Diane R.

I guess you get what you pay for here - these people are really reliable, and you usually get your stuff long before you expect it. Customer service is GREAT.

That said - prices are generally not so great compared to other vendors.

I love Amazon! Great site, super easy to use, very efficient. A great model for how a shopping site should work!

I sometimes think that Chemistry is a place where Match sends misbehaving employees as punishment, or perhaps it is just a honey pot for scammers, or maybe a place where failed web programmers are sent to work. Or all of the above. It is, hands down, the very worst singles website in existence, if you don't count the ones that apparently are reserved for North Korean political prisoners.

On any given day, I can guarantee that I will get more scam mail than real mail, most of it beginning with the phrase "txtme" or some variation thereof. If *I* can figure out that 100% of the time such a prefix is 100% indicative of a scammer, why can't the employees? Yet, literally thousands of these messages roll in, every day, inundating the site. One would think that at least the scammers themselves would give up, except they don't. Apparently some people are stupid enough to be scammed... even by really obvious scammers.

The site itself is pretty exciting in that it can take 2 seconds or 5 hours to load, so you never know quite what you are getting if and when it finally does. And if it does, you might get text, or HTML, or some weird mixture of stuff that is unreadable. Considering the impeccable appearance of match.com, I can only conclude that neophyte and/or failed programmers are sent to Chemistry as penance.

The loading times and variance indicate to me that the site itself is running on an Apple II that is so caked in dust and debris that the internal temperature is about 10K Celsius - the approximate temperature of Hell. I am equally certain that the internet connection is a 56K modem also running just a little too hot (!) on dial-up 100 year old copper lines still managed by Pacific Bell.

Finally, just to make it all fun, there is the "Free Communication Weekend", which is exactly what it sounds like - a weekend in which you can do... whatever it is you do, free. Which would be good except that every scammer on the planet takes advantage of these weekends to blast out as much garbage as they possibly can ("am 34 Year old man lking fr wife. My heart stop when i see yr Profile. And i know at that moment that we are destined to b togther. Snd email to me *******@twk.ghana.net so's we can gt to know ech other rightaway" etc. Ad nauseaum.

So yeah, Chemistry.com is a great place to have a good laugh, meet a bunch of scammers, and learn to identify a scam *very* quickly. A great example of how not to run a website!