Absolutely NOT. This is a site that has only one purpose and that is to scam you out of your money. Not only are there scammers as stated by Diane H. And Sally C. This site is completely dishonest about how it works and what you can expect from it. I'll share this one example to illustrate. When you join with a credit card, they will inform you that you now have full access to their site and features. You can now send mail to the men and start meeting them. However, there is a catch that they do NOT mention on the sign up page. The catch is that you can send all the letters you want to the men, BUT, unless the men are also fully paid members, none of them are allowed to read your mail and reply to you. What is the point of paying to use the service when the other side must also have a fully paid membership? If you have paid your membership fee then by all standards you are now entitled to not only write to the men but to expect them to reply back to you. Not on match. There is an extra fee that you must pay so that non members can receive, read and reply to your mail. This is a SCAM on every level. Please save your money and avoid this site at all costs. I'm speaking from first hand experience. Read the testimonies on this site and understand that they are all 100% correct and accurate.

No I would not trust it. There are scammers on there. They will tell you want you want to here. They are from another country. Look for key words such as widoer, contractor, travel, one child only. They will compliment you right off the bat about your smile.
Not safe. Try another site.

I had much better results on ok cupid which is free. Match.com is only about taking your money.

There are scammers on all sites you have to watch. I didn't like their ethics of billing! Try tinder which is free or go Cupid. There are not a lot of people on match to make it worth while to pay for the site. Good luck and hope you find what you seek.

What you will get are automated notices on a timed basis many of which will be from supposed "members", but if you attempt to go and view that members profile you get a notice that said profile does not exist. I did a research for a proposed article 2 years on these sites and discovered that 1) they are ALL using the same paid for data bases, 2) are almost all supported by a social site CARTEL out of the UK, 3) they are 60% bot profiles across the board (and this includes christian mingle), and 4) mostly I think they are all information phishing nets for mass advertising agencies.

This doesnt mean you cant find actual people there, and there are a few bona fide connections. The thing is I feel those are baiters. In other words the sites will openly support and enable a small number of legitimate transactions in order to attempt to validate the site.

A final note: this year is seeing a mass merging of these sites in general. Match owns OKcupid, but also had highly invested into several other sites including POF & TINDER. Ashley Madison is also on that list as far as by years end.

With any of these sites I would be wary as the bad ratings continue to be the norm across the board and the bad reports vastly outnumbering the good ones.

At least with POF & OKC all features are free so its just a matter of sorting through the other social crap to meet up with people.

No. Fake profiles, automatic renewal, and poor customer service. They'll automatically charge you for another six month membership. Then they'll tell you that they can't refund you because you "received an email on the account", most likely from one of their fake profiles. Stay away!

No i have found it to be a scam by company with fake profiles, fake alerts and same people there are on free site pof. Plenty of fish and they are men most would not date. Serial daters, cheaters and fakes.

Stay away from match. I canceled my membership in Feb and they charged me again for another 6 months even though I haven't used the site and they wouldn't refund my money. The company is a scam and the customer service sucks and you need to be aware of the scammed that are on the site as well they all probably work for match. Don't join.

No stay well away. They scammed me out of 6 months membership, then said they don't do refunds.my lawyer got in contact with the crooks and they promised it would not happen again.

I found the company behind the site to be disingenuous a) regarding extending renewals when it was not my intention to spend money b) using inactive profiles as a way of giving the impression that there were a lot more people than there actually are - the profile of someone who is a friend and hadn't used Match for years was in my "selection" so I know this to be true.

I did have 2 legitimate dates in 6 months of membership so there are real people, but it took a lot of work to find them! If you do take membership, go in with a robust atitude that the reason people don't respond is not actually to do with your profile!

I had some slightly strange correspondence with people who did not actually live in my home town (strict criteria for me) though said they did, I don't know if they were scammers but if I didn't like/trust the conversation I politely terminated and had no further engagement with them.

Personally I won't be giving them any more of my money. I have no way of checking if my information has been deleted, though I did request that.

No, they totally are not! Most of the good looking guys you will see are members that joined at some time for free, and even if they are still active or recent, will never be able to respond unless the pay. Match uses this join for free to build there con using pictures given from free but worthless membership offers, and I bet allot are people that have joined for free long time ago, but match will use picture to bate people into joining. I joined for 3 months and clicked to not be rebilled. After my 90 days was up, they still sent emails and after the forth day after my membership was to be through, they drew 74.97 from my account. I told them i asked not to be re billed and they said I opened emails after my membership was over (4 emails) and said not to refunding me, and now I have a claim against them with my bank. Look at the bbb at all the complaints against them. If you see a good review, it's probably staged from a match rep.

Well, I met a scammer on Match.com. He lied about his age, height, job and marital status. Older, shorter, jobless and was separated. He was his wife's little slave - she hasn't taken him to the cleaners after the separation. Yet.
She could call him early on Saturday morning because her car was towed, he was rushing to help to find her car, helped her parent with everything, did all tax returns for her family including her, transferred her money whenever she demanded. He moved to my place and I was supporting him for 8 months - really believing he is looking for a job. Then he told me his wife ordered him to move out because she didn't want me or my kids to benefit from him. We were actually financially struggling - I'm single mom in college. We dated 15 months in total. He had never bought any present for me during this period of time saying he is jobless, but his wife had his credit card number and used it for online shopping- there was an excuse for that as well! Because he owes her lots of money according to Ontario law, he can't do anything about it. He hated my kids as well and never took them to a restaurant or bought any present. Or took them somewhere.
So he moved out to Airbnb(since he couldn't rent without a job) and disappeared!
Be very careful when you decide to date someone on Match.com- there are tons of con artists preying on nice and giving women. Oh, and at the beginning it's all rainbows and unicorns. Or it seems like that. Of course.

Oh Patricia. Josh and others are aboslutely right. Trustworthy is not a word in the match.com realm.

They only care about money! They will steal your money!

Trustworthy? As in, do they protect your info? I think so. But there are plenty of scammers- people with a profile of an imaginary person who just wants to win your trust and steal your money. The site tried to filter them, but they don't hold up a sign and say "I'm a scammer" you have to be wise on a dating site.