Dating Site Chemistry.com

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Registered: 12-19-2005
Dating Site Chemistry.com
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Sat, 02-18-2006 - 5:24am
Has anyone tried the dating site chemistry.com? My sibscription to match.com is ending and I haven't had any luck there, but I saw someone on tv talking about this other site chemistry.com and wonder if it is worth trying. Any feedback.
Thanks,
Karalyn
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Registered: 08-07-2005
Sat, 02-18-2006 - 9:16am

Hi,

How long were you with match.com? Have you met any nice men from there? Why no luck? I am with Match and am deciding whether or not to renew as well.

Thanks,

Bunny

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Registered: 09-09-2003
Sat, 02-18-2006 - 9:43am

in my city the same men on Match are on LL and Yahoo. I had a profile on Yahoo and 2 men I met from there asked me about my Lava experience :)
sometimes it is not the site, it is the city.
Where I live interesting men are taken, the ones decent enough to consider just immigrated here and dont have a job or not a good one. In cities were there is a booming industry (IT, Finance, Aerospace...) you find a lot of single professionals (single because they moved for the job not because no one wanted them!)
I myself I m thinking of putting more effort RLD instead OLD. Since there s no pressure to decide and there is no "profile" for the men from RL.

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Registered: 03-20-2003
Sat, 02-18-2006 - 10:19am

Warning, it's very expensive, probably too expensive to be worth it, unless you get in on a good deal like I did.

Go into your Match.com settings and see if you're set up to receive "special offers and promotions from select Match.com partners".

I got an introductory offer, for a FREE subscription to chemistry.com, for as long as I'm subscribing to match.com. So for $50 for 3 months, I get full access to both. As opposed to OVER $50 for one month on chemistry! So I've been on Chemistry for about a month.

It's set up similar to eHarmony except you won't get as many matches... partly just because it's new and they don't have a large member base yet. You can only have 5 matches at a time in your 'new matches' section, which I personally find annoying... they stay in your 'new' section until you either reject & permanently 'archive' them, or accept and move them to 'active match'.

Anyway it functions similar to eHarmony in that you take a long questionnaire to supposedly find you a more compatible match. I'm getting maybe about 15-20% decent matches on chemistry, the majority I delete immediately. I've only had one get to open email and trying to set up a first meet, except he's been out of town. :(

I just signed up (again) on eH and received 18 matches within a couple days. Only 3 closed me right away, I closed 5, the other 10 look pretty decent. I can't do anything else until I pay, and I'm waiting for a good deal. But 10/18 is a really good ratio of possible keepers.

Bottom line, don't bother with chemistry.com unless you get a REALLY good discount.

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Registered: 12-19-2005
Sat, 02-18-2006 - 2:43pm

Thank you everyone for your responses. I guess I live in an area where there aren't that many great available single men, because I also find the same men on match, yahoo etc. It always amazes me when I see some of the people on this board getting alot of dates from OLD, because I am not having any luck. I did try EHarmony quite a while ago, and this was the best out of all that I have tried, because I felt that the quality of men on their site was better. I have found it hard to find anyone quality and serious on match in my area. I also tried perfect match and thought that it was awful because I wasn't getting hardly any responses. I also read this from another poster and she wasn't even sure they were for real. At least on the other sites I received replies and responses, so this makes me suspicious. They are also expensive.

Thanks, Karalyn

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Registered: 02-16-2006
Sat, 02-18-2006 - 4:50pm
Has anybody checked out americansingles.com? Looks good to me.
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Registered: 10-17-2002
Sat, 02-18-2006 - 7:54pm
I am sure it depends on you area, but in mine, it was all east Indian and Asian guys. I was on it about a month and was never approached by a Caucasian.

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