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Posted: 2/17/2008 7:27:05 AM | In honor of Eharmony's bogus free weekend lol. Ive decided to use this forum to rant about this terrible site. About 2 years ago, and afte going thru two hours of clicking and filling out the questionaire and taking the time to honestly answer them all, E harmony gave me the following matches to communicate with.....
UNABLE TO MATCH YOU AT THIS TIME
eHarmony is based upon a complex matching system developed through extensive research with married couples. One of the requirements for successful matching is that participants fall within certain defined profiles. If we find that we will not be able to match a user using these profiles, we feel it is only fair to inform them early in the process. We are so convinced of the importance of creating compatible matches to help people establish happy, lasting relationships that we sometimes choose not to provide service rather than risk an uncertain match. Unfortunately, we are not able to make our profiles work for you. Our matching model could not accurately predict with whom you would be best matched. This occurs for about 20% of potential users, so 1 in 5 people simply will not benefit from our service. We hope that you understand, and we regret our inability to provide service for you at this time.
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Mind u this was years ago and still nobody has the same morals and honest beliefs as me so I can match with someone? ROFL At least some of the horror stories I hear about on there involved some sort of matches lol, I dont even have one.
Hooray for POF - At least im hoping this site will lead to someone, but at least I have matches :) | |
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| New Eharmony Post, Wait til you read this!!!
Posted: 2/17/2008 10:42:22 PM | I tried eHarmony a few years back and got the same response. No matches. I am not sure what more they would want from someone other than their money.
At least PoF is a free site. I'm not even sure if that is a good thing either. But in todays world I guess one has to try many different things.
BlueMax
ValleyChatter.com | |
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| New Eharmony Post, Wait til you read this!!!
Posted: 2/22/2008 8:42:31 PM | | I got the same thing from e-harmony. Sorry, NO MATCH FOR YOU. They slammed me for over $350 on my credit card. I could not e-mail, so I wrote a certified letter, demanding money back and please making them take me off of their site. I have since written many times, and they still refuse to take me off, but do not charge anything. I am somehow still "registered" with the site, even though I never used it, and they Slammed ME FOR THE MONEY. I am so ticked off at e-Harmony. I am glad to hear that I am not the only one, and that I wasn't insane, or just happened to IMAGINE THIS HAPPENING TO ME. At the time, I was experiencing the horrors of the dissolution of a twenty-two year military marriage, and I was very disconnected, distraught, and in SHOCK. Sometimes, I imagined that the experience was A DREAM, because everything else in my life was surreal.... because of the shock of such a deep loss. I think that e-harmony is INVOLVED IN PARTICIPATING IN PREDATORY PRACTICES, preying on the unfortuneate. Well, I am strong and well now, so E-HARMONY, ##%%$^&*(&^^^%m take that to the bank. | |
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Posted: 2/26/2008 7:55:26 AM | WOW....I don't feel so bad anymore! I was on eHarmony twice...and they didn't find me any matches expect some women in the Southern US and one in Montreal. Good think I never paid them anything. I guess they are using your folks money to pay for those advertising on TV. Thanks I feel better now...I'm not such a loser as it made me feel.  | |
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| New Eharmony Post, Wait til you read this!!!
Posted: 4/5/2008 9:35:19 PM | | Yeah I got that back in the day, 3+yrs ago, when I tried to fill it out. I think what happens is if they can't fit you into their cookie cutter molds then they don't know what to do with you. | |
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Posted: 6/8/2008 9:16:46 PM |
smileee4u
Sorry to hear about ur eharmony troubles, thank god I didnt pay them anything. Heck I wanted to pay them so I could somehow see my partial matches or 97% matches or something but I cant even do that lol. Because I have no matches there is nothing else i can do until one comes along, so funny. Again sorry u had to pay them so much for very little results.
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| New Eharmony Post, Wait til you read this!!!
Posted: 6/22/2008 7:29:10 PM | A few years ago...actually it was summer of '03, and I got the same message at the time...however the said they'd give me some bonus material on my personality profile for....i laughed about it for a while, even posting screenshots and going as far as to say "hey, look, i'm NOT datable" jokingly.
i attempted to log back in to the thing a few months ago..and i don't remember if it kept me or if i had to go through thier bazillion questions to sign back up, but this time I did get some matches....the montly cost? $59.99
i mean, i realized it then...back in 03 there just wasn't anyone thier system thought i was compatible with...not that thier system COULDN'T match me...it just couldn't match me with anyone that leaved nearby (and i don't seem to remember being able to modify the search radius very much) and in the 5 years since I had last tried more people had signed up...
but seriously, 60 a month for the service? I mean, really..I could almost understand why no one was really signed up...the last service i paid for was lavalife..and i had a minimal amount of success there. this place...i really can't complain...it's been a lot of bad stuff but one or two excellent things have happened that made up for it. i keep having faith that euventually some girl who's not completely hung up on her self or the outershell of someone (or a female that's come to her senses) will pop-up one day, thus far i've not really had it happened.... | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 4:58:09 AM | Wow! Maybe they got wise...they've sent me two dozen matches in less than two weeks but since I'm not a member I can't communicate with anyone or look at their pictures even. I know alot of these sites try to snare you with the claim that they have so many people out there for you. I figured E was just trying to get my money. I only reponded to one match through the guided communication they have, to be told I live too far away for him. & I do. LOL! Good luck to all! | |
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Posted: 7/10/2008 8:18:22 PM | E Harmony started out as a religious match making site. Their "matching" system is based largely on certain religious criteria. I was on there for a while and though they did find "matches" for me, none were a decent match. (Though one did have a sister in Atlanta that I was VERY interested in. Oddly enough, switching sisters is not the easiest thing in the world to do!)
There may be worse, online dating sites than E Harmony, but if so, I hope that I never stumble across it. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2008 8:23:24 AM | | After reading Sportsfanrobby1's comments about Eharmony, I decided to add my own comment. I had an even better (?) experience with the website about 3 years ago. I went through all the steps with a guy and we mutually decided to meet at a local restaurant. Appearance was great, smile was good...but when he opened his mouth, it was all about him. Afterwards, I even went back to the site to see what in the world I had written, how I had answered all those darn questions and how in the world was I matched with such a jerk. Needless to say, since then I have found POF and another free site that has proven more successful. I have met some neat guys, some who I still correspond with as friends. Eharmony............get a life! | |
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| New Eharmony Post, Wait til you read this!!!
Posted: 7/12/2008 8:43:16 AM |
One of the things that I enjoy most about POF is that the people are amazing. As a general rule of thumb, I enjoy people anyhow - but after planning a few "Meet and Greets" and PoF Parties, I have found that it affords folks an opportunity to do three things:
1) meet each other either via email or eventually in person for FREE
2) it allows intellectual, and other stimulating discussions for FREE on its forums if that is something that someone just wants to do - interact via discussions
3) it affords folks a chance to go to a party at no cost (FREE) or low cost, to meet new friends and to feel that even though they might not meet someone that they would like to date, that they have met new friends that make this adventure that we call life so much fun.
So much that is FREE?? You ask how can that benefit me? You get whatever you put into it. To me that is a lot better than having $money$ taken off my credit card every month.
Happy Fishing !
Denise Anglergrl | |
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| New Eharmony Post, Wait til you read this!!!
Posted: 7/22/2008 6:41:49 AM | Yes, the founder of e-harmony has done several things in his screening. I analyzed the questions. First of all it might be called "an occult Christian Evangelical Site. It was initially intended to be openly Christian but for some reason they took their present path. Some of the questions are indirectly based upon New Testament principles. Other questions are taken from a variety of sources including indirectly from the MMPI which is a questionnaire to determine psychopathology. The MMPI has many scales. They have re-phrased some of the questions that have to deal with sociopathy, affective disorders, and a number of other things. Unless you trained in psychology or are well versed in the Bible, you would not be likely to pick up on some of these questions.
All the other questions are related to the usual stuff.
If they pick up on what they perceive may be a "problems" they 86 you.
I know this post will probably generate a lot of questions. The e-harmony story is complicated; these are the basics. Please do not ask me any more details:) And, don't waste your money!
There is one site I know of that does not allow you to post if you are married or have a felony conviction. So, I guess my buddy G. Gordon Liddy, if he gets a divorce, can't post. And, Martha Stewart is just going to have to offer a large dowry or make a reality show for herself to find a husband! | |
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| New Eharmony Post, Wait til you read this!!!
Posted: 9/27/2008 2:12:34 PM | Well, this is in the Virginia forum and I'm not living in Virginia... but this thread concerns Eharmony (or Edischord, lol) so I will tell of my experience.
I tried EH back in 2004 and actually did meet someone. It didn't go very well because of various things...
1. IMHO, opposites attract. She was just a female version of me. So like putting two +'s or two-'s like a magnet's [same] poles together, they repel. At least in my case they do.
2. After the meeting IRL, I got no responses via email, or very vague responses. But that might have something to do with me. IDK :p
Like others have said, EH matches you with what they think is best. They more or less pick and choose. Their questionnaire is way too long and while it may be important for their (or any other matchmaking site) search engine to work, come on! I felt as if most of the questions were redundant. I canceled shortly thereafter since their site wouldn't match me with what I was looking for... and I answered my questions as honestly as I could.
And like an idiot, I went back there again early this year for a 3 month try. Same luck. Then I came to this site. I haven't found the one yet but I'm still looking.
I've heard an old saying... "The best things in life are usually free".
And I think a forum such as this one on a dating site is totally awesome.
Would I recommend this site to a friend? You betcha!  | |
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