Reviews of eHarmony

eHaromony is some B.S., the questionnaires doesn't fully fit your screen and if you have a problem there's no contact person and they do not even have R&B or Soul Music as a category. The questions are biasedly bases to the point that you can't accurately describe yourself. And if I like someone why should I have to finish a twelve point preview just say hi!

Can anyone tell me how you get your profile OFF eharmony? They don't make it easy! I haven't subscribed so am only a free member, but within an hour or two of exploring the site I realised it wasn't for me and wanted to quit. The only way I could do anything was to re-edit my profile writing "nothing" or "none" in most of the boxes. There is no "contact us" button, and the "settings" choices only offer whether you want matches sent etc. No QUIT options!!

I have sent as well as responded to communication with matches on eHarmony, and filled out their popup survey. They eagerly supply you with matches; but successfully communicating with those people is another story! In fact, I just received a "close off communication" notice from a match I sent communication to 3 days earlier with the explanation "The match never returned communication."

I used eHarmony for 3 months in 2004 and signed up again for another 3 months in 2008. I was not impressed at all and it was a complete waste of money. The women I met were either not attractive or had serious personality flaws. I met a couple women who only had photos of their faces on their profiles, but when I met them I was disappointed because they very overweight but one wouldn't have been able to tell just by looking at a face photo.

I did meet two attractive women, but it didn't work out. One was very distrustful and basically assumed the worst about me on every issue because we met on the Internet. We dated for a couple months, but I got really sick of her attitude and ended it. The other attractive woman was 31 and had ended a three-year relationship 10 months earlier with some guy with whom she had been living. She was extremely bitter and rude, so I didn't want to pursue anything with her.

I am successful and do stay in shape, but I am 5'8 1/2", which is a problem for some women on dating websites. I actually get a lot more attention from better looking women in person than I did from the average-looking at best women on eHarmony.

Been on eharmony for a week. Paid for 3 months. Things I hate about it:
1) they seem to send you matches at planned intervals - so it's not like you can sign up and get a vunch to sort through right off the bat. It's like they release 8-12 a day.
2) they don't show a last activity or join dates for matches so you could be getting some people who are no longer active
3) the matching system is a joke - end of story.
4) you can't go back and refine most of your answers - once you save them that's it. I understand the logic but if you're getting bad matches and you would like to fine-tune your results to be more accurate, well, too bad.
5) you can't specify the # of kids your matches can have. I have no kids and would be fine with a match with 1 kid but not more than that.

And someone else mentioned that a few years ago she only checked out eharmony but never signed up and they still bomb her with emails. Yes, I have experienced that as well from when I tried them out 2 or 3 years ago.

Overall, very disappointed. Don't waste your money.

I joined eharmony about four months ago. It took a while to find anyone to communicate with me and when they finally did we never got past the email portion of the communication. I thought it seemed really strange that the communication stopped at the same time with three different matches. I have since cancelled my subscription as of 11/30/2009 and funny thing, I have received NO matches at all since the day I cancelled. They took my money and ran! I think they are preying on lonely people and giving them false hope that they will find true love. I am so angry about the way this company takes advantage of people. I prefer to think that God will put me where he wants to me to be to meet that special someone. People used to find each other long before eharmony came about. Everything about this site seems evil. Save your money, you shouldn't have to pay to find love in your life. It will happen when it's supposed to.

I have to agree with everything that has been said so far! This site is a rip off, and I fell right into it. After getting a bunch of matches, I decided to sign up for the $19.99 a month deal, for three months, here I am into my first two weeks, and I think all my matches are either not members or they are all away on business trips. I don't like how you cannot specify the body type you are attracted to, and those introductory questions are retarded!! Who asks questions like that when they first meet! I am so angry with this site, I would definitely not advise anyone to join, you are better off paying Match.Com, like another reviewer said, at least you can browse and do your own choosing, it is much more fun, than waiting around for weeks to see if anyone is going to answer your retarded questions! I can't believe I was such a sucker!! There should be an option to give no stars. I wrote to them twice and got some lame computer generated letter that sounds like someone actually cares. Wow, someone somewhere is laughing his/her head off! ......all the way to the bank!

No stars
I signed up and immediately had difficulty with the interface.

There is no technical help available. No legend or key to help you with the lingo used on the site. And NO response to requests for help.

It seems as thought they take your money and disappear leaving you to fend for yourself.

eHarmony,

I was a sucker and signed up during free weekend. Seeing a picture really wasn't too important to me. I wasn't sure if the 1 good match I had would be able to communicate with me after the weekend was over. I paid for 1 month. As a person who was checking the site out in the first place I received over 25 matches. Then they started to dwindle down. Currently I have not gotten another match for over 3 days.
I am extremely disappointed in the areas to match in. Distance is 30 miles. I do not drive. Also I am under 5ft and I do not want to be match with men 5'10" and up. I closed a lot of matches just because they were too tall. However, most were good men I am sure.
Also, I wanted men who did not want kids or have kids living with them. Of course, a major portion of my matches have children.
I am glad I have the opportunity to talk with 1 man. He seems like a great guy. However, I too, had better results on Match.com. The last relationship I had was a 4 yr. relationship with a man I met on Match.com. The only reason we ended it was because he decided marriage wasn't for him.
Now I need to make sure I cancel my automatic renewal. I do not want to be charged any more money. My advice match.com or go to church or a bookstore to find nice and intelligent men.

I'm dissatisfied with eHarmony. There are major flaws with their matching system and being a marketing professional, good for them. They've marketed their ways into our wallets for whatever promotional dollar amount they're charging to build their database. I've been on the site on and off for one month stints for about a year (maybe 3 months) and while I've met people that are very nice, I'm finding that a lot of the men I'm meeting are really just looking for a hook up. Thats totally not what I'm looking for!

I've recently been chatting with a couple of men off the site in open communication, two have dropped off (they never shared their pictures with me while they've seen mine), another doesn't want to move past the email phase (its been like two weeks). So I've been looking around on the site to cancel my membership - this time for good. Ironically, they've conveniently removed the "cancellation" option in your account settings so you can't easy cancel nor do they have a phone number easily accessible to call and cancel. There are membership clubs out there that do this very thing and are caught up with the US Senate explaining their businesses and their intent.

I understand all the other posts and a lot of people are jaded, I've honestly had more luck on Match.com at 1/2 the price. At least there you know what you're getting into. I wonder where everyone is from who posts on here and if the challenges we face are geographically centralized?