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Reviewed Sept. 21, 2007
Like many others on here, I signed up for a three day trial, after having to enter in my credit card info. I cancelled the same day I signed up for the service and verified on the account page that I was inactive. Unfortunately, I didn't save the email they sent me as I didn't think there would be a problem. Well, I left for vacation and five days later saw a charge from Match.com on my credit card for one months service. I sent them an email and they responded with a message saying that they don't give refunds.
Reviewed Aug. 24, 2007
Well, 6 months ago I signed up for the 6 months guarantee on Match.com. I uploaded all of my photos, contacted at least 5 members every month and my profile was always visible. During the first 4 months of my membership I was switching photos and updating my profile and every month I received all of my check marks that I had complied with the program. I noticed at the beginning of month 6 that I had a check for failure to upload a primary photo. I called customer service and spoke with Cathy. She told me that there was no problem and it would not impact my subscription.
I went to log into my Match account to check emails and the site was asking me to resubscribe. I called customer service and spoke to Katrina. She told me that my guarantee was revoked because I changed primary photos. No where does it say that you can't change photos. She told me to contact executiveteam@match.com to file a complaint, but I received no response.
The 6 month guarantee is completely bogus and I would tell anyone that asks that the site is not worth joining.
Reviewed July 17, 2007
I was a member of match.com for 6 months and cancelled my membership 3 months ago. I still receive matches via e-mail from them and winks even after I cancelled my membership. Just last week I found a link on their site that tells them to stop all e-mail messages, which they have not. I am still getting matches and winks which I do not want to receive.
Reviewed June 26, 2007
Make Love Happen Guarantee by Match.com is fraudulent program.
I had given Match.com another chance after unsuccessful, expensive paid membership attempts for at least 4 (four) years or more by signing up to their Make Love Happen Guarantee program.
I was surprised to notice that for MONTH 2, the Progress Track showed a red exclamation mark. The red exclamation mark indicates that you dont their minimum requirements for the Make Love Happen Guarantee program. One of the requirements is you must send an email to a minimum of 5 (five) members that you never emailed previously, every month, for 6 (six) consecutive months.
During Month 2, I vividly remembered seeing the notice Good work! You've contacted 5 members this month. The thing that bothers me the most is that I did not see the red exclamation mark in MONTH 2 until MONTH 4! So somewhere along the line, someone did something to the system to cause that to happen.
I read the Program Rules carefully before joining this program, made a commitment to myself, to ensure that I meet one of the requirements, which is to send a minimum of 5 (five) qualified emails to other Match.com members. The technique that I used to remind myself to do so was by book-marking at least 5 (five) qualified members each month and I did that during Month 2.
I called Match.com and complained. Everyone I spoke to was like a robot, incompetent, and did not care to address my issue at all. You cannot speak with a manager/supervisor. Finally, one of them suggested me to write to executiveteam@match.com. I sent an email to that address 3 (three) times, and I did not get any reply from them.
Reviewed April 9, 2007
I use my check to pay for the subscription and the first payment I did authorize. However 3 months later, $50.97 was withdrawn from my account WITHOUT MY PERMISSION OR MY AUTHORIZATION. I told them I needed a refund. She then put me on hold and said she needed to talk to her manager. My account was credited back shortly there after. I also told her to cancel the account.
Reviewed March 21, 2007
I subscribed to Match.com in March 2006 and did not use the site from September 2006 so it was inactive, then March 2007 an amount of £67.17 plus £1.00 was taken from my debit card illegally. The bank said they could not refund it and I would have to deal with Match.com. which I think the bank should get a refund back from them as I had not agreed to it. I emailed them and only got one reply asking for user names and emails address that the account belonged to. I have had no other correspondence and would like to know if any body has been able to get there money back from Match, or if there is a legal body that would help people get there money back. Please contact me with any information that would help.
Reviewed March 17, 2007
I have not been a member of Match.com for MONTHS. When all of a sudden a charge shows up on my credit card for a THREE MONTH MEMBERSHIP that I had initially paid for in September of 2006. This membership expired in December of 2006, now all of a sudden in March of 2007 I am being charged $50 for a three month membership that I do not want. I am livid. I of course tried to contact them and of course they are closed. I have not been on the site in months, and I cancelled my membership...I am having my bank reverse the charges.
Reviewed March 3, 2007
I applied to Match over a year ago. They told me via email letter that my subscription had been cancelled after several months. Now, I am overdrawn on my credit card account due to Match.com deciding for me to reinstate me with out my permission.
Reviewed Jan. 26, 2007
They continue to auto renew my subscription and when I complain, they send me a form letter stating they don't give refunds.
Reviewed Jan. 17, 2007
I went for the free trial, and signed up. Then I moved from CA to PA and forgot about them until I noticed a renewal charge on my bank account.
I complained and received a token refund not close to the full amount. When I asked if they needed to tell me before they sent the renewal fee through, I was told that they didn't.
I would have used the service again, but not with those kinds of business shanigans.
Reviewed Jan. 11, 2007
I went for the free trial, paid a fee to keep the account. The account was locked out and never was I allowed to access the account, called customer service and they said account is locked, nothing could be done. I nevcer got a refund and couldn't use the account. The other day I got an email stating that I would be charged to renew. This is NOT right.
The damage is to my credit card on a monthly basis a membership fee is assessed and there appears to be nothing I can do about it, calling customer service or emailing th eexecutive comitte doesn't help.
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2006
I accepted the free trial and then enrolled in a one time 6-month subscription. Six months later a $77 renewal charged appeared on my credit card from match.com, without any advance notice nor invitation to renew. I do not recall that I ever agreed to THAT.
I could find no customer service contact other than email. I went through their cancellation procedure. An automatic notice said sorry, my subscription was paid for another six months and I could reactivate any time in that period.
I do not want to reactivate. I don't know how to get a refund and stop them from using my credit card again.
Reviewed Nov. 1, 2006
They will no allow you to unsubscribe and continue to charge annual payments. They do not respond to complaints. I was charged over $65.00 again this year and cannot stop them from continuing this practice.
Reviewed Oct. 26, 2006
Signed up for 3-day trial period and was charged anyway after cancelling before the 3-day period was up. You have to write them in order to get credit.
Do not fall for the "trial period" hoax.
Reviewed Oct. 9, 2006
I signed up for one month with Match.com at 29.99. I received the following email from them on 7/26/06: "Rest assured that your account will NOT be automatically renewed. Once your subscription expires on 7/26/2006, you will no longer receive the benefits of a Match.com subscriber. Under no circumstances should your account be charged after your subscription expires".
However the last 2 months, I kept finding charges from Match on my credit card! I emailed them and within 24 hours I got a generic email back stating they are "sorry to see me go, however, there is a no refund policy" and if I want my account cancelled I need to provide certain information.
I wrote back and said that was unacceptable, I wanted my money back and a guarantee my account was cancelled so this would not happen again. Its been over a week and I have heard nothing. They can't even give me the courtesy of a response!
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2006
I signed up for a free profile with match.com. Shortly after posting a FREE profile I received an email from an Alleged member interested in learning more about me. In order to respond I had to purchase a membership, I chose the least amount of $30.00 to join. The individual turned out to be a spammer from Nigeria and not an actual member. I emailed match.com asking them if this was indicative of their business practices, NO response. 2 day's later and my email is flooded with spam for ** sites and pharmaceuticals. Ironically, I never received spam prior to joining this site.
I once again emailed them asking to file a complaint and unsubscribe, once again, NO response. This website is a hoax!!!!! Is there no accountability for what amount to nothing more than taking advantage of persons desire to connect with another human being? I am currently trying to cancel my subscription and rectify the issue.
Reviewed Sept. 30, 2006
I was accused of being married on match.com by their customer service agents, and they canceled my account. I've never been married. There is no customer service number to call. I'll never use this service again. I paid for a 3 month membership, lasted 2 months before they canceled me automatically with no recourse. The service is a joke
Reviewed Sept. 19, 2006
I called to cancel my subscription to Match.com after realizing they charged my credit card AGAIN.. I don't know who authorized this credit card purchase. They told me at that time that I would be off they're mailing list in August 2006. I noticed they keep sending me stuff from MATCH.com... I sent them an e-mail asking them why they keep sending me e-mails about possible matches for me. They told me they had no record of me cancelling my subscription and gave me a way to do it on line. I tried to do it that way several times, with no success; this is why I personally called. I think this is a way just for them to bypass the deadline date to charge more money to my credit card.
Reviewed Aug. 24, 2006
I tried match.com, got nothing so I cancelled my membership. They were taking funds out after I chose not to have it renewed automatically. I cancelled my membership 07/23/06 and on 08/08/06 they took out $119.88 - way more than even the membership I signed up for. I wrote 3 weeks ago - no response. I wrote again - no response.
I lost $119.88 in money I didn't have to lose - it messed up my other payments and ruined my account standings.
Reviewed Aug. 13, 2006
I have never been on the MATCH.COM website but they charged my account $29.99 without my knowledge. I don't know where they got my debit card number, but they caused my account to be overdrafted.
I wrote MATCH.COM an email explaining what happened but they just ignored me.
Reviewed Aug. 3, 2006
When I signed up, I chose to have my membership NOT be renewed automatically. MAtch.com DID, however, renew it automatically and refused to give me a full refund when I contacted them the day after my membership was supposed to have expired.
Reviewed July 18, 2006
Two men from Match.com ask me for money. Both asked for $3500 and both had a sad story.
I called the FBI and lodged a complaint.
Reviewed May 23, 2006
I had NEVER even heard of this website. I have been happily married for 24+ years.... but someone out there went to Match.com and created an account using MY e-mail address! Unbelievable! So I received an e-mail confirmation of an account having been created, and I went to the website... clicked I Forgot My Password, got the password e-mailed to me.. and then revisited the website and changed the password so the fraud couldn't use the account they created anymore. I then sent an e-mail to Match.com Customer Service telling them some fraud was using MY e-mail address and I wanted the account closed and permanently deleted. I wanted all info at Match.com associated with my e-mail address to be deleted immediately.
I asked them to get back to me ASAP confirming this had been done. Nobody ever responded, so I returned to their website looking for a phone number... there isn't one on their website, so I searched on Google.com and came up with this website (ConsumerAffairs.com). I read through the many, many complaints about this website and amazingly some kind person included the toll free number for Match.com! (1-800-926-28240. I called Match.com and spoke with someone who said the account was being disabled and that the Executive Inquiry Team would look into this matter and respond to me, via e-mail, in 48-72 hours. I was assured that this account was no longer viable - yet was given no clue why someone would use MY e-mail address to create THEIR account. It really doesn't make sense.
Reviewed May 1, 2006
They advertised a three-day free trial but made you actually sign up for one month At $34 something. After this, I assumed they would contact me to see if I wanted to continue for 12 months at a much much lower rate for the full year. They did not and I realized that they were continuing to provide service. I went online and found that I would have to ACTUALLY CANCEL if I wanted to discontinue. They were automatically charging me the highest rate of $34.95. So I cancelled.
I was careful to ensure that they did not continue to charge me again. They had charged me in February, and the beginning of March. Then this is when I cancelled. I found out that they ALSO charged again at the end of March. I went online and made sure that the system was cancelled, just a few days ago in April. I got an e-mail to say that it had been cancelled and I queried this with them, asking for reassurance, but they did not respond.
This morning, I got an e-mail from a potential romantic match (now it is May 1), so I realized that my profile was still on line and that the service had started up again. I cancelled a third time. Then I contacted VISA and they confirmed that I had been charged once in February and twice in March. I told Visa I wanted a refund on the last payment and that they were never ever to honour anything to Match.com again. By rights, I feel I should have two refunds of $34.95 because I only ever authorized one charge and that was for the initial trial.
Reviewed April 21, 2006
At noon on Tuesday, April 18, I decided to give MatchFreeTrial.Com's 'Three Day Free Trial' a try. Toward the end of the log-on process I found I was disliking the site so I decided to cancel immediately. In spite of this, they sent me a 'Registration Confirmation'. I wrote back that I had cancelled without ever logging on, and was more interested in getting a 'Cancellation Confirmation'.
On the 19th I received a message from them that they had had technical problems with the photo I had submitted. I wrote back that I had never submitted a photo, and had cancelled during the sign-on process. On the 21st I checked my account balance and discovered Match.Com had charged me $38.98.
Reviewed April 2, 2006
Match.com continued to sporadically charge my credit card long after I cancelled my account. First let me say, when it comes to reading the fine print I'm about the most anal person in the world. I always compulsively read every single detail, as I did when I signed up for a three month subscription to Match.com. A few days before the end of my three months I followed step-by-step their cancellation process and confirmed it more than once.
A few days ago I noticed $50 charge from Match.com. I had signed up for the service last June and cancelled in early September, and now this is nine months later in March. I called and talked to a sedate, uninterested customer service representative who simply kept repeating to me that Match.com has an autorenewal system that I failed to opt out of. No matter what I said about taking every step indicated on their site to cancel, she would just pause, sigh, and then repeat her mantra. I wanted to pull my hair out.
She told me that I had been charged this amount every three months since June because of this autorenewal system. However, being the obsessive compulsive that I am, I have every single credit card statement dating back to June. Oddly, I was charged in June, which was when I initially signed up and which was authorized. So if this was an autorenewal issue, then I should have been charged again in September. I was not. There is no Match.com charge again until December - unauthorized. Then again this month, March - unauthorized.
If the renewal was automatic, then why wasn't I automatically charged in September? I'll tell you why: because I cancelled and I confirmed and the account was closed. It required some other intervention for this charge to be made again several months later. As a business it must be really nice to have lifelong access to peoples' credit cards and the ability to charge them at will.
When we cancel, our credit card information should be removed from their records. If business dips but some employees still want to upgrade their Beamers, why not squeeze a little extra from those easily-accessible cancelled accounts? What's to stop them? Reading all the other postings on this board, the answer is obviously, nothing. The customer "service" rep refused to give me a refund for the most recent charge even though it was charged less than a week ago. She's going to prorate my latest subscription and allow me to pay for only one month and still have access to the service up until April 18.
I told her I don't want access to the crappy service for any time at all, but she said that's the best she could do. My, how generous. I called my credit card company and had the number changed and a new card reissued so that this parasite, Match.com, can't continue feeding off it. They put up such a good, positive front in all their advertising. How disappointing.
I took a course in Contracts a long time ago and know that there are laws against charging people for goods and services when there is lack of an action on the payee's part authorizing it. Something to the effect of, "absense of an action cannot imply consent." I know it derived from the times when book and music companies would send thier products out unsolicited and enclosed a message saying that if the person did not respond it would be assumed that they wanted the product and they would thereafter be charged for it. I really think similar reform is needed with all this online autorenewal stuff and with these companies maintaining lifelong access to our credit cards.
Reviewed March 24, 2006
MATCH.COM took another months subscription when I cancelled. I read some of the articles on your site, seems as MATCH.COM have hit the UK with the same effect. My credit card was charged for another months service when I cancelled my subscription. I contacted the help desk and was told this was deducted for my convenience, not theirs and as I had used the site (to look for contact numbers to complain) I would be charged.
The call takers were rude and said thay were unable to refund my monies, please enjoy the next 28 days search the site.I kept telling them I did not wnt this service however true to form they kept asking if there was anything else they could do for me (Scream!!!!)
Reviewed March 16, 2006
I signed up for a one-month subscription, elected "do not renew automatically", AND elected un-subscribe after about a week. I checked my account after the end of the month and they had it closed. Two days later I was charged for another month (which caused a $20 overdraft) and sent them an e-mail explaining they had charged my account in error without permission and I wanted a refund. They refused.
I replied 2 more times to their e-mail and they still refuse, although they did say they would mark my account as "DO NOT RENEW" after I threatened to hire an attorney for a class action lawsuit. I have sent an e-mail to the Dr Phil show and plan to contact every public media form I can to get this information out, about their unscrupulous business practices... I also e-mailed my bank to try and recover this money.
Reviewed March 6, 2006
I called to request cancellation of their "auto-renewal" service fee, which I did not authorize. They have an automatic renewal policy that requires you to cancel or otherwise you will be charged. I informed them that this is a deceptive practice and borders on fraud. When told that my credit would take 7-10 days, I told them that that was not acceptable and asked to speak with a manager. Their Customer Service Floor Manager - Erica (don't have a last name as she hung up on me before I could get it), was EXTREMLY RUDE, spoke over me so loudly that I could not get a word in edgewise, threatend not to refund my money and then hung up on me.
Reviewed March 1, 2006
I signed up for a free 3 day trial and forgot to cancel. My Credit Card was charged almost $80.00. I never even used the service except for 1 hour. The Customer Service Rep told me they would give me 20.00 back as a partial refund. What happened to good faith? I explained to her that I never even used the service. I am so furious right now.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2006
Checking my bank account online, I found a charge from Match.com for $34.99. I've never even been to the site, much less purchased a subscription!
I called their 800 number and, after the young lady obtained my name, credit card number, and date of birth, she refused to give me any information about where the account had originated. She told me that she'd "email" their "executive fraud unit" and that I should expect to hear from them in a couple of days. I asked her for a phone number or email address to contact them directly and she told me that she was not permitted to provide it.
Reviewed Feb. 21, 2004
I made a mistake entering my name on this game. My name should be **. I put the wrong screen name. In realizing this I could not change it. I was thinking about canceling the account and entering a new account but thought I would get charged for two accounts. So I left as was and now I have no password. My name on the Kiss. Acct. was I now can't remember. Maybe you can look it up. Anyway I would like to keep this first account except I never got a password. Please respond.
Reviewed April 3, 2002
I didn't have any problems with the service, but decided at the end of February to let my membership expire. Near the end of the month, I received the "Your membership will expire in 3 days (then two days, and then 1 day), and a statement urging me to renew. This was a clear and direct statement that unless I took action, my membership would expire and I would no longer have access to the site or be billed for the service. However, when I received my credit card statement at the end of the month, I saw a charge for $24.95 from udate on it for the month of March, an unauthorized charge, since I had allowed my membership to expire.
I contacted udate to complain and ask for my money back. The only contact information given on their web site is an e-mail address. I had to send at least three e-mails over a week-long period before I received any response. When I did receive a response, it was curt and rude. They stated that according to the user agreement, their service automatically re-bills your credit card unless you cancel your membership.
This is an unethical and contradictory practice, since I was clearly told, in no uncertain terms, that my membership was about to expire. Expiration of membership clearly means that you will no longer have access to the service, and that you will not be billed for it. I have sent several more e-mails complaining about this matter, and I always receive the same rude response.
Reviewed Sept. 2, 2000
I purchased a membership on a site called udate.com. I was suppose to receive a password that I need to access the site but I did not receive this password. I have made several attempts to contact this site about the situation. But they will not acknowledge me. In fact, several of my emails to them were returned. I was robbed!
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