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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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1 review
2 helpful votes
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7/10
November 14, 2016

Am not sure if eharmony is the best site for finding love cos ive heard about other good one's like tinder and wejustfit.com but for me its good I like it a lot I like the way it works and have had sum gd chats wi girls that id like to have a date with I hope I find sum1.

Date of experience: November 13, 2016
Canada
2 reviews
17 helpful votes
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So I made complaints and as mentioned got hung up on twice, I believe they abort calls after 10 mins so say what you have to say in that time period if you call. They sent me more matches since my complaint, a bit more local but still after almost 5 months I have not met a soul. The two times I actually had correspondence with someone suddenly the guy disappears from their site and I am given an email warning that he was removed for protection purposes. So eharmony is either full of fraudsters or they are using phoney profiles and having staff correspond with members just to keep them appeased. When the time comes to meet suddenly the member disappears. It is a phony waste. I think originally when it started it was a legit company, but greed and success got in the way and now it is a money grab with no interest in making clients matched or happy. Don't join.

Date of experience: November 12, 2016
Georgia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Their customer support sucks and they hung the phone up on me several times. Cory who is the manager at customer service said she could not help me find out about my account since it was with their trust and safety dept. I was only told to send them a email and wait. When I wanted more info or the access to a live person to discuss the issues with my account, she hung up on me. This is not how you run a business. Their web site crashes like crazy too!

Date of experience: November 12, 2016
Florida
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Do Not Join eHarmony.com
November 11, 2016

I signed up for a three year subscription, I am very dissatisfied with the service for many reasons. They will close your account but know you are not eligible for any type of a refund for the year remaining on the paid in advance subscription($263.00). They give you three days to cancel for a refund! I'm sure that's in the fine print somewhere!

I was not getting matches in my area, nobody would respond to my communications, I hate to re enter the data each time to logon to the site. Waste of my time and hard earned money!

When I did call to cancel it took me 10 times to tell them to give me a refund. The cancelled the account and said, "is there any thing else". Yes, I said how about my money back. You can go through some type of trust and safety rational to try to get your money back.

Customer Service is horrible,

Don't JOIN!

Date of experience: November 11, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I think eHarmony are a victim of their own success because you hear, read and watch so many good things about them and their ability to help singles like me find their 'other half ', and you believe you'll at worst have lots of fun dates, and at best be married within no time! I've had one date on the site and it was a bit of a snoozefest lol! Anyway, switched to wejustfit.com after a friend recommended it as a place for serious daters (makes me sounds boring lol!) and that site is on another level, definitely sticking with it.

Date of experience: October 31, 2016
California
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Highly over rated
October 31, 2016

They matched me with 2 men they removed from the site 2 days later...? Really!? Customer Service replies are embarrassing scripted. There's little difference between this site and any other. Disguised.

Date of experience: October 31, 2016
New York
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Crooks
October 26, 2016

This is another dating site that only cares about money. I cancelled my account and turned off automatic renewal, yet I kept getting charged. When I called to complain, I was told that it was turned back on a few minutes after it was cancelled. So who did that? My guess is that someone within the company went in and made that change so they could keep getting paid.

Date of experience: October 26, 2016
Pennsylvania
3 reviews
28 helpful votes
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Trash
October 25, 2016

This is the worst. Way over priced and the only matches in my area were after a sugar daddy. Dumb questions in there profile evaluation section.

Date of experience: October 25, 2016
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Nice idea
October 19, 2016

I like eHarmony a lot and it's up there with the best dating sites ive tried, isn't quite number 1 (wejustfit takes that accolade) but I do think you can try it and see what you think as a lot depends on the area youre in.

Date of experience: October 18, 2016
Mississippi
1 review
8 helpful votes
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E-harmony is the worst website I have ever experienced. No one should use it. This is horrible company, everybody have to know it.

I just cancelled my e-harmony. First of all, it advertised like $39.90 for six month. But, few days ago, I have received an e-mail of another payment of $39.90, and I called them what is going on. They told me that it was 3 payments of $39.90 for six months. Also, they told me that I could not cancelled until i make last payments... I did not know that, but they said it clearly on terms and agreement, which may be in a sentence or two in a very long 'terms and agreement'. Nonetheless, e-harmony is the worst website, in that there is no option of cancelation or it was not same as shown in the help. When I talked to their representative for cancelation, i complained about "unclearly written payments" and he said that I did not clearly read it. Well... if they put a sentence in such long terms and agreement... who would notice it.
Secondly, in addition to the money issue, the match was horrible too. People they recommend lived so far away, like distance need airplane... Also, many of them are not active.
I got tons more on this company, which makes me to stop subscribing now (though it could be available until next march). I do not want to receive anymore matches from this company...

The worst company.

Date of experience: October 13, 2016
Georgia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I cancelled my auto renewal two months ago and today a payment for auto renewal in the amount of $179 was charged. If you try and cancel your auto renewal too soon the field that you need to select is grayed out making it impossible to cancel. Very shady and very disappointing. Plus the people that I have been matched with are questionable at best. 95% of the matches will not go through the eharmony guided steps and most have immediately requested my phone number and / or my personal email account. I am not comfortable with this but eharmony will not acknowledge or do anything about this. Shady practices all around. Just like every other company, eharmony is not about matching, it is about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Date of experience: October 11, 2016
India
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Excellent
October 11, 2016

I used eHarmony for four months and during this time I went on multiple dates. Same were great, some were a big waste of time, but that's not the fault of eHarmony. If you are looking for a decent and honest dating site, I think eHarmony is right for you. There can be a lack of matches in your area, depends where you from. I have made the experience that eHarmony works perfect in combination with Mingle2day which is also a good dating site. Both sites will basically cover all regions so if you weren't lucky on one site you may want to try the other site. Just an advise.

Date of experience: October 10, 2016
Germany
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Legit&Reliable
September 26, 2016

Ask me, this is one of the best dating sites I have used so far. Many members and as far as I can tell almost no fake profiles. IMO it comes pretty close to Mingle2day regarding quality and quantity. No reason to complain, absolutely legit and reliable dating site!

Date of experience: September 25, 2016
Ohio
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Very expensive and you get nothing for your money. All of the "matches" are really far away and they are much older then I'd date. I do not want to date someone 20 yrs older than me. There is no way to select an age range. Cannot chage main picture. People don't communicate at all. Terrible dating service. Been on it almost 2 months and nothing. Glad I got a really good promotional deal.

Date of experience: September 24, 2016
California
6 reviews
38 helpful votes
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Very bad website for finsing your date and lofe partner.
Full of fake profiles created by Developers and website owners.

Most profiles will be deleted automatically as per their bot programming.
They just steam pictures from instagram and create girls profile to attack guys.

Worst customer service. Stay away everyone... please... :(

Date of experience: September 14, 2016
Washington
1 review
5 helpful votes
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The worst EVER. If you think you might want to try... Dont. You will be so disappointed. The site makes you jump through hoops to chat with anyone. By the time I made it to a chat we had both lost interest. The site has never sent me a match that fit my criteria and have only sent me matches once and I have been on for about 3 weeks. The bad part about that is you suave to wait for them to match you up. Better off going to the bar.

Date of experience: September 11, 2016
California
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Fake profiles
September 7, 2016

I was contacted right away by 2 men who never appeared in my "matches". How are they contacting me if we were never "matched"? Of course they mysteriously dissappeared after wasting my time with the back and forth questions. That's because they never existed. They're using profiles of cancelled members to start conversations. Sad.

Date of experience: September 7, 2016
France
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Was ready to give up totally but in the last month ive had two gr8 dates using eharmony and wejustfit.com so maybe there is hope for me yet fingers crossed dont give up!

Date of experience: September 5, 2016
New York
1 review
11 helpful votes
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They can suck it!
September 2, 2016

They are a scam! They say is $14.95 a month for 2 years and under fine print they add "for 3 installments of $119". They take the three installments in the first 3 months. So if you find someone in the first month, you basically paid $300 for 1 month. They don't even let you cancel until all 3 payments have been made.

Date of experience: September 1, 2016
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Thank you for contacting eHarmony.

We understand that you have requested to close your account but have not completed all installation payments. As disclosed in our Terms and Conditions of service, your ability to cancel your membership will be available once the final installment has been paid. We ask that you please take a moment to review the Cancellation Policy outlined in our Terms and Conditions of Service. The Cancellation Policy can be found at the following link: http://www.eharmony.com/about/terms/#12.

While our members may request closure of their accounts at any time, if there is an outstanding balance owed, eHarmony is under no obligation to honor the request. If after reviewing our Cancellation policy you still would like to submit your request, we ask that you respond directly to this email with the following information:

1) The email address used to create your account.

2) The reason your request for cancellation & release from your payment plan warrants an exception to our policy.

Your case will be assigned to a Trust & Safety Specialist who will review your request. Please allow 7-10 business days for a response.

Date of experience: August 30, 2016

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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