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.
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eHarmony is fraudulent. My membership just expired yet I continued to receive matches which I couldn’t see or respond to unless I renewed my membership. As a member I wondered if I was getting matches with expired subscriptions and called customer service to inquire about this. They assured me (on 2 occasions) that my matches were paying subscribers. I rephrased my question with a few different angles to make sure they understood what I was asking and still they would say that these were not members with expired accounts. Now as a former member with an expired account who continues to get matches, I know that they were lying all along. I feel terrible for all the paying members who are getting matches not knowing if they have expired memberships.
I am sure that many of my matches were not paying subscribers because I often wouldn’t get a response to my “request to communicate”. I would think people would at least respond in some form if they were active paying members.
I did bring this up with eHarmony and they said that they stated that people would be matched with matches that had expired memberships in their policy. I looked at it very closely and just as I suspected, it did not say this. They are LIARS and FRAUDULENT!!!
STAY AWAY FROM EHARMONY!!!
I also found nothing with them. I had several “matches” but when I contacted them there was a message that they had closed comm. I joined over 2 years ago and have been active several times and as of today, have only 10 or so matches…all but one are taking a break. I’m a dammed good catch too, so someone is not getting the message out!
I just accidentally found these reviews and was laughing as I read them. I signed up for e-harmony a few years ago and was really disappointed. Like almost everyone else, I ended up with a LOT of matches 1/2 way across the country. And some of the strangest people..let me give you an example..one guy lived 2/3 of the way across the country but he had an interesting job so I thought I’d just chat..and made it clear I was just being friendly since there was no hope of us ever meeting. Lo and behold…he had been divorced THREE times, was currently in therapy from a very bad breakup, and had a major foot fetish…none of this, of course, could have been found out from the profile. This guy should no more have been looking to date than a man in the moon. I felt sorry for him but my goodness! About that time e-harmony began their intense tv ad campaign and it was so funny..they talked about the number of marriages (which was very very small in number) then the amount of people joining which was enormous. So I wrote a scathing little e-mail to the founder, Dr. Warren, and NEVER got a reply back but I did notice they immediately changed their tv ads and UPPED the number of marriages they said were happening. Also, I know dating sites cannot totally screen their applicants, but I just broke up with someone I’ve dated well over a year who I met at a different site, and I heard he’s very very active on e-harmony and match. The reason we broke up is he is actively dating numerous women at the same time making each one think they are the only ones. He is very good at it or I would have found out a lot sooner. I just feel extremely sorry for the people he will meet..it’s scary isn’t it? Oh and out of curiosity I checked my account (which has been inactive a LONG time on e-harmony) and they had kept matching me with people! It’s been very educational to read everyone elese’s comments.