Average:
• 2.4 / 5 (by 39 Users) for Match.com
Welcome to one of the largest Dating Services on the Internet.
Match.com
has well over 15 million members with profiles. Almost a quarter of a million people met someone special at
Match.com last year. With these statistics you're almost guaranteed to meet your match, in fact you are Guaranteed! If you purchase a
6 month membership at Match.com and you don't mean anyone special, Match.com will add an additional 6 months to your membership at no additional costs.
With the newly redesign MatchMobile, it is now easy to surf Match.com on your cell phone. You can now do virtually anything you need too in regards to online dating, from
updating your profile to searching for matches and sending emails to that one member that caught your eye. Plus, you will get contacted
right away when you receive any new mail or instant messaging requests from other members. Match.com dating applications are also available for the iPhone, Palm Pre, Palm Pixi and the Blackberry
(in their App Stores) and are free to use by Match.com subscribers. Most of these smart phones have the added advantage which allow you to use the phones location-based capabilities to find other singles in your area.
MatchMyFriends is a new set of features at Match.com that allows members to play cupid and search for matches for friends and family.
Once you find a match for someone, a email will be sent, notifying your friend to check out this potential match. MatchMyFriends is also about
your friends offering testimonials for your profile. These testimonials can offer your profile legitimacy and can give insight into your personality.
Both of these features allow members to approve the information before anything is posted online.
UK singles, please read our separate Match.com UK review.
Current Match.com membership promotions:
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Positive Features
- Newly upgraded site (Dec 2008) has a much easier flow and not as busy as old design. The colors are not as dark.
- A first in the dating world, a Make Love Happen Guarantee. Read below in Costs for more details
- Keyword search on member's profiles (called matchWords).
- Very large online dating service (maybe the largest general orinented dating site on the internet).
- Allowed to remove singles from your search results.
- Find out when your match reads the email you sent them with Email Read Notification.
- Customer Care available 7 days a week from 8:00am to 8:00pm CST - 1 (866) 962-8244
Negative Features
- To many ads are shown on the site about there other ventures. - UPDATE - They have greatly reduced this with their new update (Jan, 2007)
- New customer service hours. Match.com customer service is only open Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 8 PM CST. Their site is easy to use and has a great online help system but for people really new to the internet,
they may need some live support. Since most of us use these dating sites after work and on weekends I am not sure what they were thinking here.
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| Dating Site: | Match.com |
| Members: | 15 million or more. |
| Cost per Month: | From $14.99 |
| Free Trial: | Yes, limited communication. |
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• 39 votes cast
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| Free Membership |
- Yes (3 or 7 day)
- Included:
- Create a Profile (Info needed for profile)
- General - User Info, Sex and age of the person you are seeking, Your Gender, Birthday, Location
- Basics - Relationship Status, Who are you looking for, Search radius from your postal
- Appearance
- Interests - Lists of interests to choose from and essay questions on what you do for fun, Favorite type of date, etc..
- Lifestyle - What you enjoy doing in life.
- Background / Values - Ethnicities, Faith, Education, Languages
- About my Date - Description on who you think your best match would be. Includes everything from there appearance to if they smoke.
- Introduction - Headline and essay question, describe yourself and your perfect match.
- Photos
- Searching
- Viewing of profiles. Match,com also now calls them Portraits
- Send a wink
- Not Included:
- Communicating with Members.
- MSN Alerts
- See who has viewed your profile.
- Your profile will be reviewed by a member of
Match.com
customer service team within 48 hours. Once it's approved, other members will be able to find you!
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| Costs |
- Dating plan costs last checked September 16, 2009
- The first 7 days of a membership are free.
- Match.com Membership Plans
- 1 month plan for $34.99 per month.
- 3 months for $19.99 per month.
- 6 months for $16.99 per month. This includes the Match.com Guarantee. Save almost 50% each month.
- 6 months for $17.99 per month. This includes the Match.com Guarantee, Email Read Notification, First Impressions and the Highlighed Profile features all combined into one simple package.
- Match.com Additional Paid Features
- matchMobile - $4.99 per month for 6 months.
- Connect with your match right from your mobile phone.
- Email Read Notification - $2.99 per month for 6 months.
- Find out when your matches read the messages you have sent them.
- Highlighted Profile - $2.99 per month for 6 months.
- Your profile receives a unique color in search results so it stands out from the rest.
- First Impressions - $2.20 per month for 6 months.
- Newest members see your profile first which gives you a better chance of being contacted.
- Additional Paid Features are more expensive per month if you pick a shorter membership term.
- Make Love Happen Guarantee
- If you don't find someone special during your 6-month subscription, Match.com will give you an additional 6 months at no additional cost to you
to continue your search. Certain rules apply see Match.com for full details.
- Pay by most major Credit Cards or PayPal.
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| Relationship Types |
- Heterosexual
- Gay
- Bisexual
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| Relationship Status |
- Never Married
- Divorced
- Widowed
- Currently separated
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| Regions |
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
- International, over 240 countries and in 18 languages.
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| Viewing & Communication Tools |
- Photos
- Profiles
- Anonymous Emails
- Email Read Notification (when someone reads the mail you sent them).
- Match.com Messenger
- Used for chatting and storing Favourite Members.
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| Search By |
- Who's Online
- Sex and Age and Sexual Orientation
- Distance, City and Zip Code
- Any part of profile including Appearance, Interests, Lifestyles and Values.
- Daily 5
- Match.com offers you a new list of matches every day. Members can then let Match know if they sparked your interest. If so, an introduction email is sent out. If not, the match is removed from your list. The Daily 5 learns from your choices.
- MatchWords
- Search profiles for keywords that members feel define them as a person. These keywords are autogenerated and created by the member. As an example: passionate or family.
- Reverse Matches
- Discover who is looking for you but you are not necessary looking for.
- Mutual Matches
- Lists members who you share a mutual attraction with. Basically it lets you find members who will also like you (based on profile matching preferences).
- Smart Search
- Find people based on their interests, MatchWords, username and other text in their profiles. You enter some words or a phrase in a text box along with a Postal/Zip code and your gender.
- Location Based Searching
- Available for the Match.com iPhone, Palm Pixi and Palm Pre dating applications only.
- Allows you to find other singles in your immediate area.
- Match.com members must opt in before their location is given out.
- You are allowed to save any search with a name so it is easy to bring up later.
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| Articles |
- Match.com, is enormously popular and singles are finding it a great place to meet appropriate suitors. -- K. Couric, Today Show
- Dr. Phil to offer dating advice on Web -- USA Today
- It's now 100% socially acceptable to sign up for Match.com -- Business Week
- The well known Forbes magazine rated Match.com as one of the best online dating services around.
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