YOU HAVE TO PAY TO REPLY EVEN TO MATCHES Match.com provides misleading information on its website. It claims that payment is not required if there is a mutual match. However, this is false. Even in the case of a mutual match, if you don’t pay, you cannot reply to messages — not even from the people you matched with. I believe this is not just misleading, but deliberately deceptive. The system seems intentionally designed to push users toward paying. In fact, just a few minutes after signing up, I received several messages — already visible — from extremely attractive men. I suspect these profiles may not have been real and were possibly used to encourage me to pay, since I couldn’t reply without a subscription. Soon after, I was flooded with messages and likes from profiles located far away, making any real match impossible. The app appears to be designed to promote interactions mainly with non-matches so that users are forced to pay in order to respond. I immediately suspected something was off, so I deliberately tried to get matches with people near me. Even then — after a successful match — I was unable to read their message or view their profile unless I paid. On the other hand, I could view profiles and read messages from people I hadn't matched with, although these profiles often seemed suspicious or fake. Regardless, I still couldn't reply. I want to warn anyone signing up: you must pay in order to read or respond to messages — even in the case of a mutual match.