Reviews of eHarmony

TAKE MY ADVICE!!!!!!!! Do not sign up for eharmony. I signed up last January and I have had ZERO dates. I am sure you might be thinking it is me. It's not. I am one semester short of obtaining my masters and not a bad looking gal. I have gotten more dates walking to my suite in my building than on this crummy website.

At first, they send you tons and tons of matches. After you weed through all of those and find 2 or 3 you might be interested in... you do the long tedious "get-to- know-each-other" questions. The questions are so dumb that each time I just randomly pick some. Anyhow, I so STUPIDLY signed up for a year. Now I am about 8 months in. I would say in the last 5 months, I have averaged about 2 matches a week. One from Zimbabwe and the other MIGHT be local.

I remember reading these reviews and people saying they were on for months at a time and they got ZERO dates as well. I kept thinking, what was wrong with the person writing the review. Now I am that person. I promise... I am a nice looking (from what I have been told) smart gal. I wish we could post pics, b/c I would in a heart beat.

DO NOT SIGN UP FOR eHARMONY. I promise you, you will be writing the next negative review. I tried it with an "open mind" as well and wasted good money!

E-harmony did nothing for me but take my money. I paid for 3 months and in that time they took forever to find appropriate matches for me, I think about 13, none of those initial ones in my state. When I tried communicating with those they did not even acknowledge my ice brakers. I cleared them off and the new ones had no pictures and only a couple were even from my state. They said if I would change my preferences to those of someone more generic I would get more matches. In other words if I am generic I can make plenty of generic matches, but if unique forget it. This was untrue too by the way. They suck so hard, screw them, please don't give them money unless you are just generic Americana enough it won't work for you either. Honestly, anonymous in Albuquerque. Local link ups are much better.

There should definitely be a ZERO star rating for eHarmony.

The problem with this service is their staff and policies. I made the mistake of "browsing" before my divorce was final. Then, after it was final, I went back to update my file and couldn't do so! I keep getting advice on marraige counseling!

I started writing them after it was final to find out how to update my profile. I kept getting form letters in return telling me that I had to wait until it was final! They did not even read my letters, as I had stated in every one of them that it was already final and I needed to know how to upadate my profile. This went on back and forth for over 2 months.

Finally, they told me they want all kinds of personal information about it and want me to relive the most horrific and painful part of my life just to use their so-called service. After sending them the requested info several times over the course of a month, they still will not update my profile.

I went to this eHarmony thing for a promise of a new beginning and have gotten nothing but the run-around and heartache. I was treated with indifference and sheer neglect. These people are ignorant, heartless, can't read, and have driven me to abject helplessness. No wonder they are at the bottom of the dating-service pile. Match.com is far more usable, popular (obviously), and personable.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY ON THIS EXCLUSIVE, CARELESS, HEARTLESS AND INSENSITIVE COMPANY.

After i answered the 10,000 questions, I was told that there is no one in this world for me. What a let down. I have not been able to get a good nights sleep. I am now a recluse. I cannot work anymore and cannot talk to a member of the opposite sex. I am a broken man. God help me

I had a wonderful experience with eHarmony. A little less than 3 years ago I signed up for a one month subscription and extended it for one more. I would receive several matches every day. Yes, there were many matches that did not respond ut there were quite a few that did. I ended up meeting 5 of those matches and one of them became a very special person in my life. Our relationship was as close to perfect as one could be. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with cancer about 10 months into our relationship and passed away a few days short of 2 years from the day we met. I would never trade those 2 years for anything in this world.
That was 9 months ago and I am again thinking of using eHarmony. You do have to weed throught a lot of matches but in my case it was well worth it. and if I do decide to use the service again, it is because I had such a good experience the last time.

E-Harmony = Fraud????? Definitely a waste of money.

I joined on May 25th and received a match on May 26th. Physically, he was definitely not a match but I decided that maybe he's a great guy. Anyway he never responded. So I finally closed it out on July 12th.

After 48 days of no matches I called eHarmony to complain. She extended my subscription by one month and said she would look into it and see to it that I received some matches. The next day I received four profiles none of which even remotely matched my profile.

The next two days I received four more which were not any better than the others, one was a stretch but I decided to contact him. He never responded. That was July 14th and no matches since and today is Aug 24th. I honestly believe the surge of non-matches I received in July was just to shut me up.

I called eHarmony again, and that Rep said she would look into it and see what she could do. Nothing happened.

I called e-Harmony again on Aug 14th and the Rep was very rude. He was not at all helpful. He told me that I should change my religion entry from Christian to a specific denomination. I couldn't believe it. I was offended and told him that it would only serve to narrow the field. Finally, when I asked to speak to a supervisor, he refused.

On 8/20 I sent an e-mail requesting my money back. The next day I researched the law on fraud and misrepresentation and I forwarded a copy to them and again asked for a refund. I told them that if they did not respond within 24 hours, that I would report them to the "Internet Fraud Complaint Center" who will in turn forward it to federal, state and/or local law enforcement authorities.

It's now been three days no response. Whether I get my money is neither her nor there, it's the principal. I just want to warn others about this supposedly great personal site.

What a joke, its more like "E-HANDUSYOURMONEY"! After 2 weeks, I had the account closed. I received a total of 30 "so called matches" and did not get any return communication. It's funny that all of the matches came in about 3AM and most were closed by 5AM for unknown reasons. I doubt that the "matches" were staying up all night. A total waste of time and money. It would have been nice to read the reviews before joining. Don't find out the hard way like I did!

My experience with eharmony has been wonderful, which has actually been very surprising to me. I'm a mid-fifties semi-professional, and I'd think that in itself would make me hard to match. Maybe because I'm fit, active and post honest, recent pictures, and took time with my profile, I get tons of communication requests. I've requested communication twice, and all the rest of the time the man initiates.

I've been on and off eharmony for over a year and a half, with breaks in between if I was dating exclusively. My matches number around 800 closed, and I have 175 current matches, and over 45 that have been in open communication. Early on, I found you need to be careful, as in any kind of dating, about the emotional health of the men you will meet. Most of the men I've met on eharmony have been amazing guys I'd never have the opportunity to meet otherwise, as I am in an office all day, don't belong to a church, and am not into bars, either. I've dated two former pro athletes, met many truly intelligent and interesting men, had one serious relationship, and one marriage proposal (the proposal wasn't from the one right for me, but it was very nice). Eharmony has kept me busy meeting new people, having fun, talking on the phone, or on weekend dates solidly.

So it has worked for me. I just thought I'd interject a little positivity (if that's a word) into these reviews. I didn't expect much more from this service than the chance to meet new people, and it's definitely fulfilled that expectation and more.

I would rate this service as zilch! Don't do the year sign up!

the worst part for me however were the techinical problems. they claim to email you when they match you, but I stopped getting those emials. Also, I was in regular communication with three different individuals...open email communication. the pattern had been contact every other day. in one three day period, I stopped getting emails about matches and I did not get emails from any of those three matches.

I finally called customer service and was really blown off. "you must be acidentally deleting them. They must be going in your spam mail." While I acknowledge all three of them could have decided at the same time they didn't want to communicate any more, the fact that it happened at the same time the match emails stopped is suspicious. The technical problem has not yet, after 6 weeks, been addressed in any satisfactory way or resolved.

I suscribed in February on a $10.00 a month deal and had several matches immediately. I understand from one person I have actually had phone conversations with that there are probably many, many more women than men on the service. While I wouln't complain about the number of matches, I would complain about the number of matches that were even remotely compatible.

I wish one of the magazine shows would do an expose of this service. If thousands are having satisfactory results, how come they keep showing the same pictures of couples who met years ago?

Every time my subscription came up for renewal I was told I had a bunch of matches waiting. After about 25 to 30 matches did not respond to my request to communicate I began to think I was getting matched with fictitious people. It was a terrible waste of money. After a year I had met no one and never got beyond the second level of communication with the few who wrote back saying "The distance is too great" or "I've met someone already." There should be a "no star" rating!