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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.