It is because there are not any real people on match.com. Most of the profiles are fakes, or they are people who may have once been on the site and now their profiles are used as bait to get you to sign up and pay, thinking there are actual matches that could be made. Also a lot of the profiles are people who have not actually signed up and paid so they could not even get back to you if they wanted (unless they too pay for the privilege of sending an email reply). Do not sign up! This is an unethical site that does a bait and switch to get money out of you and others and does not delivery on any promises. Most of the profiles are cons trying to get something from you. This site should be shut down!

Because fo the following...
1. In my perception, this outfit and their affiliates are likely plagued with FRAUD. They collect hefty fees for making people to believe that customers will have access to hundreds of thousands if not millions of singles, seeking marriage, friendship, companionship, etc. if they pay hefty fees UP FRONT, and go along with additional piecemeal traps for paying more and more. Moreover, they plant "lawyers" and other observers into the pool, making sure that that their scheme is not uncovered or not distributed among customer thus provoking mass cancellations.
2. It starts with something like "FREE, find millions of singles looking for you, FREE". They collect your info, but at the end of the FREE subscription process you see nothing until you "subscribe", i. E. buy into their fraudulent tricks. You see nothing for free, but... NOTE!... now they have your what they call PROFILE. It's the profile's they merchandise, sell, promise, use for temptation, and for enticing people into their process. Note again, you haven't signed up yet, but they already your profile, and even if you do not want to subscribe, you cannot withdraw your information. It's all out there, sold, marketed, viewed, as if you were already a member. Of course, the viewers won't get a response, but that can happen from legitimate members too if they are not interested. Hard to tell, and they milk the last penny out of this scenario. But, that's not all.
3. Members' subscription expire, or they quick. They are out. But not their PROFILE. They continue to get merchandised, viewed, and offered for view. Again, those seeking responses from these will not get any because the folks they are "viewing" are not around. But they do not know that, and have no way to ever know that - unless their friends or others join and see nonexistent members' PROFILES still floating around in the system, bringing in moneys. In other words, they sell merchandise that does not exist!
4. If you get suspicious and ask questions about the system, or about what's going on, and one of their on line floaters see it, you get terminated from the system for violating the "terms of the agreement", but no refund!

I hope this provokes thought, and attracts scrutiny.
In my opinion, this is largely a fraudulent operation.
THEY SELL MERCHANDISE THAT DOES NOT EXIST.

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 with 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 seemed like that. Of course.

Firstname I. Thumbs up. That's my opinion too.

We had the same problem. I think some of the profiles are fake. Sometimes the profile disappears completely when you respond.