| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 6:37:54 AM | Worst site I ever tried. If they did find someone they were always 3-6 hours away. Even calling them and telling them I did not want to be matched up with a person so far away did no good. Huge waste of money and time.
I honestly think all the "pay" sites suck. | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 7:04:57 AM | Actually, the reason I think I was successful on the pay sites is the age bracket of women I 'm interested in. I'm 60, interested in ladies 53 to 63. The rest of you are so much younger that the competition is great. Plus, there must be a billion 50-year old ladies looking for men. Statistically, the ratio of men to women begins favoring men once hitting age 60.  Once you enter an assisted living retirement facility, for a man it's like shooting fish in a barrel................ | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 7:18:48 AM | I agree 100% ... eHarmony sucks big time! I joined for a 3-month trial, got no matches within my mile limitation. When I finally got one match who lived in my city, he sent me an e-mail detailing how busy he was. WTF is he doing on a dating site?
And has anyone noticed that NO ONE on eHarmony has a picture posted? Why is that, ya think...
I'll stick with POF. Haven't found Mr. Right as of yet, but the forums rock..... | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 7:32:52 AM | Online dating is no different than dating in real life... minus the face to face intoduction. Perhaps it is even more cruel becuase it is so photograph based... and MANY.. may resemble their pictures.. few look as good as.
Dating in every realm is a crapshoot. You date many.. to find your jewel. Every single person is unique to themselves.. and shouldn't be lumped together with your previous experiences.. good or bad.
Most of the time dates can be a refelction of your own approach and expectations. You cannot expect more than what a person is. And to want more.. is unrealistic. So go out.. date... expect nothing... and if the chemistry is there... let things develop naturally...
I have dated many people from online.. And have met many good people.. and have made many good friends... don't let the process deter you from finding happiness.
And never settle.
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 9:27:39 AM | I didn't care for the way EHarharwegotsyomoney worked. That being said though, I met my current sweetheart on Match, and have met great women on Yahoo as well. When I had all 3 sites (including PoF), I was averaging about 10-15 emails a day. Guess I was a bit lucky. Personally, I love PoF more for the forums, and that is why I am still here. Kinda wish they also had like a live group chat room too, instead of just the IM thing. That would be really cool, and very unique. Good luck!
Have fun ;)! | |
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ulao
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Joined: 6/10/2006
Msg: 31 | |
| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 11:28:18 AM | | Going to have to second that _thorn_, POF is all about the forums for me. If it was not for them I would only have met one person here. So little can be said about a person in a profile.. But I also wish we had a more OPEN chat system. The forums are very strict, and I'm sure for good reasons but it is a site organized to meat people is it not? I vote for chat as well, but wish more then anything for some more leverage in forum flirting, and talk. | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 11:31:50 AM | I didn't pay for a service, but, they offered one of those "free personality profiles," so I tried it. They said they couldn't help me, I was part of the 20% of people who didn't fit into any one catagory...
So, now I know my problem and why I am still single...LMAO | |
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Posted: 12/1/2006 11:58:47 AM | well I know of a place that has free chat rooms, although their IM isn't free. It's called
matchdoctor.com
you really need to shop around, there's so many free sites out there, maybe another one,
has just what you are looking for. I have a listing of free dating sites, that I updated
monthly, on one of my websites. Here's the address:
http://www.michaelannsfunpage.pww4u2.com/about.html | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 12:08:40 PM |
I tried eHarmony, too. Same results. Lots of in-go and no out-go...or is that go-out. And I'm stumped why this thread would stay on line when I tried to warn others about Together of Houston and the thread was booted of
I don't know why monitors delete threads people find interesting and are responding to. Is there any place on POF where you can vote to delete monitors? | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 12:09:48 PM | It was a pay site that somehow got hold of my profile and spammed it all over the internet.
It made me feel really cheap the other day when I googled my sn (got the tip from the forums) and saw "Interested in busty babes like pandorarevealed? Find them at date.com"
Kinda wish they also had like a live group chat room too, instead of just the IM thing.
They used to back when the site was newer. That's what made me become a regular! I don't know why they took it down. | |
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ulao
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Joined: 6/10/2006
Msg: 36 | |
| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 12:22:26 PM | well I know of a place that has free chat rooms, although their IM isn't free. It's called
matchdoctor.com
you really need to shop around, there's so many free sites out there, maybe another one,
has just what you are looking for. I have a listing of free dating sites, that I updated
monthly, on one of my websites. Here's the address:
http://www.michaelannsfunpage.pww4u2.com/about.html - ya I know I have tried 17 to date all free. None, absolutely none top this site. | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 8:24:46 PM | | I know what you mean hotandcoolmama. They told me I was lucky to get any match. Look at it this way they weren't sending you men in their mid 60's as your perfect match (3 yrs later and it still irritates me). | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 12/1/2006 8:52:41 PM | i want to do it the old fashion way  catch them then throw them back in then try to catch the NEXT one 
and why pay when there seems to be Plenty of fish here
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Posted: 12/2/2006 8:05:07 AM | Yes I too have fallen my the vicious world that preys on us that are looking for true love! I have had not one good experince off any dating site including this one! I have tried match ~ oh you can wink and send messages to the ladys but no replys! and the matches you can find on just about any other site ie..same ppl with photos and all , Like they are paid to posse as a single or some thing? so just as a experiment I winked at all the ppl they matched me up with! you know what happened ...;NOTHING! WHAT A JOKE!
Oh and E~crapany that is even a bigger joke! they match you up with any one or thing! EWW! So I tried my maddness of showing intrest in all my matches just to see what would happen guess what? yeah~~ NOTHING!
My whole experice of the online dating is a pipe dream! Now I love this site mainly becase of the forums, thats why I stay here,waiting for love to find me,cuz Im tird of looking for it  | |
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Posted: 12/2/2006 8:11:54 AM | I was sceptical when the guy with the shiny yellow suit came on selling his goods about basing it on 64 dimensions of your personality?.....Hello! I don't know to many people who can even pull out 20 demensions let alone myself!...... | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 3/31/2007 8:36:03 AM | I did great on singlesnet and have met some great people!!!! and they sent me to pof so i'm not complaining !!!!  | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 3/31/2007 11:44:41 AM | Hey prwtlf, I did the personality thing, and it said they could find no match for me also! Wow, Im glad you posted because I thought that surely I must be the only one that the great eharmony could not find a match for....
Danny | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 3/31/2007 12:39:54 PM | | I really don't understand why people are so gullible and actually pay for any site. Don't you all understand that half of the profiles on there aren't even real and the whole thing is a scam just to get money out of you? Come on now! Be real. | |
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notard
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Joined: 1/10/2007
Msg: 44 | |
| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 3/31/2007 1:46:05 PM | My experience with eHarmony was terrible. I wasted a lot of money and time on eHarmony.
As soon as you "pass" the "free" psychological test eHarmony matches you like crazy to get you to sign up to become a paying member, even though your matches are not informed you are actually not a paying member and can not correspond with them. After you pay, eHarmony matches you with whomever, no rhyme or reason. Many of my matches made no sense whatsoever! New matches gradually decrease over time until you only get a few now and then. Then, as renewal time approaches, eHarmony suddenly increases the matches dramatically to get you to pay some more money and re-up.
One "woman" matched to me was actually a man who had had a sex change operation!
Furthermore, one spends hours and hours going through the required eHarmony protocol and question sets when what you really want to ask can not be asked. Too, many of the questions provided should not be asked until you get to know a person better.
The worst of it is eHarmony claims to monitor members to make certain they are really who they claim to be, that they are being truthful about their ages, education and so on. When I was matched with a woman who clearly had violated her contract by substantially understating her age, eHarmony refused to do anything about it even though I had proof and the woman had admitted her actual age to me.
To sum it up: eHarmony spends substantially on advertising and all eHarmony wants is your money. | |
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rekert
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Joined: 3/22/2007
Msg: 45 | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 4/4/2007 12:35:46 PM |
ya I know I have tried 17 to date all free. None, absolutely none top this site.
Yeah the only other free site Ive ever used that was better was Yahoo Personals. It went pay a while back though. So if Id ever recommend a pay site itd be that one | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 4/4/2007 12:43:45 PM | What I disliked about eharmony was that THEY decide for me who I can and can't get to know. I understand the whole personality thing, but I think at some point I oughtta be old enough to decide who I wanna see all by myself...... Oh, and the ones they chose for me? I'm 50 and one guy was 47; all the others were in their 60's, retired, and liked to work in their yards. Maybe eharmony picked up on the fact that I hate yard work and they were trying to help me out, but, hey, I can take care of that myself by paying a teenager to cut the grass. I was looking for someone to go places and do things with, and maybe a little further than my front yard, you know.
Oh, and the expense was a little out of line, too, I thought. | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 4/4/2007 1:05:17 PM | | i agree, they do suck. i found the men on that site to be VERY shallow. also didn't like that they could just close you for some stupid reason, felt like i had no control in the situation. and they are one of the most expensive dating sites. i was a member a few years ago and i think it was $39 a month then, now i hear it's $49. i did have a relationship with one guy i met there but it was really just a friends with benefits type of thing which didn't work for me in the long run. then i found out he was an alcoholic and it was all over after that. didn't think we had much in common at all so i'm not sure about all that matching criteria stuff they talk about. i think it's a bunch of bull. | |
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| Beware: eHarmony sucks...
Posted: 4/4/2007 2:10:21 PM | | i even have to wonder if the people in their commercials are "real" or "actors". some of them seem so corny and stupid. i mean if they have so many "marriages" and "success stories", then how come i've never met anyone who was successful on their website? never heard anyone tell me that they met their spouse or romantic interest on Eharmony. | |
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