Reviews of eHarmony

An absolute joke....what matching technology? First, I live in DC where there are no shortage of single men in this city and surrounding areas. The matches they sent me were ridiculous.....and had nothing to do with the criteria I mentioned. The matches were actually laughable. Answering all of those questions did NOTHING to elicit a match that approximated anything that I listed. AND for weeks and weeks I would get NO matches...UNTIL I decided to cancel my membership....then I was getting matches every 2 days.....A SCAM. Besides, even though you answer all those questions, you know NOTHING about the person...it tells you nothing about who they are or what they may be like...because there is almost no place to write your own thing.
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY....

Again, as with past reviewers I would give eHarmony zero stars.
I only joined as I saw the offer of three months for the price of one. This was after being a member for a couple of weeks without subscribing, then they sent the offer via email.
I've seen the adverts as most of us have. The idea of matching you with someone who is totally in tune with you on all levels was very appealing.
But only receiving around 2-4 matches a day makes the whole thing seem rather expensive. After the first month I'd had around 100 matches sent to me. Of these I would say 25 never had any pictures posted. Of the remaining matches I found around 10 profiles appealing and sent icebreakers and I never received an icebreaker or any other contact back. For information: Yes, looks are important. In my opinion if you don't find someone attractive then it doesn't matter if you're a 100% personality match.
You might think it's because I have two heads or my profile isn't appropriate. But I think I'm quite normal, decent job, quite good shape, no baggage. I've had success in meeting people in the past through Match.com and DatingDirect so I feel I can measure eHarmony against these other sites.
I would say that if you actually want to meet a life partner through a dating site then spend your money on Match.com or DatingDirect.
As my eHarmony subscription comes to an end I'll be careful to make sure it's cancelled.

Rob

Can you give zero stars, because I would. I would strongly suggest that if you EVER cancel your account, you continually follow up and ensure it's actually cancelled (make screen prints - they don't send emails). Also, if you think you did not sign up for auto renewal, keep checking that too. This company will charge your credit card, once you cancel, and then claim you didn't cancel and/or where always signed up for auto renewal (even though you know you didn't). Make a SCREEN SHOT of everything and store it.

As for dating, YUCK. No one came close to being a match...and even though you fill out 20 pages, liars still get through.

Oh ya, and check the BBB site for more complaints. This company is not as great as it touts.

eharmony is awful. Zero stars would be most appropriate. My subscription is running out shortly and .. good riddance! A total waste of money. As has been noted by other reviewers, the scam is that they "match" you with non-subscribers who have no ability to communicate with you. Therefore, any commuiques sent from you just sit there, never answered. Not a very nice way to stroke one's ego. Of the men that have communicated, 95 percent are well over 800 miles away. Only one match was made close by and once we emailed back and forth for awhile, we realized that we had absolutely nothing in common, our politics were opposite ends of the spectrum, etc. Eharmony's "special" match ability is just a marketing scam.

I would give eharmony zero stars if that were available. Most matches had no photo making them of no interest to me. Most of the matches were over 500 miles away. There is no way I am going to go 500 miles to see some overweight woman who is supposedly "well matched" to me. The whole concept is ridiculous.

refute it, dispute it, eharmony is a plain scam.

whoever says it works for them , i want them to put a hand on the bible or koran (if you believe in GOD) before commenting on this website that what you said is true, and you are not working for the company.

know tha if you lie, you know what the bible or koran says ...

A waste of money for the average person. With online dating you have to look good on paper. Few people can actually look good enough on paper to make online dating really work for them unless you want to really lower your standards. In person you have chemistry with someone. Online you see if their qualifications matches your checklist, and number one is always physical. This site has nothing special over any other site, it's just a gimmick to charge more money.

So for guys, if you are a minimum of 5'9, attractive, and a career, any dating site will work well for you. With that being said, eharmony is expensive and the website is slow(I'm a web developer so slow loading is really aggravating to me). Waste your money someplace else.

For girls, you just have to be attractive, decent shape, and no kids. (Although many guys don't mind children).

The scam part. You will get matches from people that don't even have a subscription. The last 60 days of my subscription, all of a sudden they start giving me many matches every day. Which obviously don't have anything in common with me. I have been a member for 1 entire year. I have had a few dates and the compatability was low.

I have tried eHarmony a few times, and I'll give it four stars. It's not that bad of a site, but it can be a little irritating sometimes. But then again, it's dating, which can be very irritating in and of itself.

It seems that a lot of the people on this site abhorr eHarmony. I can see where they are coming from, since eHarmony does play with people's feelings a little bit. It is very easy to see those ads and think that you can join and then voila, the first person you get matched with will be your life partner. That may very well happen, but chances are, you'll have to go through a few matches before you get to that person.

To me, the biggest problem with eHarmony seems to be that people are involved. I got matched with a lot of people who seemed more interested in "finding cool people to hang out with" as opposed to finding someone to build a life with. That was pretty disquieting for me, since my goal is to find someone with whom I can develop a meaningful relationship that will result in marriage. However, I really can't blame eHarmony for that. Also, I am not interesting in having children. I do want to get married, but I want for my partner and I to be a "two-person family." On eHarmony, I found myself matched with some people who wanted three or four kids. Again, this got on my nerves, but once again, I can't blame eHarmony for this, this was the result of the members not filling out their profiles correctly.

I do, however, wish that eHarmony would label the profiles of the people who aren't paying members. It would be nice if there was a notice on the profiles of the people who aren't currently active members.

I think I would recommend this site to other people, since I have known people who have had success with it. I think you just have to allow some time. However, it's not going to work for everyone. Also, I think people should try not to take it personally if their matches close them out or don't respond to them. Many people get VERY picky when they go on these sites. I'm sure the people closing us out are also getting rejected by their matches, too. I know it's hard, though. When I first joined, several of my matches closed me out and/or refused to communicate with me, and I did spend some time feeling like a total troll over it.

Well, I have also been scammed myself.

I got the feeling the person who wrote before me works for Eharmony by the way he/she defended the company.

If he/she doesn't work for the company, which I seriously doubt, I hope one day he/she will be in a situation like I was myself, and he/she can ask himself/herself if he/she has a brain.

First of all to the idiot who got scammed out of money: this is your own fault!! Never, ever send money! People who ask for money are scammers. Every dating site has warnings about it. Don't be naive enough to believe them. God gave you a brain for a reason. And to everyone who says this site is a joke don't know what they are talking about. I have been a member for just over a month and have already met several women in person. I am seriously considering a committed relationship with one. EH DOES work. You just have to know how to use it.