Clearly you are the weirdo of the weirdos. 
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People are rejected !? So those touted sucess rates are crap, basically, and they don’t find matches for people looking for matches, they find them for those they think are likely to be matched :<
Given that that’s an accurate discription of the guy I met on the internet and am going to marry, they could have chalked us up in the “sucess” catagory, if they would have had us…
Errrr…what’s their justification…and perhaps more interesting, their screening process for eliminating people into S&M?
Don’t know if it works or not, but I can say that I had dinner with her back in August. I wouldn’t call it a date, just dinner but she’s a nice looking woman and I had a good time talking to her. If it wasn’t for the distance, and now that I’m seeing someone, I’d have asked her out. So any of you guys in the Ohio area you should look her up.
Well, thanks, Edward. I liked meeting you too.
How’re you these days? I’m glad to hear that you’ve met someone, and I hope everything’s going well with you.
Scribble, just so you know, if you wait a week or two after registering and letting eHarmony make some matches for you, but you don’t pay so that you can communicate with your matches, eHarmony will eventually get desperate and send you an email offer to double the time periods on their rates…i.e. if you pay the $100, you get 6 months rather than 3, etc. That makes it a much better deal if you’re serious about wanting to go to a paid account.
I haven’t paid yet, but I’m thinking about it. I’m a little wary for the same reasons that elegiac had…I’m not sure that the matches they’ve turned up for me so far are actually going to work. I see a lot of “I want an active person” in people’s profiles, which pretty much means “I want a skinny person” in personal ad parlance…but since eHarmony doesn’t allow you to outright state your physical preferences, people do what they can to let their real preferences come through. Eh.
Thanks for letting me know. So far, I’ve got 7 matches. All but one strike me as booooo-riiiiing. The last one might have potential, though. We’ll see.
I’ve got my doubts about my matches, too. First off–why is every single eHarmony match I’ve gotten an engineer of some sort? If anything, I have a pattern of bad dating situations with engineers. I don’t know why, but I do. Second–why do all but one of them seem so atrociously dull?
You know, so far, in the measley 7 matches I’ve gotten, I haven’t seen more than two say that they want an “active” woman. A few have specified that they want someone who’s not a total couch potato, someone who likes to be outdoors, or likes to travel, and doesn’t just sit there passively, but I don’t think that’s the same as saying, “No fat chicks.”
Things are going well, been doing a lot of swimming and planning for a trip to Europe. I hope your bugs are ok, if you’re still doing that.
Ooh, Europe! That sounds exciting. Where are you planning to go?
Yeah, I’m still doing the bug and forest thing. One day I’ll graduate, but it’s taking forever–in part because my teaching load’s been so absurdly heavy. If all goes well, I’ll be spending the summer in either Costa Rica or Brazil, which would be very, very cool. Wish me luck.
I can’t beleive that a dating service web page dumps people!
Someone should set up a meeting of all you rejects. I bet that party would be more interesting then them boring “acceptable” types anyway.
(I recommend you have lots of alcohol and contraceptives on hand.)
Despite the fact that eHarmony decided I was unsuitable for them, they keep sending me emails asking me to [pay to] join, or offering to match me up with people? Why? You said I wasn’t suitable, so why??
Why?!?
Well, this is simply because all male Engineers are real, manly men with veins coursing with high-levels of testosterone. We…, um, I mean They, have rapier-like wit, cutting-edge fashion sense, vast knowledge of every topic, six-pack abs, and superior conversational skills. It goes without saying that they make the most skilled and sensative lovers in the world.
That’s why, eHarmony is just trying to do you a big favor - better not let your friends know you passed up a match with an engineer if you wish to retain face in their eyes.
No, no I never said I have a MSEE - now go away
For some reason eHarmony sees to revel in matching me up with ladies nowhere near my hometown. Clicking “Close Match - Physical Distance too great” over and over gets boring (of course, many women click that option first on me - it’s only fair, so I don’t sweat over it).
I only got 3 months for price of 1 offer - guess men don’t rate so high as to get the 6 month deal. Still haven’t seen anything (of the 4 geographical compatible matches) to make me get my credit card out…
Really? And single? And a Doper? You must be too young for me. Or somewhere around Wheeling. Everyone else is. 