Charles T.

The site utilizes every tool at their disposal to maximize income. Including: keeping old profiles active after members' profiles expire. Keeping old profiles visible after the members cancel their membership (you must check a box to tell them to keep the profile hidden). Match does not actually remove a profile until 12 months after the current subscription run outs. So, having found somebody special and cancelling my membership, the profile sits there, waiting, and will not completely disappear for 16 months. People you have emailed or otherwise contacted still see your profile - even after you've cancelled your subscription, so they can contact you. When you meet someone really special and decide to cancel your subscription, be sure to tell them 'Oh by the way, my Match profile will still be visible to you for the next 1.5 years (or whatever). Kind of like telling them "Sure, I'll be exclusive, it will only LOOK like I'm still trolling Match.com." Not unlike contracting herpes, really, now I think on it. Oh, and if someone sends you a message and you are having Match messages forwarded to your email account, then clicking on them in your personal email account (mine is a gmail account) then there is a message that is relayed back to Match telling whoever sent the message to you that you have, in fact, read their message. So, good luck telling your one-and-only that you really have closed your account. From the perspective of Match, these sort of shenanigans are an excellent business strategy. Think about it - after your new girlfriend / boyfriend starts to mistrust, then they have two returning customers. Ta-Da! This site is frankly antithetical to responsible and ethical dating. They also throw people at you willy-nilly, even in the absence of you doing searches. I mean... why? Right? Do they think that everybody is totally incompetent to run their own searches? But... It churns the database and, in a very real way, makes it more difficult to focus on quality dating vs. quantity. I don't like being churned. Oh, there is no way (or phone number) to actually get them to simply take the profile off the site. It's hard to do on Facebook, it appears to be impossible to do here