Reviews of Match.com

I have tried match twice and it is always the same. I am attractive and get lots of emails, responses etc but that isnt the problem. The lies are the problem. The men post wanna be profiles that are so far from the truth and I mean even simple personality traits! They waste your time with useless emails and or phone conversations all for some kind of ego trip. Most scrutinize you as if you are applying for some high security job and I mean physical attributes. They are only interested on what you look like naked. Nobody can describe themselves completely but come on after talking to them or even meeting them you shake your head at the delusional self image scam they are trying to pull. Its really too bad because I hate bar scenes and I am not willing to torture myself all in the name of finding a man. its all just too much work and frankly i would rather be alone. Nothing is worse than paying for the bait and switch! So ladies all I can say and do is find the things I love to do and hopefully someone will be there someday doing the same. We are all better than this dark and deceitful crap and dont get fooled by the ahhhhh so cute commercials of all the sweet matches out of what 25 million!!!!! The biggest scam of all? Dr, Phil that idiot will whore himself for just about anything he can get his name or mug in print on. Wise up the guy is a con and a fraud and so are most of the men on this site.

This site is horrible, especially for a guy. I've sent 70 emails to other women and have NOT received one response. I've read of other stories from match.com that majority of the men on the site DO NOT get many responses at all. I am not a bad looking guy. What is up with the women on the site? Whats the point of being on the site if you're not going to respond to any emails? For any women out there, what do we men have to say in our email to get you to respond? I get numerous women viewing my profile, but they don't send me a message. I'd like to know why? It pisses me off. I'm a nice guy and it seems that not even one person wants to give me a chance. That is screwed up. It seems that men send numerous emails and get few responses and women send less and get more responses. I think that there is 3x more guys than women on the site.

Lies, lies, lies on mat.com.Warning to any lady who hears from a man that goes by gee gee 442. he is at least 15 years older than his photo. He has a chicken neck like my grandfather. He has a police record. This man is a con and involved in illegal activities he is a serial dater. he stays online all day watching for any woman he can prey on. trust me on this guy. run from him. block his tag name.

i have met some decent women from match. even started a relationship or two...lol! unfortunately, i also ran across emijohnson33.
it all seemed too good to be true. spooky,creepy good. her profile said she was from syria, but she claimed to have been born and raised in baltimore. the same aunt in tennessee....

i was suspicious so i asked her if she was a baltimore "cardinals" football fan. she said she prefered english football...lol!

she said she wanted to marry me during our first chat! buying antiques in nigeria. i decided to google "emi match.com scams" and found this page. i copied/pasted the url to her during our second chat and she (if it really is a she) started acting all innocent and shall we say "flumoxed"...lol! if she contacts me again, i'm going to ask her for money and see where that goes.....

match.com is not bad, but "buyers" should beware. in order to get the six month gaurantee, your profile must stay visible 100% of the time. scammers will hide their profile because they "love only you" and expect you to do the same. then, no guarantee....

Tom, I didn't learn anything about match.com from reading your review either.

I subscribed for three months about a month ago. So far, no good. I've emailed seventeen people, and only one has responded. I only wrote her because she put me on her favourite list, but she lived to far away. I just wrote to say hello and to tell her she lived too far away. There aren't even many people looking at my profile. For the first couple of weeks, I was getting about 40 views each week. Last week, only seven people looked at my profile. It doesn't look good.

Maybe I'm ugly. Or maybe I'm just not very good at writing profiles. I've changed my write up once a week just to try something else that might get somebody interested enough to respond. I'm going to run out of ideas soon. What a bummer!

I guess I can't completely blame match.com, though. It could just be me. I mean it's not match.com's fault that people aren't interested in me.

How much time am I supposed to give it? If something doesn't happen in the next couple of months, there's no way I'm going to renew. That's just a waste of money.

I am not member of Match and I have been reading these reviews to decide whether to join. Then I came across a very long October 14 review by a female named "My Name". See below. I cannot decide if she approves or disapproves of the service....she rates it 3 stars. But I fail to see what this long, rambling, stream-of-conciousness review does to help evalutate the service that Match provides. She attacks three men by name where the relationship did not work out including "dubliner9" where "it was 2 months before I gave it up". Gave up what? Drinking? Smoking"? "Fast Food"?

Does she maintain that all non-Match connections DO work out?

I was exhausted upon completing reading the review and felt that I learned nothing about Match. Do others have the same or a different opinion about her review? Perhaps the original writer would like to explain.

Do not give Match.com your credit card number. They will auto-renew your subscription without notification or authorization or advance warning. Once they get your money they will not refund the charge and it is nearly impossible to find a representative of Match.com that is responsible for fraudulent credit card charges. If you try to call a representative live on the phone be prepared to wait on hold for a long time and listen to their endless commercial about how great their service (the service you're trying to stop) is. Eventually you'll be connected with a zombie who will tell you that she cannot access your account and that you'll have to contact the "executive committee" via e-mail. That's a hard link to find but if you keep tying you'll eventually find that buried in their website somewhere. Then you wait a few more days. All-in-all, Match.com is little more than another e-scam and not worth the effort. I'll let you all know if I ever get my money back; but it doesn't look good !

***members: Pirate_1165, sdodblueeyes1, dubliner9***

The following email should get you started but it is not from any of the above referenced user names. I wrote in my profile that I seek tasteful originality due to receiving WAY too many winks, which are very annoying, It showed me that the guy contacting me actually read my profile. This one was VERY bizarre...

Hi...how are you doing?
Well, something about me? O.K., the other night i went bowling for the first time in several years.
Some friends were going and asked me if i wanted to join them...how could I refuse?
Sorry, I didn't!
In one gregarious moment while dashing to the invisible-hurl-your-ball-line....I indiscriminately went a tad to far into the slippery lane!!
My hands and arms were flailing....my feet dancing, until I slid down into a full split looking like that of a ninth grade cheerleader!
And, I want you to know RIGHT NOW, I have never been a ninth grade cheerleader!!
Unless....you can omit the time when I did three years ...hard time in cing, cing...for something i didn't even commit!! Our government falsified documents and left me in the courtroom screaming...holding onto the defendant bench while Judge Judy slammed the mallet giving me three years. This was overturned on appeal, but not until I served six months in Cell Block C!
Then and only then...I was compelled...or rather FORCED..to be a ninth grade cheerleader! I had to wear my bandanna backwards, like Anga Mi-ma, with my tee shirt ripped halfway up my torso, revealing my gratuitous midriff while dancing the cha-cha for my band of brothers incarcerated!
So, if you can look over my one simple mendacity of being a ninth grade cheerleader in cing, cing...we should get along fine!!
How was that? Did I make you smile...or pissy pants?
Larry

The first thing I wish to mention pertaining to the above mentioned user names is simply that, I love people. I find something interesting about everyone so I never hesitated to meet anyone. Of course, I google them and run background checks on them prior to agreeing to meet anyone.

Pirate_1165 I discovered, I knew from when I was about 18, I'm 37 years old now. I spoke with this man, over the phone, for weeks prior to agreeing to meet. It was when I first joined match just over a year and a half ago. Upon meeting for the first time, he literally TRIED to rape me. And no, I didn't report it as I felt really ashamed with trusting the wrong person. So ladies, be forewarned about this one.

sdodblueeyes1. Gentlemen, many of you have complained about shallow women. I assure you, there are just as many shallow men out there. This particular member chased me for 3 months before I would agree to meet him for lunch then spent the ENTIRE grueling 2 hours talking about how he went from 22 properties to only 15, he went into GREAT detail as to what his homes looked like and what he possessed and what he wanted to possess which included "arm candy" and his former girlfriend. I tried several times to change the subject, unfortunately, it didn't work and he continued to try to convince me how great he was. To finish off this torturous lunch, he made me go shoe shop for him, the ENTIRE time watching ANYTHING in a skirt. I couldn't wait to get out of there and was texting a friend under the table screaming HELP!

dubliner9. This is the player, not an attractive one either. I, initially, wrote him to compliment him on his profile and further stated that we weren't a good match but I just had to drop an email to compliment him. Of course, he wasn't about to let that go. For the next 5 weeks or so, he pursued meeting me until I finally gave in and met him. That connection everyone hopes for was there, mentally and physically so strong. He proceeded to call me just about every night, sometimes twice a night, for the next 2 weeks when we had gone out again. He had pursued me vigorously, for 2 months before I gave it up to him and he was aware that it was 2 years prior since I had been with anyone. The phone calls came close to stopping after I did but he wouldn't completely let me go. I found out just this week that he had also been vigorously pursuing 2 to 3 other women on match while calling me, having phone sex with me. He was literally, emailing one woman, talking to me over the phone, while jerking off to another woman's match photo who wouldn't even give him the time of day. So much for the myth of the English Canadian gentlemen! Don't complain about drama when you are causing it yourselves by asking for EVERYTHING to be at your pace and in your time without regard to another person. This woman waits for no man! And yes ladies, I went the f#$!@ off on him for lying to, not only me, but for lying to those other women as well. I told him to grow up, he's 44 and never married, no kids, no home, and not even a legal citizen, and that he shouldn't have been stringing me along for months as there were sincere gentlemen I turned down for the player. This one is a control freak and has done this to other women, not just me! BTW...guys if you want to be a player make sure the flagpole doesn't blow in the wind!

The moral of this VERY long explicit tale is...Despite all of the negativity I have read on this site from men and women alike, how is it that someone like me who has experienced all facets of negativity, on this often ridiculous site, not give up but so many others have? You have to see the whole picture. It's not match itself as a business which makes the mistakes you mention but the players, pretentious people, and those with hidden aggression issue's which cause the problems. Unfortunately, in today's society, those people exist everywhere you look but once in a great while, you become privy to the old cliche, "what goes around, comes around" and it's a wonderful feeling and sight to see.

Girls BEWARE of JOE EBENROTH! (JOESPECIALIZED) the only thing he specializes in is Scamming women. Stay Away he is fraud!!! He is only looking for sex. He has done this to several women on this site. STAY AWAY.

:( well i was going to join, but being the paranoid person i am i decided not to join anymore because all of the negative reviews. damn Dr. Phil i thought you were legit...lol. i have no hope, i will be lonely forever. i just wanted to join to have fun and meet someone, and possibly have a wonderful relationship. i am extremly shy so i was hoping this could help me a little, but i guess not. i will continue searching, this is so hard... why won't a man just come up to me? i'm ok in the looks department and i'm smart and funny. i guess guy aren't interested in that anymore...
good luck everyone.

-lonleygirl17