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therealitypolice is offline therealitypolice Post #1  July 20,2010, 2:18pm
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I know this is redundant but if you do a search for Match or match.com on here you get 1000+ results and it's hard to find the threads you are looking for. If anyone has some good thread links please post them.

I'm just wondering if you guys out there have any good experiences from match.com. From what I remember reading in the past on here...most normal decent guys did not seem to have good luck at all on there partially due to the horrible man to woman ratio. I'm a paying EHarmony member again but after recent events about a month ago I have gone back to online dating full steam ahead...so I'm looking into subscribing to match as well to increase my options. I appreciate any input.
 
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I know this is redundant but if you do a search for Match or match.com on here you get 1000+ results and it's hard to find the threads you are looking for. If anyone has some good thread links please post them.

I'm just wondering if you guys out there have any good experiences from match.com. From what I remember reading in the past on here...most normal decent guys did not seem to have good luck at all on there partially due to the horrible man to woman ratio. I'm a paying EHarmony member again but after recent events about a month ago I have gone back to online dating full steam ahead...so I'm looking into subscribing to match as well to increase my options. I appreciate any input.

Positive: Easy to search. Members are available for everyone to see.

Negative: I heard a lot of people have the impression that most subscribers on match are not looking for serious dating. Most are just meeting and something easy and casual. Friends advice is to go to eharmony to find more quality people.
 
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As in Match has a favorable ratio for women? Hmm...off to check that out. I thought they were all pretty much 60-70% women
 
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As in Match has a favorable ratio for women? Hmm...off to check that out. I thought they were all pretty much 60-70% women
There is no way that's true. As far as I know in the history of the internet there has never been a dating site with more women than men. EHarmony or Chemistry are probably the only 2 that have a close ratio.
 
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MAtch operates more like a meet market...its very casual/friend...no strings attached.

you can easily search on match for those within a certain distance from you under certain criteria.

You will also find...MANY...similar profiles and pics of those you see on eharmony.
 
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Positive: Easy to search. Members are available for everyone to see.

Negative: I heard a lot of people have the impression that most subscribers on match are not looking for serious dating. Most are just meeting and something easy and casual. Friends advice is to go to eharmony to find more quality people.
I personally think Eharmony does not necessarily have more quality people (especially after I stopped being a member )...very likely many of them are also on match or other sites.

It's the smoke and mirror effect that eharmony wants you to think that they're 'better' than other sites.
 
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Regarding the gender ratio, the measure which reflects actual experience is not the number of profiles, but the number of communications.

Women get 100's of e-mail weekly; men get a couple. Thus, the real gender ratio in Match is 100:1.

As to my experience, I met about one woman per month, and established one relationship every three to six months.

That is the same experience I had on eHarmony, but eHarmony was far better to use - precisely due to the pesky non-responding women.

I also find that eHarmony does the best job of weeding out the professional gold-diggers and frauds.

What is better about Match is you can get on it and write someone. With eHarmony, there may be no matches when I'm actually in the mood to write.
 
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I have to say that from my online dating experience, the number of matches that became actual, more-than-one-date relationships, breakdown as follows:

EH - 0
Match - 2
Other - 4

This is over a period of several years, participation halting during relationship periods.
 
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The more attractive a woman is, the better she writes, and the more appealing her circumstance is, the more that favors a readily-searchable site.

I'm sure this is true for men as well.
 
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D_Lion wrote :
The more attractive a woman is, the better she writes, and the more appealing her circumstance is, the more that favors a readily-searchable site.

I'm sure this is true for men as well.
Why DL, I almost think this is a compliment!
 
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