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Emme is offline Emme Post #31  September 21,2009, 2:37pm

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I've been on and off just about every online site for maybe 3 years now - eH, Chemistry, match, POF....POF was too weird. Match got me a lot of married men or guys wanting something casual, which just isn't where I am at the moment. Chemistry matched me with my cousin. Best luck so far has been eH. Met a lot of really nice guys, just not the one I could see myself with long term. Although I am dating an extremely nice man now with whom certain things necessary for me seem to be missing, but he's a bit shy and easily nervous so I'm giving him time. Unlike many, I really DO want a nice guy, not some hot bad boy with the perfect body and nice car. I don't care about that stuff. Besides, I'm a cranky old fat chick. I think I've lost my right to be too picky. :-)
 
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I've been on and off just about every online site for maybe 3 years now - eH, Chemistry, match, POF....POF was too weird. Match got me a lot of married men or guys wanting something casual, which just isn't where I am at the moment. Chemistry matched me with my cousin. Best luck so far has been eH. Met a lot of really nice guys, just not the one I could see myself with long term. Although I am dating an extremely nice man now with whom certain things necessary for me seem to be missing, but he's a bit shy and easily nervous so I'm giving him time. Unlike many, I really DO want a nice guy, not some hot bad boy with the perfect body and nice car. I don't care about that stuff. Besides, I'm a cranky old fat chick. I think I've lost my right to be too picky. :-)
You got matched with your cousin?? Eeeeewwww...

Pardon me for being daft, but what is "POF?"
 
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Gee Jacquie, I love it when you spell durty..!
Oh, thar's more whar that come frum, buddy. Har har!
 
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Jacquiem wrote :
You got matched with your cousin?? Eeeeewwww...

Pardon me for being daft, but what is "POF?"

POF stands for plentyoffish a free dating website. Be warned, you get what you pay for and there are some VERY creepy men on that site. I was actually scared by a man I met on that site.
 
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Emme is offline Emme Post #35  September 21,2009, 4:13pm

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Jacquiem wrote :
You got matched with your cousin?? Eeeeewwww...

Pardon me for being daft, but what is "POF?"
It was actually pretty funny. He didn't have a picture posted but I figured it out from his description and job and stuff. I emailed him and told him I love him to death but am not into the incest thing so I hope he wouldn't be offended if I closed him. He was a good sport about it. He's a reallynice guy.
 
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I tried eH for 6 months, but I pretty much hated it. The best part about eH was I found eHAdvice Forums, which are awesome

My biggest complaints about eH are that you cannot search for matches, but instead must "trust" the unknown algorithm (and I know, a lot of people love that you cannot search...rather that they cannot be searched for...) and second (partially due to no search option), it is impossible to know if all the matches you're getting are terrible because the algorithm is broken or because there just aren't that many other guys subscribed in your distance radius. I tend to think that my area just does not have a large population of people on eH. This is giving eH the benefit of the doubt. Regardless of which it was, it didn't change the fact that I cancelled.
 
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I live right near NYC in LI and you figured it would be easy with so many people, but it just seems we NYer's are just so tight vested it is ridiculous. No one talks to anyone LOL. When I lived in the Mid West people always said hello or were more approachable. ( am from here, I lived in the Mid West for three years for a job promotion) I am NYer however I tend to be an extrovert and friendlier I guess than your typical NYer LOL

Anyhoo, I have been on match since about last Nov. Initially I did go one a bunch of dates, but I felt no chemistry really so nothing panned out. This I have had maybe one or two. Seems like the pool dried up, I dunno. I finally took the plunge and joined EH the other night. So we'll see how that goes.

I do the on-line thing because after I broke off my engagment last year, (kinda similar to the OP) all my friends are married and really only hang with couples; and I sell medical devices so I basically work from home. Hard to meet people.
 
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Mangosteen wrote :
I tried eH for 6 months, but I pretty much hated it. The best part about eH was I found eHAdvice Forums, which are awesome

My biggest complaints about eH are that you cannot search for matches, but instead must "trust" the unknown algorithm (and I know, a lot of people love that you cannot search...rather that they cannot be searched for...) and second (partially due to no search option), it is impossible to know if all the matches you're getting are terrible because the algorithm is broken or because there just aren't that many other guys subscribed in your distance radius. I tend to think that my area just does not have a large population of people on eH. This is giving eH the benefit of the doubt. Regardless of which it was, it didn't change the fact that I cancelled.


I did the same thing for the same reason!
 
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I was on eH and match for about 4 months last year. I did it because I'd had success on match before; a dating relationship that had lasted several years. I decided to try it again about 6 months after that ended, and met my fiance on match.

He tried match and true for 3 months each after his divorce was final. He dated one woman for a couple of months, and then tried another 3 month subscription after she broke it off. He'd been on match almost the full 3 months before meeting me.....in fact, I emailed him 85 minutes before his membership expired and my email would have been lost to him!

I'm a pastor and therefore discouraged from dating parishioners. I also extended that restriction to members of their families. He is a therapist and a supervisor of others in that field. This pretty much means that neither of us could date anyone we came in contact with through work, and given long and sometimes irregular hours, online dating seemed to each of us to be the most fruitful option.
 
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I started back when I was going to school full time and working two jobs with Match.com, I met a lovely lady and we dated for a year. We broke up and a couple of months after I joined eHarmony and got back into the dating world again. I joined eH and di the online dating thing because I work full time and live an hour outside of town and I felt it was the best way to try to meet potentional matches.

I have sense met another lovely lady and we have been dating for a little over a month now.
 
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