Match.com Reviews

I joined Match.com on approximately 04/09. I canceled my membership in 07/09. I called and spoke to a male rep who said that my account was canceled and there was nothing further that I had to do. Apparently, he did not cancel it because I have been charged $107.94 every six months since that time. I became aware of this today and called your 800 number. I spoke to Nick, who put me in touch with Miranda, who put me in touch with Kelvin. Kelvin told me that the best he could do was refund three payments for a total of $323.82. I got the impression in speaking to him that somehow, this was my fault.

Multiple profiles of the same person - Haven't even been on Match more than 3 days and I get a ''wink'' and it was from a fairly attractive girl. We began talking, and I really liked what she had to say. We seemed to hit it off well, I was kind of shocked that a girl as beautiful as she was, is now talking to me. And she seemed too good to be true. What she was describing about herself was, basically in a nut shell, everything I was looking for. The next day after she asked if I had yahoo messenger, I go back to really look over her profile and all I get is ''This profile is unavailable'' or something to that degree. I didn't think a whole lot of it at the time.

I am not a Match.com client and I keep getting nasty requests. I get at least 20 requests from women from your clients. I, however, am not a client nor am I at all interested in you, **! I received an email that says, "Do you want a girl tonight?" I will be sharing each email with law enforcement as it is not just disgusting, it's a legal matter when you are constantly harassed and even more when it's sexual harassment!

Stop sending me 5 times a day about your new **. I never sign or contacted your site but for over a year, you have been a pain in my **. I am very in love with my husband for 25 years.

I signed up for Match.com and ** from Canton, GA sent a vicious email to my profile. He posted no picture and apparently is afraid to either mind his own business or sign his name. No former correspondence, just a threatening angry man emailing women at whim. I have other friends on here who have also gotten misogynistic emails from ** and Match.com will not delete his account or warn him. Out of fear of safety for my kids, I have contacted the police as well as Match.com. Match.com says they will block him but won’t delete him.

On the Match.com main page where you sign up, it states I am signing up for 3 months and may renew after 3 months. According to them, if you read further into the pages, it says they will put me on an automatic renewal. Nowhere on the main sign up page does it say that nor, do they notify you of the charge coming up. I am a single mother of 3 who can't have people putting me on automatic renewals without me checking a box. It would be one thing if I checked a box for that and it would also have been nice to be notified after 3 months of the renewal coming up or even the renewal charge going to be deducted. And then the ** about the 72 hours, it could be credited back in seconds. This is crap and I'm so angry.

Follow-up regarding 4-11 Complaint - After days of no response, Match.com today emailed me that a partial refund had been approved and processed. I replied that after receiving no response for days, my credit card company had already initiated a disputed charge refund and asked them to cancel their transaction. I also noted that it would have been nice if someone had ever let me know that they were working on my request, especially after being told twice that no refund was possible. It would have also been appropriate to contact me to discuss whether or not the amount of this refund was acceptable to me. I wanted to follow up here so hopefully, other people will stay on this company to do the right thing.

I joined for six months on 3-18. On 4-3, I found that a man that had engaged in threatening behaviors at work toward me and others was also a member and that he came up as a member that lived within 20 miles of me. I was terrified at him being able to see my profile or photos. I emailed Match.com on 4-4 to see if they could simply block him from seeing me. They were unable to do so. Since I was too scared now to use the site, I canceled my account on 4-5 and asked for a refund. I was told no. I explained the circumstances again. I was again told no.

I have emailed match.com and requested that they stop contacting me. They continue to pop up every time I access the internet. I would like this to stop because my wife thinks I am shopping women online.

About one to two weeks after emailing someone on Match.com, he was asking me for money as he "had lost his debit card" and was out of the USA and trying to get back. When I reported it, I was told there was nothing they could do about it. I had to change my email address, so I sent the changes to them. Several weeks later, they sent me a registration notice of a change of username and password and it is not my information. It is the private information of a guy that lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since they sent me the incorrect information, I cannot send or receive emails on the Match.com website.

No matches. I met at least 2 men on match.com. They both had to travel in their jobs, what a laugh. They get your confidence and ask for money to get home. They always run out of money on these high paying jobs. I think match.com needs to screen people a lot better to make sure they are the real people who they say there are. I never send any money. I would never do that.

This morning, I received an email from Match.com with the subject line "Inappropriate email(s) sent". The email goes on to say there was correspondence sent from my Match.com account which violates the Terms of Use agreement. Match.com requires a valid subpoena directed to Match.com, LLC in order to obtain additional information. After logging on to my account and reviewing my email and sent box, I found nothing inappropriate. I need to know what was sent from my account that was inappropriate. I have never sent inappropriate emails. I might need to file a defamation lawsuit against Match.com. But first I need a valid subpoena, and I could use legal advice.

I became aware of fraudulent activities on my debit card on Saturday. I had spent 1 hour at my local bank trying to get to the bottom of the charges. It turns out someone had gotten a hold of my debit card number and the individual set up an account with Match.com, in which my bank flagged it because it looked odd.

I was solicited for a trial period, which I took. When the trial was completed, my screen added several new areas. One word "reactivate", which I did not understand. I pressed it and apparently, that activates a 6-month membership at $130+. I immediately went in to cancel, twice, to be sure. I also sent an email to their customer service area advising of the error and instructed them not to charge my account. I thought I was covered. It was over a weekend and I was not able to see a charge to my account until today, 03/27/2012 of $130+. I was able to reach a customer service rep, who although being pleasant, was firm on not crediting my account back.

I am constantly getting pop-ups from this website on my Yahoo Mail site. The only reason I accessed their website was to find a contact number to tell them to get lost. But there is no such number or no means to contact them. I am considering changing my email address. Get lost Match.com!

I met this guy on Match.com. His profile indicated that he lived locally, but in fact, he lives in the US, San Francisco. He travels to where I am for business. He also indicated that he was 40, but in fact, he was 50. He also told me that he was single and had no children. His entire profile was a lie. I did a background check on this guy on intelus.com and realized there were multiple lies on his profile. I reported him to Match.com so that his profile can be removed because there were too many discrepancies in the information he provided. He then returns on Match.com and this time, "He definitely wants kids", his location is incorrect and he is still lying about his age, etc. I reported him a second time. He then returns again a third time with a different username.

Match.com keeps sending harassing emails. For over six months, I have been getting dozens of emails from them per week. I have written to customer service to have them remove my email and stop sending this junk. They assured me that within 7-10 days of each of my requests that it would stop. Nowhere it is over six months later and they continue to come. I am not a member nor ever have been. I don't know how they got my email address and I want them to stop. I am sick and tired of dealing with this ** company and do not want their junk mail.

They take money from your card and refuse to refund, even if you cancel before the trial is up or even if you cancel period. You have to call several times over several months to finally get these idiots to comply. They never refunded the $120 they stole out of my account either. Rip offs! Once you cancel, prepare to continue getting 10-12 emails per day, as Match.com will never stop spamming you and the unsubscribe links do not work. They are violating federal law here. Join me in a class action lawsuit!

The website is hilarious. I have been winked, emailed, etc., and all lead to money scam. “Honey, I need your help. Send me some money to help with my job.” Or, “Honey, I want to make you my wife so that your donation will come from the heart.” No man is where he says he is from. He's a self- employed or entrepreneur. He's widowed at 50. Ladies, do you have any idea how many widowed foreign-born entrepreneurs there are in the United States alone?! We shouldn't need this website. I have reported, but it doesn't stop. The only thing the client service person said he could do was turn off the auto renew. I am looking into legal representation because this so feels like a bait and switch scenario.

Fraudulent Billing - I joined Match and was also billed, without my knowledge and permission, to join another website owned by the parent company of Match.com. I tried not to do business with Match but they refuse to give a refund. In my opinion, this is a scam! Do not use them!

So, I thought I would give Match.com a try to meet someone. I joined for a 90 day membership. Then, for 2 weeks (a very frustrating waste of time) I gave it my best efforts. It was not going to be worth the time. So I called and asked them to bill me for the charge of a month, and credit me the difference. Nope! An absolute "no way" to give a credit but if I wanted to add time to my membership, "absolutely". Take yes, return unused, nope. I give this site a big fat "0".

I signed up with Match. I started receiving winks and requests to chat. I would try to look at the profiles and they were 'unavailable'. Over and over this happened. I did chat with one person to see what he was up to. He was supposed to be from Ft. Lauderdale but said he was in Asia. What is going on here? Scam! I contacted Match and they had nothing to say and offered no help. This happened way too many times to be anything but a scam. I feel bad for the men and women who get caught up in these things. Doesn't Match keep watch on things like this? Never again will I refer or join this unethical site!

Long story short, there are thousands of complaints over match.com's auto renew policy and their refusal to give refunds when you have accidentally used your account after an auto renew went through that you were unaware of. Here's how to fix it: contact your bank or credit card company and tell them this is an unauthorized charge. Usually, the bank will credit your account until the issue is resolved. Then what happened to me was Match.com just cancelled my account and did not fight the fraudulent charge from the bank. I got my money back this way, and you should too!

I signed up for a 3 month subscription with Match.com last October (2011) and used it up to the end of the 3 month period but when I got my Discover Card statement, Match had charged me for another 3 month term without me subscribing for another 3 month period. Their customer service rep informed me that the auto-renewal, hidden at the bottom of their terms and conditions is to prevent "interruption of service", an answer that hides their consumer unfriendly tactics to sucker in their subscribers into renewals they never were aware of. I actually spoke with two Match customer service reps and got the same canned answers from both of them that it would be impossible to refund the amount charged for the additional 3 months because of the “terms of service”.

Match.com will not cancel your account unless you remember to ring up before a renewal starts. If you call up before your account is due to end and tell them that you want to cancel your subscription, they tell you it is too soon and that you have to call back. If you call back too late after the renewal subscription fee has left your bank account, they then see this as a new contract for six months and take three more payments out of my account saying that's what I have signed up for. What a complete con. I have had one and a half years of Match when I only originally signed up for six months!

Someone from New Jersey is using my email address on Match.com. Now my husband thinks I am cheating, but I was at work when the account was opened. I contacted Match.com about it and I have got nothing but men profiles so they don't care that they have put my marriage in a bind.

Match is a good site to find a compatible relationship, although their policies are absolutely horrible. When you cancel your subscription, they keep your profile online so that others can be tricked into believing there are more people looking than there really are. They also do not publish their phone number so that it is more difficult to reach someone.

My Match.com account has been inactive and hidden for two years. Tonight, my boyfriend sent me a copy of my old profile picture with the assumption I am an active or current Match.com subscriber. Despite my profile being hidden, the profile is still coming up in searches. It is almost as if Match.com stored my profile for 2 years and then suddenly decided to post my information to attract customers. Clearly, my profile should be hidden as I previously deactivated my account and made sure my profile was hidden.

Uses fake profiles, weirdos and spammers on Match - I joined Match.com in their gay dating affiliate network. Very unprofessional. I don't think they use active profile, I think I ended up emailing a lot of non-active members. Match.com uses cute, attractive boys profile as bait to get your money. They also have a very rude customer service center. A dissatisfied experience overall, do not join.

Unauthorized Profile Subscription: Someone signed me up for this company’s services without my permission. This was probably done because I am now in a long term relationship. I have used their service in the past with some success. It would have to be someone that knows me. If there is a way to red flag the combination of names and dates (my DOB is **), it would be appreciated!

I don't know why my account will be blocked after subscribing. I can't log in to my account anymore. What is wrong? Please let me know.

I thought I was buying a three month chance to see people and let them see me. However, they keep telling I have to purchase something else to do that. I want a number to talk to a live person about what I purchased and how does it work.

They renew your prescription without your consent and then it is apparently in the contract. I tried calling numerous times and could not get a hold of anybody. When I held for 25 minutes they finally attended to me. Of course, by then it was too late and against their policy to refund any money--even if I do not want to use their service.

He wrote me love letters from a Yahoo mail service and Yahoo Messenger. He used the e-mail of **@yahoo.com, and a telephone number of **. Also, he stated that his home address is ** Oxon Hill, MD 20755.

Don't join Match.com. They are thieves. I joined for six months only and they tried to take 64 pounds out of my account without my permission. Keep away from them. Don't give them your credit card details.

I subscribed to match.com two months ago for three months membership and have noticed in the beginning that one has to cancel the subscription prior of the date of its expiry in order to prevent an automated renewal. I cancelled my subscription yesterday and received a confirmation from match.com that they will not, under any circumstances, automatically charge me at the end of my subscription. Good, I will make sure they won't.

I want match.com off my computer screen - I am not looking for anyone, male or female. I am 66 and have had enough of it all. Please don't advertise on my email or facebook page. You pop-ups are annoying and distract me from seeing what I view as important. If you can't remove them altogether, then give me a little teeny x so I can keep the D--- thing from blinking on my screen. I don't want anything but for these intruding advertisements to stop!

I emailed match.com and stated to them that I did not want the website to email me or show the photos next to the screen. They stated that I had to open the email and unsubscribe. Well, I opened an email and there was no unsubscribe button. I told them that they need to stop sending me the information since I am happily married and don’t need their stuff but still until today, I still get the emails and photos. This needs to stop or I will contact an attorney. I have kids that get on this computer and they don’t want to see this stuff as well as my husband. If you will not protect my rights then I will file a tort against them ****, aka Ticket Master, aka IAC-active Corp. and the owner as well, consumer affairs itself and who is in charge of. I mean business.

Match.com does not do enough to protect its members from scammers (scam artists working behind fake profiles). I made the mistake of posting my income and received 3-5 scam emails/winks per day. Even when my income level was hidden, the scammers did not let up. Match.com could easily block IP addresses and registration from Europe and Africa (where the scammers operate); but because the scammers are paying members, probably with stolen credit cards, they put profits ahead of the safety of their legitimate paying members. Note that free dating websites like OkCupid (which is owned by Match.com) and PlentyofFish block IP addresses from scammer havens and have much lower volumes of fake profiles compared to Match.com. But Match, a subscription service, is replete with scam artists. So the free sites operating on shoestring budgets can solve the problem, but the largest and most profitable dating website can not or will not. I'm pretty sure they ignore the problem because it makes them money.

I have been a continued customer to Match.com for many years, but I haven’t used the main site or the mobile app since Xmas 2011 and have been continually charge for the monthly app of $14.99. I contacted customer service to explain my problem to be told there is nothing they can do but to help me remove the auto renewal. This is a very complicated setup which I feel is a deliberate way of continuing to take money from the customer, regardless of the site usage. I explained I required a full refund for this unused time and the advisor was extremely rude and unhelpful. I ask to speak to a supervisor and the same attitude remained.

The whole thing is a mock dating site. They set it up to make you think people are viewing you that actually aren’t there. Many are on there to get money out of you. It’s a joke and then they tell you, “Oh yeah, you can’t get a refund because you used the site,” but in actuality you’re not getting what you paid for if they are being deceitful. I think I should be refunded my five of the six months when I only used it for 10 days.

Immediately upon signing up, I received these bogus "winks". Most of the time, when I clicked on the profile, I would get a message that said "Oops - profile has expired", and that was only minutes after I received it. I am 61 and receiving emails from 50-year old "models". Please.... this is so fake. I called to get a refund, I even agreed to pay for the current month, but I wanted the other 2 months refunded. No way they said. How is this company still able to operate? Unfortunately, I only just noted that they were charged last year for illegally sending "winks". Wish I'd seen that earlier. Do not have anything to do with them. Maybe it's time to do a Youtube video!

I cannot delete Match.com pop up from my welcome page. I'm happily married and I hate it. I think it's terrible.

I am very unhappy on this website. There is a bunch of fake people and scammers on here. I would like a full refund. I am very unhappy. Please contact me asap, so we can resolve this issue.

I got an email that I had changed my email/password (which I did not send). I emailed them right away and told them I did not send it and could my credit card info be compromised. I never heard back so I emailed again. Finally I called and closed my credit card. Finally found a number for them and she said, “Oh yeah, we cancelled your account but we were not going to tell you.” Huh? What a crock of bull.

I had complained to this company 20 times to stop e-mails. I have also sent complaint form to the FTC regarding this site, and they will not stop the spam.

Match.com has charged my card for services that I never requested. The charges are for $101 on two different occasions. The account I use is for emergency funds so I didn't notice the charges in time to be able to challenge both. I've seen multiple reports of people who've made the same claims, which leads me to believe that it's not some random group of hackers who need some love, but a very disreputable way to generate revenue.

I was a free member for a while and had no problems. Once I subscribed, weird things started happening. People began receiving e-mails from my account that I did not send! When I called Match, they told me it was a virus in my computer. I also started receiving e-mails from others that they did not send. All of these e-mails said that I (or the user) had posted new pictures and gave a link to go see them. If you clicked the link, you ended up at some weird site asking you to re-sign in. If you signed in, you are screwed. Now, my username has been changed and I cannot access my account at all. I can't delete my info (though I have cancelled my account). All of my personal and billing data are apparently in someone else’s hands and Match pretends like they have no idea what happened. I now worry every day that some hacker is going to grab my CC and personal info and use it. I am really angry, and Match.com does nothing. I'd say it's time to get the national news folks involved! Stay away from these guys!

I went through the six-month subscription with Match and during that time did not meet anyone but contacted the required number of members and kept profile visible and active. I got the notice that I was eligible for the free follow-on six months subscription per their guarantee and clicked that I wanted this. However, my account is now in a deactivated state and can't access emails, etc. I've tried contacting customer service about this and have gotten no response back. The account wants you to subscribe again when I hit my account. However, based on many complaints about Match, renewing without authorization and I will count myself lucky and let go and not ever deal with them again. Match.com is the most useless and ineffective thing I have ever used to try to meet someone.

I joined Match with the three monthly payment options. As seems to be the case with most members, Match charged me a fourth payment. I have internet banking which only has statements for 3 months so had to fiddle with it to find all four payments. I contacted Match by email requesting a phone call and was contacted by a girl who "offered" to refund my extra payment but said it might take as long as 20 days (working days no doubt!). She spoke as though she was doing me a huge favor by "offering" to refund the stolen payment and refused to put me through to someone in authority. Even if the payment is refunded, they will have effectively borrowed my money free of charge!

I wish Match.com would allow at least one weekend (2 days) of free service. I've found one person who lives near me and unfortunately can't contact him because I don't subscribe and don't have a credit card. Also, they review your profiles so scrupulously and will not allow anything they dislike. If you try to put in another site to contact you at they will not allow it.

I never signed up for Match.com. When I joined the weather channel app on my iPhone, somehow you entered me in your mail out. I have canceled the weather channel app and asked you to delete me from your mail out. PS, I never joined your service!

I tried to cancel twice and they charged me over $100 for 3 months of service. Absolute sham and they refuse to give refunds!

I signed up for one month only, with no recurring charges, and was charged for another month. The company has no complaint department or customer service contact information.

Three months ago, I used Match for a month or two, and just recently was charged $59.99 again for a subscription that I did not sign up for. Please refund this unnecessary charge, and cancel my membership immediately.

After numerous emails from match.com and trial membership offers, I authorized match.com to charge our Visa card $68.97 for their "3 month trial membership". Therefore, my understanding was that after the three-month trial membership, my membership would expire, and my card would not be charged again. However, to my disbelief, match.com has charged my card for $68.97 without my authorization or permission. This is clearly illegal and fraudulent. I will be contacting my bank to file a formal complaint for the unauthorized charges match.com has billed my Visa card. I will then contact the Better Business Bureau and law enforcement authorities.

My sister paid for a 3-month membership for me (a birthday gift). I was contacted by a gentleman from another state who really put on the pressure for me to meet him in a grocery store parking lot. I felt extremely unsafe, so I discontinued the conversation. The next day, the account he used came up as a woman from another state. I contacted Match about this immediately. I never received a reply. I contacted them twice more with no reply, so I canceled my membership. When I canceled, I listed this as the reason I was leaving and requested again that they contact me. I got no reply. I completely discontinued my account, deleted my profile, etc.

I have a daughter who has mental illness and she used the laptop. I do not wish that Match.com appear in our laptop. I am not interested on Match.com. Please remove it from my yahoo ASAP. She had very bad experiences with dates online and caused her to end in hospital. Please fix this unethical problem. I never requested Match.com. We are family. Thank you.

I have been scammed by someone on Match.com. I met this "man", Martin ** on 10/20/11 through Match.com. I never met him in person, but fell for his lies completely and was scammed out of thousands of dollars.

Match.com automatically renewed the charge on my credit card. I got no receipt of notification that it was going to happen. I did know Match.com was going to auto-renew and when I previously tried to cancel, the site informed me that I would lose access immediately. That makes no sense, being that I paid and so I wanted to use it until it was over. However, if you log on after the date of auto-renewal, then it tells you you're paid up to April (3 months from now), and conveniently now you can cancel now but you're paid up until April.

I asked to be matched with people 50 miles around where I live. They have been sending me mostly people from Ontario, Quebec and Washington State. I don't know what the maps in Texas look like, but my map here clearly shows that Ontario, etc. are all further away than 50 miles from Vancouver Island! Shame on you for taking my money and getting my hopes up. What a scam.

My pictures were stolen and used on other profile on match.com. Match said they would remove in an hour but did not. This is the third time this has occurred.

Unauthorized charges on my checking account! I have never been on Match.com and I looked at my checking account online today and I have been charged $65.40 for their services. When I called the 800 number on my statement, I got a recording to leave my name, username, email address and phone number and they will get back to me. When the recording answers, it says Match.com international. I have left 2 messages and no return call. Hoping you can help me get my money back.

My complaints are more with the billing practices of match.com. They, "match.com", renewed my membership and charged me an additional $108 with zero notice. I was not called, emailed or even messaged on their own site. When I called to ask for a refund the company, they said that they have a no refund policy and that I was out of luck.

I had originally activated my match.com (3 month subscription) account on March 12, 2011 online. I was dissatisfied with the service and called an agent, Nathaniel S and requested that he cancel my account 3-month subscription and to cancel my account after a month.

I am desperately attempting to have Match.com ads from popping up on these e-mail sites: **. They are a menace to us as we try to read our e-mails and have these ads show up every time on the site. We are a Christian couple and these ads are unwanted! Please help me feel comfortable as I or my husband access our e-mails. I don't know anywhere else to go to try to stop these ads. Feel free to e-mail me or call if there are any other resources available to me. I appreciate your time and look forward to freely checking my e-mail sites. Thank you.

Match.com truly is the worst dating site out there. You can send winks or emails and get absolutely no replies. You have no idea if the person on the other end is real or a paying member. As a non-paying member, you will probably never hear from them. But you have no way of knowing. It's like a grocery store continually advertising that they have toilet paper, except that they really don't. Seems like false, fraudulent advertising to me. Do not, please, do not spend your hard-earned money on this site or any dating site for that matter.

I have sent several emails and contacted the online chat for resolution of my membership and have not received a satisfactory answer. I have posted several negative comments on consumer sites including https://www.consumeraffairs.com/dating_services/match.html. It is astounding that match.com does not respond in a timely manner especially since public opinion and social media can be very detrimental to your business.

I paid for a month twice. I had nothing but fake people sending me winks and then after wasting my time, finding out the details were all wrong with lies and misinformation and that they were from Russia or Ghana. It proved to be a time waster and a dysfunctional lie. I want my money replaced and these actions corrected!

I paid for a six-month subscription to Match.com, and my six months have since run out. An automatic debit for $120.00 was taken from my account, for an additional six months, that I did not authorize. When I called Match.com's customer service number, I was told that I had agreed to a renewal six months ago, when I initially signed up. The first agent was unable to grant me my refund, because I was not "eligible" for the refund. So her supervisor got on the phone with me, and repeated the same reason to me.

If I could rate it less than one star, I would. I registered with match.ca for a trial. I received confirmation that everything was approved, and then all of a sudden my profile was all in French. I can understand a little French but not enough to know what is happening. I called Match.com and they said it was an international site so they can't do anything about it. They gave me a number to call which is just for voicemail. I called 4 times and left messages. I write them 9 times asking them how I delete my profile and I have never heard a word. How do I delete my profile since I can't read it in French?!

Match.com doesn’t deserve any stars. Their business practice must be bordering on being fraudulent. They have taken two lots of $29.99 out of my bank account on the same day and I have no way of contacting them. Emails remain unanswered. I thought I'd cancelled my account on the Dec. 31, 2011. I'd been lured on by the offer of a 3-day free trial but now, although they've taken 60, the flood of emails I was getting stopped abruptly on the 1st of January! No consequences for Match.com. Me? I'm living on bread and water for the next month!

Match.com is a fraud! Took my credit card payment and the very next my account was hacked! They won't return my emails. I have made a complaint with PayPal - which by the way, they are awesome. I can't get in to my profile to cancel or delete my profile. This company needs to be shut down!

I signed up for a 6 month subscription, and immediately canceled the auto renewal. Match.com still charged me, and when I tried to get a refund, they told me I did not cancel. So I said fine, I guess I will just have to use it for the 6 months paid, after 3 months of receiving no activity which was unusual. I called them, and they told me I put a stop on my emails, which I never did, and would not refund me for the 3 months of their mistake. Match.com is a complete scam, and once you sign up, you receive activity, but as soon as you cancel, you are flooded with activity to get you back on. I lost $101.00 because this company is fraudulent and deceiving.

Program defaults are so unclear and deceptive that when signing-on, previous accounts are initiated resulting in automatic payment on credit card. Program defaults are so poorly developed by the company that language selection is ignored resulting in French overriding English--I don't speak French! In spite of the stated commitment for a 48-hour follow up, it has been more than three weeks and still no communication! All of this time--a month of a three-month subscription access to account is fruitless due to language barriers, and I am still being charged for a cancelled account!

I have just been charged $41.15 by match.com even though I deactivated and cancelled my subscription quite some time ago. I do not want to have anything to do with them. They are a scam.

This is the same old scam, they bait you and then charge you hoping you didn't understand their terms or forget or miss the deadline. There is a legal way out of their "contract". Their website is populated with fraudulent and scam profiles. You have paid or signed up in good faith, trusting that you will be seeing profiles that are legit, and match is legally obligated to deliver the service as advertised.

Immediately appeal your Match.com subscription cancellation rejection (or other similarly disputed charge) through your financial or payment account (credit card, checking account/debit card, PayPal, etc. ) institution. What's more, it may be a good idea to dispute the charge elsewhere before you ask Match.com (or other merchant) for a refund. Your financial institution will often fight for you with greater clout than you can muster. In this "dump your bank" era of economic discord, you may overlook the fact that some financial institutions will go to bat for you in a host of transactions.

Signed up with Match.com. I paid in full and was guaranteed 1 year of services. They fraudulently charged my pay pal account $119.94 without my authorization. Also recommended new clients to them and was supposed to receive $25. I never received that either.

I gave only 2 stars because of all the complaints. Listen up. If you want to join after reading all the complaints, you have to use a gift card, not your revolving credit card. Find out how much the payment is. Get a replenishable gift card for a few dollars over that payment, so it remains active after the payment and use that. This way, when you find out that it is not something for you, just do not replenish the gift card. You will be out the original money. But at least you do not have to cancel your real credit card. I always use American Express because they at least contact the merchant with official letters and therefore make merchants think twice about not refunding or ignoring. People need to think logically.

Most of you seem to whine. Learn to read. You can just about figure that every time you give a web site your CC number it is an auto-bill. That is just a fact of life. Buy a throw away card from WalMart for 3 bucks and use that. When you get tired of a site, remove all the funds from the card and they will cancel you when they can't get any money. And yes there are scammers every where in the world. I did get many hits from them, but after a few days you learn the same story and know what they are. Again learn to read.

Match.com deceptively auto-renewed my membership without my express consent and then refuses to issue a refund. I learned about this unauthorized charge the day it was made (the first day of the renewed subscription) and immediately called customer service to demand a refund. Their customer service team is well versed at using rhetoric such as "I'm sorry you were unaware of the policy, but we cannot offer you a refund." A highly deceptive practice, for which they are (I now know) notorious. Again and again, average citizens 'agree' to terms and conditions drafted by teams of lawyers with the goal of misleading and confusing.

My experience was the same as others already posted. Scam artists using the site, bogus profiles, attention and messages that were made up. I tried to cancel in three days. I got no response to my email to cancel. When I called I was put on hold until the "operator" dropped the call. It only takes a couple days of navigating this site to realize it is all fake. I paid for 3 months, canceled after three days, and no refund will issued. Please tell others not to waste their time or money. It is sickening, what this does to exploit people.

I specifically signed up for a 3 month subscription to this site, and I recently see that they continued to charge my card without my authorization, nor advising me. This is a very misleading and corrupt company. When I saw they have been charging my card several times without my permission, I contacted them to cancel and process a refund, but they said I am responsible for another 3 months, and they refuse to refund me. When I signed up, their site made it seem to me that I was only selecting 3 months, as I did not select the 6 months option. It was very misleading and corrupt of them to do. All this without my notification, nor acknowledgement. Either way, they make it impossible for you to just get what you asked for, as they have all this cancellation policy, that is a total joke and should be illegal. I would never recommend this company to anyone.

I signed up for this site last week and paid 6 months in advance, used the site for 2 days and haven't been able to use it since. I have tried to contact them but no one will return my call or emails. I am a single parent and can ill afford to throw money away. I have every day since and again tried today to contact them and requested a full refund. The actual site is match.com.au.

They allow fake profiles on Match.com,and fake flirts. I noticed after using Match.com for a few years, that they place many fake profiles on their site. I've contacted them numerous times about the same profiles popping up, but they continued to show them. It`s very easy to notice some of the fake profiles, but they've gotten better in disguising them over the years. I fell for a couple of them, but I was lucky not to get taken all the way. I've noticed that when it comes to the end of your subscription, or your subscription has expired, they send fake flirts and profiles, to entice you to resubscribe. Many times after I resubscribed, I've responded to flirts, only to find out that the person never flirted with me by their own admission.

I subscribed to Match for the 6-month free guarantee. After completing the first 6 months process of the offer and was expected to receive my free 6 months, Match.com billed my credit card. I tried to notify Match.com about the problem and didn`t get a response, so I was forced to call my credit card company to cancel the payment. A month later, my account on Match.com was turned and I could no longer access my profile. I finally got a hold of Match.com and they stated my account was cancelled because my credit card company didn't make payment. I explained to them that I paid for the 6-month free guarantee and followed all the rules that are in place to receive the free six months, so I should be receiving a free 6 months. They referred me to their legal office and said my account was cancelled due to lack of payment.

Girls, as much as we want romance and want to believe these guys are real, don't be fooled! I have been on Match.com for 5 days. During that time, I have been contacted by 6 men. All 6 want to communicate via Yahoo Messenger. All 6 are either in West Africa or going there. All 6 are either in textiles or antiques. 4 out of the 6 are widowed. 5 out of 6 had a tragedy and lost their parents or were orphaned. All have a teenage kid. All but one was born in Italy. All have a strong accent. All tell you what you want to hear.

The merchant did not properly disclose their cancellation/refund policy or their terms of how they would charge my account. I signed up for a 6-month plan at $19.99 per month and was charged $119.94 in one transaction. I did not see any disclosure on the sign up page stating they would charge for 6-months upfront. After cancelling their service five days later, I found convoluted information on their cancellation policy. One disclosure states full refund and another states 50% refund for annual members if cancelled within thirty days. These kinds of practices speak volumes regarding the kind of ethics and morals this merchant practices. I have filed a dispute with Chase and await resolution. I suggest that anyone who has this kind of experience, post it online and maybe we can get the attorney general involved to shut down shady merchants like Match.

My experience was terrible. All I was matched with and seems everyone on that site is a fraud. There was only 1 of all the men I spoke with that was in the United States. When I called to complain, I was told that they know about the Nigerians, but thought that was doing better. I said no, and also getting men claiming to be in my area but stationed overseas in the military and will be home soon. Then they asked for iPod, money, and give you a list. When you say no, they disconnect from talking to you.

I signed up for six months trail subscription with a guarantee. You cannot set the account off auto-renewal unless you cancel and this limited option is obscurely set in the "bowels" of your account. I was given no notice when the six months was up to either renew at a different subscription period of to see if Match would honor its agreement sign up for 6 free months and if unsatisfied, get 6 free months thereafter. Match automatically renewed me without any advanced notification and stated they would neither refund nor honor the 6-month guaranty. I was refunded after arguing with 3 customer service reps and speaking to someone in corporate. He would not honor the guaranty terms.

Joined on 11-23. Not happy with results thus far but in it for the long haul, at least until my three months is up. Already looking for answers on how to cancel. Then today, I discovered account has been 'hacked" or "compromised" as Match.com likes to call it. Someone was able to get into account, change password, etc. Match assures me that hacker could not access credit card information. Uh-huh, right.

I bought the 6-month guarantee where you spend a whopping $143 and they guarantee you'll find someone or you get 6 months free. I just signed on to my banking account as I do every morning and it seems they've charged me $143 for the next 6 months. I never authorized this charge. My next 6 months should be free. There is no one to contact at Match.com right now. I have in the past contacted them over unauthorized withdrawals from my account but they wouldn't give me back my money.

I experienced exactly what another person did whose complaint is as follow: "Two years ago, I had an account on Match.com. I did not renew it. There was no auto-renew clause at the time. Recently, it looks like they changed their policy and without notifying me in any way, charged me $90 for a renewal. My only notification was the charge on my account. This is blatant theft." I actually got charged $119. After calling Match.com and receiving no success at rectifying the unauthorized charge, I had no other choice but file a charge dispute with Bank of America.

Readers, I would not highly recommend this web site. To let you ** know, I unsubscribed to match.com because that's all it was. A con! On numerous attempts, I tried to retrieve or get a password from your scammed website and to no avail. I never, not one time, received a message nor did this ** organization tried one time to help me after numerous attempts. I just got scammed out of $127 and in which I know I will never see that or those funds again. I will warn people on those scam websites about you scamming me and on numerous times, how I tried to make contact with you **. All I got was the same ** automated system that is preset to answer an email without you ** really trying to assist me, but it was very easy for you accepting my money with no problem as soon as I subscribed to this ** scammed ** web Match.com.

I do not appreciate that someone has used my email to create a match.com account. I have never been on your website. I received yesterday, December 4, that someone created an approved account called chirogirly71. Please remove my email ** from your account immediately.

My name is Cindy **. I was a member of Match.com for over two years. Subscription was automatically renewed over and over. The amount came to over five hundred dollars. I used my sister's credit card one time. I cancelled. Match.com charged her credit card over five hundred dollars without her or my approval. There should only be one payment on her Chase Visa card in the month of July 2009. I cancelled.

Match.com is a scam. I have been on there for a year and a half and 95% of the emails I received are from fake profiles from match. I have only talked and met one person from it after contacting close to 100 profiles. I am not a slouch and don't have a unrealistic view of who I could date and try to date ones that are equal with me. It really should be named unmatch.com because they just push a lot of profiles that you have nothing in common with.

2 years ago, I had an account on Match.com. I did not renew it. There was no auto-renew clause at the time. Recently, it looks like they changed their policy and without notifying me in any way, charged me $90 for a renewal. My only notification was the charge on my account. This is blatant theft.

Match.com is unfair. You can send all the emails you want, but the recipient must be a paid subscriber to read and reply to your email. Match.com does not provide a way for me, a paid subscriber, to know who else is paid. So I am sending emails that go nowhere. They do this so that I, the paid subscriber, do the work for them of getting others to pay in order to even read my email. This is a scam and unfair business practice. I will not be renewing my subscription and warning others to stay away.

They are bombarding us with ads and there is nowhere for us to complain and have the ads stop. I would, at the least, like to see them stop the ads. At the most, fine them when they send ads to people under 18 and to people who request that they stop.

Scam! Rip off! Beware of this company. Some companies are decent enough to tell you when they are going to hit your account. This one will not tell you! Beware! Never did I agree to ongoing membership yet they charged me without my permission.

This goes much beyond a scam. Someone (other than me) created a profile on match.com using information that was acquired from various business websites that had/have my business and or personal information, to make it look like I had created this thing. This situation not only caused business issues, but it caused a nine-year relationship to go down hill and right into the trash. My girlfriend, soon to have been my wife, am sure, was told that I had a "profile" on match.com.

I just cancelled the trial subscription on November 18th and the confirmation was posted on November 18th. I started the trial on November 16th and I saw them charged me on November 17th. I called and told them that I cancelled the subscription before the end of the trial 72-hour period and I want my refund back on my card. A few days later, they said no because I signed for the non-trial subscription. I already paid the whole month subscription that is **

I paid for the Canadian match.com and they think most Canadians speak "French Canadian," that's how they put it in an email to me. i don't speak French nor do I want to meet a French guy. I asked for either a refund or a transfer of the funds to us.match.com. They cancelled my account and did not give me a refund.

They are automatically billing $60 for something I do not want. I have called their customer service center and they will not refund my money. This company is totally unethical!

Ever been through this on Match.com? Pretty girl/guy winks at you, or makes you one of their favorites? You click on them, and their profile is already hidden? Or worse, you email them and their fist email says they'd like to have a real conversation on username: **@email provider? Then when you click on them, they're hidden.

I signed up for the 3-day trial and they took a month's subscription straight away; I phoned to complain but got nowhere. This is really out of order.

I used my account for about a week and now, it won't let me log on. What the heck is going on? I paid for a month!

We never joined this because we are perfectly happy with each other in our elderly years. We are tremendously irate every time their advertisement pops up. Since it comes up without an email address, I can't block it. Help!

The site is a rip off. I signed up for one month (Oct 2011), not knowing about the auto renewal. I contacted them as soon as I saw it on my bank account on Nov. 1st 2011. They told me I was suppose to cancel my subscription. I checked my subscription end date a couple of days earlier, and supposedly my subscription had an end date of Oct. 31st. I did not know I had anything further to do so I wouldn't be charged again. I am unable to get a refund from match.com, or from my bank, as they said that match.com did it legally. I filed a complaint with the BBB hoping to get my refund that way.

I subscribe back on 2007 and droop the subscription but they still have my account open. This is the biggest scam out there. Half of the people here are from Africa; all have blonde hair and blue or green eyes. I have never seen many pretty Africans in one dating site which is obviously not real. I hate when there is no integrity. The whole thing is a scam. They only care for the money and what they are going to make of you. The whole site should be re-evaluated and run by people with moral value and with feet well on the ground, not on cloud9.

Match.com was just a mess for me all around. I joined in 2010 to see what people I could meet. After the lengthy process of setting up my profile, submitting a few photos, and contacting other users, I was shocked to find that no one ever answered. I would receive dozens of "matches" a day, only to contact them and never hear back! I found this to be odd considering that I'm a decent-looking gal and have had tons of responses on free dating sites. These free sites are far better than Match! After about a month, there were no "matches" trying to contact me and all the profiles just kept circulating over and over. There was never anyone new.

I joined for a 3-day FREE trial and they billed my account after only one day and refused to give me my refund.

I joined Match.com for one month. When the month was not yet over, I canceled the membership because I was being scammed by a Nigerian saying he was an American working over there. The typical "widower who needed money. " I called Match.com and also E-mailed them, telling of my experience.

I signed up for match.com.au from mid of Jul 2011. I've already paid 3 months membership. I got quite a number of emails. It turned out all fake people and scammers.

Somebody used my debit card to create an account with match.com. My bank caught the fraud and disabled my card use. I called the bank and they informed me about the charge with match.com. I immediately called match.com and raised hell with them. They refused to give me the information/identity of the person who used my bank card to pay for the account. How is it possible that they can commit fraud and still be protected? Match.com says that they're fraud team caught it, yet the profile was created back on September 28th. I just found out about it on October 25th, and they never contacted me at any time. Match.com has agreed to refund my money but will be making me go through a legal process to obtain the information on the piece of crap that defrauded me. Where is the justice in this? I will never recommend this website to anyone for any reason.

I was charged for six months after my membership expired and match.com refuses to give me a refund. They defraud their customers and I demand that their business license be revoked. I also demand a full refund.

Match.com does not screen any of their customers. I started communicating with a man who was very nice at first (Innisfil, Ontario) and then started with a lot of sexual talk. I also received emails with pictures of half naked women. When I reported him to Match.com, I never received a response and this person is still on their site. I asked for a refund as it is obvious this site is not what I was interested in and have received no info from Match.com.

Match.com just plain outright blows. Like others complaining here, I've met someone "offline." When you have an issue you must, that is M-U-S-T, contact your credit card and raise a **. Tell them you are disputing their charge on your card, and you will not pay.

If you sign up, pay attention to recurring payments. According to them, I signed a friend up for this. I know they must have a tricky way to get you. Why would I sign up a person to meet someone endlessly and I pay for it. I lost because I didn't catch where this happened but it is bad business. What if I met someone, I am going to continue to pay for nothing?

Match lured me in with a $19.99 promotion for 6 months. When I signed up, I was charged $115. I called them because I assumed it was an error, and I was told to submit my complaint in writing to their Online Resolutions Department.

I loss $50,000 in an adoption/dating scam of man from Match.com/Facebook. I met with Alabama Attorney General's office and they filed a report (with my 500 page documentation that I put together in my own on-line investigation) with the FBI consumer internet protection department in January 2011.

I should only pay 3 months, after I decided to cancel it. But they deducted 6 months on my account. I want you to return my money and please send me an email confirmation.

I've been a paid subscriber for quite some time and have found that all the men that I met on this website as well as others weren't screened as match.com says in their guarantee. When I asked for compensation, I was refused. I have been made a fool of several times by men that I've met on this site; they are all fakes, scammers, and cons no matter where they say they are located. I would love to receive a full refund on all accounts that have been on my name since I first subscribed without question.

I have not been a paying customer in several years. However, it's obvious that my picture and profile have not been removed from their website. I am constantly receiving emails from them that I have caught someone's attention or someone has winked or sent me an email. I realize this is a ploy to get me to renew my membership. I am not interested in renewing. And I feel that this is dishonest and a disservice to their clients who are seriously looking for a mate. I have written to them and requested that they delete me from their website several times. It has been totally ignored.

I used the site for about three months last year (fall 2011) but had a full year subscription, which apparently ran out last week. The Match.com practice is to automatically renew all subscriptions without any warning, which is what they did. I saw a charge on my card and questioned it with Match Customer Services as I didn't want to renew, but because it had already gone through my bank account, they refused a refund. They said that their policy is on the website and I should have read it.

After canceling the subscription weeks in advance online, they said that they never got the cancellation and auto signed me up again for three months. If their own online system doesn't work and they don't want to take responsibility for it, what is a consumer supposed to do?

I can't sign in to my account and I don't know what happened. I would like to know why I can't sign in. It was my friend that introduced me to this site because he said I really need a relationship for my self. Please do something about this as soon as possible.

I cancelled my subscription but Match refuses to refund my $101. They said that they already refunded me once, this year. That is an inaccurate statement. They refunded me once before and offered a discount which I accepted. There was no actual refund. When I tried to cancel it this time, they refused to refund my $101. When I asked to speak to a manager, the representative asked why would I need to speak to a manager. I am disputing the payment amount with my bank.

I signed up for Match.com and less than a year, I was emailed by a man. I later found out, he has a criminal record for violent abuse. For all I know, he could have been in jail. Luckily, no real information was given or I could have been in serious trouble.

Match.com is fake. Read other comments to ensure, but here, I want to share my experience with you and am explaining how you can get a refund with canceling your membership.

Very few ever responded to my emails and now I know why. I could have been trying to contact folks who had already canceled their subscription because that is what is happening to others who think that I am still a subscriber. I keep getting emails from Match.com, stating that someone "winked" at me, interested in me or sent me an email. To me that is fraud, with a capital "F". They are letting folks view my profile, as if I am still active with the company. I canceled my subscription with them about 6 months ago. I wonder when if they will ever stop sending me those emails?

I had been testing this site for long time. Most of the profiles are fake, models created by marketing people. I was contacted by girls who supposedly are on the Houston area. After some emails, they start requesting money for help, ridiculous histories about something that happened to them, usually they are from eastern Europe.

After successfully using the services of Match.com, I unsubscribed after one month in June 2011. Last August, Match.com took again three months fee of $79.95 from my credit card. It was refunded after I complained, but they did not have the right to take that in the first place. I wonder how much they earn because other people might not notice it, or take the (hard) effort to launch a complaint.

They have the worst customer service ever. I was hung up on by Tisha in the customer affairs office after she was tired of me asking for a refund. These people are completely evil and they just take your money. They lie about how much they are taking and won't refund you at all.

I established an account with Match.com, and about a week later, I was unable to access the account. I contacted a representative and after about 15 minutes on hold, she came back and said that a refund was credited to my credit card. I asked why and she sheepishly admitted that my account was somehow hacked. I informed her that if my identity is stolen, my lawyer (a real shark) will make me a very rich man. After I concluded the call, I opened an account with LifeLock to ensure that Match.com's terrible security measure don't ruin my life. I would never recommend Match.com to anyone!

I regularly travel internationally for business, and I am out of the country up to 15 days a month. Within less than two weeks of joining Match.com for six months, I discovered that I am unable to sign-in to my account while in most foreign countries. Even when trying the us.match.com connection, I am routed to Match.International, which then requires me to join their site or goes to a website unavailable page. I have no doubt that Match.com is aware of this as there are actual sites online that address this problem. My feeling is that this is a scam to force members to sign up for the international version.

I was using match.com for the last six months after my boyfriend/fiancee had passed. After mourning, I began using this dating site. My pictures were of me this year, I looked appropriate. I (am) single, no children, no felonies etc. I didn't bother anyone. Anyway, they randomly told me that they had to kick me off because it would be better for "their community" and they never explained why. They blocked any card I have, which they all have the same home address on them. I believe the only thing that would make them kick me off is because I said literally that I was attracted to "educated guys" and that I was interested in the Hindu faith and Jewish faith, but that was literally the "craziest" thing I put on there.

I had a nightmare experience on Match. I met a 'date' who was a perfect gentleman. I did not know that I would spend the next three months reading fake profiles that eluded to details about this perfect man. I signed up again, only to get more fake names and profiles, and lots of confusion. It was hard to know what was real. What a fraudulent way to make money!

My account on Match.com was hacked and my personal information was stolen. Match.com had no explanation for this. Their solution was to delete my account and my profile from their server and then they suggested that I start all over again. Duh! Also, right click on any photo on Match.com and you can save that photo to any place that you would like. Try this for yourself! Again, Match.com is not a secure website, and if you join, understand that all of your information is out there for the taking. Stay away from these people!

Match.com is a rip off scam from hell. I paid $120 for a 6-month membership. After emailing over 100 different people, I got one response and three different emails outside a reply. Now, one of those three people would reply but the email said "empty message." I literally have someone interested in me but I cannot communicate with them. The majority of the profiles there seems fake. Out of 100 messages, I should have, at least, received 10 replies. But I only got one and it was an email of rejection! How classy.

I joined Match.com a few months back. I cancelled my account as I was receiving direct and disgusting emails from an individual in Innisfil, Ontario (let's call him Cam) which is close to my town. I reported him to Match.com and they did nothing. In fact, I still receive them to this day through their site, even with my account cancelled. When I tried to cancel my account, I was told it was already renewed. I removed all of my personal information and still receive emails from this disgusting person.

I received several harassing emails laced with profanity after posting what I was looking for in a potential match. I asked nicely and politely about children (I don't have any and don't want to deal with others' baggage). I also asked that they should be employed and make at least six-figures as I do and be a Conservative to Republican. Is that too much to ask for? I got all these emails from obese, hideous, and unemployed or making significantly less money than me. Insecure men are calling me a ** and worse.

I talked to this person from match.com who told me all kinds of sweet things for a few days then asked me for money. She claimed she was on a business trip in Nigeria. I think she was using a fake name & photos.... She is a scammer!

I signed in to Match.com about 2 weeks ago. I agree that this is nothing but a scam.

I was on this site 5 days ago. I was scammed by other person on the site. I called to cancel my 6-month membership. They refused to give any refunds.

I signed up for a 3-month trial. I specifically chose that period as I was going to have a surgery after that and I did not want to date for awhile. It looked quite clear that it would end after that, unless I chose to renew. I didn't catch their other charges, never ever received any email from them, so I assumed that it was not renewed. Turns out that they charged my card for 9 months without me catching it. Their response was too bad. I incurred over $300 unauthorized charges.

My rating would be a zero. This is the most deceitful and crooked company I have ever dealt with. There is no way one can call them and speak to someone. You can only send a complaint form to fill out. It is scanned for key words and then you get some "help" according to the word they believe to be the problem. They don't even read the complaint forms. What a shoddy place to do business with. They are not concerned about their reputation at all. All they care about is scamming their customers.

Match.com are con artists and thieves. Profiles somehow disappear and scams are allowed. The customer service reps are flat out ugly to you. I would advise everyone to stay away. I feel completely cheated by Match.com. My money was stolen.