Comments on: Match.com Review

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:26:45 +0000

I agree with Mike and Katie about Match.com I tried it about 5 years ago and found many old profiles on there. I would find a profile for a woman I was interested in and check the last time she was online. If it said “online in the last 72 hours” or “online in the last week” I would send her a message. The next day I would check the same woman’s profile and it would say “online in more than 3 months”. I guess Match was waiting for me to send a message before telling me that the woman was long gone from the site.

Now that OK Cupid and PoF are popular and Match has such bad reviews, one would hope they have improved their system

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:40:19 +0000

I am considering a match.com account and a catholicsingles.com account. I’m just not sure about either one because after reading these comments, I only have a few girls on the site that I even would consider dating, and who knows if they even have paid accounts?!

The website says I have two messages already from active users, and I am curious to see what they are, but are they even real? I don’t know… it’s really only 35 bucks, but I’m not rich, you know?

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:39:00 +0000

Match.com and PoF have excellent search engines that cover large geographic areas. I’m looking for one special woman with similar hobbies and lifestyle, and I’m willing to travel and move should we become friends. OKCupid’s social/lifestyle preference matching is the best as long as the individual answers how they truly feel, rather than what they think would be more attractive (True for all sites, BTW). Only major issue with OKC is their search engine is primitive for defining distinct searches, like 5′, Jewish, college degree, anywhere USA. It returns only a small portion of the US and loses your setting from search to search. Too time consuming and frustrating!

By: Kinley

Kinley — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:50:50 +0000

Hi Susan,

I’m not really clear about what has happened to your Match.com account. But I would file a support ticket with them to see what’s going on. I’ve always found the Match.com support people to be generally responsive so they should be able to help you out.

By: susan

susan — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:22:12 +0000

I am very disappointed with Match.com. After 6 months of following all the rules to maintain an active profile, my profile has red warning signs that it is not visible and I have voided my guarantee… funny thing that while they are telling me its hidden, I log into match on another device and it says available…I even continue tho get winks and new “who viewed you” updated every few minutes!….. I cannot get anyone to email me or return my requests for an investigation. Hoping someone will listen.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:13:28 +0000

I too experienced everything that has already been mentioned about Match.com. I also found a lot of duplicate profiles. Same person, different user name and match criteria. I also saw a couple of profiles from another dating site from YEARS ago, with the same photos… Their reverse and mutual matching just plain doesn’t work. I got a lot of questionable winks and IM’s from out of state members. The Match.com software is incredibly glitchy.

I have discussed this with several other people, we feel there are a lot of fake profiles there to make Match.com appear larger and more active than it really is. If you are a free member, they will tell you people are trying to contact you. They will withhold who it is until you agree to subscribe. Then it is an out of state member who has an “unavailable profile”.

Buyer beware…

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:55:37 +0000

Based on my limited use of online dating sites, I find Match.com to be a useful tool. I have not had the problems people complain about (old pics, lies about various topics, etc.). I find the large selection of participants in my area (Phoenix metro) to be a real positive.

Like TOMINPA and putonghua73 (see comments above) the response rate to my queries isn’t very high. I don’t understand why people don’t bother to respond to e-mail queries. It only takes an instant to say: “No Thanks”. Why subscribe to a site like Match.com and not respond at all when contacted?

Best of luck to everyone.

By: Kinley

Kinley — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:40:40 +0000

Hi Joann. Sorry to hear about your problems with Match.com but this is pretty typical of any site that uses the online subscription model. 99% of them are automatic renewal and you typically need to cancel yourself membership manually. If you read Match.com’s Terms of Use, it’s spelled out in there, so you probably don’t have much recourse unless their support is nice enough to offer you a refund. Hope you get it though!

By: Joann

Joann — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:45:36 +0000

Match.com is not a honest website because it automatically charges you when your membership due. I bought a 3mth membership and I thought my membership would expire automatically but it is not the case. I am charged automatically after 3 mths which really sucks. Now I am trying to get my money back.

By: katie

katie — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:42:29 +0000

I find the non-subscriber issue frustrating as well. Also Match.com will send me “Daily Matches”. When I note an interesting person, I’ll search his username vs. just reading the snapshot. Very often I get a message:”Oops, the profile you are searching for is not available”. Well, why did Match.com send me the profile? Not a member? Hidden profile? I know that many online sites post fake profiles which they claim is a marketing tool.

One thing I like about OKCupid is they post the last time a member logged on. So if I see a profile in Quick search it will tell me the last time he logged on was 2009 and I won’t bother sending a message. However OKCupid has sent “Quiver Matches” of guys who haven’t been on-line in years. But at least the date is there, unlike Match.com. Match will say “on-line now”, that just means someone is using their computer. I’ve also suspected that Match holds back some messages right around the date my subscription might expire. Once the renewal kicks in I’ll get 5 messages. And I can tell by information in the message that it was written a few days before. Just have to be aware that it’s in their interest to keep you a member as long as possible.