eHarmony Sucks
So, after a month and a half of eHarmony, I’ve decided it is horrible. Worst money I have ever spent. Here are the 5 reasons why:
#1- There are no attractive men. I know that I have high standards in the physical appearance of the men I am interested in, but it’s a little ridiculous. I’ve tried everything to fool myself in to thinking there are hot men on there (eg: picturing them in a cop/firefighter outfit, reading their profile and hoping I can like them based on that first), and nothing works. I know men usually take bad pics and don’t know what kind of picture appeals to the opposite sex, but come on! Not one hot guy in the entire city of Toronto??? No wonder I’m single.
#2- It takes too much time. At first, I liked the idea of having 10 matches sent to me every day, and I could browse them over breakfast, but if you miss a day or two (or worse, go away for a week), then you have to sort through 50+ ugly men.
#3- You can view your matches even if you don’t pay for a membership. This means even if a hot guy suddenly appeared on eHarmony, it’s possible that he didn’t pay for the service, so if I tried to communicate with him, it would go nowhere.
#4- Once they send you your first few batches of matches which are based on 27 areas of compatibility or something stupid like that, they start sending you crap. I started getting matches from the suburbs. The SUBURBS!! I don’t date suburb people. It’s a whole different culture out there that I don’t want to mess with.
#5- I paid $120 and got nothing.
So, I decided that I’m just going for it, and I am going to go out on 3 eHarmony dates next week. I wish it was socially acceptable for me to take pics of them so that when I write about how stupid they are, I can show you that not only are they stupid, but also ugly.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:51 am
ouch
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
Not you Ryan, we’ve never been matched. You’re hot. Hotter than Randy.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Hope your dates go well next week and the dudes aren’t too mongaloidish.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I have a blog crush on you.
I love that you’re going on dates knowning how horrible they will be..ahhh, memories of my match.com days!!
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
The idea that most dudes are hideous does explain the amount of attention I get… I thought I was more popular than I should be.
October 4th, 2008 at 4:16 am
good luck! You maybe surprised! I went as a third wheel on my friends match.com date just last night. SHe forced me to go because she thought he was going to be ugly/lame. Turns out he was smoking and an absolute catch. In no time I really felt like a third wheel and made an excuse to run out on them.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
All the guys you consider ‘Hot’ are too busy having one night stands to worry about looking for a relationship over the internet…
And what do you mean Ryan’s hotter than me… Now you’re just being ridiculous…
October 5th, 2008 at 8:39 am
@Pinkie- your friend dragged you out on a blind date?? THAT is weird.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:40 am
@Erin- I go on bad dates so that I have blog stories to tell.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:23 am
I don’t date “suburb people”. How arrogant, how demeaning, how condescending.
Maybe these personality traits of yours are the reason you’re having to go to such lengths to find someone who will date you, and having so little success.
Go to a therapist, work through whatever it is about you that makes you need to look down on others, and maybe you’ll start attracting quality guys with no effort at all…
October 13th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
The suburbs are far, I hate driving? If that’s not reason enough then I’ll go with the extremelly different mentality that suburban people have…I’m not nearly ready to live a suburban life, and don’t think it would be fair to date someone at a completely different life stage than me.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
e Harmony was such a terrible experience.
I counted the weeks till my three month subscription expired.
Then it automatically renewed!
Yes they charged my card again. I sent several emails protesting this. The first response was “to keep up with it for over 200 marriages are formed every day due to eharmony”. I was livid!!!
They’ll auto renew your subscription unless you go through a maze to click off the feature. Yes I said a maze.
I strongy advise anyone considering it to stear clear away.
November 9th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Thanks for letting me know about the auto-renewal! I would have totally let it slip if I hadn’t known!
February 25th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
If you are on the market of finding a new mate, please stay away from eharmony.com; They are the worst and their matches provided are sent on a automated basis, they are not individually reviewed and matched like they falsely advertise on their TV commercials.
I had the worst experience with them after I was lured into a membership when I saw the “free communication weekend” add; I did not plan on joining but with that free communication weekend all you get is an account and you get to answer a questionnaire that your “matches” send you, for any further communication you will need to join, their membership is the most expensive I have ever seen and they try to get you to sign up for 3 or more months of their bad service, the more months the cheaper it is, please do not fall for it; DO NOT join for more than one month if you must!, they have a “NO REFUND” policy, so no matter how unsuccessful or how unsatisfied you are with their services, they will not let you cancel, no matter how much you complain and how right you are. They are obviously doing this because if they had a satisfaction guarantee they would be out of business. They are a VERY disorganized company, all their funds must be for the TV commercials and not to provide with a good staff in their company. I really hope they go out of business and I wish they would stop running their misleading commercials.
I was lured become a paid member with a “match” that was conveniently exactly what I was looking for, after I joined I never heard from the match again and I never got another compatible match again, this was all very suspicious and convenient for eharmony.com; to this day I still wonder if that one “match” was made up by them, all the other matches provided where not what I wrote I was looking for, but we might share the same religion or a couple of the same answers in their multiple selection questionnaire; some of the matches where even fake profiles with bogus names and answers like: wwwwwiiiii loooossslllls…etc on their about yourself questions.
I can’t believe a serious matching company would not scan their members for things like that and more so would even pass those bogus profiles on to another serious member.
I think is really wrong to take advantage of people wanting to find a soul mate. This company will not do that for you. The worst thing is the number of possible “matches” they send you, my email was constantly flooded with “new matches” that where not my match and their elimination process is a very lengthy 4 step process, you can’t just look at a profile and click a “not interested” button, they proceed to ask you why you are not interested and they want you to rate that person’s profile and then send that “match” an explination from their multiple selection on why you are not interested, then you can finally get that profile out of your “new matches” list, if you have 30 people as your new matches you can spend a good and valuable 2 hours of your time just eliminating all of them (and more than likely you will end up eliminating them all)… I think this someone else matching you is not a very good idea for the way eharmony.com does business; maybe if they put more effort into each individual signing up they would have a more reliable service but they just don’t.
My complaint emails to them where answered with an “I am sorry you are dissatisfied with our service” smile at the other side, since there are no refunds, they simply do not care.
Please don’t lose your money and end up being disappointed, frustrated and upset like I did. DO NOT USE THEIR SERVICES.