Reviews of eHarmony

what a rip off - the scum bags they matched me up with either were so controlling you couldn't breathe, or wanted sex the first time you met them -
then they match you with people 5 inches shorted than you, no pictures, 500+ miles away from you. What a joke.
Tried to cancel my subscription the day I got notice via e-mail and they said 'to bad, so sad' you have to do it prior to the expiration date. They supposedly tell you this when you first sign up. Actually I would rate them a minus ten stars if I could

THE MAN WHO STARTED EHARMONY IS A GREEDY QUACK.

My complaints are as follows:

1. Most of the men cannot spell.

2. A lot of them are too short for me. Hello?

3. Most of them are out-of-state.

4. They have anonymous viewing so you don't know who looked at your profile. I would like to know who looked at my profile, and didn't communicate, so I can close them out.

5. 29 dimensions? Yeh, whatever. I have gotten over 200 matches and only 2-3 were the kind of guys I would like. I have severe allergies yet I would get guys who couldn't live without their pets. I put that pets were of the lowest interest to me because my face swells, I break out in hives, and sneeze my head off.

6. They have advertisements that jump all over the screen, get bigger, and interrupt your reading of the matches. This man is GREEDY! He needs to make money on advertising too?

7. DON'T DO THE PAYMENT PLAN. My mother signed up for the 3 installments plan. She canceled her account way before the next installment yet they said they were going to bill her for the remaining two installments. CROOKS!

8. They don't cancel your profile right away. You can specify for them to stop sending you matches but of course I know a lot of people don't know how to navigate to that much less spell.

9. I have health issues and did not choose a high "healthy" score. A majority of my matches are extremely healthy and very physically active. I guess that is not part of the 29 dimensions. LOL

10. The cost of eHarmony is ridiculous. You cannot pay monthly. The only way some people can afford eHarmony is by doing the payment plan. REMEMBER, don't do that! (See 7)

My original review is posted on December 18th. Now that my subscription has expired, I wanted to add one more thing. The day before my sub expired, I got an email from eHarmony telling me that one of the guys I had closed out (because he never responded to my request to communicate) three weeks ago wanted to reopen the connection. I logged on and noticed that the last communication date from this guy was the day I had sent him my initial request to communicate....meaning that he never requested to reopen the connection! Frankly, I believe this to be a sneaky attempt to get me to resubscribe because this guy supposedly wanted to communicate with me. One has to ask why someone would want to reopen a connection that they never started or responded to in the first place! Very, VERY sneaky and unethical of eHarmony to use this tactic to get people to subscribe again.

I would give no stars if that were possible. First I thought it was weird that when I said distance was a pretty important factor (6 out of 7 range scale), that they matched me with people anywhere from two hours to ten hours driving distance from me. Then I was matched with 245 people without any real way to sort through them. They have a 'search' box, but if that word isn't in their profile, no search results come back. This means you can search city by city, but no filters or categorizing.

After DAYS of sifting through and closing most of the matches that were too far, and sending messages to ones that actually seemed interesting... nothing. The 'guided communication' they have is a joke, and most of the people you send it to aren't even actually signed up! You don't have to pay until after you create your profile, so most of the attractive people you would want to meet stopped at the insanely expensive sign-up fee and will never see anything from you.

Also, I am not a shallow person, but in agreement with the other reviews, most of the active members on there are some of the ugliest people I have ever seen.

I am one of the plus size people that many people complain about. I was up front and honest about this in my profile. What I experienced while on this site was interesting. After about two weeks I received emails from several gentlemen in my area. These guys were sweet talkers and sent me poems etc. After communicating with them for a month or so I was asked for money from two out for the three. One was in Africa will an illness and needed money to get medicine and the other was robbed on the way to the bank in another country. I was smart enough to figure it out and never did lose any money. The funny thing was that about a month after I said no, the same guy started communicating with me again not realizing I was the same person. The information had changed but he was the same person by his picture. These people are foreigners who try to play on those women who are not the ideal and try to get money from them or use them to get citizenship. I had the same experience on MDC. I have given up on online dating because there seems to be no honest people out there.

Well as I had read in to this reviews is most the same story to most of us we must make our own club for real people maybe it works lol.Leonard I am sorry you had found this woman and put her in your life with yous kids.it is hard to know real people, but I think is more hard to be lonley and this is why we ended looking for love in this sites where many people lie, you can read mine in match reviews good look and yes! be carefull next time Elba..

What I like about eHarmony is that there seem to be much fewer fake profiles, compared to other dating sites. However, while there are few(er) fake profiles, there seem to be many inactive members. So, even when you receive a good number of matches, many of them may not respond to your request to communicate. It's pretty easy to close matches, but many members don't even close matches. As much as I do like it when someone closes a match on me, I don't like it even more when my matches don't do anything. When your matches do not respond, there's very little you can do with eHarmony.

Also, there have been times when the matching system cannot find matches or can only find one or two. Unless you receive matches, there's little you can do since you cannot just browse profiles. It's a relatively expensive dating site, you would want to receive a good number of matches everyday, and also a good number of responses, including match closing.

I like their system. I very much like the idea of random/incompatible members browsing profiles after profiles. I think their matching system works pretty well. I liked many of my matches I communicated with. I only wish they can screen members so that inactive members will be weeded out, or at least they won't be matched with active paying members.

I couldn't agree more with the majority of eHarmony reviews here. It is a total joke. The matches look NOTHING like the happy couples on the TV commercial. Not to mention the majority of matches are unattractive. Call me superficial, but attraction is a huge part of a relationship. As many of you have said, I think that a very large percentage of the matches are either non-paying or inactive users. The guided communication is great in theory. However, for the few matches that I have communicated with, I think that they need a pen pal more than a romantic relationship. I thought that eHarmony would be a great way to meet someone serious about a relationship and not a meat market like Match.com. The commercial is a total false advertisement. I give eHarmony a big thumbs down. Save your money and time!

I joined eHarmony for three months, even though it was quite expensive. I immediately got a ton of matches, and there even seemed to be some real gems hidden amongst the crap! Unfortunately, hardly anyone responds or looks at your profile, which tells me that hardly anyone is an actual, paying member. I think I only corresponded with four people, and only two people got to the email stage.

I *hated* the fact that you can't specify people without children as a match! I'm not interested in being a mom to anyone else's kid, and even though I put "0" down for how many children I would like my matches to have, I was CONSTANTLY being matched up with people who have children! You can't specify an importance level on the number of kids your match has, and that is a huge flaw in my mind.

My subscription is up on Sunday, and I went ahead and canceled it last week because I was afraid of the auto-renew feature going into effect before my subscription ended.

Very, very disappointed in eHarmony. I joined OK Cupid while on eHarmony and had three fairly enjoyable dates with three decent guys within two weeks of joining that site. And it's free!

I have been on eHarmony for a month and a half. I am child free by choice and I am disappointed that eHarmony does not have an option to get matched only with men who have no children. I am not a child hater, but my life choice is not to have children and I prefer not to date anyone with children.

You are asked how important distance and education are but not children? eHarmony asks if you would date someone that has children under the age of 18 living FULL TIME in their home. I would say 90% of my "matches" have children and that is not a match for me. I'm sorry.

I also expanded my distance to 60 miles. I am now getting matches from 75-90 miles away.

Most don't have a picture and you have to ask. I'm out there, why not everyone else?

I am now talking to the one match that lives in my state that has no children. One person...? Really?

At least with Match.com, they have many more parameters you can search.