No repsonses to Guided Communication

Personal observation: Our 'type' is usually not our type.

I have had a similar problem to the OP. I have been on eharmony for about a week and now and have had 50 matches initiated (I was specific on my requirements but was open to people from outside my area, you might want to try that). Out of those 50 matches I have probably initiated 45 guided communications, my main idea being that unless I am really not attracted to them or there is an obvious red flag I'll give them a chance.

Out of those 45 that I have initiated guided communications with I have gotten to the e-mail stage with 3 of them and 2 more have responded to the guided communication. That's only 11% of the people I am initiating conversation with, is that normal?

I will add that I have had my profile reviewed on here and the responses were positive for the most part, especially with the changes. The posters who responded indicated that there were no red flags on my profile and with improvements I gave some very specific and meaningful answers. Only 5 out of my 45 have closed the connection, the others view me and then nothing happens? I guess it's safe to assume most of them are probably non-paying members?

To me this seems like a shady business practice from eharmony. There should be an option on the site that you can select and you'll only get matches who are eharmony members. Even if guided communication only takes 1 - 2 minutes to initiative, that's still 1 - 2 minutes that I am wasting on a member I'll never hear back from.

It also seems that the women I really connect with are the ones that aren't responded. The ones that are responding unfortunately have been the ones that I feel like I don't have as much in common with but want to give a chance. I'm not giving up though, I signed up for 6 months and it's very early. I just hope I get more responses and to the OP I wish you the best of luck as well.