Reviews of eHarmony

Though I find the eharmony advertisement on tv a little much, I decided to give them a try. I protected myself however by arranging to just try it for 3 months per their special at the time, without an automatic renewal. I had to request this.

I still have a little while remaining on my 3 month membership, but have been pretty underwhelmed. I am mildly Jewish rather than Christian, so have very few matches.

I have always felt the 29 dimensions were just an oddball number they picked to seem unique and worth the price, but as I am not a religious Christian person, after a handful of matches, they started sending me matches who they consider "flexible matching" not the 29 dimensions of compatibility. They are currently matching me with people who drink daily (I drink rarely to once every 2 weeks or so). I do want to explain as I am not religious at all, I am open to dating people of different religions, as long as they aren't religious, as I think that might be problematic.

The people they match me with are not people I would be attracted to, and frankly have had much better luck with yahoo personals and match.com for less money. At least on there I've spoken on the phone with some people, and actually met them. Not with eharmony.

To be fair, one of the ladies at my office married someone she met at eharmony. However, it is a matter of chance, and in my opinion eharmony is not as good as the others. An executive in my office just married a man she met on match.com.

If you wish to join eharmony (best if you are Christian), get on their mailing list and wait til they have a really good deal. I paid about $50 for 3 months. Oh, a friend of mine has dated a guy from eharmony as she is ready for a serious relationship and felt this would be the way to go. She met a guy who is a nudist (really obsessed with it) and he is dating several people.

This site is no different than others. . . beware. The 29 dimensions of compatibility are merely a number, and mostly it pertains to those who live within the distance you indicated is okay with you, and that is it.

Though I find the eharmony advertisement on tv a little much, I decided to give them a try. I protected myself however by arranging to just try it for 3 months per their special at the time, without an automatic renewal. I had to request this.

I still have a little while remaining on my 3 month membership, but have been pretty underwhelmed. I am mildly Jewish rather than Christian, so have very few matches.

I have always felt the 29 dimensions were just an oddball number they picked to seem unique and worth the price, but as I am not a religious Christian person, after a handful of matches, they started sending me matches who they consider "flexible matching" not the 29 dimensions of compatibility. They are currently matching me with people who drink daily (I drink rarely to once every 2 weeks or so). I do want to explain as I am not religious at all, I am open to dating people of different religions, as long as they aren't religious, as I think that might be problematic.

The people they match me with are not people I would be attracted to, and frankly have had much better luck with yahoo personals and match.com for less money. At least on there I've spoken on the phone with some people, and actually met them. Not with eharmony.

To be fair, one of the ladies at my office married someone she met at eharmony. However, it is a matter of chance, and in my opinion eharmony is not as good as the others. An executive in my office just married a man she met on match.com.

If you wish to join eharmony (best if you are Christian), get on their mailing list and wait til they have a really good deal. I paid about $50 for 3 months. Oh, a friend of mine has dated a guy from eharmony as she is ready for a serious relationship and felt this would be the way to go. She met a guy who is a nudist (really obsessed with it) and he is dating several people.

This site is no different than others. . . beware. The 29 dimensions of compatibility are merely a number, and mostly it pertains to those who live within the distance you indicated is okay with you, and that is it.

I joined eharmony the first wk of Sept 07 signing up for the year membership. Every day I would sign into my account with new matches..In 9 months I have had over 400 so-called matches and out of those only 2 I had any conversation with. I have never had any problems before getting a date I am an attractive women who keeps herself in shape. I decided the other day to put my profile on plentyoffish because its free I figured what do I have to lose. The first day my profile was up I had 10 men wanting to correspond. By the second day I had a date for Friday from one. And a Coffee engagement the next week with another. This tells me SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG WITH EHARMONY. I am currently trying to get a refund..Definetly would not recommend...would have given no stars but I had to give at least one to write review.

I signed up with eHarmony in April for free as a trial since I had never done anything like this before. Right away I supposedly had 6 matches interested in me and wanting to communicate. I paid for three months to be able to communicate with these 6 supposed matches and have not heard a word from any of them since I paid the fees. I find that strange that there were so many matches and now no communication. I would really give them no stars if possible.

I signed up with eHarmony in April for free as a trial since I had never done anything like this before. Right away I supposedly had 6 matches interested in me and wanting to communicate. I paid for three months to be able to communicate with these 6 supposed matches and have not heard a word from any of them since I paid the fees. I find that strange that there were so many matches and now no communication. I would really give them no stars if possible.

Most of what others have said is right on. Joined first for 1 month & had tons of matches & some good written communication. Returned from vacation to find those who couldn't wait to hear all about it had vanished.

Signed up for 6 months & got 70% FEWER TOTAL matches than in the 1 month - you can figure the reason! There is a free site that a friend suggested that is just as good as those that charge and has many of the same people. A photo can be sent to those who interest you without posting it for the world to see. A search for free sites will help you find it especially if you like to fish. Best of luck in your search.

I give eHarmony the lowest rating because I tried it a year and a half ago and got matched with the most opposite guys I could possibly imagine being attracted to. They were shorter than me, and for some reason, a ton of over weight engineers that were holding 4' sock monkeys. I signed up again about 2 months ago and re-took the test, thinking that perhaps my frame of mind has changed a bit... again, poor results with the matches. I have not met anyone and the worst part about it, is that my account was to end on May 19th, and they charged another month's fee of $49.95 yesterday, on the 18th. I was planning on canceling today, the 19th, and so when I called they said they couldn't give me a refund because there was a 24 hour charge before the end date specified. Now I'm stuck with the service for another month. I will try to make the most of it, but it's hard not to take the icky matches personally... but after reading some of these reviews, it makes me feel better. It sounds as though many people get poor matches. I haven't met anyone who has married from eHarmony. 2 friends of mine cancelled their subscriptions recently as well. I'm going to keep an open mind, but it's hard when my matches are mediocre.

The service overall is OK but I question whether their "compatability system" really works. Many of the matches had nothing to do with what I would consider compatible. The site is cumbersome and very time-consuming. There's not an efficient way to sift through matches. Several steps are required to "close a match" (no matter how sure you are it's not a good fit).

The low rating stems from their tricky auto-renewal billing process. They will automatically bill you for the next month 24 hours before your subscription runs out so that even if you cancel before your last day, they bill you. And then it becomes very very difficult to get a refund. Customer service overall is very poor.

I was a member of eharmony off & on for 5 years. In that time I was matched with 637 people. I was NOT an eharmony fan due to several reasons. #1. It cost too much. #2. Many of the matches were not members. #3. There were next to no local matches. #4. No one was willing to travel or relocate. These are just a few of the main reasons I did not like eharmony. I have even written a few reviews on this site bashing eharmony. Right before my last membership expired I had a local match who ended up being my soulmate. We have been married for a year now & am so glad I didnt give up. When I joined my expectations were way too high. I expected to meet the girl of my dreams in 6 months or a year. I was sure that eharmony was a scam. I was mad. Felt I had been ripped off. The truth was that I had unreal expectations. eharmony was only a tool. I blamed eharmony becasue it did not meet my expectations. I blamed eharmony because my matches did not meet my standards. I blamed eharmony because I did not get enough matches. I look back now & see that almost all of the matches were compatible with me. eharmony takes time....a lot of time. But for me was worth it. Those who say they joined for 3 or 6 months & did not meet the love of their life & quit are a joke. how foolish to have that type of expectation. Even eharmony says most of their sucess stories were eharmony members for 2 or more years. eharmony is not a "fast food" or "drive through" dating site. It takes time. For me it was 5 years. Dont give up & dont expect to meet someone in 6 months.

I would put negative stars if that was a choice I had. I am living proof that their matching on 29 dimensions is BS. none of the matches came close. I could do better offline at church, or a Social club. I am a non-smoking, moderate wine drinker, who's into distance running, and I am conservative regarding politics. I was matched with women that where morbidly obese, smokers, non-drinkers, and politcally to the left of Che Guevara........I rest my case.