I found that almost all the profiles that I was sent / matched with,  lived at least 160 miles away as the 'distance' didn't take into account the Bristol Channel !!  I live on the coast near Swansea so the 60 mile radius I thought provided a tidy area actually caught profiles from people in Devon, Taunton etc which I felt was just too far to travel.  Are there no potential dates in Wales ?

I joined eHarmony about 10 months ago. I (finally) met somebody on there about 2 weeks before my subscription was ending. We actually had a lot in common, which surprised me because she was the only person that I actually had contact with on the site. We dated for about 4 months, but I ended it because she was nothing like what her profile said. I'm not sure if this was the compatability that I thought eHarmony was going to help me out with. I suppose it could have just been her. But I don't think I would recomend this site to anybody. Lot's of money for nothing. By the sounds of it, I got lucky in even meeting a person from the site.

I just read everysingle post on here - and although infuriating, I am a little glad to see a lot of people have had the same experience! eharmony is a waste of money, I find as a women, the men seem to be lacking any kind of forwardness. Lots of 'guided communication'  but then when it came to real emails - nothing. So far (4 months) NO men have had any follow through. I use Lavalife instead, it is so much better, faster and realistic. I can't cancel eharmony of course, so i'll keep trying until my time is up... 

Would you like to hook up then since your free at the moment?  :p

I joined eHarmony for a year. My observations:

• I got eight new matches every morning. For the first month or two, the matches were all local. However, despite saying I only wanted matches within 60 miles, soon almost all of the matches were from further and further away (hundreds of miles).
• They called this "flexible matching", so I turned "flexible matching" off. That didn't stop the distant matching, and I even got an offer from eHarmony of a free coupon on southwest Airlines if I would increase my distance criteria (I didn't). Long distance matches may seem romantic, but they aren't very practical, and are fraught with some danger.
• As a result, even though I was not seeing anyone, for the last six months of membership (except at the very end), I had "receive matches" turned off.
• A few days before my one year membership expired, I logged in again, and turned "receive matches" back on, to see if anything had changed. It hadn't.
• I am pretty sure that I had previously clicked on "no auto renewal", as I strongly disbelieve in such renewals. On the anniversary date, I expected my account to be "blocked". Instead, I was notified that it had been renewed. I IMMEDIATELY canceled the account online, AND I made sure that I did not attempt to access the account, so as to not give eHarmony any excuse that I was still using the service. I received an eMail saying I had to call a telephone number to cancel the account. Excuse me, eHarmony, but you are not Hitler, and I don't have to subject myself to a sales pitch, argument, or anything else to cancel the account: once you have received proper notice (as acknowledged by their eMail response), that's all I have to do. Anyway, I contacted my credit card company to block the renewal. Normally they ask for a reason, but in this case they didn't; they just accepted the chargeback. Apparently they have had prior dealings with eHarmony and auto-renewal practices (or they know the law). Two days later, eHarmony attempted the charge, which was blocked.
• About six months later, when eHarmony was advertising a "free weekend", I attempted to log in out of curiosity, but received a message that my account was blocked due to "non-payment". Ok, eHarmony, so you want to carry a grudge. Well, two can play that game; we both have to live by our reputations.

I fault eHarmony for ethics on two counts:

• Sending distant matches, despite my clear distance criteria. Apparently they "know what's best for you".
• Auto-renewal. I'm a member of several organizations that offer online services and auto-renewals, and they all (with the exception of the dating services) make you manually select "auto-renewal". This is called "opt-in", and (due unethical eMail marketing practices in the past), has become the only accepted ethical renewal practice. Requiring someone to "opt-out" is considered poor business practice.

Yup'    Its good to hear that "real profiles" can be fake. What they call : Angel profiles.

           Ive had this happen on other sites. Not this one. Im deciding wether to join or not.

           But, I might have e-mailed this "person" a couple of times 2-3 x's Then all of a

           sudden, the person would say : Oh' Ive decided  to stop. Or take a break from dating

            sites for a while.  So its like hmmm'........Why are you answering your mail ? Or

           Better yet.....Why is your profile still up and working. A couple of day's  after the The

            supposed cancelation. And 3rdly why are you on-line to chat???? The next day :(-

            I think all sites have little tricks to keep or recruit members or future one's. And

            I'm glad to hear someone else has that happened to them. I'm not alone. 

I agree with what you say 110%. The matches are not there. I only contact ladies whom I can see have viewed me. And that I about 2 per week. So only around 7%  of people are there. But even if they view you they have to be a paid up member, otherwise you can contact them but they cannot contact you unless they pay. You can get aroud this by sending a message with your email address.