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Match.com. You don't even have to subscribe to see that this dating site is hopeless. It would seem that if you have been a successful subsriber then that's more down to luck than a consistently good service. I don't understand anyone who thinks the website's interface is good. It's clunky. It's not intuitive. It keeps the customer at arm's (ocean's!) length. Here is my experience....
1. Because it is American there is more emphasis on keeping the customer at bay...
2. The user interface is not customer-friendly.
3. Your fee will be debited immediately and also on each occasion that your membership is next due to expire, unless you cancel. They call this 'easy payments' - for your convenience!
4. Want to cancel? Jump through hoops.
5. If you see profiles you like, watch their 'Active within...' facility. I've seen it announce 24 hours then 1 hour then 3 days - all within a single morning (by logging in three times). Other similar inconsistencies appeared for other profiles.
6. If you delete someone from your Favourites (or 'Favorites') nothing seems to happen. You have re-log in for it to take effect.
7. You have to pay extra to see if your emails have been read.
8. I've had emails from people who are completely incompatible - which may not be the fault of the Company but it does make me wonder whether these profiles are not simply stealth marketing devices. In other words, prompts to get you to sign up.
9. They send you suggested matches that are entirely unsuitable and don't seem to relate to the important things at all. ("She likes dancing, you like dancing" - yes, but she's looking for someone 14 years younger than me AND someone taller than herself AND not 400 miles away!!)
One profile shows an attractive woman from Bournemouth pictured behind a handbag counter in a department store wearing a low-cut dress. Wow! I'm interested already. Read on.
She lists only American TV shows as her viewing interest. She lists her job as a primary school teacher despite apparently wishing to be seen as a salesgirl.("Teaching is my passion"). But wait a minute... she lists her job elsewhere in her profile as... sales/marketing! And earns up to £75,000 per annum. Her politics are "ultra conservative" and has always wanted to see the Statue of Liberty (not difficult on her salary). She's currently reading a popular American childrens book to her pupils or 'kids' - '101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher' despite her handbag commitments. She's confused about her age - it's listed as 32 but then she describes herself as 33. There is absolutely nothing specific in her narrative ('about me') except her age - everything else is vague and about what she 'needs'. She also seems confused as to whether she's been married or not, listing her relationships as 'Never Married' but then going on to moan about her ex-husband.

Am I just a cynic or is there something dodgy about match.com?

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total rubbish. this site is a rip off. it has too many options and is confusing to navigate. it is also dishonest in it's advertizing by claiming the membership gender is different to what it actually is.

the customer support is a joke and match shouldn't be allowed to be a business. more gurus confusing and preaching to people

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My comments refer to Match.com UK.

I can't think of anything good to write about this dating site. I've sent loads of emails and have had nearly no replies. I can't believe that this lies with my profile and tend to think that the people either don't exist, aren't able to reply due to membership restrictions or the mails don't get delivered.

I've lost faith in this site and have cancelled my membership.

Stay away from Match.com, it has wasted my time and money and given nothing in return. ...

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£22 to get my self esteem shat on. Waste of time and money

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Do not go near Match.com's 1 week free offer with a 20ft barge pole!!

Over a year ago I signed up to a 1 weeks free trail of match.com, ever since they have been debiting my account £22.80 monthly without my permission. Apparently according to the very annoying customer service manager when signing up for a weeks free trial you consequently agree to an ongoing membership! I was not aware that the membership exsisted, I took it on face value that 1 week meant 1 week and have ne ...

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The site is very poorly set up technically, and is constantly having failures. The backend systems are badly misconfigured, you sometimes have to manually delete cookies just to be able to log back in, emails don't get delivered and so conversations stop midway making you or them appear rude, sometimes the site is unavailable altogether or your profile just "disappears" and you can't log in. The whole thing appears to be run by incompetents.

There's a distinct lack of features available that ma ...

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I paid for 6 months and got 6 months free in their guarantee. I must have sent 100 messages or winks.

I got maybe 3 replies, all not interested and one was in bloody Austrailia.

Since then I have left my profile on the site as a free member and have not received a single message or wink.

It was a huge waste of money.

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Good Points:

1.Easy to navigate.
2.Easy to hide you profile, enabling you to search anonymously or if you just feel like taking a break without de-activating your account.
3.The polite "I'm not interested" canned response facility to winks and emails is a nice idea ~ personally I'd rather know than not know if someone's not interested ~ more sites should sdopt this function.

Bad Points:

1.The recurring payment system. You can stop this but they don't make it very clear!
2.Their profile match ...

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I have to echo the general negative sentiment about Match.com here.. I've been a free member for a while, but also tried a subsciption after receiving an email.

I have made sure my profile is completed, is not too long, no demands, some recent pictures of myself, etc etc.

Numerous sent winks & emails later the the response rate remains at 0%. Now don't try to tell me that it's my profile, it's more likely that the members I have tried to contact (chosen as they are a close match to myself) e ...

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I would agree with some of the comments regarding Match.com It would appear they are getting greedy as they want you to pay extra money to have a notification that your message has been read! They are trying to find ways of squeezing every last drop of money from you after getting you to commit to a 6 month membership for at least £10 per month. How dreadful.

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Match.com - What a woeful site with little or no value for paying members. As far as member services go... it's worse than woeful ! It keeps throwing up matches who live nowhere near me (1200km in one example), and there is no chat function. You wink or message (unknowing if they can reply) and that is it. Most worrying thing was within a week I was approached by THREE ladies, all with the same job, similar family stories and of course, all out of my country for work purposes.

Many free si ...

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What a poor dating site match.com is, i agree with the problem that you cannot tell who is subscribed or not....what a joke.

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Very, very poor. Several other users have pointed out that there is no way to differentiate between active and inactive profiles, meaning that you have no way of knowing if the person you are trying to contact is still using the site.

After sending nearly 50 e-mails to women who were "96% Matches" for my "Personality Type" I got no responses. On top of this, the site crashes on a daily basis and remains unavailable for 3-4 hours each day.

It uses a lengthy signup process as pseudo-intellectu ...

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As a male I joined match.com in 2007 to meet someone special in a new town. Navigating the site is easy, the "mutual matches" generally meet your basic requirements (as to age, height, smoker/non etc), and you can see how recently people have been on the site (probably no point in e-mailing someone who hasn't been on there for a month or more).

However it is impossible to determine who is a paying member or not - if you contact someone who isn't a member, they won't be able to reply. It's also ...

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The match.com sight boasts many good points, however having used it I think there are more bad points which should make people aware before spending their money in subscribing.
1. You do not know whether the other person is a paid member or not. If you e-mail them they can only respond if they are a member.
2. If you wink at someone if they are not a member all they can do is wink back , and then how do you make contact...
3. Like me you may find you send many "interests" in the form of winks o ...

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No way to distinguish between paid up members and those who left Match.com or are free (and hence cannot see your mail to them unless they pay)There is little advice to guide people on being realistic. Since this type of site may well be peoples first dating site, the expectations and the general ineptitude of many users runs high - in that an approach can be seen by many as some kid of intent to marry them and the basic skills of communication dessert people - if they had them in the first pla ...

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Match.com uses the dreaded reaccuring payment system to take your money off you without you knowing.

it looks fairly professional at the outset but the personality test is very poor and it throws up far too many people who live at the other end of the country.
it is quite gimmicky like the "wink" feature and the match feature itself is fairly innacurate.
overall a waste of time any money

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I first joined Match.com in 2007, and after a few 'false starts' I met someone and eventually cancelled my subscription with no problem. However, the relationship didn't work out and so I joined again in early 2009.

I was surprised to see a lot of profiles still on Match from 2007, and to the best of my recollection the profiles were unchanged in that 2 year period. On first re-joining I received quite a number of emails and winks, although the winks were predominantly from young women in the ...

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Match.com is a very poor site. I was flooded with responses from supposedy English speaking people/profiles yet they claim rubbish like love you long time jonny gals would! Winks galore from sometimes gorgeous gals 30 years younger than me...no one even responded. I think Match just send out random winks etc...they do nothing about the obvious scammers on site. In fact they do nothing at all for their money unless it's automated!

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Boy oh boy! don't waste your money like I did! false profiles (internet search will tell you Match.com have been fined for this!) lap dancers, go go girls, etc etc you get the picture!?slow to run, does not work at times, total and utter waste of time and money! better to open the window and let your notes flutter away!!......