Here’s a revealing review from a client of mine and pretty much sums up what I hear from everyone:
I signed up for a three month membership through e-Harmony. I was sent initially several matches. Surprisingly of the ones i was slightly interested in none responded to requests for communication. Of the few that i did make initial contact with it was terribly obvious during our first date that we had no chemistry and our personalities were oil and water!
Here comes the good part. I let my subscription expire…I didn’t cancel it. I still get matches in my email even though my account is not active! Which of course makes me think..hmmm….of all the supposed matches they sent me I wonder just how many did not have an active account????
I made a very nasty phone call to e-Harmony who coughed up a free three month extension. I have gotten total squat for matches. Again the same scenario…no communication, matches that are totally out of line. I am sure that when these three months expire then I will suddenly get a few matches worth looking at in the hopes that I will renew my membership.
I plan to call and ask “What percentage of your members report a successful long term relationship after being matched by your system?” and “What percentage of us report that your service is garbage and a waste of our money”??? I would also like to know if the commercial engagements and marriages are actors or actual matches through e-Harmony?
Regardless…it is sad and unfortunate that e-Harmony is commercializing on the fact of life that we all need and want someone special to love and cherish.
Save your time/money, avoid e-Harmony and stick with top dating sites like Match and Perfect Match.
Hi, I've been a matchmaker for many years and have experience with just about every dating site out there. I have thoroughly reviewed and rated the best
While reading the comments; I noticed most of them were from ladies. Well ladies if you thought that you’ve heard it all - listen up!
I am a divorced 51 year old grandma of 2. About six years ago “while I was still married”, I had a run in with e-harmony. I was playing on my computer when a pop-up told me that I had a match. Through research I found out that my husband had been using their service to find vulnerable women. The woman he is now living with was one of them. I wrote eharmony and informed them that he was definitely not single.
They were totally uninterested in my discovery and I was just in shock that weren’t doing background checks like Match and the other dating services were. So ladies, be careful and use a reputable dating service.
I agree about eharmony, its a scam and should be reported. I get all of these matches when I’m not a paying member and the second I join the matches cease to exist. I don’t think these guys exist on here, its a scam to make lots of money. I’ll try match.com instead.
Every year for the past three years I pay $60 to join E-Harmony for a month to see if I have better luck. This is the pattern I’m seeing… initially you’ll get, on average, about 6 matches of which none ever contact me, why?
Well, I asked them and they admitted that yes you don’t have to be a paying member in order to get matches which means that even if you pay there is a chance that none of the matches you receive will ever communicate with you.
Another issue that I addressed with them is the PHOTO issue. Even though physical beauty is not the only important thing, it is very important because on a dating site that is all you have, a photo to see if you’re at least attracted to this individual. They didn’t comment but said that unless you subscribe you can’t see photos because they know that on many occasions the matches they send you are so far from what you expect. All those questions are a waste of time.
So in the past year what I did, and you might want to test this, was I signed up, and waited to receive matches. Wouldn’t you know it that three of the four were matches that I had received before. So, they just had profiles but were not a paying member. The fourth guy, in the descriptions, said that he was looking for just a friend and not a lady that was not interested in marriage.
So how exactly do they match members I wonder? Ladies and gentlemen, eharmony is a waste of money! At least Match.com lets you see photos and gives you the option to sign up or not depending on how much you like the service. I hope this helps someone out there.