Imagine this. You are new to online dating. You've heard a lot of good things about Eharmony. You are a Christian and you trust Eharmony because of its founder, not realizing that the business has been bought and sold several times over the years. You get your first set of matches and you fall head over heals in love with a picture and great profile. You send out a smile, first point if contact (or so you think) and you hope for a reciprocal smile. After all, if she doesn't smile back, she's probably not interested, right? You wait a few days and no smile, so you think, she wants a message from you and not just a smile, she wants to know you're serious, so you send her a cute message trying to get her attention, but nothing, no smile back, no reply, no nothing, but maybe she's playing hard to get, so you keep trying week after week. Can't get her out of your head. Of course there are others, and you move on, but you don't block her, because just maybe she will eventually respond. AND THEN, AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS, you discover by, sheer accident, that if a person subscribes to Eharmony and then doesn't renew, EHARMONY CONTINUES TO PUT THEM OUT AS A POTENTIAL MATCH, and the unsuspecting PAID SUBSCRIBER, HAS NO CLUE, THAT THE PERSON THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO COURT, HAS NO IDEA THAT YOU EVEN EXIST!... THIS IS TOTAL CRAP!
I know this for a FACT. I was matched to another person, who had quit using Eharmony over a year previously, but was clever enough to word in their profile a riddle that revealed a email address that I figured out and used to make contact with them outside of Eharmony. Putting 2 and 2 together, I figured out that my heartthrob, I had been seeking out, was in the same no longer subscribed situation. TALK ABOUT FRUSTRATION. I am so pissed with Eharmony, and they admit they continue to promote non subscribers. TALK ABOUT BAIT AND SWITCH!