Meg717 Posted April 9, 2012 Posted April 9, 2012 For those of you that pay for dating websites, which ones do you like? Match, E-Harmony, Chemistry...?
lammie Posted April 9, 2012 Posted April 9, 2012 I didn't like match. I used to use Soulmate (Guardian UK) that was pretty good, the good matches are quite good matches, I was on there twice (few years apart) went out with one for a year. I went on for a browse but found my ex on there instead, so can't go back. My friend who used Soulmates told me all guys she's met from there are psychos... another friend told me the quality has gone down to match.com. Didn't like e-harmony, selection wasn't great I didn't find any of the matches attractive (sorry, sounds superficial but you need to be attracted to the person) Recently was on OkCupid, met some cool people and one guy who I really like but keeps flaking on me (see my other thread) but I think I prefer the paid ones, a little bit more commitment from the guys I suppose...
Sith Apprentice Posted April 9, 2012 Posted April 9, 2012 Eharmony was a waste of money. I was on there several months and never went on a date with anyone. 2
Lobouspo Posted April 9, 2012 Posted April 9, 2012 Eharmony was a waste of money. I was on there several months and never went on a date with anyone. Eharmony was lame for me as well. I have had much more luck with OKC, even though its free.
turt Posted April 9, 2012 Posted April 9, 2012 I think Match is the best. The other ones are more expensive and have fewer people. The match system is pretty bad on them as well.
Author Meg717 Posted April 9, 2012 Author Posted April 9, 2012 Hmm.. Ok.. So I guess I'll give Match and maybe ok cupid a try. I'm on Plenty of Fish now and it's terrible!!
sid3 Posted April 9, 2012 Posted April 9, 2012 Hmm.. Ok.. So I guess I'll give Match and maybe ok cupid a try. I'm on Plenty of Fish now and it's terrible!! The general consensus is OKC is hands down the best from what I have read here and heard first hand. I'm not OLD, but in the event I were too, OKC would be my choice. Sounds like a riot.
leoc1973 Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 Hmm.. Ok.. So I guess I'll give Match and maybe ok cupid a try. I'm on Plenty of Fish now and it's terrible!! I was on Plenty of fish yeah I literally met 3 women that were bipolar. One threatened to kill herself cause she felt some kind of cosmic bond to me and I was "special" and "different" I met another probably 10 "normal" girls. But it seems that site girls just wanted to have sex. Um yeah no STD's for me please! I then did match for a little bit but what turned me off is that all the women on there checked off that they wanted a guy with a bachelors or a doctorate and they even checked the huge salary range. I actually make good money but that just turns me off that if I made less then I would not be good enough? Yuck! I am actually taking a huge break from dating. I always got lucky and had a really decent girl(just never the one) and never been single. But WOW this last 10 months of me being single has really made me lose all faith in women. What happened to the good old days where a meat and potato/ jeans and tshirt hard working sweet good looking guy was enough?
dasein Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 Pay sites are better than free sites, at least you know the members paid money to be there. I had great results from match.
verhrzn Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 I hated Eharmony and Match, but it's also about what "type" you're looking for. EHarmony caters to conservative (as in socially conservative) daters, people who are new to online dating, etc. Match seems to cater towards... well, I call em the "frat" group. Every single guy I saw on there loves sports and "socializing." I think of it as the dating site where the popular kids go. (The good looking, "normal" men and women.) For me personally, being an awkward nerd, OKCupid was pretty good. Free, has a fun and easy to use design, and many more matches that are similar to me in hobbies and personality. That said, most of the guys on there are kind of flaky... not really looking for a relationship, and you might not find a lot of "long term" matches depending on your standards. For example, it's kind of difficult to find guys who actually graduated college and are employed... lots of guys in my area (a major city) never finished a 4 year, and don't work a full time job. 1
naughtyowl Posted April 17, 2012 Posted April 17, 2012 I've tried eHarmony, got as far as a phone call from this one chick... sounded totally depressed and didn't live near me anyawys, so that didn't work out too well. This was like ten years ago I havent' really tried it since. I'm on OKC now, seems cool, especially for free. POF is a mess, not sure I like it yet. might give match another try. Again, I tried it like ten years ago without much luck, but sounds like maybe it's gotten better? I generally don't like OLD, too much prejudice.
Sith Apprentice Posted April 18, 2012 Posted April 18, 2012 (edited) Eharmony is mostly BS and doesn't really work. Eventually, you'll get to a point where you'll expend all your matches and then you have to sit around with your thumb up your butt for a week waiting for the system to generate new matches. They would also send me wasted matches. The system would match me with women that lived nowhere near me even though I clearly stated in my profile I wasn't willing to travel more than 30 miles to meet a match. Imagine living in the South East United States and being matched with women in California. It made no sense. They will also recycle matches on you. I got the same women matched to me 2-3 times. They will also match you with non-paying members which is a total waste. On Eharmony only paying members can contact each other. Half the profiles on there don't have pictures and I suspect the majority of people on there just signed up to take the personality questionnaire and then abandoned their profiles. Another big problem with Eharmony is the Free Communication Weekends they hold every few months. You'll get all these non-paying members who flood the site and message you on the weekends and then they flake out on you and abandon their profiles because they don't want to pay. Edited April 18, 2012 by Sith Apprentice
truth_seeker Posted April 18, 2012 Posted April 18, 2012 (edited) I tried two online dating websites: OK Cupid and Match. OK Cupid was good in that it was free but the selection not so great. On the other hand people seemed more real. Match had a better selection but the profiles seemed fake. The ones that were real, each woman was entirely different in person. Not only did women not look like as they did in their photos, but also they came off like different people than what they wrote in their profile. In general, I left each date dissatisified. I felt duped almost everytime. Edited April 18, 2012 by truth_seeker
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