One person, Seagal2610 was among my headaches. I'm always paraphrasing movies/TV/pop culture (think of the dialogue used on "Gilmore Girls" and you know what I mean) to express myself. However, she didn't "get" anything I said and misinterpreted my humor as being condescending towards her. She wrote something back to the effect of "get lost." For some reason, she took great offense to one sentence and literally ignored the rest of my letter, which I talked about her profile and compared it to my own, with a nutshell description of who I am to go along with it.

With that off my chest, I agree with nearly all of the detractors. I went in with nothing and came out with nothing after several months. Match took my money and didn't do anything. By far the BIGGEST problem is that either none of the women are actually on there or are so stuck up and picky they contradictory to their profile. They are not as open as forthcoming and compassionate as they say they are. I got so fed up at having to write (not just wink) personalized hellos and making specific references to their profiles and them not even having the courtesy to write or wink back.

Sure there were plenty of fake women winking at me; it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. It's like their profiles were randomly generated by a software program to make it appear that you were an ideal candidate for someone out there. That way they keep you in the service. But the problem was what little information was provided in the profile was either so vague or farfetched or had information that didn't match any of my criteria, it sent up a lot of red flags. Also in the "nice try" categories were all these women who were just fronts to get you sign up for some adult related site in Russia or one of those countries that now seem to be the biggest source for this sort of thing.

I am not that particular about a woman's background, whether if it's her ethnicity or how highly educated she is, or how much she makes. As long as she has a nice personality, is funny, and can see the inner beauty of others, great. Maybe she can appreciate the geeky side of men, the type that has to go movies on opening day or ones that still collect Star Wars toys after thirty years. Yet so many of them expect too damned much -- a lot of it superficial! You could be the greatest guy in the world, but if you're not (for example) white, have a Ph.D, or earn X amount of dollars annually, you can't and won't be considered. That was an issue I had; plenty of women would match my preferences, yet I matched little or none of theirs. A lot of profiles were sloppy and lazily put together. Without them making certain specifications clear it made it appear you would match their criteria -- when in fact, you don't!

"It's okay to look." is one of Match's advertising slogans. They take actual members, make them look like supermodels and the class of Match. But once you look at these profiles, you realize there's nothing special about them; it's the same picky, picky, picky people who always ignore you.

By the time I quit, of course I got more winks than I had as a member to lure me back. But I didn't buy into that since I knew from all the reviews (long before I was even a member) this happened all the time.