Reviews of Match.com

Match.com cant compete to sprnch.com I thought match.com was a good site but they designed it to make money not meet people. Sprnch I can talk to a person and get to know them with out the "interview" effect Match.com gives off. It is not as superficial Match.com vs. sprnch.com? Sorry Sprnch wins.

I thought I'd through these interesting facts about male/female ratios. By the way the census department publishes these facts in their age reports.

At birth males outnumber females 105 males per 100 females. Nature does this because males have a higher mortality rate than women at almost every age. Around 27 this evens out so that there are 100 males per 100 females. However, after this evening out the mortality issue continues such that later in life there slowly continues to be less males per and more females. This is most evident at the disparity in average ages for death, women being 78 and men being 70.

Which depending your age explains alot of the dynamic you are seeing in the changes of your dating pool.

I don't have enough experience with Match.com yet to comment on their success but does anyone have an issue with their lack of security? I signed up recently and the email confirmation I received contains my personal information. Also the initial log-in page was not secure.

to Scott in BadStreet, GA!

I looked at all the profiles you listed and I think most of them are fake. The only one I think is real for sure is 'southernsweetie'. One opinion to point out, I think these profiles were written by multiple people. The punctuation, grammer, and writing style in these ladys' profiles (and I use the word ladies loosely) text varies. If you take a closer look you'll find sometimes a couple profiles match in punctuation, grammer, and writing style.

The profile I found to be really odd is 'Stephaniesturn', the one you said is on the cusp. This one looks to be written by a skilled fake profile writer. I could be wrong but there is evidence that leans me in the fake profile direction.

First, In her last picture she's the shortest person in the group of people, despite the fact her profile lists her as being 5'-7". If she is 5'-7" that would make the 2 guys on the left and right end nearly 7' tall and 2 of the women would be well over 6' tall. In this case I'm using the law-of-averages to determin the validity of the claim. Using common sense, I would say she's in between 5'-0" and 5'-3". Remember, she's wearing high heels in the picture, whic adds 3" to her verticle height. Count in the fact the shoes the guys are wearing only add 3/4" to 1" to their height.

Second, Her pictures look like that of a High School Senior, cross referenced with picture No.1. As you can tell by picture No.1, she's a slender gal. Now, you should take a look at her face. You'll notice she still has quite a bit of baby-fat on her face, giving her that cute appearence. Usually a slender woman looses most of the facial baby-fat by the time she's 25. Someone who's 31yo and slender should have a more slender face.

I'm sure there are a few of those possiblity believers that would like to disagree with me.

I have a profile I know is fake but seems to be very real. ' LasVegasNative '. I know this one is fake because there was a completely different profile using the same pictures on match.com. I would say there are more fake female profiles on match.com than anything else. However,

I'm giving match.com 5 stars because they run a really nice website. I've found dates on match.com but I only look for women who would fit comfortably into my life. I mean, women who are comparable to myself. There is no sense in using match to find the prefect 10*. I don't blame match.com for the fakes and PIDs. Another big problem with internet dating is some of the members just don't understand the opposite sex. Many but not all of these people just haven't learned the way of attracting someone, who they would like to take on a date. There is hope with internet dating, you just gotta know how to pull the strings.

My main complaint with Match.com is that you are REQUIRED to have a public profile to interact with people. I prefer the way yahoo personals works in that, you have a private profile, and only those people you email can see it. You can have a private profile and email people on Match , but the people you email can't see your profile, you have to make it public.

I really don't know why people base their reviews off how many dates they got, quality of dates, or even amount of responses. The sites themselves really can't control this. There are somethings the sites can do, like Yahoo can weed out all the spam bots and fake profiles, but beyond that, if you're just not connecting with someone, you're on your own.

As bad as Match is (and it is the junk food of dating sites), the sites that belong to the Tango Wire chain are especially repugnant in terms of customer respect. To the webmaster of eDateReview, please include the Tango Wire sites especially biggerbeauties.com. Biggerbeauties' Gestapo tactics makes Match, eHarmony and Yahoo look almost legitimate.

Like it or not romance and dating is a women’s market place. After dating many different women I’ve found that women are attracted to the very characteristic in men that they also complain about. The women that I have met through Match.com were a bit spoiled and high maintenance. These relationship lasted anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months. Naturally I wanted a relationship that lasted longer, but I found the women demanded too much chivalry. I believe in equality between men and women, but I’ve found that the women needed to feel superior. Most men want the security of being in a long term relationship. Unfortunately many women make that imposable by being too demanding and high maintenance. I now accept the limitation and for the most part I use Match.com to satisfy my sexual needs. I became the very thing that women complain about men. I can only fake the chivalry part for just so long. Men and women need to open the doors for each other and split the check 50/50. It's a about time someone said it!!!

I give it 3 stars because it is what it is. After you see how it works, you can use it to meet and get good dates. You get used to cutting through the junk people post:

"I want to have fun/looking for fun" -- yeah, that's meaningful.

However, in the last few days I have been amused with the number of fake profiles just in the Atlanta area, and in my saved searches. I generally only review my saved searches - 30-42, christian, non-smokers, etc.

Look for 2-4 professional photos of very attractive girls/woman; usually one or more in a natural setting, such as by a fence, in a field,beside a barn. etc.; with the text never mentioning anything specific about the location. Usually have similar activity times as they are logged in together, as if someone logs them in one after the other every few days. I made one a favorite one time, and followed her through as she changed cities. Sometimes the profiles disappear and come back later.

If this many (a dozen plus) are in my local saved search, I can imagine how many they have in the whole system.

Check the profiles, and you see the clear pattern and how they look -- Jellofruit, simpleandshy250, tcwinabluedress, 40svintagefixer, VerbalRepartee, southernsweetiee, chaitea4, kirstiehere, dialoguestarter, rb89108, pintobeans199, meaningbehindit, characterfit, stephaniesturn (on the cusp, since it has a "real life" pic included); 1plus1makesume, formula401, mandy30075, tami3018, tifflikeshorses, myantonia30004, seekingwitwisdom, yourtakeonlife, gottagogottago, etc. Keep in mind they may all not be visible any given day, but I have made the list in the last week.

That is 23 fake profiles just in my local saved search!! Obviously, they are all so similar they come from the same source. No chance Match does not know it, and possible they do it.

I'm a 49 year old male who has been on Match.com for 3 months, and I find it to be nothing more than an extension of real life. Most women of average caliber in the real world do not consider me attractive enough to pursue a relationship with (the undesirables, however, are wild about me), so by joining Match, I thought I could first get the woman to know me and become interested in me as a person via e-mail and phone conversations, then when it came time for the face-to-face "interview", she would maybe overlook the fact that I am 6' tall but skinny and lacking in muscles (the male equivalent of an obese woman), have a fairly prominent nose and look too much like a kid at 49. Now I have no problem getting responses and generating "chemistry" in my e-mails or phone conversations. Most of the women tell me what an interesting, funny, etc. person I am, that it's really what's on the "inside" that counts most, and how they are just dying to meet me in person. And guess what? Yup, when we do meet, as long as the woman is of average caliber, she almost always ends it right there with a "sorry, but there's no chemistry". It simply goes to show, whether it's out in the real world or in online dating, looks are the only thing that matters. If you're a macho man with big muscles, nothing else will matter, you'll get the girl every time. Match.com has its flaws, but they perform a valuable service by allowing access to a large database of available women, something that is not easy to come by in everyday life, since 99.4% of even half-way desirable women are either married or in a committed relationship. But one must set realistic expectations. Going into Match, my goal was to meet a compatible, honest woman in good health who was fairly intelligent and of average looks. "No problem", I thought. But now I realize that these goals were way too high for a skinny guy like me who doesn't look like a movie star. The one lesson I learned from Match.com is that it is virtually impossible to move up even one notch from one's own level of physical attractiveness, except in rare cases. It doesn't matter what else you may have going for you, even if you have money coming out of your ears, it's just not going to happen. And it's the same whether you're 20 or 50. All said, though, I am not yet ready to give up on Match, because I am still holding out a faint hope of finding that rare woman who is not shallow or superficial, who cares about something more than instant "chemistry", looks, or muscles. Good luck, everyone!

When it comes to the internet and dating...as James Brown said, "it's a woman's world." Make no mistake, for every woman you email there will be at least 2 others for women that are "wall flowers" and possibly 50 for supermodel look alikes. I tried Match.com hoping that the sheer numbers would turn the odds in my favor, afterall, it's all about the numbers...despite websites promoting a "clever profile" approach. Let's be honest men.....most women will judge you by the time they have seen your picture or physical attributes (namely height) regardless of how provokative your profile is. I went on 2 dates, the second one being a disaster. While some could argue that my track record prior to that had been bad and so internet dating did work, the emasculating quality of getting NO RESPONSE from the 35 other women I had emailed to get to those 2 women I dated was NOT WORTH IT. For any guy with high standards, especially on looks, approach a woman in person where she's not guarded or has little expectation i.e. Barnes N Noble, Grocery Store, Church, Doctor Office. Otherwise, if you try the predictable places, Clubs, Gym, or Internet, expect a whole lot of rejection unless you have a well chiseled jaw, are 6 feet, and make decent money.