Great for Singles Looking for:
- casual dating
- serious dating
- short-term relationships
- long-term relationsips
Dating Site Key Features
- Over 15 million active singles
- Communicate through an anonymous email network
- Send messages or 'winks' to break the ice
- match Talk - an anonymous way of getting on the phone with a potential match without using your real phone number
- Daily 5 - Recieve 5 highly compatible matches daily
- Multiple search features and customizeable filters to scan through the over 15 million singles
- Match Guarantee - Find a special someone in 6 months or 6 months of service free!
Match Compatibility
One of Match's strong points is their large user base with currently over 15 million active singles. This allows for a very realistic opportunity to find a highly compatible match according to your preferences.
Match sends you highly compatible matches daily and also provides you with multiple search features which are highly customizeable to help you filter through the millions of singles and show you only interesting profiles in your area according to your preferances.
Daily 5
As a member, Match will send you 5 highly compatible matches a day directly to the 'Daily 5' section of your account with the help of their matching technology. These matches are based on your profile information and the preferences you choose. Simply take a look at your matches every day. If you find something interesting, send an email or 'wink' to see if the feeling is mutual.
'Daily 5' is included in all memberships. It has a strong success rate since it only returns profiles and potential matches that meet your preferences so most of the work is done. Ultimately, you can sit back and wait for these profiles to come to you but with Match, we recommend also using their search features to find additional matches:
Quick Search
Search through millions of singles with simple filters including:
- Sexe - example: 'woman' seeking 'man'
- Age - enter an age range example 25-35
- Location - living within 'x' miles of your zip/postal code or city
- Profiles with Photos Only - return results and profiles with pictures
- Online Now - only return results where members are currently online and logged into their account.
Custome Search
In addition to the filters with 'Quick Search', get to add on loads of additional filters to narrow down the search. Choose only a few extra filters or get really specific in what you're looking for by specifying prefered:
- Height
- Body type - slender, athletic and toned, a few extra pounds, about average, stocky, heavyset, other, or any.
- Relationships - never married, divorced, widowed, currently seperted, or any.
- Sign - capricorn, taurus, virgo, ...
- Turn on's / off's - check as many turn on and turn off's as you'd like from a list including things like dancing, flirting, money, public displays of affection, tattoos, thunderstorms, sarcasm, and many more.
- Eyes
- Exercise Habits
- Daily Diet
- Smokes
- Drinks
- Job
- Income
- Living Situation
- Has Kids
- Wants Kids
- Pets
- Ethnicities
- Faith
- Smarts
- Languages
- Poltics
Smart Search
If you are looking for something in particular, the smart search feature alows you to search profiles with specific keywords for example 'adventurous', 'wine tasting', 'vegetarian', or anything else that is important for you in a match along with the gender and a prefered location.
With the search tools mentioned above, their daily 5, and all these scanning through a network of over 15 million active members gets Match a perfect score on compatibility.
Communication
Initial communication with Match is done through an anonymous email network. All contact information and real names are kept confidential. The only way for someone to find out your real name or info is for you to decide to give it to them:
Email
- As a member, you have your own Match email account (username@talkMATCH.com) which is used to send the first email messages to potential matches, as well as receive emails from other Match members who want to get to know you.
- Emails sent and received are completely anonymous. No contact details are included. You would have to decide to share contact information if you want the other party to know it.
Wink
- Match put together a great way to break the ice with a potential match. If you're not too sure what to write as a first message, you can send a 'wink' to a potential match by clicking on a little 'Wink at Me' link on someone's profile. They will receive this wink and can then decide to wink back or send an email message.
- You can keep track of winks including who winked at you through your main account page.
Saying 'No Thanks'
- Match gets a few points for this one. It's not always easy to say 'no thanks' but Match put an easy link in all emails where you can click the 'No Thanks' tab, choose from a few generic responses to save some time, or write in your own words why you're not interested.
Once you want to move on to speaking with your potential connection, Match put together a brilliant feature:
match Talk
- Once you're ready to speak on the phone, Match put together this amazing feature allowing you to commuicate by phone but not having to give out your phone number.
- Using match Talk, a new, unique phone number is generated for both you and your possible match. Each of you can call the other on this number. When a phone call is placed at the match Talk number, it will be forwarded to your real number so you receive it as a normal call but the other person never has your real contact information.
- On a caller ID, only your shared 'fake' number will be shown
- You can choose to end communication with someone at any point using the match Talk settings in your account.
Easily the most creative and useful communication features from the services we review. For this, Match gets a perfect mark on communication.
Number of Singles on the Dating Site
Currently over 15 million singles; the largest number of active profiles from the online dating sites reviewed.
Ease of Use
The site uses a clean layout. Account pages are well set up, very straight forward and easy to navigate. Creating your profile is very simple with step by step instructions along the way to make sure every section is filled out correctly and completely. Your email account is as easy to use as any other free email account like hotmail or gmail for example.
Security and Privacy
Match provides a very secure and private platform to work from. Their email network is completely anonymous so only your username is seen. No information is shared. The only way for someone to find out your personal information is for you to give it to them. With their 'match Talk' feature, you even get to speak on the phone without ever needing to give out your real phone number. It doesn't get much more secure and private than this.
Free Trial / Specials
Match was kind enough to set us up with special links to addiitional promotions for you guys::
Special Promotions
Here is the regular promotion:
6 Month Guarantee
- 6 Month guarantee (find a special someone in 6 months or you get 6 months of additional service for free!)
This one if interesting. If you don't find someone special during a 6 month subscription, they will extend their services for an additional 6 months for free! A few criteria are in place to be elgible but all very reasonable:
- Sign up for a 6 month subscription.
- Complete your online profile including a picture.
- Communicate with at least 5 different singles each month.
This is one of the more interesting and generous free offers from the dating services we review. If you are planning to try an online dating service, we suggest taking them up on this offer while it's around as it sounds like it will only be for a limited time. Chances are you will find a special someone before hitting the 6 month mark but we are still giving them points for putting the guarantee out there.
Considering the added promotions they have given us, Match gets a perfect score for this section as they really are giving a lot to new users right now, and a lot to our users as well who have taken the time to do research on their site first.
Cost of Dating Service Membership
Prices are less expensive than most of the online dating sites we review. A big seller for these guys is their 'Match Guarantee' which requires a 6 month subscription for you to be eligible:
Signing Up:
- $34.99 – 1 month
- $59.97 – 3 months ($19.95 / month)
- $101.94 – 6 months. ($16.99 / month)
*Match Guarantee:
- $101.94 – 12 months ($8.50 / month)
* For you to be eligible for the Match Guarantee, you need to subscribe to the Match service for an initial 6 month period at the regular price of $101.94 after which, if you have not found someone special, you get an additional 6 months of service for free which makes for a monthly rate of $8.50.
Conclusion
Two things help Match stick out in our reviews; the size of their network which boasts more than 15 million singles, and secondly, the confidence in their own service they show by putting out a 6 month guarantee that you will find a special someone which is something other dating services we review aren't so ready to offer. With this in mind, along with their outstanding reputation and our in depth analysis and review, Match scores as one of the best online dating service on our site. We highly recommend them and believe it will play a great factor in your road to love. Definitely a must to check out.
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