This is a reposting of our Chemistry.com article. We have had several recent comments and thought it was a good idea to bring some issues to your attention.
Mandi and I appreciate comments and emails from readers. We sincerely try to provide help and guidance in the online dating arena, and when someone spends the time to write a well-written email like this that has a strong opinion of a site, we feel it’s in your best interests to print it.
For those of you who haven’t tried it – OKCupid! is really worth a look. First off, it’s a FREE dating site. That’s right, FREE. No gimmicks, no spam (I have a specific email I used for them, I would know if they sold my address.)
However, even more than the fact that it’s free (did I mention that already?) is that the technology behind the search as a least as good as, if not better than expensive dating sites like E-Harmony, Chemistry.com and Match.com.
I joined Chemistry.com through their buy one get three offer:
Three months for the price of one on Chemistry.com! You save more than 50%!
Here’s how it’s going so far…
What really sucks about my personality test on Chemistry.com is that there are 4 quadrants, and I am very close to 25% on each of them. Which means they can match me up with absolutely anybody and it’s supposed to be a “great match.”
I am really disgusted with true.com.
All their affiliate ads are sexually provocative and aimed toward men, and now this comes along…sponsored by true.com.
My personal feeling is this group is such a sell-out. They claim they check for married people and criminals, but ads like this make me think they’re out for the lowest common denominator.
My suggestion is to avoid true.com and their sister sites like the plague!
You can’t get this directly from their site, but Chemistry.com has the following offer:
Three months for the price of one on Chemistry.com! You save more than 50%!
Since that’s a really good deal, I updated my profile yesterday, and they have since come up with 5 matches and 2 other guys that are interested in me. So I’m going to join today and see what happens. Sigh.
Chemistry.com is not as wide open as Match.com, although they are affiliated. On Chemistry.com you take a personality test, and they match you with others. No trolling through profiles or having hundreds of creepy guys perusing yours.