PerfectMatch Reviews

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Costs:

• FREE basic membership!
• Premium memberships are priced as follows:
  • 1 month for $59.95
  • 2 months for $64.95 (just $5 more!)
  • 3 months for $99.95, a saving of 44% over the one month plan.
  • 6 months for $159.95, a saving of 55% over the one month plan.
  • 12 months for $249.95, a saving of 65% over the one month plan.

Features:

• Over 15 million registered members
• 10,000 - 15,000 new sign-ups every day
• Over 90 marriages a day as a result of joining PerfectMatch!
• Free book, Finding Your Perfect Match, by Dr. Pepper Schwartz, valued at $14.95. You just pay postage and packing if you want it!
• As featured on a number of Hollywood movies, notably "Must Love Dogs" starring Diane Lane and John Cusack, "Failure to Launch" with Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker, and in "Superman Returns" starring Brandon Routh.
• Matchmaking site rather than dating site. You fill out a detailed questionnaire and they find matches for you. You will not have the ability to search the members' database yourself.
• One of the very few dating/matchmaking sites with roughly equal numbers of male and female members
• Duet Compatibility Matching System: the initial questionnaire you fill in when you join will be used to find matches for you. This is an extensive questionnaire based on the same theory that inspired the famous Myers Briggs Type Indicator. This is the only test of its kind and it is the only one that tells you which traits your partner should share and which should be different.
• Once the system returns matches for you, you may initiate contact using a guided communication system, comprising of more questions and answers, or proceed straight to a Fast Track mode of communication.
• Recommended for long term, serious relationships only - not for casual dates or simple flirting!
• Most subscription packages include a match guarantee.
• No need to pay until a match is found for you and you wish to communicate with the other person
• Excellent technical support.

Joining:

• Fill out the extensive questionnaire and receive your personality profile as a free member. As a free member you will also be sent matches.
• You must upgrade to a paid subscription in order to initiate contact with any of the matches you are sent or in order to reply to anyone who initiates contact with you.

Performing a Search:

• You may not perform any member searches on PerfectMatch. The system will find matches for you based on your personality profile using the Duet Compatibility Matching System. These matches will be sent to you and only then can you view their profiles and choose to communicate with them.

Editor's Verdict:

PerfectMatch.com is one of our recommended online matchmaking sites with over 15 million members worldwide and responsibility for over 90 marriages a day!

PerfectMatch is not your typical dating site. When you visit PerfectMatch, the first thing you notice is that it's divided into two sections: a section for singles who are looking for love; and a section for those who are already married. The singles section is designed to find you a perfect match - not just a date - but your perfect match in life, which is no mean feat! The married section is designed to strengthen your relationship with your spouse. For the purposes of this review, we will focus on the singles section of PerfectMatch - the section that's going to find you your perfect match!

PerfectMatch differs from almost every other dating site in that it won't allow you to search the members' database, no matter whether you're a free member or a fully paid-up member! You're probably thinking that's crazy, right? But the way PerfectMatch works is that they do the searching and the matchmaking for you. When you join PerfectMatch, you will be asked to complete a questionnaire. This questionnaire isn't like the other quick questionnaires you're asked to complete with other dating sites - this questionnaire is long - very long! Depending on the amount of thought you give to each question, this questionnaire will take you between 1 and 2 hours to complete - so a cup of coffee is probably in order!

As soon as you finish the questionnaire, you will be able to view your personality profile. Once your questionnaire is complete, the system will begin trying to find compatible matches for you using its patented Compatibility Matching System. The system may return just a handful of matches or it may return 50 or so, depending on your profile and the number of matches it has found. Also, you may not receive any matches for a few days or even a few weeks on PerfectMatch - so don't expect results right away. However, the matches you do get should (in theory) be very closely matched to your personality type.

Once matches are sent to you, you will be able to view the profiles of your matches and decide whether or not to initiate contact with them. In order to initiate contact, you must be a fully paid-up subscriber to PerfectMatch. And in order to reply, the person you're contacting must also be a fully paid-up member. Contacting the other person may be done in one of two ways: either by using the Guided Communication Process to break the ice, or bypass this using the Fast Track system and just contact them directly. The Guided Communication System, which PerfectMatch recommends you use is another round of Q&A's between you and your match to further determine your compatibility. The Fast Track communication system allows you to bypass all this hooey and contact your match directly.

With all these questions and answers and the "Guided Communication System" PerfectMatch is definitely not for those of you who are looking for a quick date, a casual fling or just a bit of fun. It is basically for those of you who are looking to find your life partner, and nothing less.

Depending on your outlook, you might think that this scientific approach to dating, based on hundreds of questions and answers and personality profiling, is a worthwhile approach or taking some of the fun out of dating. For many people, part of the experience of dating is discovering for yourself how well-matched you are and profiling your partner's personality yourself, subconsciously, in your own mind. In that case, you may prefer to do your own searching and matchmaking, rather than relying on an algorithm to do it for you! For some people, much of the fun of online dating is being able to search through hundreds of profiles of potential matches in you area, browse through their photographs, read what they have to say about themselves and even watch them live on video. Then strike up a conversation over email or instant messenger, and hope that you both connect enough to meet up for a date. You can do all of this and more at many of the other dating sites in this category, notably Match.com, our No. 1 choice in this arena.

At PerfectMatch.com, all of that is replaced with a computer-based matchmaking system that determines compatibility, based on 29 criteria gleaned from questionnaires. The PerfectMatch approach may be more suitable for people who know themselves quite well, who know what they want to find in a partner, and who don't have time to explore the site's enormous membership base. So whilst the lengthy data-gathering process and inability to perform your own searches may put some people off PerfectMatch.com, there is no doubt that its psychologically grounded matchmaking skills make it a great choice for some people.

Strictly speaking, PerfectMatch.com doesn't really belong in this category, as it is a matchmaking site, rather than a dating site per se. This is noticeable from the many differences between PerfectMatch.com and many of the other sites listed here. However, with more and more dating sites offering automatic matchmaking, the distinction between the two groups has become blurred enough for us to put them all together in one category.

However, if an advanced matchmaking site is what you're after, then we recommend Chemistry.com Chemistry.com's matchmaking feature is somewhat better than PerfectMatch.com's and it is likely to return more matches in a shorter space of time. Also, Chemistry.com is a little cheaper to join than PerfectMatch.com

Whatever your opinion on PerfectMatch, its popularity and success at matching couples with one another can't be ignored. Who knows, you could be next. Just be aware that you'll first need to spend 1-2 hours completing the registration questionnaire, then wait days or weeks for your highly compatible matches to be sent to you, then pay $59.95 for one month's membership, and only then begin connecting with your perfect match. It could be the recipe for blissful marriage or endless frustration, depending on your personality type. So if you aren't sure if this intensive matchmaking approach is right for you, have a look at our reviews of other mainstream dating sites which have a greater focus on interactivity between members.

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