This is a friendly warning and has been tested with two accounts to ensure the legitimacy of it. Be VERY careful when using Match.com now, as the site is now using tricks to get consumers to resubscribe/subscribe.
A "saturation point" in a dating site is essentially where practically everyone who WILL join the site already has. Match has essentially hit that; it hit a high point a few years ago, and now the site is decreasing to the point in which it is only getting a trickle of new members.
This means that the site is forced to use resubscriptions to increase revenue, which they have been attempting to up more and more as time goes on.
A few years ago, they blocked a non subscriber from being able to see emails or even who emailed them. This means that you get perceived interest, but have no way to discern who it is from, meaning that you have to re-sign up for the site in order to determine if this person is worth contacting. The problem being, if this is a fake profile or undesirable profile, you just wasted subscription money. It is so bad that, even if it is a scam profile that has been removed, the email itself is still there, so you sign up only to find out that you paid money to get an email from a profile that was removed due to being fake.
Well, unfortunately, now that the saturation point is reached, Match is back to its old tricks. Confirmed by my profile and another one that I have access to that within the same number of days of cancelling membership on EACH profile, an email is recieved. Each time it is cancelled, it takes the same number of days to recieve that email. On two occasions, the emails ended up coming from "removed" profiles. Even worse, on a different instance, the same woman contacted BOTH profiles, even though every aspect about them was diffeent (race, weight, income), and when subscribed and responded to in two different ways that were sure to garner a response (one said that the email came through garbled and asked if she could resend her original email, the other asked her a specific question about a specific interest in her profile), she did not respond. However, after the membership was cancelled again, "she" then sent ANOTHER email in the same amount of days.
Therefore, due to a mix of how the email system is run, fake profiles, and seemingly plants that probably (but unprovably) work with/for Match in some way, the site is attempting to squeeze dollars out of returning members by tempting them with fake interest. Buyer, be very careful, as the lowering income is creating unscrupulous actions from certain dating sites including this one.
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