, energy and money to give her the self confidence, employment, drive and body to pursue other interest and to make it in life".
I am led to believe that women on dating site do not want a man that is in control of his own life.
Dating sites do not work. Atleast for me.

One star is way to good for them. After reading many of these posts I have to agree with most of you that eHarmony is a rip off. I don't drink or smoke but if I choose not to be matched with drinkers then I get no matches. I don't have kids and don't want them but if I choose not to be matched with anyone that hase no kids or kids under 18 I get no matches. They say to change my match criteria to include drinkers and women with little kids then I would get more matches. The fact they would all be wrong for me doesn't seem to make any difference to them. How does anyone bennifit from getting a bunch of incompatible matches? Makes their bottom line look good I guess. I've had about 1,000 matches since I joined and not one has ever gotten to open communication. Many people see body type and exercise habits to be very important to make someone a good match so why isn't there anywhere in EH where we can go and stipulate that? EH is a joke right from the start. Match.com at least lets you pick who you want to communicate with. EH is nothing more than an expensive form of blind dating, we all have horror stories about some of those I'll bet.

Actually, 1 star is FAR greater than eharmony deserves!!! I subscribed for a few months and continued getting profiles that were not even remotely a match!!! Some profiles had subscriptions that were expired (of course, if they were a good match logic dictates that eharmony could have sent their profile long before their subscription expired!!!). Complaints did nothing and they never corrected a single thing. Their solution was that I should change my criterion (I could not understand why I should "settle" for something less than a close match since their entire focus is on matching people whose values, interests, and compatibility are CLOSE).
I don't drink and someone who drinks frequently is not a close match. I don't smoke and don't want someone who does. I maintain a regular exercise program including running at least 3 miles daily and I regularly enter various charity races such as 5K, 10K, and 1/2 marathons, so someone who is obese and does not exercise at all would not be any kind of a match. I am Christian and my beliefs would not match with an agnostic, athiest, budhist, or moslem.
Hard to believe not one person anywhere is even remotely close to what I am searching for...of course it seems that eharmony is only searching for money not real efforts in matching couples. Their own numbers don't speak much confidence, either...if correct and 15,000 new members join daily & if their claim of matching 200 daily is correct isn't that under 1%??? Those are terrible odds...better chances of just meeting someone compatible randomly on the street, would be my guess!!!
Texas is a big state, but eharmony hardly ever sent a profile from anywhere but other states. I THINK THEIR ENTIRE OPERATION IS A JOKE DESIGNED NOT TO MATCH PROFILES, BUT TO ACTUALLY PROLONG SUBSCRIPTIONS AND CONTINUE TAKING PEOPLE'S MONEY!!!