MatchReviews 1,220

I thought I was paying for a month, something I could afford, just to interact. My card was charged for half a year. I couldn't get my money back because they won't refund. "You accessed the site," they said. Sure, and they told me to do that so that I could retrieve my member number when I called for the refund. This is truly a scam and a rip-off. I had used the service in the past and had no success so I quit. My recent payment was because I thought it was a different match service. What a costly mistake. What jerks!

1. Full of fake profiles. Only 5% may be real.
2. Full of scammers wanting your information to steal from you.
3. Full of liars, deceivers, cheaters.
4. Full of "add ons" to get you to pay more, and more, and more!
5. Full of gold-diggers and cougars. Full of selfish women.
6. Full of misinformation, fraud, fakes, and scammers.
7. Poor service. No phone number to call about complaints.

Apart from being contacted by 85% of men who weren't even in the same state let alone country, I cancelled my subscription and requested to be removed from the data base (cancellation confirmation received) and 6 weeks later, I start getting matches to women (no offence, not my preference) Match.com decided to withdraw more money from my account AFTER I requested to be removed from their data base.
Don't give them your Credit CArd details. They will use them whenever they damn well please whether you authorise it or not.

This is the worst dating site I have ever been on. I have been on free dating sites and met better girls that I actually matched with. I signed up for a six month subscription, and tried to get a refund. I talked to some foreign manager douche bag, and he gave the whole disclaimer bull-$#*!. I think you should refund people some money if you provide a bad service and you can not help them, or better yet, you should go out of business like a so-called reputable company should. I have months left, and I am not going to waste my time to even go back on it. I just want my money back at this point, and would like match. Com to be taken off the internet for extortion.

As well as all the fakers and scammers, the website is practically unusable. Ads which cover the web page, slow upload, very poor search criteria, an insatiable desire to put you in touch only with people online at that moment, and hard to change that, the site is so unresponsive or will crash easily, unfriendly age band scale, people "chosen" for you nowhere near where you live. The women appear to be "non existent" liars and gold diggers, and the men are predatory liars. What more can you say. This is what this site attracts.

After 5 days into a 3 month subscription I realized the emails telling me people were interested were bogus. I tried to cancel based on this fraud... no luck. I disputed the charges with my credit card. Match.com blocked me. A month later I am told I have to pay the 3 months, but I can't use their service (not that I want to) because I am blocked per the contract I signed if I contest their charges. So now I have paid $71.97 for a 3 month service with a company that has blocked my for 60 days. Fraud and deception!

As a male, you'll find maybe 1% of the profiles are active female accounts. When I let my subscription end I started to get spammed with all sorts of likes, winks, and interests. None of these women existed or responded during my subscription period. When the subscription ended a few hours later it said I had multiple new messages waiting for me...

It's a scam tactic that goes hand and hand with it leaving inactive accounts up and in the search rotation/results.

Match abusive commercial behavior and non respect of the contract. I am a 60's year old male and Match sent me in a month about forty 20 to 40 year old young women from Brazil and other countries, sent me fake profiles that contact you and never respond, women who pretend to be in their 50's and actually are in their 60's, women who lie on their weight, a few pounds overweight means more like 20 to 40 lbs, photos that are from another era, etc.etc. I know women complain all the time about men´s behavior, but Ladies, if you are looking for a serious relationship, why start with lies? Match has got to be the worse dating site.

I am an attractive 25 year old woman, I am a gym freak and athletic. I decided to join Match because I thought there would be more serious men on there. My inbox was filled with messages from men age 40-60 and most of them for a hook up! Money is not a problem for middle aged married men looking for a side fling and it is scary how many of these types of men you have on here! Most of the attractive men were in their late 30s and either recently divorced or with kids. Found no decent guy under the age of 30! I received almost no message from any guy in my age group. I wish I knew this before I paid the subscription! Very disappointed!

I agree with everyone on here. I signed up for 3 months and gave it a shot. Big scam... no dates... and decided to just let it run out. That part was my fault as I did t come here first to read the reviews. But alas! My subscription didn't run out because they decided I wanted 3 more month and charged my card $68 WITHOUT my permission and renewed it at twice the cost others are paying. Why am I surprised?! Understand this - when a company provides a reputable service they have no need to put unethical business practices in place... like forcing your renewal and stealing your money. I would bet half the profits this company makes is forced renewals combined with their policy that they will NOT EVER refund your money. EVER. They couldn't care less if you had a terrible experience. Or if you wanted to renew it. It's about stealing money and calling yourself a "business" - this company is about as unreputable as they come. POF has a lot of not-so-desirable people on it but at least it can be used for free and it appears all the people are real. Stay away from Match and thank me later!

Just joined but wish I hadn't. Difficult to get a good feel for how the site works without joining and paying quite hefty fees.

Once on it seems like it is full of scammers. Lots of messagea from other side of world/country.

There doesn't seem to be a way to restrict who can see your profile to, for instance, members from your home city.

Not easy to work out how to block, remove, delete.

Lousy site and waste of money so far.

Match have just taken my money for another sic months and I only found out from a bank statement. I havent used the service for three months as it really is rubbish - few people respond as most are only browsing and dont have membership so are only voyeurs rather than members. The matches are pretty useless. I complained to them and they trotted out the 'we can't issue refunds' policy. They don't care about my customer experience. They don't warn you your subscription is about to renew, so watch out for this scam and cancel your subscription manually. Easier still, don't bother with Match, unless you enjoy wasting time and money.

After signing on with Match.com, yet again, I realised I'd been conned, and sent the following e-mail:
"When I looked at the site, it showed there were 2 winks (with one blurred photo) and 1 favourite. But when I paid my subscription, there were no winks and no favourites.
As far as I'm concerned, you have induced me to rejoin the site under false pretences, which is both immoral and illegal.
Unless I receive a quick response and a refund, I will be contacting Trading Standards and the police, as well as broadcasting my experience as widely as possible on social media – Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc etc."
I'd be glad if you could let me know if others have contacted you about this particular scam, designed to suck people in.
I've also sent a copy to PayPal, and await responses!