Match.com is one of a plethora of online dating services where you pay money to post a profile, search for other profiles and gain access to them by way of email. In many aspects, it is similar to placing a personals ad in the newspaper but with the added bonus of searching using specifics. Simply put, Internet dating is the best thing to happen in the area of love since Adam pulled that leaf off of Eve. It works well as a number-cruncher, setting you up with profiles that match criteria specified by the participants. Used this way, if you put the time in and use the computer as the kind of tool it was designed to be, you can meet more people more rapidly and effectively screen them than ever before. Although most people don't pan out, even a bad date is still better than sitting at home lonely and bored on a Friday night. With luck but above all persistence, you might even meet someone wonderful just like I did." - bettega, Epinions.
"Love and dating are a game. That's all there is to it. The rules have never changed. For me, the one thing I have to get used to, is that if a date doesn't work out, no matter how well I think it might be going, is that it is what it is and in the long run of things, maybe it's for the best. The complicated matter is trying to find closure when I don't hear back from a date that I know has been going well. But such is life. I also want to say something about online dating. Regardless of how it is dating, you still have to be careful and I would encourage anyone who uses any online dating service, be it Match or OKCupid! is that you have to take this with a grain of salt. You never know who you will meet with. Match.com however, is an electronic version of the dating game in which you don't have to meet people in bars or in public, you just have to sign into your email and you might find someone out there." - videodude, Epinions.
One of the factors that could help you decide in availing a product or service is by reading customer testimonials. Chemistry.com has received a lot of reviews from customers. Given below are some excerpts of customer reviews for you to read.
Possitive Feedback
"Overall, I would say my experience with Chemistry was pretty good. I don't really care for their push on the coffee dates or their weird affiliation with Starbucks. However, I did like the fact that they sent you 5 matches per day. The matches were a mixed bag but there was enough quantity and variety to find someone I was interested in dating. I can definitely recommend the site." - modernmarvel, a user of epinions.com
"The pro of this site is that the matching system is superb. I feel that most of the matches I received were really good, unlike eHarmony who cannot grasp the concept of matching period. This site also even has a "You might also like" section for matches that were really close. I felt like this site really was able to describe me perfectly and it has a lot of great features. I also felt that it could have matched me if it weren't for really poor business practices" - J, a user of topdatingpicks.com
"Well, first of all, I need to thank them for matching me with my partner. We'd been eyeing each other for weeks on the match.com and yahoo sites but thought 'oh no, he's too this, she's too that' and neither of us made a first move although we'd each dated other people from other sites. Each of us signed up with chemistry when they were just getting started and we went through the testing and match process. We were matched within a few weeks. The chemistry.com screening questions helped me identify some traits and learn about those of potential matches in ways other sites did not." - mehitabel, a user of topdatingpicks.com
Negative Feedback
"I am deeply underwhelmed by Chemistry and will definitely not renew when my subscription runs out. Good thing I searched for promo deals and got three months for the price of one–$50 a month is ridiculous, but $50 for three seemed worth a shot." - joeymoonboots, a user of epinions.com
"No luck here. Seems repetitive in that they just send you anyone, not matched. No responses to emails. Fake profiles galore. Same old same old." - Helen, a user of edatereview.com
Match.com's Better Business Bureau (BBB) profile and information is currently being updated (as of June 29 2012) and no report of its BBB credibility is available at this time.
Match.com's BBB report will be viewable in the future here.
Match.com currently has no available BBB scale rating (on a scale of A+ to F).
Chemistry.com is a BBB accredited business since 01/31/2006. The Better Business Bureau has determined that Match.com (or Chemistry.com), LLC meets their accreditation standards. These standards include a commitment to make a good faith effort to resolve any consumer complaints. The business has also received a very high rating of A+ from the bureau due to its focus on customer satisfaction. Furthermore, the website has been verified by VeriSign as a valid business. This just shows that Chemistry.com is a highly credible business.
Match.com currently on average reaches 15M+ unique visitors on the website from the United States alone making it one of the most visited dating websites in the country based on reports from Compete.
According to Alexa, The Web Information Company, approximately 74% of Match.com's traffic has been from the United States followed by the United Kingdom (5%), Canada (3.9%), Japan (1.3%), Sweden (1.1%), etc.
Chemistry.com is the 9,110th most visited website in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. Chemistry.com is located in the US and has a trafic rank of 1,614 in the country which is really great. The site is very popular among the users in the cities of Portland (where it is ranked #633) and Denver (#653). Women age of 45 and above visit the site quite often. (Note that the lower the rank, the more visitors the website has)
According to webstatsdomain.com, Chemistry.com gets 87.2% of its visitors from United States. The website is has an estimated value of $30,556. The site has a excellent Pagerank of 7/10 and has a 32% seo score. Having excellent website popularity is important for social media sites like chemistry.com to ensure a steady flow of active members. The more active members, the more dates you could get.
Feel free to visit Match.com on Facebook via their app where you can find other singles looking for a relationship just like you!
You can also follow them on Twitter at @Match to read about success stories, have your questions answered or to share your own Match.com success story!
Chemistry.com has already millions of users. Yet still, the entity strives to reach out to other people by using other social media networks like Tweeter and Facebook. Chemistry.com has 3,769 followers on Twitter and 705 tweets. It does not have a specific Facebook page. However, Match.com, the partner website of chemistry.com has already accumulated 165,594 likes on Facebook. Chemistry.com also has a Google+ account with has 87 friends. The entity has a blog that contains interesting pictures and article content about relationships and dating.
Match.com is not currently listed as suspicious. It has not hosted or distributed malicious content in the last 90 days.
- Google Safe Browsing report (as of June 29 2012).
Match.com will not sell your information to third parties but there are multiple locations on Match.com you may click which will lead you to third parties. Match.com's third party advertisers are not controlled under the Match.com privacy policy and these third parties may or may not collect information from you if you use their pages.
For more information about Match.com privacy and security measures, please click here.
Chemistry.com is not currently listed as suspicious by Google Safebrowsing. 42 pages of the website were tested over the past 90 days and no malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent in any of the pages. Suspicious content was never found on the site within the past 90 days.
Norton Safe Web has analyzed chemistry.com for safety and security problems and no computer threats, identity threats, and annoyance factors were found. Additionally, the site can secure private information using a VeriSign SSL Certificate.
To take full advantage of Match.com's features, it is recommended that a subscription is purchased in order to be able to communicate with your potential dates.
A basic one month subscription is $29.99 / month.
Subscription packages spanning three months or six months are also available.
To view up-to-date subscription packages and their prices, please log into your Match.com account.
You may opt to become either a free member or a premium subscriber at Chemistry.com. If you decide to upgrade to a premium membership, you could choose among the three subscription packages:
- 1 Month: $39.99
- 3 Months: $26.99 a month (for a total of $80.97)
- 6 Months: $20.99 a month (for a total of $125.94)
If you decide to become a premium subscriber, you would have access to the following features that are unavailable in a free membership:
- Communicate at any time with the matches you are interested in
- Email your matches at any time
- Flirt using games
- Discover who wants to connect with you
- Find out who has noticed you
Subscription costs of sites similar to Chemistry.com
- 1-month trial offer (subject to a 6-month renewal) - $5
- 3-month subscription - $59.99 per month
- 6-month subscription - $29.99 per month
- 12-month membership - $29.99 per month
- 1-month $21.99
- 3-month subscription - $12.99 per month
- 6-month subscription - $9.99 per month
- 12-month membership - $7.99 per month
- 1-month membership $29.95.
- 3-month $19.95 per month
- 6-month subscription $14.98 per month
There is no shipping information to report.
Chemistry.com has over 10 million users but still only caters to the United States. If you would want to find a date, head over to Chemistry.com and sign up (though anybody from all over the world could actually join as long as the zip code entered upon initial signup is from the US). You would be required to enter your email address, a user name and your zip code. After the initial signup, you would be required to complete a lengthy personality test to facilitate the matching process of the website. Upon completion, you have the option to avail of a paid membership plan or continue as a free user of the website.
Match.com happily accepts payment via MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, JCB, Diners Club plus various pre-paid credit cards.
US citizens are free to pay by online cheque by providing a routing number, an account number and a valid driver's licence number.
Mailed checks and money order options are also available depending on your subscription level.
Payment via PayPal is also accepted.
Chemistry.com accepts your payments by credit/debit card. The following credit cards are accepted:
- American Express,
- Discover,
- JCB,
- MasterCard, and
- Visa
If you pay by credit or debt card you will be charged immediately for the subscription package of your choice. Upon expiration of your subscription, Chemistry.com will automatically renew your subscription each month at the low monthly value rate unless you choose a different subscription package or resign your Chemistry subscription prior to that date.
You could also subscribe through phone or pay using online checks. PayPal is not yet accepted.
To not be charged at the end of your term for your paid subscription to Match.com, you must resign your subscription via the Change/Cancel Membership page under your account settings.
Temporary suspensions of your subscription are not currently available although you may change the visibility of your profile to hide it from the Match.com public.
A member's premium subscription with Chemistry.com will continue indefinitely until cancelled by the member. When a subscriber resigns, the entity will stop billing the subscriber immediately. The subscriber will no longer be billed from the day the subscriber resigns, unless he/she reinstates his/her Chemistry subscription.
Chemistry.com does not pro-rate subscriptions. For examole, if a member who availed of a three month subscription package resigns after his/her first month, the subscription will remain active for the remainder of the initial term. During that time the member is still able to see new matches and use the guided communication tools with active matches.
In order to resign or opt out of the services of Chemistry.com, visit My Account and click on Resign Membership and Remove Profile.
