Reviews of eHarmony

wow there has been so much bad press on here about e harmony and i dont know what to say about it to be honest because iv had a pretty good experiance. iv noticed most people who have left a review are from america etc im from england and found that like most people that you were given matches from people who were out of your distance, however it didnt bother me too much as i received pleanty matches in my area too. i do agree that a lot of people just join for the free weekened communication however i dont feel that this is e harmonys fault. Another point id like to make, a lot of people talk about being so great and good looking, having lots of money and having a fantastic job and complained when they were matched with people who were on minimum wage or unemployed, if this bothers you then maybe you should go else where because there is more to people than their looks, money, and job! if you are so high class then join a dating site for high class people becuase i certainly wouldnt want to communicate with someone who was stuck up their own backside! In England i paid £30 a month, i did not pay for three months subscription because i wanted to see what it was like. i have also been on match.com in the past and their prices were pretty much similar, i have no complaints about their payment system and when i came to cancel i had no problems either. i have read in quite a few reviews that women complain of only meeting perverts on this site but i can assure you it happens on every site and i wouldnt call them perverts more like hot blooded males and at least on a dating site you can cancel the match and never hear from them again, thats not the case when you go out on the town and meet men face to face, at that point if they become what some women class as 'perverts' you cant walk away from them so easily. i was matched with a lot of men who never seemed to make much effort with their profiles but again this is not e harmonys fault it is us human beings who fill in our profiles and if we dont do it properly we wont get communication. i wouldnt class myself as a greta looking girl but i wouldnt say im ugly, i have a job self-employed but i would never judge a man if he worked in a shop on minimum wage just because im self-employed! how shallow does that make a person? i have been on both match.com and e harmony and find both to be ok. i have requests of quite a few men to communicate and have been on some dates, one man although not what i usually go for in a man i have found very nice. i beleive these things take time and you shouldnt go on the site havcing a strict idea of what you want from a person because you could find something much nicer with someone you didnt quite expect to be your type. i have now been in contact with a man for 6 months and hes lovely and we so far seem very compatible. its early days but im so happy i joined e harmony. what i will say is it is YOUR responsability to use your own judgement and intuition to sift through the bad from the good. i cant say i have found any perverts on there myself maybe a few men who were overly keen but if you dont like it you close the match SIMPLE. you cant expect all of them to be compatible with you at the end of the day the computer only matches you because of what the other person has said about themselves and if that person has not been honest that is not e harmonys fault. i set my age request at no more than 28 and if e harmony hadnt sent me a match for a man aged 29 i would never had got to know this lovely man so its not all bad that they give you matches older than you requested. i would recommend e harmony to anyone here in england and its just a shame so many people are so picky and self obsorbed as there are some really nice blokes on that site. give it ago at least and dont expect a miricle you've got to put in the work just as you would normally.

Not good at all, members star comunicating then they stop, just plain a crazy site, I think match.com is far better....do not waste your money! I have meet only one person in a year, what the hell is that? they are old , no pictures, or from some small town in the middle of nowhere? Oh pelase kee your money do not give it to eharmony"

WITHOUT ANY DOUBT i HAVE FOUND THIS SITE TO BE THE WORST DATING SERVICE ON THE INTERNET.

I have been more than unhappy with eharmony. Their approach to matching is so controlled and unreasonable that it is not realistic. The responses offered are so rigid and the questions offered are so unnatural in so many instances.
The matching system, while it claims to find true matches is hideous. They matched me with people clear across the country, when I expressed no interest in long distance dating. They matched me with several people who, emailed me with a reply stating that they thought I was a nice lady from my profile, but we have absolutely nothing at all in common. I agreed. Someone is dead at this matching site. ,..... not even sleeping............dead...brain dead

And then they make these offers for special weekends but do not let me contact anyone.........EVER..................tried many times to give them a second try...........but my computer JUST ACCCIDENTLY
A L W A Y S just dies and kicks me off the site when I try to contact anyone they send me as a MATCH....I want to know how they call it a match.............if there is no chance to contat someone.

Anyway...............TERRIBLE SITE...........FREE SITES ARE BETTER AND OTHER PAID SITES ARE BETTER.

I HAD ONE DATE ON THIS SITE FOR A THREE MONTH MEMBERSHIP AND NEVER EVEN EMAILED WITH ANYONE ELSE.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY

Did all I can do for free, but passing on membership since I do not want my $ going to a right wing conservative group. The site was forced by the courts to allow same-sex couples to find matches. The founder is an evangelical Christian and associated with Dobson's Focus on the Family. Seriously, do not want my $ going there.

Well, like many of you, I tried this site off and on for years. Many of my matches were hundreds of miles away and not active on the site. In desperation, I signed up for a year last fall and then quickly got discouraged and stopped the matching. Then, in the Spring, I decided since I'd paid for it and was spending my weekends sitting home alone, I might as well get the matches.

The day before my birthday, eHarmony sent me the profile of a very nice, somewhat younger man, who lived five miles away. I sent him a two line email to see if he really existed and the rest, as they say, is history. We are EXTREMELY compatible, in all the important areas and most of the unimportant ones, too (he doesn't like country music though) ...lol.

He shared the same philosophy I did, the site will only work if both parties are honest in their responses and sincerely looking for matches. You must be honest with yourself first and then with each other.

The site worked for us and I hope all of you are also patient and wait and see who shows up in your in box. Give them a shot - even if they don't match your expectations (this is to the big shot who doesn't want to date way beneath his income level). My guy is 6.5 years younger than me and I was outside of his "age range" but he was willing to keep his options open and we couldn't be happier :-)

Good luck to all of you!

While eHarmony; better known as email us all your money, did provide a correct testing form (I suppose there is a better way to put that) I simply could NOT believe who or what they selected as a Best Match for me.

Example: I am a hi-tech global/corporate founder, COB, CEO, Pres. Inventor and VC Guy and all eHarmony could find was min. wage store clerks, non-profit workers or 7/11 mgrs., while just one of my motorcycles cost more the one or two years salary for most of these people ~ That Was Not Happening!

I don't get true matches they don't match my profile at all. They don't respond or are to old or too....
E H is just like match and all the others dating companies making promises they can't keep. Don't waste your time and money.

DO NOT, I repeat, do not waste your money on eHarmony.
They woo you into believing their site works and that they have numerous subscribers in their database by sending you multiple matches every day during the first 2-3 weeks of membership. BUT as soon as you subscribe to the service and pay your money, they have already exhausted matches who exist in their database so there aren't any more matches to send to you. You wait days, even more than a week, before you receive a new match. Of course, when you receive a match, there is no photo and more likely than not, the match is not even a subscriber, hence there will be no communication. All of your efforts are wasted.

Why should anybody pay money to be matched to people who are not subscribers?
Why should anybody pay money for a service that cannot provide matches based on reasonable matching settings?
Why should anybody pay money for a dating service that does not work.

If you want to spend your hard earned money on a site that works, go to match.com. It's fun, you can search their database and it is much more interactive. Yes, you can still end up meeting someone who is not a good match for you BUT at least you get to have a meeting.

And, no I am not an employee of match.com. I am a satisfied subscriber to match.com.

I hope this helps.

I tried in vein to find how much I have to pay before I answer hundreds of questions.
It's on purpose impossible until you invest your energy in filling all that, and then, every sales person knows that, you're easily persuaded to pay.
I HATE TO BE TREATED AS A FOOL.
I managed to find the link to contact their customer service, and wrote that I'd like to know the prices in advance. Guess what was their answer...

Maybe it's a good service, maybe not, one thing is for sure I'll go to a place that respects me as a thinking person (and I must admit - there are not too many like that :) ).

Forgot to mention: do you get matches without responses? It happened to me at match.com - your matches are people that filled a profile but never paid for the service, or are not using this site for years, yet the site keeps their profiles as if they are active members to attract you to pay.

I used match.com for one month (the same scam as in eHarmony) only to find out that I'm communicating with ghost profiles. I have added to my profile that I'm not really there.

What can I do? plenty of fish is extremely shallow yet it's better that all of these sites that treat you like shit.