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Posted: 5/24/2009 9:15:40 PM | Hey Estrella
Did you see me with my Samuri Sword on E-Harmony????SSSsssssshhhh don't tell
Hey Bennder 1954..Loved it..LOL LOL
Yeah my dimensions went so deep they couldn't help me at all, except out of $45 for 3 months. And after the friends and I played for that length of time ,,It was worth the laughs.
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| Eharmony - Knowing What You Are Buying ?
Posted: 5/24/2009 11:14:45 PM | My mom pushed me, along with some girlfriends, onto eHarmony. I had taken off 8 months from dating after a particularly lame=mistake=of=a= relationship ended... and decided to take the plunge by eHarmony to put my feet back in the shallow pool of dating.
I mainly look at guys' faith/religious views as I am a bible-thumper. And I actually got one cute guy interested who lived near by...but wrong religion. So I closed him and twiddled with all my filters. Now I hardly get matches. When I do, one of us always closes each other.
So a few months ago, I dusted off my old PoF profile, uncloaked it and brought it out off hiding.
I have not made any love match but I am having more fun here. For one, I enjoy playing with my profile (changing it...and answering forums...the music playlist etc).
eHarmony has fun forums but I got sick of them. Also, I feel eHarmony wants to match me up with somebody far, far away.
I have been in LDR and not interested anymore. I personally gave up on it and my mother is p122ed off at it as she paid for it.
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Posted: 5/25/2009 1:51:27 AM | It is only slightly better than paying 99 cents a minute for a "Local and Live" Chat line, you know the one where all the cool people stay home on Friday and Saturnights to talk on the phone to strangers......
I get a kick out of the commercials, I am even more amazed that people call. | |
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Posted: 5/25/2009 2:37:27 AM | I don't know what eharmony is like now, but I used it some years ago and got a few good women through it, amounting to one mid-term and one long-term relationship along with a number of decent dates, which I can't say of any other dating service thus far aside from in-person speed-dating. That said, I have no inclination to use that site again. As others have said, most of my matches, at least the ones that actually wound up being interested in me were way out of town. However, it can take me over an hour to get to some parts of the outer boroughs, so in some regards, people along the train lines north and south from the city are functionally closer. I don't see that many women on here, comparatively speaking, that actually live in Manhattan or the more convenient parts of the outer boroughs either.
This new trial period thing on eharmony sounds like a terrible idea, and it screws everyone because who wants to match with the people who are just on the trial run to begin with? Another thing that always bothered me about eharmony was how members could withhold their photo until later stages in communication. They think they're playing it safe, but all they're going to do is feel crappy when someone gets to stage 3, sees their photo and closes. That's just like painting a big target on their self-esteem.
Other than that, I did like way the system worked in theory; staggering matches like that is a good idea. A lot of the women I'd met had been there for months as I had but we'd never been matched before whereas if I got everyone at once, I'd probably have to blow off more of them than I would wisely do. Anyway, it would be a nice site if: 1. It attracted less neurotic people, 2. They broadened the compatibility criteria by ALOT and 3. If they didn't stagger the matching quite as much, although I think from what I read in one of the emails I still occasionally get from them, they already did something about 3. | |
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Posted: 5/25/2009 1:59:21 PM | i've got mixed feelings from eharmony,
i've gotten lots of matches. you can check on the filter how far away people can be, but only to a minimum of 100km which i think is still stretching it a bit, i think they should have better filters for that.
the only fatal flaw with it is that people still really only care about what the other person looks like when they decide to do communciation.
there is also the problem with not knowing who is a member which i think makes it that way too many of your "matches" are not real.
but i think their personality profile is better than nothing and the people i have done open communication with would be great friends if nothing else.
i do find that people who are on it and paying are a lot more serious and i've gotten more dates from that than on here.
in fact the last person i dated was from eharmony and i would say that she was closer to being "the one" than anyone else. | |
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| Eharmony - Knowing What You Are Buying ?
Posted: 5/25/2009 3:12:18 PM | I think Lavalife is better for a paid site. At least they don't scam people. I never used it myself though.
I probably wouldn't pass the test. I am spiritual but not religious. I get annoyed when bible thumper try to convert me. I was forced to be a Christian as a child and I really hated it. | |
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Posted: 5/25/2009 4:23:15 PM | | i think thats the whole selling point on e harmony sparky, they match you on compatability. thus you will be such a kindred spirit with this person looks should take 4th or 5th priority. thats what websites like this one is for. people who put looks 1st or 2nd. or people like me who like the free aspect. | |
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Posted: 5/25/2009 10:31:53 PM | FacetiousDude said
I think Lavalife is better for a paid site. At least they don't scam people. I never used it myself though.
I probably wouldn't pass the test. I am spiritual but not religious. I get annoyed when bible thumper try to convert me. I was forced to be a Christian as a child and I really hated it.
Well, I don't. In fact I won't reply to you (person contacting me intially) if he is not a bible-thumper like me. I am sorry there are some who waste precious time like that. | |
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Posted: 5/27/2009 10:37:25 AM | | I cancelled match.com recently for the same reason. So many matches are not paying members. They wink back, you email 10 - 20 women and get 5 emails because most of them are not paying members and CAN'T respond. It's not worth what they charge. The best thing to do is get a good haircut, buy a nice shampoo, grab some cologne, get off of your assess, and get out there and meet real women in real places. I've given up on Internet dating. I recommend that most people do the same. | |
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Posted: 5/27/2009 7:00:11 PM | | I'll never pay for match.com again. I did once and I cancelled my membership....or so I thought. I found out like 5 months later that they were still billing my credit card. I also got my credit card hacked through them. | |
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Posted: 5/27/2009 8:23:45 PM | OMG, TXWheels, did you ever get refunded for those months they kept charging? That sucks!!!
I gotta say, I hate signing up for things that "automatically renew" on a credit card for that reason. I got enough to keep track of, fhs. | |
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Posted: 5/27/2009 8:52:01 PM | | Yes ma'am. I think they did refund me. I know I told them to stop billing me but for some reason they kept doing it. I also told them that someone in their company hacked into my credit card and changed all of my information. They didn't like hearing that but I don't know who else it could have been at the time. | |
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Posted: 5/27/2009 9:06:20 PM | I was on Eharmony for a while. I passed the test..hehe. I actually did get to the phone stage with 2 girls but nothing ever came of it. I think it was an awful amount of money for what ended up being a lot of bland and redundant profiles. Just because people pay more money doesn't mean they're as serious as people on this site.
I'm on match now and it sucks. My 3 month membership is up in 2 weeks and I will NOT renew. There has to be a LOT of nonpaying members. After all is said and done, I sent well crafted emails to almost 60 women. All I got were two winks from women I wasn't attracted to and only got 1 response which was a thanks but no thanks email.
I've had the most success on this site. I've gotten responses on about 15% of my emails. One knocked my socks off and we talked for over a month on the phone but she became disinterested for whatever reason. Plus, these boards are a lot of fun. YAY PoF. I don't think I'll pay for a dating site ever again! For $60, I can get a nice buzz on for 2 or 3 nights at a bar
I do better in the real world anyway. I will admit I am not very photogenic and my personality doesn't shine on a webpage. You can't read and delete my email in the real world, you have to look me in the eye and reject my advance, even though all I'm there to do is chat.  | |
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Posted: 5/27/2009 9:10:56 PM | these pay sites are pretty useless if you don't live in an area with many options.
I'm not from the good ole USA. Western Canada and many of the sites they have like either no matches or no people in your area.. or they have so few that you only get all the fat and ugly ones.
not worth paying a cent for! | |
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Posted: 5/27/2009 9:11:12 PM | I think it was an awful amount of money for what ended up being a lot of bland and redundant profiles. Just because people pay more money doesn't mean they're as serious as people on this site.
See, I never even got far enough in eHarmony -- what with being an undesirable type and all -- to find out how much it costs. They don't tell you before you fill out their 50 page survery of your values and stuff. So I did all that and still don't know how much it costs!
No matter what it is, if you can't tell me how much I've got to pay UPFRONT, then it feels like a scam to me.
I haven't checked out match.com and I don't know how much that costs either. I just tried out eHarmony for the free Memorial day weekend offer.
or they have so few that you only get all the fat and ugly ones.
not worth paying a cent for!
Wow. Thank you for that. It helps me remember that people with no pictures like to be shallow and judgemental while they hide anonymously behind a screen. Now, people like that? -- Are not worth paying a cent for. Please, save your money and remain alone, you little charmer you. | |
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Posted: 5/27/2009 9:12:55 PM |
It is only slightly better than paying 99 cents a minute for a "Local and Live" Chat line, you know the one where all the cool people stay home on Friday and Saturnights to talk on the phone to strangers......
I get a kick out of the commercials, I am even more amazed that people call.
no kidding
talk about blatant false advertising.
they actually try to convince you that everyone who calls in are just like her! hot, attractive and very cute! but in reality, the majority of them are homely and ugh.. | |
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Posted: 5/27/2009 9:15:49 PM | It's $60 for 1 month
$120 for 3 months
or somewhere along those lines. It gets cheaper per month the longer you sign up. My advice... don't.
My father met his wife on s i n g l e s n e t.com. It's $20/month I think | |
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Posted: 5/28/2009 1:44:43 AM | Gotta love the clever way they advertise on tv here in Australia.
"Review your matches for free"..
Yeah and you have to pay to try to connect with them.
So another main dating company have changed their ad to counteract that by saying you can message your matches entirely free with them..
Sucked in E har -monEy. | |
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| Eharmony - Knowing What You Are Buying ?
Posted: 5/28/2009 11:27:12 AM | Anyone tried "Bookofmatches.com" that one's free too, I heard, from a friend
down south, Hey the price is right. I like POF. but can't hurt to check it out. | |
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Posted: 5/28/2009 11:57:07 AM | I stupidly got on Eharmony last summer. I paid and got a bunch of really bad matches early on in the course of my 3 months. An absolute ton of guys much farther away than I asked for. Some of them were 6 hours or more away and I specified within an hour away.
The ones I did get matched with never really emailed me back, if at all, and then after the first 3 or 4 weeks I don't think I ever really got any matches the last 2 months. It was very disappointing and then they said I was too picky - I needed to expand my distance requirement and they tried to sell me on another 6 months.
NO THANK YOU. | |
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