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So I’ve been on OKC since who knows when, like at least 15 or so years & it was always great & everyone loved it since it allowed all different types of people including polyamorous people. Well I hadn’t been on it for years & I moved out of the country & when I did (back in 2012), everything changed. I barely got any good matches & fast forward to the last 2 years 2016\/17, it’s now soooo BAD, that it’s right down there with POF. All I do is waste my time blocking & reporting scammers & fake users one after another.<\/strong> And we aren’t talking a few of these, I’m talking TONS of these every day vs. the ZERO I used to get years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
And the few guys that are on there who are real of course DON’T bother to read anyone’s profile, so all I get is the idiot responses like, “Hi, how are you?” or something to do with my looks. Half the time I can’t tell if they are one of the scammers or just the moronic guys, although women are just as bad as NOT reading profiles. I just realized about 30 minutes ago that their app doesn’t work. I wasted about an hour blocking & deleting TONS of fake users, then I went on to my computer today, & the users’ messages were STILL in my inbox so I had to redo everything wasting MORE of my time. I have to take a guess that after Match.com bought them out (I didn’t even know until a few weeks ago), everything went to **. NOT GOOD!<\/p>\n
Jameece of Fresno, CA\u00a0<\/span>Verified Reviewer<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
Original review: Aug. 3, 2017<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
This is a free dating site but filled with so many scammers. I am contacted about 15 times a day by fake users<\/strong> who tell me they live near me but had to go to Africa for work and then they were robbed and could I send them money so they can get home. I even had one ask for my Address so he could send me a stuffed teddy bear and chocolate covered strawberries before he asked me to send him money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThis verified reviewer thought to try eHarmony to “meet with people of higher quality – more professional, more educated” rather than OkCupid – but she found it to be\u00a0even worse and\u00a0cost more.\u00a0 And moreover, because eHarmony does not state whether an account is active or not, or a paid member with access to read email (like Match.com), you could just be wasting your time:<\/p>\n
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\nLisa of Burlingame, CA<\/span>Verified Reviewer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n
Original review: Oct. 15, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n\n
Being recently single, and interested in meeting a guy I had signed onto OkCupid for awhile, but felt that I wanted to meet with people of higher quality – more professional, more educated. I’d heard about eHarmony and my impression was that they were better at screening and I was likely to meet more quality people there.<\/strong> I got a 6 month subscription and am now almost three months into it. To my surprise this expensive service is very poor and nothing like advertised. It seems to me the quality of people there are not any better than the free site, and the amount of scammers is perhaps even higher — which is a lot!<\/strong> I did end up messaging back and forth with one guy who seemed pretty well educated and respectable and eventually even he turned out to be a dishonest and sleazy person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
I got such a bad feeling from all of the guys I talked to there, I was really surprised. It seems like eHarmony offers the bottom of the barrel. I regret spending the money on this service and I also regret the time I put into it and wasted.<\/strong> I would recommend that people steer clear of this service entirely. I would go with one of the free sites or perhaps even Match.com before this one. At least “Match” has a larger volume of people to choose from. It seemed to me that very few of the profiles eHarmony sends you way are even active; eHarmony keeps you from knowing when the person was last on the forum, which is entirely underhanded.<\/strong> I would just sum up my feelings by saying: stay away from this site if you value your time, money and your safety. Some of these guys even struck me as dangerous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMaybe she should read the Match.com reviews…more from eHarmony reviewers:<\/p>\n
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\nVallerie of Anaheim, CA\u00a0<\/span>Verified Reviewer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n
Original review: Oct. 2, 2017<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
How could one trust that eHarmony cared, knowing their ratings are at the bottom. I am canceling. Every time I like a match, I get ‘this person is not able to participate,’ or something of the sort.<\/strong> I actually have had fraud on my bank account from them, the site is so slow (you’d think the fees from us alone would pay for speed, storage and upgrades for them). We do all the work, writing about ourselves, giving hackers more leverage. I was charged around $24 because I accidentally bumped ‘incognito’, of which I keep searching MY memory… did I see an ‘incognito’ button, let alone any $$? NO. For the time I have spent, money, NOT feeling comfortable… Oh, one would think it’s a scam. And I have been inundated with new trash email. No thank you! A great idea gone bad, unfortunately.<\/p>\n\n
Karin of Crestview, FL\u00a0<\/span>Verified Reviewer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
Original review: Sept. 25, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n\n
I am so frustrated with my eHarmony experience that I feel I could write a short story on why no one should ever use their services\/site. This is nothing more than a means to make money, end of story. Like so many who have submitted reviews, I feel eHarmony is a scam on a grand scale. I too have been “matched” with those I have zero in common with, etc.<\/strong> I was contacted within 2 days by someone who seemed to be legit, only to never hear from them again after a brief conversation. Also, like others I have yet to receive the first response from anyone I have sent an eHarmony “smile”. This could be because all of the matches I’ve received are well out of the range I chose. I also question if the matches are even real.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
In the beginning you get 5-6 “matches” daily, now within a 3 week period I receive one a day. This singular match does NOT live in the same state or, is hundreds of miles away if they are in the same state.<\/strong> In other words the commercials touting how eHarmony has such a great success rate must be a huge lie too. How can you truly date someone who lives hundreds of miles from you? What is the possibility of meeting this person? I would say a huge improbability. The one saving grace I have is seeing that others are as dissatisfied as I am, which should not bring anyone comfort!<\/p>\nEHarmony should not be allowed to continue this current practice of taking your money & not supplying the service they claim as their success story. I for one do not feel my experience could ever been seen as anything other scammed, disappointed & taken for $300.<\/strong> There should be recourse to stop this sort of unscrupulous company\/website taking unsuspecting consumers for a ride. I had no idea I was signing for such a disappointment. eHarmony does not deliver and, for this reason even a prorated refund should be expected and, received. My advice: BUYER BEWARE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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Regina of Saint Albans, West Virginia\u00a0<\/span>Verified Reviewer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
Original review: Aug. 13, 2017<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
I was matched with a man my total opposite. I felt like I had been pimped out. After taking on the computer for days. We exchanged phone numbers. On the first call the conversation from him quickly turned to sex talk. The more I objected the more he talked. I cut off conversation and reported him. Absolutely nothing was done. His profile was never taken off.<\/strong> I was so upset I stopped payment to site.<\/p>\n\n
T of Bluffton, SC\u00a0<\/span>Verified Reviewer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
Original review: July 13, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n\n
First let’s start with the warm, safe commercials that they play on the television. All the happy people talking about the wonderful matches. I didn’t care about money or looks, I was raised to look for what counts, what’s inside. I asked for within an hour from my location. I was matched with men that were old rich men! When I didn’t jump to date them I was sent emails that basically said I was too picky! I said I would date a man ten years younger and up to ten years older than myself. They repeatedly sent me letters that wanted me to date much further away and expand my age boundaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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There were so many matches all claiming to be over 90% matches of my perfect man that were crazy and one loser who said he was 60 and looked 90 and asked me for “pictures” because he was on the fence about asking me out! Creepy old dirty men, liars, married men from out of state that want a business trip hook up, and scary men that eHarmony themselves even cancel their accounts.<\/strong> UNSAFE is the final word on eHarmony. Women beware!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSo, in summary, any dating site\/app can have issues on spammers, scammers, or fake profiles.\u00a0 How the\u00a0dating site\/app algorithms checks for it automatically is important, as well as how they handle reports, whether or not they respond to concerns and moderate as\u00a0necessary.\u00a0 We have automatic routine checks<\/a>\u00a0for fake dating profiles and spam activity on the Friends Match Me dating site\/app as well as respond to member\/activity reports by users accordingly.\u00a0 Service is important to a quality experience.\u00a0 As is the monetary method adopted – Friends Match Me is the totally free dating site\/app so\u00a0all members have access to read emails you send, you can view your profile visitors and who favorited you if their privacy controls allow it, and you get to enjoy the same privacy controls too.\u00a0 All free for a top quality experience.\u00a0 Paying doesn’t make a service have quality.\u00a0 The service does.\u00a0 Choose the dating app that chooses you<\/a>: Friends Match Me!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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