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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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Georgia
1 review
14 helpful votes
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1. First, I am a 59 year old African American female.
2. EHarmony sent me so many matches that I turned off the receive matches.
3. One person initiated an emailed to me.
4.100% of the matches that I received were "Great match who just happen to be outside your setting."
5.75% of the matches had little to nothing on their profile.
6. Example: Anthony's profile: He answered: never smoke, never drink, have kids, don't want kids,
He completed "the one thing I am passionate about." and he answered "I typically spend my leisure time." He did not answer any of the thousand questions that eHarmony asks. He said he was Easy-Going, Optimistic, Respectful, Dependable. The three things which I am most thankful for Salvation, Health, Family and friend.
7. EHarmony attempted to get me to go outside of my comfort zone, for example, I put never on smoking, drinking, and I restricted the distance. EHarmony's response: "We have noticed this setting may be restricting the number of matches you receive." I joined EHarmony to connect to those potential special matches.
8. EHarmony will auto renew subscription. However, I just cancelled the subscription. Reason for Cancelling: Other: The majority of my matches' profiles have little information, and they did not answer any of the1000 questions; so how eHarmony matched them to me is beyond my comprehension. The best thing about eHarmony is the advertisement.

Date of experience: June 27, 2015
Australia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Scamm Do Not Buy
June 19, 2015

I had a very bad experience with this. 1) You hardly get anyone with a profile pic contact you. Part of physical attraction is appearance. 2) You have to go through a lengthy questionnaire process to even get to a point where you can communicate. Why would you in the first place when you do not know what they look like? 3) Attempted to cancel my subscription and they would not refund my money. I accepted this, however 6 months later they auto renewed and charged me $240 for another 6 months and they would not refund me. 4) Please note, this app will not inform you on renewing your subscription and it will not even allow you to authorise it. The subscription section will not even appear in your managed subscriptions list so you cannot cancel your subscription unless you log on to a pc. The app itself will not even have a subscription option. 5) Is eHarmony allowed to have an app that will not provide you with subscription information on your mobile device?
Please do not try this app as it is a total money making scam and they will not listen to any complaints or refund you.

Date of experience: June 18, 2015
New Jersey
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Do yourself a favor and stay clear of eharmony, even when there site fails to work and you try to cancel they will charge you the full amount to close your account. Service was horrible, contacted them several times and nothing was ever resolved.

Date of experience: June 17, 2015
Texas
3 reviews
36 helpful votes
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Eharmony advertises the subscription as $11.95 a month when in fact they apply charges to your card in three installments of $47.80. There is more of an initial investment than is advertised.

Date of experience: June 13, 2015
Colorado
1 review
8 helpful votes
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$189 and six months later, this was the biggest waste of time and money. There are hardly any active members in the Denver area and most of my matches are out of state-- including Canada. Apparently most people figured out that spending $, when you can use free online apps, is pretty silly... Total scam.

Date of experience: June 7, 2015
Oregon
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I signed up on eHarmony as I was hoping this would be a site where people more interested in a long term relationship would participate. While looking at the possibility of signing up, a live chat appeared from an eHarmony rep to see if I had any questions and although her responses were boiler plate, I opted to sign up.

That was the last conversation I had with an eHarmony rep, despite contacting them on two occasions and never receiving a response from them. They seem to have placed all their reps in the sales dept.

So, now onto the participating on eHarmony. Of the 30 matches they sent me thus far they are of people who probably are not even active on the site anymore or they are way outside my area or age range. (side note: I live in a city with a population of well over 600,000 within a 10 mile radius of me and if you put that criteria into match.com you will come up with over 1,200 participants) And as I mentioned previously I am looking for a long term relationship but when I hear from a man on eHarmony whose profile writes he is looking for a woman who wears nothing under her a dress or another who write awesome sex as one their hobbies, I surely am not finding the quality I was hoping for. I'm even surprised comments like that are permissable.

In regards to the activity I've gotten alerts that someone is interested but when I go on-line, they just aren't there. There's no profile, no photo, and their name is not even there. Did they ever exist?

They highlight 3 couples repeatedly as successful whenever signing on - I'm thinking they may be the only 3 that have been.

I'm sorry I wasted my money and time. I've mentioned my experiences to others and they echo mine. Wish I had asked around first.

Date of experience: June 5, 2015
Nevada
102 reviews
318 helpful votes
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I've been on EH for a while, and although I've seen what looks like plummeting membership (getting matches who've left long ago), I had a new experience with them a couple wks ago. Someone who called themselves Sarah, 51, from Sioux Falls reached out to me. Thru email conversation she looked to write with very lightly broken English, but not quite enough to suspect one of those Nigerian scams. She professed to go on a trip to Cairo Egypt to find some art work for a business she alleged to own, and for 5 days sent daily photos of her posing at this or that artisan's market. Finally on the day she was supposed to leave, she writes and gives me a variant on the old Nigerian scam of being marooned there, hotel mgr holding her passport (they never do) until she settles up and asks for $980. Of course I didn't. But I did say it wasn't appropriate for me to assist. Then, the next day she writes with another even older Nigerian scam that I've seen, saying she'll send me a check to cash, then I'm to cash it and send her the money; in this scam, by the time the bank processes the int'l check, it's 30 days before they discover it's fraudulent, but the scammer's already gotten your money and they move on. I traced the IP addresses of these 2 emails to the Nigeria area, and told EH about it after closing her, but I don't know if they'll do anything or can. There's certain things about the way they write that indicate that they're not from the US or Canada. Anyway, beware! I don't know if this 'Sarah' is actually a blonde or some guy in Nigeria trying to scam EH members.

UPDATE: Get this everyone: I got yet ANOTHER SCAM MATCH. The person wrote to me, a Joan from Los Angeles (probably Nigeria too), who requested EH Mail. I didn't give her any personal info that you can't find on the internet, but five minutes ago EH Customer Relations sent me a msg saying that they've terminated Joan's account because it violated their terms of usage, translated, it was a SCAM ARTIST. My opinion is that EH is getting saturated with scammers now, and I am extremely suspect of all matches unless their public information on the net checks out, like a lawyer, doctor, etc that can be verified.

EVERYBODY BEWARE!

Date of experience: June 4, 2015
California
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Total Scam!
May 27, 2015

I live in the metropolitan San Diego area. After only 2 weeks of being signed up, I am now receiving daily matches that are out of state because they don't have anyone within a 60 mile radius. Twice now I have seen the same match again. They force you into a minimum 6 month contract. This site is already completely useless to me but there is no customer service number available. I called my credit card company to track down the billing phone number for eHarmony and when I got a hold of someone, she just hung up on me before I could get through my verification information. They should be sued for false advertisement and for taking advantage of people. I will never sign up again.

Date of experience: May 27, 2015
Louisiana
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Scam
May 23, 2015

I signed up for eHarmony with a 6 month subscription. Did not find any luck since my matches were out of state. Since I could not cancel my account online is why I assumed my account would be deactivated after 6 months but I was wrong. EHarmony renewed my membership and charged me for another 6 months. I called about the problem which I was informed that I could have cancelled my account after my last payment but the option was removed when my account was renewed.

Date of experience: May 23, 2015
Wisconsin
1 review
7 helpful votes
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On eHarmony they will bombard you with useless emails that just confirm what the website will tell you. If Mark pops up as a match... you will also get an email telling you Mark popped up... expect 30 emails per day. Then, expect horrible matches. I do not like killing animals and all I got were hunting, fishing, camping guys... really? Men holding dead animals in their pics, etc. I called to cancel after 12 days... and they told me too bad, I only had 3 days to cancel so they were going to close my account and charge me a total of 6 months. I got upset with the customer service girl... and they cancelled my account. KICKED me off eHarmony because I upset their customer service girl. It is actually in their terms that they will kick you off for annoying a customer service rep? Really? So... they can provide horrible service and rude customer service people and you are supposed to smile and take it as a paying customer? BEWARE... and stay FAR FAR AWAY!

Date of experience: May 19, 2015
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Rude matches!@@
May 19, 2015

Try asking girls questions on this site using the various eharmony titled questions... and they NEVER reply!
Manners maketh man as I was once told!
If you are serious about a guy kindly respond!
It ain't difficult@@@

Date of experience: May 19, 2015
Ohio
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Only 3 of my matches had photos. The rest are inactive, no photos, incomplete profiles. I was encouraged to expand my search criteria. That enable me to match with people > 60 miles away, for the perfect match with disgusting guys that looked like they took their pics in a rest stop bathroom, wearing pervert crack head expressions in BAD selffie attempts. Many look 10 yrs older that their stated age, with next to nothing in common but oxygen requirements! My neighbors met on E Harmony years ago and married. They looked at my matches and agreed that the quality of the gene pool signed up now has degenerated greatly over the years! I did some creative research and found a few of my matches on Plenty of Fish and Match. Their profiles indicate wanting casual dating but "nothing serious". I thought Eharmony is where you go to FIND serious. No pic losers should be eliminated by the company. They must be money hungry to let anybody join these days. SOOOOO disappointing. Yet So is society's moral degeneration.

Date of experience: May 8, 2015
Rhode Island
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Very disappointing. Matches are either with men who are not active on the site, or men who live over 100 miles away, even though I put within 50 miles on my match settings.

Date of experience: May 6, 2015
Pennsylvania
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Total joke!
April 27, 2015

Stupid me - I figured if people pay $$$ to join a dating site, it might weed out the scammers and fakes. I was mistaken. This is a total joke. The ONLY people who have contacted me are scam artists that I had to report to Customer Service. I am now clue-ing in much faster when I get an email from some guy who says "you look kind, funny and decent" or quotes some song lyrics. Beware, ladies! ZERO success on here. They send you fake emails/smiles to keep you interested. Total waste of money and very discouraging.

Date of experience: April 27, 2015
Virginia
5 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Rogue site.
April 26, 2015

I am just wasting my time and money here. Don't sign up ever! I was so unhappy in just 2 weeks and I called them and told them and I wanted to cancel and possibly get my money back. They refused. It's a bogus site and a rogue company. I wish I would have researched more. Super expensive with horrible cancellation policy. The customer service agents don't know what they are talking about half of the time. The company doesn't care about whether you are satisfied or not. They just want money. Don't do it.

Date of experience: April 26, 2015
Oregon
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I wrote an earlier review about eharmony and what a dishonest business it is. They lock you into a contract and won't let you out even when you have had only contacts from predators. This has gone on since I joined a couple of months ago and it happened again yesterday. I don't trust any contact I would receive from this site and I'm paying $125 for 6 mths and it won't even let you turn of the auto renewing of this in 6mths. At that time I will contact my credit card if I can't get them to turn that off. So far just miss information about this. Stay away from eharmony

Date of experience: April 21, 2015
Nevada
4 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Complete scam
April 14, 2015

This site doesn't have users at all! All it will give are matches of inactive profiles.

Date of experience: April 14, 2015
Georgia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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They take your money, don't match you with anyone in your criteria, communication is a HUGE joke!. I did the 6 month membership after the first couple of weeks hated the site but alas you can't just decided to cancel your subscription... NOOOOO you have to pay the damn thing in full or your $#*! is stuck. So I stayed tried a little more still nothing so I went to Match.com and WOW what a difference it was GREAT!. I have met a man from match and we are making a go of things. SO I go to Eharmony once again to cancel my membership and I explain to them that I have met someone that I have a connection with and would like to cancel my membership. Well guess what I got a big NO you have to pay the rest of your subscription and stay on our site, BIG surprise there with all the other reviews I have read. They want your money that's all DON"T give it to them. Go to Match.com, singleparentsmeet.com, anywhere but Eharmony

Date of experience: April 13, 2015
Michigan
1 review
4 helpful votes
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The site was a joke. I paid for 6 months of subscription and after the subscription was up, I tried canceling it. Unfortunately my phone broke and got a new one, so I forgot my user name/password. So I wasn't able to login to cancel it before it renewed. Finally I got a hold of customer service and told them that I wanted to cancel my subscription. Unfortunately it had JUST renewed 4 days prior, for the amount of $96. They refused to refund it, and the lady was STILL trying to get me to get back on the site! Talk about a waste if time. Customer service is absolutely horrible. The site is horrible. Honestly, I've had better luck on plenty of fish. AND it's free! Please save your time and money. Go elsewhere

Date of experience: April 10, 2015
GB
5 reviews
23 helpful votes
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I don't know what was I thinking. But sometimes you should pay for an experience.
First I signed up and they asked to pay for all features. Witrhout them you can't use site properly. As they advertised on TV and everywhere (I am amarketing manager and I was fooled too) that their matching system is the best blah blah, focused on quality, not on quantity blah blah...
Ok long story short: I paid and entered beautiful world of online dating... Nothing special happened. They keep sending "matches" which were active over a month ago ( inactive people basically), and their matching system is so great that even sent me my work mate (no we don't match in any sense) as a match.
I tried to ask for a refund during the refund period (there is a 12 or 14 days period), and their Customer Service Advisor has been unbreakable, telling me I should wait for the last day blah blah. He has been so irritating that I said goodbye and thanks. I don't have time for lsitening him. I have tried to delete my profile, but there is not a delete button as advertised.
If they try to take money from me again, I will report them for sure.

Date of experience: April 10, 2015

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.


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