Reviews of eHarmony

At the beginning of the year I decided to give Eharmony a try. I'd been divorced a few months and wanted to see what type of woman I could meet online.

I'm an attractive (or so I've been told) 33 yr. old male... 1 marriage, no kids.

I jumped through all of the Eharmony hoops and answered every question honestly. Within 24 hours I had 6 matches... 2 of which were "my type" and 4 were not. All were within the 30 mile range I specified.

Ironically both of the 2 which interested me initiated communication themselves. Within 3 days we hit open communication. After that 1 of them suddenly slowed down in her emails while the other was quite steady in emailing me at least once per day.

So... after talking with her for a little over a week via email and telephone we went out on a date. We met for dinner and it went very well. Along with her good looks (35 yrs. old, blonde, 5'5, 110 lbs) she had a great personality. We had quite a few things in common and had great conversation all night.

Here we are about 2 months later and everything is going great. We get together pretty much on a daily basis now and I couldn't be happier. Is she my "soul mate"? That remains to be seen. I will say that I am quite happy with the relationship so far.

I'll give Eharmony 4 out of 5 stars. After a few weeks they did start flooding me with matches that were out of my distance range but of course I didn't really care since I was already happily communicating with someone.

I did cancel my membership after 1 month with no issues. So far I will say that it was $59.99 well spent.

At the beginning of the year I decided to give Eharmony a try. I'd been divorced a few months and wanted to see what type of woman I could meet online.

I'm an attractive (or so I've been told) 33 yr. old male... 1 marriage, no kids.

I jumped through all of the Eharmony hoops and answered every question honestly. Within 24 hours I had 6 matches... 2 of which were "my type" and 4 were not. All were within the 30 mile range I specified.

Ironically both of the 2 which interested me initiated communication themselves. Within 3 days we hit open communication. After that 1 of them suddenly slowed down in her emails while the other was quite steady in emailing me at least once per day.

So... after talking with her for a little over a week via email and telephone we went out on a date. We met for dinner and it went very well. Along with her good looks (35 yrs. old, blonde, 5'5, 110 lbs) she had a great personality. We had quite a few things in common and had great conversation all night.

Here we are about 2 months later and everything is going great. We get together pretty much on a daily basis now and I couldn't be happier. Is she my "soul mate"? That remains to be seen. I will say that I am quite happy with the relationship so far.

I'll give Eharmony 4 out of 5 stars. After a few weeks they did start flooding me with matches that were out of my distance range but of course I didn't really care since I was already happily communicating with someone.

I did cancel my membership after 1 month with no issues. So far I will say that it was $59.99 well spent.

I took a chance on E-Harmony after trying several others with mixed experiences. I was extremely optomistic after hearing all the adds and reading the testimonials.

EHarmony bases their system on the premis that everyone will develop their profile honestly. I only got to go on 3 dates with them in an entire year, and all of them were as far from an ideal match as possible.

I ended up going with an off-line service called, "It's Just Lunch".

With this service, I went on 20 dates. Some of them resulted in 2nd and 3rd dates. I eventually met my fiance' and could not be happier.

EHarmony is a grand hoax.

I took a chance on E-Harmony after trying several others with mixed experiences. I was extremely optomistic after hearing all the adds and reading the testimonials.

EHarmony bases their system on the premis that everyone will develop their profile honestly. I only got to go on 3 dates with them in an entire year, and all of them were as far from an ideal match as possible.

I ended up going with an off-line service called, "It's Just Lunch".

With this service, I went on 20 dates. Some of them resulted in 2nd and 3rd dates. I eventually met my fiance' and could not be happier.

EHarmony is a grand hoax.

I took a chance on E-Harmony after trying several others with mixed experiences. I was extremely optomistic after hearing all the adds and reading the testimonials.

EHarmony bases their system on the premis that everyone will develop their profile honestly. I only got to go on 3 dates with them in an entire year, and all of them were as far from an ideal match as possible.

I ended up going with an off-line service called, "It's Just Lunch".

With this service, I went on 20 dates. Some of them resulted in 2nd and 3rd dates. I eventually met my fiance' and could not be happier.

EHarmony is a grand hoax.

I took a chance on E-Harmony after trying several others with mixed experiences. I was extremely optomistic after hearing all the adds and reading the testimonials.

EHarmony bases their system on the premis that everyone will develop their profile honestly. I only got to go on 3 dates with them in an entire year, and all of them were as far from an ideal match as possible.

I ended up going with an off-line service called, "It's Just Lunch".

With this service, I went on 20 dates. Some of them resulted in 2nd and 3rd dates. I eventually met my fiance' and could not be happier.

EHarmony is a grand hoax.

eHarmony stinks!!!!!! I was a member for a whole year and didn't get ONE DATE!!!! Oh I was matched alright.....WITH GUYS THAT LIVED ABOUT 300 MILES AWAY!!!!!! I can't believe they couldn't find ONE GUY for me in the entire state of Delaware!!!! I don't recommend eHarmony to anyone. I wouldn't even recommend it to a dog! eHarmony should be shut down.

1 star is generous I think. I ill give them the benefit of the doubt about their matching process but it probably is just a data base sort with matches given to being in the same geographical area. I find their process long and tedious and when you are given a match you are given very little data considering the amount they took from you.

All that is mute because the real problem is that they are mercenary bas tards. I hate their negative billing practices and they are very expensive. They explain the cost very lamely, but the huge cash outlay for advertising is probably the real reason.

Hate these guys.

Open up a second e-mail address at your provider and use it to buy a gift certificate for yourself and that way they have no access to your Visa

I have been curious, and thought I'd take advantage of the free communication weekend. It took longer than I expected to get through the questions, and I got a late start. Once I was done, I got several matches, most of whom were older. As far as the free communication, I was offered "guided" communication, which amounted to answering some multiple choice questions chosen by the other party. I could see that I would get nowhere in the amount of time left in the free period, so I didn't respond to any of the matches. I also received requests for communication from almost all of the matches, and I am sorry that they will not receive a reply. I have stopped matches, and taken down my photos, hoping that no one else will think I am an active subscriber with communication privileges. I would like to apologize to those who received my information. It was my intention to respond, but I didn't understand how the free communication was going to work, or that matches would start being made as soon as the questions were done. I expect many subscribers received a batch of matches last weekend, and wonder why they didn't get any responses. My initial rating is based on thinking their service is about average overall, but I didn't really get into it, and feel it is unlikely I will in the future. After filling out the questions, you can see what their impressions are, and I found that to be very interesting and mostly accurate. Whether or not that can be applied effectively to finding a mate, who knows?

Summing up my experience with eHarmony I'd say it seems that they take themselves too seriously. Mathematically wieghted profile searching would make it seem that they are trying to give you good searches yet it all boils down to the same thing. Do you have good pictures.

The negative marks however are due to the fact that once my subscription ran out I was cut off from the people I was in the middle of exchanging emails with. Poor form.

You can do better elsewhere.

-J