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Mekel is offline Mekel Post #1  January 26,2012, 9:46pm
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Over 5000 matches closed or archived now. Anyone have a higher count?

Aside from the rather blatant fact that the true purpose of this 'service' is to maximize profits for a handful of people - that deep down the ideal of providing a matchmaking service to paying customers is just a farce, a cover, for the profit machine it really is, I'm curious who's had the tenacity to view and push the most matches into the garbage can. Do I get a cookie if I hit 10,000? At what point does the system simply run out of valid matches to send someone or is it just randomly generating fake profiles now (which would explain why so many are so similar - often with identical phrases in parts of the profiles - among other things).
 
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Congratulations......how long have you been a member for?

Why have you archived so many matches??? Are you THAT picky?
 
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Mekel is offline Mekel Post #3  January 26,2012, 10:25pm
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ami1uwant wrote :
Congratulations......how long have you been a member for?
Around four years now.

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Why have you archived so many matches??? Are you THAT picky?
Probably nearly as picky about potential life partners as I am about my food. Primarily though it's due to the over-abundance of matches with wretchedly incomplete profiles and frighteningly bad or no pictures in addition to the numerous matches received which are invalid/auto-closed/discontinued or otherwise no longer available before I even have a chance to view them. Which begs the question; why is it so much to ask that some very simple changes be made to the system to remedy this problem (among many others)? Just intuitively, some of these changes could potentially actually increase revenue via bolstered support from the user-base as a result. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who would prefer quality over quantity or who has enough going on in my life to be willing to waste time with this degree of nonsense. Jaded? Yes, but rightly so.
 
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nick222 is offline nick222 Post #4  January 26,2012, 10:37pm
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If I remember correctly I had around 6,000 closed matches. I only had a few hundred archived ones, because I quit not long after the arrival of that "feature" (ahem). I seem to recall somebody on this forum saying they had 10,000, though I don't remember who.

I really, really wish eH had a way to delete matches rather than just closing them. If I could have mass-closed the archived matches and mass-deleted (or blocked, or whatever you want to call it) the closed matches, I'd have been a much happier and more regular user of the service.
 
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boschimsp is offline boschimsp — Advice Member-Moderator Post #5  January 26,2012, 10:48pm
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Wow. And I thought I had a lot, having something like 300 closed/archived and another 200 so in my other folder. I don't mind the large #. I'd personally rather receive more and do the weeding myself, I would just prefer a more technologically up to date interface. For example, the ability to select multiple people at a time to be archived or closed. If you don't keep on top of it, it can really be a mess. I was on it a year ago and recently started up and want to clean out the 200 some odd people in my matches from before and start fresh but it just seems WAY too tedious to do so.
 
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You can tighten up the settings to pare it down, and make it more within range / preferences, etc.
 
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Mekel wrote :
Over 5000 matches closed or archived now. Anyone have a higher count?

Aside from the rather blatant fact that the true purpose of this 'service' is to maximize profits for a handful of people - that deep down the ideal of providing a matchmaking service to paying customers is just a farce, a cover, for the profit machine it really is, .
You can say this about any company that turns a profit. McDonalds doesn't exist to make hungry people full, it exists to make money.
 
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It sounds more like there is one perfect person for you, and you already have met them - yourself.

seriously, it sounds as though you are way to picky in your matches, take a risk, live a little, who knows what you might find.
 
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Truly amazing. I have only had about 3,500 matches total in my 4 years on eHarmony and I think there are more people in my city than in your entire state.

FYI eHarmony is not a "matchmaking service". It is a method of introduction, and the people they introduce you to, your matches, are deemed to be compatible to you based on principles of relationship psychology.
 
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Gr8Guyn2008 is offline Gr8Guyn2008 Post #10  January 27,2012, 5:10am
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the_shadow wrote :
It sounds more like there is one perfect person for you, and you already have met them - yourself.

seriously, it sounds as though you are way to picky in your matches, take a risk, live a little, who knows what you might find.
This ^^^
 
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