Nancy, your message resonated with me for a few reasons - since the start of the year I too have found reduced numbers of matches being delivered. Additionally I did once meet up with a guy who was about 2-3 inches shorter than he'd claimed to be, as well as at least 30lb heavier & probably about 5 years older than in his posted photo (I liked him regardless and would have done so if he'd been honest from the start). Strangely though, one of his "can't stands" was people who are overweight. And finally, regarding the fasttrack thing - I had a bizarre fasttrack request form one guy before Christmas who literally wrote "date me" in the email. He followed this with a "P.S" message to let me know that his family would've been very annoyed if he'd put their photos on a dating website like I did. This comment irked me greatly! I politely emailed him a hello message but at this point wasn't feeling much connection between us & in a 2nd email I politely closed him out explaining why.

I guess I'd personally always prefer to at least have one phone conversation with someone, but if your gut reaction tells you that you like the sound of this guy so far, then go for it - one "pro" in favor of this is that I spent time really getting to know a guy once via eH by email & phone and we had such a great connection. Then we met up and I realized he had held me on a pedestal and was expecting fireworks when we met, and he was visibly disappointed that we weren't trying to rip each others clothes off when we first met. I never saw or heard from him after that meeting, it was devastating. So I think there may be some good points about just going for it and meeting someone - you don't get emotionally invested in someone & just get a chance to meet them and see where it goes from there. Let us know how you get on! Good luck.