I joined match.com at a vulnerable time in my life - shortly after a breakup. I consider myself to be an attractive guy, so of course I would only seek to connect with relatively attractive women.
You can create a free profile with photos, but as an unpaid member, all you are allowed to do is "wink" at someone and they can wink back at you. However, that's where it ends, since there is no way for you to exchange any sort of contact information with anyone.in order to email or chat with other members, you have to pay $34 a month to join the site (or you can join for 6 months at a slightly discounted per month rate, all paid in bulk, not in monthly installments.)
Since I wanted to actually get something out of match.com, I paid and joined for one month. What a RIPOFF this turned out to be!
First of all, you must realize that the majority of match.com members are unpaid members who just joined to browse. Thus, if you send emails to them they cannot read them or write back to you! The worst part about this is the fact that there is no way for you to know who the paid members are and who the unpaid members are. Thus, if you send out dozens of emails, there's a good chance that none of them will ever be read!
Based on my experience on this site, the vast majority of women who are FULL (paid) members of the site are not those who would be described by most men as being attractive. I received several emails from unattractive women who I would never consider dating, while the attractive women who were alleged members of the site were impossible to reach.
The one helpful service that match DOES provide is a feature that tells you how long it's been since a particular person has been active on the site. These captions range anywhere from "active within 1 hour" to "active over 3 weeks." The indicator does not go beyond 3 weeks, so even if someone hasn't logged on to the site in 2 years, it will still say "active over 3 weeks."
If you browse the site you will notice that the majority of the most attractive women are described as "active over 3 weeks" which probably means they aren't paid members. If they were paying 30 bucks a month, they would probably be logging onto the site several times per week, don't you think?
Perhaps match.com would work if you were trying to find an overweight, homely looking woman to date. But if you are trying to find an attractive female to connect with, this probably isn't the place for you.
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