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eHarmony Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company is significantly marred by customer dissatisfaction, primarily due to perceived deceptive practices regarding refunds and subscription management. Many users express frustration over the lack of suitable matches and the prevalence of fake profiles, leading to a sense of wasted time and money. Customers frequently highlight inadequate customer service, with limited access to support and automated responses exacerbating their concerns. While a few users mention positive experiences, the overwhelming sentiment suggests a need for improved transparency, better quality control of profiles, and a more responsive customer service approach.

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Washington
4 reviews
11 helpful votes
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This is nothing but a money grabber and a horrible service. The service has a very small base it's horrible.
The site itself is poor it needs a lot of help navigating. The site will often blow up causing you to start from the top all over again. I think the base is limited because of the cost. It's really no different than other dating sites other than limited folks and much higher cost. I truly think the main reason they don't offer a monthly service at a higher cost is because once you see it most will bail and see it's no different than others but much more expensive. STAY AWAY.

Date of experience: August 31, 2022
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Never will I refer a friend. Lot's of scammers, and jut plain rude. Do they look in the mirror? Very, very disappointed.

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Canada
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Scam
August 29, 2022

This website is a scam. After subscribing I went to cancel my services within a week of using it because there are no users, then I was told I can't cancel and I would be billed another $300 for the year.

They don't release all of their terms and conditions and they go as far as to try and conceal this information from you.

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Oklahoma
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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They make it so complicated to just start a conversation! Their matchmaking fails in implementation. If you want to just start talking to people whose profiles you like you have no chances of doing it- things are difficult to grab there, women are not responsive and not easy-going, it's hard to understand what kind of person you are chatting with and to see if have a certain chemistry. Answering whole bunch of stupid matchmaking questions on Eharmony leads to nothing - the matches they find for you are usually unavailable and their computer-made choices really seem illogical.

Date of experience: August 26, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I signed up for eharmony@ 167$ for 6 months. I never received a single match or communication via their app. Canceled my membership two months before expiration and they charged my card $230 for a new subscription. When I called they said I could not receive a refund but that they would waive the other $600+ that I apparently was on the hook for. Would not transfer me to a supervisor and insisted the only way I could get a refund is to email them. I did. Sent me an email back saying they would not issue a refund. When I log in, I cannot see anyones photo as they are blurred out and I'm asked to renew my membership. These people are unethical thieves charging a pretty penny for a crap service that you could get for free. Don't waste your time, money or energy on this fraudulent company. The worst!

Date of experience: August 22, 2022
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I knew within 5 minutes e-harmony wasn't for me. My matches were horrible. Not only where there not many and I live in a big city but the ones I had were completely unattractive. Tons of fake accounts or no pictures. I tried to cancel within the hour and they wanted me to widen my perimeters to choose men even older, broker, uglier and farther away.

This is not a site for attractive, confident people. I'm not paying and they can take me to whatever collection agency they choose. Good luck with that e-horrrible

Date of experience: August 22, 2022
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Frustrating
August 22, 2022

I cannot load simple IPhone pictures onto eharmony. So frustrating. Unable to reach customer support on the weekends.

Date of experience: August 21, 2022
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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The E-Harmony Scam
August 20, 2022

As advertised I was looking for my PERFECT match. Matched (as advertised) by their dating professionals and algorithm. I was shocked to see the people I was matched with! I am athlete level fit and my profile is all about sport, health and wellness! I was getting matched with morbidly obese men. Nothing against how they choose to live their life but when I am paying SO much money to be matched with my perfect match I expect the people I am matched with will be able to do the activities I do. E-harmony advertises to find your perfect match and that someone finds love every 14 minutes... well here is what is stated in their terms and conditions about how they will not guarantee a perfect match.

I. No Guarantees. Eharmony may not be able to provide matches for everyone seeking to use its Services. Further, eharmony makes no guarantees as to the number or frequency of matches through the Singles Service, or to such matches' ability, desire or criteria to communicate with any user. You understand that eharmony makes no guarantees, either express or implied, regarding your ultimate compatibility with individuals you meet through the Singles Service or as to the conduct of such individuals.

Instead when you contact customer support to cancel your contract due to unacceptable matching, you are told that you must change what you are looking for in a partner to get more matches! Kind of defeats the purpose of answering all those questions in the quiz if you have to change EVERYTHING about yourself to get matches! BUYER BEWARE! It is not all the hype they advertise! And you can't get out of the contract. If you are going to try this site (which I HIGHLY recommend you don't) only get a 1 mth plan.

Date of experience: August 20, 2022
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst Dating Site
August 17, 2022

Difficult to maneuver, quite expensive and poor customer service. Others are much better. Bad matches.

Date of experience: August 17, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This company does not give you your closest matches, they frustrate the customers daily by this, all because of greed. If you want to find just matches in your whole state, they give you five matches and they stay the same for weeks adding only new one on occasion. They also stop letting you see all of the users across the states in USA by pages. You could at least do that, now they limit national searches to 2 pages or so. It actually seems it should be unlawful, to charge so much and give so little.

Date of experience: August 17, 2022
Kansas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Rip off
August 14, 2022

Within hours of signing up, knew I had made a mistake. I asked for my subscription to be cancelled and was told that's not their policy. I'm still paying in that $250 mistake. Feel like I was robbed!

Date of experience: August 13, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Bait and Switch
August 11, 2022

I signed up using an email promotion for 60% off. But the site then defaulted to 50% saying the original offer had expired even though it hadn't. When I complained that July 16 is always. Before July 17, customer refused to help. Consumer fraud IMHO

Date of experience: August 11, 2022
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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BIG SCAM
August 11, 2022

EH subscription is very misleading... Be careful. You get the same tired matches and most are not active members. I'm very disappointed as senior African American female there is nothing on E Harmony for us. Keep your money and you have a better chance with other sites for far less money. They refuse to refund my money after cancelling the same day.

Date of experience: August 11, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This service is astronomical in terms of pricing and if you are unhappy with the service (even after giving it a try and paying a hefty fee) you are made to pay the remaining amount which is completely over priced for the mediocre matches on this website. I hope they eventually burn bridges with all of its clients and go bankrupt after stealing from countless people.

Date of experience: August 10, 2022
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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You cannot get refund
August 9, 2022

I tried to cancel eHarmony 1 day into the New contract, but was forced to pay £178 for the year, be very careful, and I believe they reply to some of your dates, making you think you have a date, but as soon you ask to meet they say they can't for one reason or another, and no it's not just me

Date of experience: August 9, 2022
Oklahoma
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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So after spending the time to fill out a decent profile, letting my daughter review it etc. Let's make it easy, I got more messages when I forgot about the site then I did when I was active. Like the rest, they will send you fake messages if you haven't logged in for a while just to get you back on.

I'm not a handsome guy, but this was another instance of getting way to many messages in a short amount of time compared to when I was actually active. What's worse is I actually had to do some cheesing to get some matches. Careful how you answer their compatibility questions.

This thing says my credibility is low. So whatever.

Date of experience: August 8, 2022
North Carolina
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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All the fancy advertising works in their favor. This company should be put out of business. Despite putting in your preferences you get 0 hits and then only with people you have nothing in common with. But when you realize they probably have recycled the same people for EVERYONE, its too late, according to them to cancel. They also get you with the year subscription bull$#*!. You think you're doing better on this site because we all want to not go through every unacceptable person and get a higher quality match. NOPE. So when I asked for a refund, the answer I received in a nutshell was hey if you lower your standards you will have more matches. What the actual F*%k!.
Reported to the BBB so lets see what happens.

Date of experience: August 6, 2022
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Service is now a scam
August 6, 2022

They have little users so when you sign up for a large payment plan that is mandatory it's for nothing. Then when you stop paying it they turn you to collections. Then they lock you out of your account with your auto renewal still activated. So you can not use the site they have locked you out of and continue to charge you for a Service they will not let you access or cancel with your auto renew constantly going to collections. It's absurd that they have customer service about rape and other scams from users that they don't actually have anyway. And then they do this to you where they lock you out and continue to charge you without any way to get out of the account.

Date of experience: August 5, 2022
Oregon
1 review
0 helpful votes
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EHarmony is a "SCAM"!
August 4, 2022

There's only a handful of women available and when you write to them all they want to do is message for forever without ever meeting face to face, if you ask to meet them they hide and block your profile.

Here's the kicker, I thought it was by law that if your not happy with your purchase, we are allowed to request for a refund.

EHarmony not only does not offer refund's, they'll rip you off by charging you for the term you signed up for, I signed up for the year plan which seemed cheapest at $200 for the first year, they don't offer the monthly, so like my situation, I requested them to delete my account and requested for a refund only after 3 days feeling like I got scammed by their advertising, they're saying I will still get charged for the rest of the year, I was charged for the 1st payment 25%, I requested for a refund and deletion of my profile, I deleted the auto pay option, I am not happy with their service and I refuse to pay.

Don't get scammed by eHarmony!
I would really like to see proof that there's actual people getting hitched every 14 seconds using their platform, it certainly wasn't in my case.

Date of experience: August 4, 2022
Arizona
7 reviews
21 helpful votes
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EHarmony states you can review the site for free for 7 days. This is a lie! They asked for your credit card information and immediately charge you for whatever tier it is. EHarmony is about $250 for 6 months I believe at this time. The algorithm that they're stating is a scam. You don't get to actually meet or even talk to anyone in the chat. No one ever responds and it's like they're fake profiles. How do you be on a dating website and get no responses. The majority of the men are not even attractive. So I definitely recommend for all women to stay away from this site eharmony is a liar and they don't offer what they say they offer. Their scammers just like the other dating sites. It's a shame that there is not that many good people in the world today and everyone is capitalizing off someone else. I've been on the site for over 3 months and have yet to meet or chat with anyone that is real. It just doesn't make sense not at all. It's fake eHarmony should be shame because their name is tarnished fake. Note if you sign up for any of their subscriptions make sure you immediately go and unsubscribe so they won't keep charging you after 6 months. They may say it's just for one month or whatever and then you'll look up and find yourself with another fraudulent scamming subscription with no refund. Make sure you go and unsubscribe to them so you won't get an automatic renewal that you cannot get a refund on. They will be scamming you non-refundable.

Date of experience: August 2, 2022

From the business

Los Angeles-based eharmony (www.eharmony.com) launched in the United States in 2000 with its patented Compatibility Matching System® which allows eharmony members to be matched with compatible persons with whom they are likely to enjoy a long-term relationship. Millions of people of all ages, ethnicities, national origins and religious and political beliefs have used eharmony's Compatibility Matching System to find compatible long-term relationships.

Customer Care Information:

Phone hours: 8am - 5pm, Monday - Saturday
Email: 24 Hours, 7 Days a Week
Refund Policy: Regarding the Singles Service, the buyer, may cancel the Agreement, without any penalty or obligation, at any time prior to midnight of the third business day following the date of the Agreement, excluding Sundays and holidays.


eharmony.com
Founded in 2000
Los Angeles, California, United States
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