Reviews of Match.com

I'm just wanted some honest opinions about this site. So I am a relatively attractive female but I have a really hard time finding decent guys with the lifestyle I live. I work on weekdays and I go out on weekends. Most of the guys I meet are either cocky douche bags or just guys I'm not attracted to. It is really frustrating me because I am not the type of girl to just hook up. I want to at least find a meaningful friendship with people i meet. Now after checking out the site, I notice that there is an overabundance of good looking women on the site and not nearly as many attractive men. One would think that with this ratio the men would be getting a ton of emails from attractive women, while the women are having a hard time competing for the same guys. In fact I am so intimidated by the number of pretty girls that I don't even want to join the site due to heavy competition.

Do you all feel the same way or no? Keep in mind I am in my mid 20s and looking for someone in their mid to late twenties, no kids, no divorce, etc. I am sure the dynamic would be different in other age groups.

It would be great if 20 somethings gave me their opinion on this site. Thank you!

I don't know if Match.com is a scam or not, but it sure seems like one. Here's my experience:

I emailed about a half dozen woman who everyday are "active within 24 hours". These woman are fully compatible with me and the emails I sent were friendly.

Not only did I not get a response from these women (I did not really expect that), but NONE OF THEM even viewed my profile! That's very fishy. Anyone who reads their email is going to at least spend one second viewing the profile of the person who emailed them, right? Maybe all of them were not paying customers and can't read their email. But I doubt this because they were very good and complete profiles and this usually means they are serious and a paying customer. Then again, maybe just maybe, they are all fake profiles put up by Match to con guys like me to sign up.

please help me stop receiving e-mails from this fucked up service...i am a hetro sexual male and they have my profile screwed up i tired of getting 1 on 1 matches with faggots ,,please help me get my e-mail and name off that bullshit

Match.com is the worst dating site known to man & women. They send you matches from New York, Massachusetts and Alaska, and you live in Georgia. Locals men in the age bracket 65 plus are sex perverts. On 2nd date expect to jump in the "sack". Bring give me a break!

Dang! Now I read all this stuff! I was foolish enough to sign up on Match for a 6 month term. I have had 2 dates. Seriously..what are these people thinking? That magically, right before the date, you'll turn into a handsome prince or princess and the frog on the other side of the table will turn into an intelligent attractive, slim, (hehe) person? I keep trying to convince myself that the people I've met are just my first experiences. I'm too judgemental, or maybe it will take 6 months to meet a real person. The thing is, if you don't represent the real you visially do you think your date will see through the exterior and see the "romantic, laid back, hand holding, considerate, loving, REAL you"? FOR THE MEN: Why do you post pictures of yourselves far far in the distance, like on a mountain, or in a boat, or in the back of a room? And more times than not, you're wearing sunglasses. OR another thing that is annoying...why do you show us pictures of your fish, your truck, your dog, your boat, your cool car, your beer, the sunset, the beach...and did I mention YOUR DOG? We want to see you. A current picture of your face. Not some webcam, blurred, OLD photo. If you can't find someone to take a decent picture of you, then you must not have many close, loyal friends, and I wouldn't want to hang out with you anyway. As in, if you can't find someone to go golfing or fishing with, you must be a real A-hole! And don't even start me on the age lie. If some of you guys say you're 45, I'm 12. So if and when we walk into a room to meet you for the first time, and we look right past you, it's because we don't recognize you from your picture. unless, you have your dog or a fish with you and you're wearing sunglasses. Something similar to this could happen to you., except we will have posted pictures of our new shoes or hand bag, a starbucks, the mall, or our favorite flower. Or, we'll be 30 yards in the distance, wearing our sunglasses, holding up a credit card, that we just killed! Oh ya, at my age (sorry, I lied on my profile) I don't know the rules. Mama told me the boys call the girls. So if I wink at you first, and then you wink back, who does what next? If I email you, and I feel like I've been too forward, and you don't respond anyway, does that mean I should stalk you until you tell me to go away? Confusing. If we all signed up to be on match, hoping for the same thing, a wonderful person to be our partner, then how does that happen with all this crap going on? I have yet to know anyone that has actually ended up married to anyone from match. PUULLEESSEEE prove me wrong. WHEW!

What a site. They created a program, and NOW it has gone out of control.

After wasting a lot of my time. I told them to cancel my membership.

My latest e-mail to them was:

"What must I do to have you cease and desist? I cancelled my membership because of the lack of a consistant service operation.

You far, FAR exceed the area of interest to me, and you obviously send out my profile to people far and near. I consistantly received "matches" from Hawaiians; Californians; Alaskans and almost anybody outside of the 25 mile Delaware radius I had specified.

Even now, when I don't want any responses from anyone, you continue to send "matches" to me.

Enough is enough. What is it about CANCEL MY MEMBERSHIP that you don't understand?????

STOP IT ALL! STOP IT NOW!"

Like I said, they seem to have lost control. I've addressed this situation before, and as usual, am answered by computer only!!!

I am not very new to match nor very old. Been there for about a month now. Let me tell you I am fairly good looking guy and i have been repeatedly told this and would be a good catch for any women. I keep very busy and have no way of meeting girls. In match.com I found that the girls will show the initial interest but then will vanish. After killing my ego and self respect mercilessly I pursued a few girls and could set up appointments with four girls. However, I could only meet up with one in the end as three others were too busy to meet (now I don't understand why busy people who don't even have time to meet up with people put their profile up there and waste other people's time?). INterestingly the girl that I met looked entitrely different from her pics in her profile. When I asked her the reason- she told that those pics are 4 years old....now what the hell is this? And after meeting this girl she started calling me 4-5 times a day...she literally freaked me out.
I have come to realize that whatever it is, the match does not work for guys for sure. I am a firm believer that at my age ( I am 38), the interest and initiation should be mutual. But the situation is while girls rave and rant about their single status, but when a proposal comes along their way, they start acting high and mighty.
I don't know what it is with the girls on the site, I have entirely given up. Surprisingly free site likes Craigslist have always worked for me. I have met some really nice people from there.

Hi everyone! As a former many year paying subscriber on Match.com I am forced to the conclusion Match.com may well be a 'Fraud' more than anyone is aware of or can even imagine!

I've read many times about the 'Fraud' of 'Fake Winks' the 'Fraud' of 'Fake Emails' the 'Fraud' of 'Fake Profiles' the 'Fraud' of leaving on deleted profiles the 'Fraud' of charging after people cancel the 'Fraud' of not honoring '6 Months Free' the 'Fraud' of 'Fake Wink' 'Fake Email' notifications to entice members to become paying subscribers and the 'Fraud' goes on and on... but I believe the 'Fraud' goes much deeper! I'd like to share a woman's comment:

"This online company that matches dates fraudulently keeps customers by not allowing the other party to receive emails. This keeps profiles online forever teasing them with interested people you can never get an email to. I had the experience of knowing a potential date's real address and we noticed that when we sent emails thru the site they didn't reach either one of us. I then had a few interested people email me and I sent emails back to them and they never resonded mysteriously making me think they changed their minds. Well how many times can this happen until you realize you're being scammed? This is fraud in the worst way, to falsely represent a meeting opportunity and keep people from actually contacting each other. This company should be OUT OF BUSINESS for FRAUD. They don't care if you meet someone, they just want to make sure you stay online with their company and stay interested with the emails you can never respond to so they keep their money flowing."

I had 50 pages of 'Who's Viewed Me' and not one was sincerely interested in a fine gentleman? And some had been 'Active' for years!

Being a 'White' male I listed my preference as 'White' female. For years black ladies sent polite emails. I didn't respond to the black ladies but did email one who told of her grief with Match. We emailed several times and she was very polite. A year ago I deleted my 'About My Date' section to 'No Answer' including 'Ethnicity'. That could be interpreted I might be open to a black lady. How many black ladies sent polite emails last year? None! Match.com should be 'We're making sure you NEVER get a MATCH! .CON'

I know a nice looking polite man in his 20's who tried Match with zero results. Yet, a man in his 20's has a recent post here saying he receives nice emails and gone on dates in 2 WEEKS and gives 'advice' for men 'struggling' on Match. I found his profile and NO... it is NOT his 'Username' his 'Headline' what he wrote or his photographs. I've read men's profiles to see what they wrote and there's many better men's profiles out there. So to answer a man's question: Does Match put members in 'different categories' to NOT succeed or receive emails the answer must be YES!

Match is like a Shooting Gallery at a Carnival. They have 4 rifles on the table all altered and even a champion target shooter can't hit the side of a barn if he gets the worst one! But every now and then they pull out the unaltered rifle and someone wins a stuffed animal toy and you hear: "Look here folks! Another winner! Step right up and win a prize!" It's a carnival and part of the fun is how they have things rigged against you and how big a loser you can be for one night. But when a decent man or woman with their heart set on having someone to love and for whatever reason is depending on Match and their hopes and dreams are crushed it's not funny!

As a woman wrote "This isn't a dating site, this is a dating prevention site." I wondered if women received my emails and from the strange responses I received if my emails had been altered. I believe some 'Winks' and emails are sent by Match through a person's profile to a member who is then blocked from replying to the senders profile. Think about it! I've heard there's a couple guys in a back room making up women's ads with demands no man can meet AND sending emails through women's Fake AND Real profiles.

Ladies! Warning! If one day a man who is fuming mad is setting your car on fire and you've never even seen him before he might be a member of Match who received emails through YOUR profile you didn't send! As a man said "Match women's emails give new meaning to the word Rude" I know a man whose dog died while he was on Match for hours being insulted. Another man same scenario while his neighbor had a heart attack. They're NOT happy! For women with a photograph, location etc how hard is it for a man to track one down? Someone needed to say it! Even I as a very nice man grew more comfortabe on Match. As someone wrote it's like Match is trying to start a war between men and women... read posts on the Web!

I feel sorry for women who tell about their bad experience on Match and the wrong men who receive real emails. Some women met those men who scammed, abused, stalked and some of the stories on the Web are truly tragic leaving lifetime trauma to endure! Unlike emails I received some women who post comments here sound like nice sincere ladies who express themselves well. Where were those ladies on Match.? I spent thousands of hours on Match and sent hundreds of polite emails and was very flexible on age, distance etc. I just wanted to get in contact with a nice lady but never could... or I wasn't allowed to by Match! When these nice ladies read my (or other decent men's) ad expressing fine personal character of a sincerely searching, single, available gentleman who would love to have a lady to cherish I'm sure they would want to write and meet. Why didn't any of them email? Maybe they did! But I never received their email! Truly sad and truly Fraud! Match took my money, played me for a fool and stole years of precious time from me! Now I know why God made Hell. Obviously this isn't a Match 'Fraud' Web post! For all the victims and future victims of Match.com Fraud PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! Thanks:)

Hi everyone! As a former many year paying subscriber on Match.com I am forced to the conclusion Match.com may well be a 'Fraud' more than anyone is aware of or can even imagine!

I've read many times about the 'Fraud' of 'Fake Winks' the 'Fraud' of 'Fake Emails' the 'Fraud' of 'Fake Profiles' the 'Fraud' of leaving on deleted profiles the 'Fraud' of charging after people cancel the 'Fraud' of not honoring '6 Months Free' the 'Fraud' of 'Fake Wink' 'Fake Email' notifications to entice members to become paying subscribers and the 'Fraud' goes on and on... but I believe the 'Fraud' goes much deeper! I'd like to share a woman's post who said it well:

"This online company that matches dates fraudulently keeps customers by not allowing the other party to receive emails. This keeps profiles online forever teasing them with interested people you can never get an email to. I had the experience of knowing a potential date's real address and we noticed that when we sent emails thru the site they didn't reach either one of us. I then had a few interested people email me and I sent emails back to them and they never responded mysteriously making me think they changed their minds. Well how many times can this happen until you realize you're being scammed? This is fraud in the worst way, to falsely represent a meeting opportunity and keep people from actually contacting each other. This company should be OUT OF BUSINESS for FRAUD. They don't care if you meet someone, they just want to make sure you stay online with their company and stay interested with the emails you can never respond to so they keep their money flowing."

I had 50 pages of 'Who's Viewed Me' and not one was interested in writing a nice gentleman? And some had been 'Active' for years!

Being a 'White' male I listed my preference as 'White' female. For years black ladies sent polite emails. I didn't respond to the black ladies but did email one who told of her problems with Match. We emailed several times and she was very polite. A year ago I deleted my 'About My Date' section to 'No Answer' including 'Ethnicity'. That could be interpreted I might be open to a black lady. How many black ladies sent polite emails last year? None! Match.com should be 'We're making sure you NEVER get a MATCH! .CON'

I know a nice looking polite man in his 20's who tried Match with zero results. Yet, a man in his 20's has a recent post here saying he receives nice emails and gone on dates in 2 WEEKS and gives 'advice' for men 'struggling' on Match. I found his profile and NO... it is NOT his 'Username' his 'Headline' what he wrote or his photographs. I've read men's profiles to see what they wrote and there's many better men's profiles out there. So to answer a man's question: Does Match put members in 'different categories' to NOT succeed or receive emails the answer must be YES!

Match is like a Shooting Gallery at a Carnival. They have 4 rifles on the table all altered and even a champion target shooter can't hit the side of a barn if he gets the worst one! But every now and then they pull out the unaltered rifle and someone wins a stuffed animal toy and you hear: "Look here folks! Another winner! Step right up and win a prize!" It's a carnival and part of the fun is how they have things rigged against you and how big a loser you can be for one night. But when a decent man or woman with their heart set on having someone to love and for whatever reason is depending on Match and their hopes and dreams are crushed it's not funny!

As a woman wrote "This isn't a dating site, this is a dating prevention site." I wondered if women received my emails and from the strange responses I received if my emails had been altered. I believe some 'Winks' and emails are sent by Match through a person's profile to a member who is then blocked from replying to the senders profile. Think about it! I've heard there's a couple guys in a back room making up women's ads with demands no man can meet AND sending emails through women's Fake AND Real profiles.

Ladies! Warning! If one day a man who is fuming mad is setting your car on fire and you've never even seen him before he might be a member of Match who received emails through YOUR profile you didn't send! As a man said "Match women's emails give new meaning to the word Rude" I know a man whose dog died while he was on Match for hours being insulted. Another man same scenario while his neighbor had a heart attack. They're NOT happy! For women with a photograph, location etc how hard is it for a man to track one down? Someone needed to say it! Even I as a very nice man grew more uncomfortable on Match. As someone wrote it's like Match is trying to start a war between men and women... read posts on the Web!

I feel sorry for women who tell about their bad experience on Match and the wrong men who receive real emails. Some women met those men who scammed, abused, stalked and some of the stories on the Web are truly tragic leaving lifetime trauma to endure! Unlike emails I received some women who post comments here sound like nice sincere ladies who express themselves well. Where were those ladies on Match? I spent thousands of hours on Match and sent hundreds of polite emails and was very flexible on age, distance etc. I just wanted to get in contact with a nice lady but never could... or I wasn't allowed to by Match! When these nice ladies read my (or other decent men's) ad expressing fine personal character of a sincerely searching, single, available gentleman who would love to have a lady to cherish I'm sure they would want to write and meet. Why didn't any of them email? Maybe they did! But I never received their email! Truly sad and truly Fraud! Match took my money, played me for a fool and stole years of precious time from me! Now I know why God made Hell. Obviously this isn't a Match 'Fraud' Web post! For all the victims and future victims of Match.com Fraud PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! Thanks:)

Way overpriced.

I have tried their 7-day free trial period because I was notified that I had several messages from other people on match.com. Two of these people had no profile whatsoever, so I am not even sure they really exist. They didn't have that much to say. One guy said he was living in Africa! Another person who emailed me was a pretty 30+ year-old woman was from Tennessee (I am a gay man!).

Even with their discounts for a six-month subscription (up to 30%), it's hard to justify laying out $75 just to find out if the four new emails are bogus or not. I'm not even saying that it is scam from match.com to entice a non-subscriber to subscribe by sending fake emails to the non-subscriber.

There are even free dating Internet sites that allow you to contact others and read their emails to you--their profiles are as detailed as those of match.com, so I don't understand the popularity of match.com.