After our last review of behappy2day.com we now turn to matchmaker.com and put this site through its paces in our review of paid dating sites. Being a paid site, our expectations are always high in all the areas that matter to users. Matchmaker.com premium account cost $10 to $40 depending on how many months of subscription you take out.

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Login & Customizing Profiles
Similar to other dating sites you will also need email/username and password to login to your matchmaker account. But whenever I tried to login using my email address it showed me “Invalid login”, so login with my email address is not working at all.

Once you have logged in, you can see the all the menus positioned at the top of the website. so the dater simply needs to go there to search for dates and customize his or her matchmaker account.

At the right side of the website you can view site activities such as; about new members within the last week, gift sent or received, who’s on IM (instant messenger), people who viewed you or viewed by you. This can all be found the home page after login.

In the edit profile section you can also set basic details about his or her and the partner you are looking for in terms of personality, hobbies, activities, appearance and lifestyle. You can also mention you favorite TV program and movies.

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As far as customizing your own privacy is concerned, you can enable/disable all the notifications including newsletters, subscription emails and also the alerts from matchmaker.com such as the age range, distance and gender of those members whom you want to contact.

User can also set the IM status to on or off setting. User can also change password, set his or her profile as visible/hidden from the site and remove the profile permanently.

Photo Profile Section

You can upload your profile photo from your computer. You can upload up to a maximum of 10 photos initially. After uploading your photo you will need to wait for it to be approved by the website administrator for nudity or other guidelines, and this can take up to 24 hours.

Browse & Search Feature

The browsing and searching on this website is ver easy and all the options are available on one page.

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The various browsing menus are placed at the top of the website so users can easily search for any members by using basic search, username and advanced search options and have the ability to save this search also.

Online search features enables you to see who is online also. In the online option menus, you can see how many members currently are online on matchmaker.com and how many of these are within your search criteria.

Using the basic search feature to search any members by just giving some basic detail such as what kind of a person you are seeking, age criteria, miles within, city and country.

You can also search any members by entering specific members’ username, if you know this already.

The advanced search feature options lets you search by specifying some filters ie. personality, habits, lifestyle, appearance, location and distance.

Messaging

Messaging is very important to connect and share your feelings and thoughts with other members of the site. User can send email and gift and show his or her interest using the gift or IM option. Being a paid site all the features indicated above are for users upgrading to the premium account which is a subscription paid system.

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Whenever you try to access the paid feature, the site will throw a message of premium account holders only and the cost varies from $10 to $40 depending on how many months you take up the subscription plans.

Other Features
Maintaining a trend of providing help to users like other dating sites, this site also has features like dating advice for men and women, dating and relationships advice for women. They have a nice feature unlike other dating sites which is an astrology section.

What’s Missing
The website does not have a feature like forums, blogs which are commonly found on other dating websites. This is possibly due to the overhead in maintaining such a community system.

Being a paid website one would expect features like adding video profile and facebook connectivity to enhance the user experience which reduces time to fill in the profile details.

Member Base
The member base of this website seems to be large enough. There are a good number of unique members and visitors to this website but since last year the rate of unique members and visitors to the site has been decreasing which is not a good sign.

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