Joe D.

Yet the biggest reason why you shouldn't ever pay Match.com is 'THEY WON'T SHOW YOUR PROFILE ONCE YOU START SUBSCRIBING'. And I come to this conclusion from my personal experience.

I created an account and got so many ladies viewing my profile within 2 days, so I subscribed, then I got just 1 or 2 views a day on average after my payment. When my 6 months subscription expired, they offered me discounts to renew and I didn't take it. I removed my pictures, edited my account with wrong details, like aged 90, etc as I wasn't going to go through the hassles of asking them to remove my account. Even without any picture on my page and basically nothing intelligent written, I started getting many profile views again. Several months later, I decided to give it another go as I didn't suspect anything then and I thought it was reasonable to pay for the service and have the chance to meet responsible ladies who are seriously looking and not just go to on sites like Badoo where all sorts happen. This second time I made a clean start, created a new profile, new pictures, well written about me page, etc. Again I started getting hundreds of views. I wasn't rushing to pay this time around, just wanted to take my time, and in 1 week my profile generated almost 500 page views. Then I paid and since after paying 2 weeks ago, I've got only 9 page views.

Now I know my strongest selling point isn't my looks, but at least I've had girlfriends in the past and have been married once. My question is, why would women on match.com take more interest in me when I haven't paid match.com, then suddenly don't take notice as soon as match.com has my money? My answer? Match.com increases impression of your profile to generate interest from members until you pay and they then hide it, to reduce your chances of meeting someone. The paying members are their cash-cows. No wonder you see the same members on the site all year round. MATCH.COM IS A SCAM. I've done the equation:

Where Group A = paying members, and Group B = non paying members

1) Hide Group A from searches (they become proactively desperate, and search more themselves)
2) Show Group B in search results (they get more views, winks and emails - but can't read or make contact until they start paying)
3) Move members to opposing group once subscription status changes. (Result member never succeed = match.com gets richer)
4) Create new Group A+ (where a Group A member pays for Group B member to read messages and still respond), but completely hide a Group A+ subscribers (match.com smiles even more tot he bank