Match: Dating & Relationships

I was a non lying member for quite some time and decided to take the plunge. I had so many messages and I felt it was time to find my match. You can’t see who they are unless you pay. Once I did, over half of them were deleted accounts and then other half were in my “others” box so yep I was a victim of bait and hook. It’d be better to at least be able to see who messages you as a free member making it a positive experience. Next, everything costs money. So many “add-ons.” Pay to see your “matches” but then you have to pay for free reply’s, boosts, etc. Isn’t that what I already paid for? I didn’t realize a membership doesn’t cover what should be the basics. Next, all of my matches aren’t even paying members. This website promotes having X amount of members online daily and all kinds of marketing surrounding the largest online site but really no very many people are paying to use the site. Multiple women have even gone as far as telling me that they require me to pay for their reply’s. See additional match feature. Next, I have set ALL the parameters that I want and I get some messages from people out of state or that are so far from my parameters that I’m spending too much time dealing with that than my actual matches. Overall this site has many flaws and needs to re-examine the business they are in. The “match making” process should be easy but it has been nothing but difficult since I’ve paid for their service.

I’m updating my review to tell you all how bad the “free” version is.... you can’t see anything, do anything, send messages or receive message or read anything or talk to anyone or ANYTHING!! And they charge a freaking fortune!! $40 stupid dollars to send a sentence to someone? This is bull****. All the other apps at least let you send a sentence. Or if they want you to pay it’s not $40 freaking dollars. I’m a “woman seeking woman” and tons of men show up in my filters. So I talked to them and they said “oh you need to report those profiles...” so I did... over and over and over again. Probably 40-50 reports so far? Waste of my time. I edited my profile once and added some info about my likes and it got denied. After the staff reviewed my edit and denied it, they said I was “revealing too much personal information”....ummmm I added that I liked hiking. So if you can review and deny edits such as mine you can review and deny profiles of men posing as women.... Also I get the same people cycled through my “discover now” tab. So people I have X’d out multiple times keep showing up in my search. And also people I have “liked” or messaged also keep showing up so in order to get past it I have to either like or X them once again. And I’m paying for this? When I reported these issues they weren’t much help. Fix your algorithm. And the men showing up are the most annoying. Review demographics.... as much as you reviewed my “I like hiking” and denied my edit.

This app Banks off the fact that you’ll subscribe thinking it’s a one month purchase. Here’s how their scam works. You join the site make a profile and all that. Then their dating app coach(a chat bot) messages you. You try to view messages, a pop up comes up. In order to message buy a subscription. You think the lowest tier subscription is a monthly thing, think you'll give it a shot, someone is messaging you why not. Press purchase and you get billed for six month straight. After charges and everything it’s around 140 bucks. They bank off the fact that people make that mistake and it’s definitely set up for people to make that mistake. Read small fine print on your phone. Anyways, in order for you to get a refund it can be tricky. It took me a week and several times on both ends of match and apple. In the end it’s apple costumer service that gives you the refund. It took three different agent until I got one that refunded me my money. You need to make sure and explain to them everything and that it’s not an in-app purchase, that it’s a subscription purchases. They have to refund your money. Either way, it’s a shady app for doing that and the developers know what they are doing. Don’t waste your time with shady business. I’m not the only one this has happened too.

I picked up Match after having tried Zoosk, EmilyDates, and Adult Friend Finder, none of which succeeded for me. I didn’t like the women who liked me, and the people I liked didn’t like me back. At Match , a similar pattern atarted to emerge. I was liking a number of women 20 years or more younger than me. That weren’t responding to my messages, though. So I took advantage of a feature Match offers members: Free Dating Coaching. I called them up and spoke with a warm, polite woman named, Olivia. I explained my issue with messaging, and she gave me three clear and simple points to put into practice to improve my message results. Then we went over my photos and my profile. Olivia gave me constructive, useful and clear feedback in thise areas too. This is a really good feature of Match. I would rate Match higher than other sites as a result.

Firstly, they advertise all these benefits for premium purchase. Non of them work, save the 2 minute videos on how to build your profile. I requested a profile overview by one of their staffers (one overview comes with premium) I checked my email for two weeks, spam and all. Nothing. Not contact whatsoever. Plus, it showed as redeemed after I requested it. So it was absolutely useless and a lie from the company. Also, I’m not the most attractive person out their, I do have a few decent photo’s of myself from a wedding I went to. They wouldn’t let me post these pictures as my main picture because... reasons... there is nothing wrong with the photo, it can be one of the 5 they give you to upload, but it can’t be the main photo. Also, the quality of people on this site are identical to plenty of fish or okay Cupid. Those don’t cost anything though. I’m 5 of my 6 months in. I would love a refund. It was a complete waste of my time and my money. If I could give this company -5 out of 5 I would. They are scam artists and liars.