Perfectmatch.com is one of the leading online dating sites. Practically anyone can join Perfectmatch.com for a monthly rate of $59.99. If you are over 40, you may be looking for a dating site that is focused on building a long term relationship versus a casual dating experience. Perfectmatch.com recognizes all types of daters and they have established a Prime service for singles over 40.

For over 10 years, Perfectmatch.com has been specializing in helping people find love and build relationships. Unlike other sites, Perfectmatch.com boats they have at least 90 people get married everyday. In 2007, over 250,000 people were connected on Perfectmatch.com. So what set's Perfectmatch.com apart from other dating sites?

Chief relationship expert, Dr. Pepper Schwartz developed the Duet Total Compatibility System to help individuals find people they are truly compatible with. Dr. Pepper Schwartz has over 30 years of relationship research. The Duet Total Compatibility System uses her research to help you find someone that you are highly compatible with.

PerfectMatch.com has a 7 day free trial period that allows you to create a profile and post pictures. As a free member, you can even browse through the database to find other members you are interested in. In order to contact other members, you must pay the monthly amount of $59.95. When you join, you have the option of specifying what group you fall into, causal dater, long-term relationship seeker, or over 40. If you are seeking singles over 40, you want to join PerfectMatch.com's Prime membership. The cost to join Prime remains the same, but this way you will only be matched with people in your age range. PerfectMatch.com allows you to search through user profiles, initiate contact, and select the members that are right for you. If you find someone you like, you can send them an instant message or use an "icebreaker" question.

The icebreakers were invented to help members initiate contact without the pressure they feel in a typical dating environment. The Duet Total Compatibility System helps to uncover real compatibility between daters and matches them together. If you choose to do searches on your own, you could end up with individuals that you aren't truly compatible with. The best option you have is to let the Duet Total Compatibility System do its job and send you suggested matches. Do not expect to receive hundreds of matches from PerfectMatch.com. The suggested matches you receive from PerfectMatch.com will be a few people that meet certain compatibility criteria. If you choose the search feature, be prepared to have difficulty searching for other members using keywords or personality types. You are limited to the type of searching you can do with PerfectMatch.com. What makes PerfectMatch.com so unique is the ability to match individuals with diverse backgrounds and ethnicities and see the relationship succeed.
As a PerfectMatch.com Prime member, you have the ability to search for members all across the United States and other countries. If you do not find a match within 6 months of joining, you will receive 6 months for free. With over 15 million subscribers, your chances to find that perfect person are quite high.

If you are worried about creating a good profile, PerfectMatch.com offers a starter kit to members when they join. The starter kit will help you write your profile in a manner that will attract other members. The starter kit includes information on how to talk to other single's and helps you find ways to describe yourself. The starter kit will also help you when the time comes to meet that member in person. The starter kit describes how to calm your nerves and how to keep the conversation flowing.

When you sign up with PerfectMatch.com, you will need to fill out a lengthy personality profile. When you are filling out the profile, be truthful and include all the information you can. The more information you list in the profile, the more information the computer system has to work with to match you with someone you are truly compatible with. The profiles allow you to read other's information and determine if you are interested in getting to know about this person more. Once you pay your monthly dues, you will have access to Dr. Phil's "Mind, Find, Bind." These are online videos that Dr. Phil created to talk to people about dating and building a realistic relationship. Dr. Phil's videos provide great information about what you can do to change yourself and improve yourself so you can meet someone to share your life with. Each month there will be a different topic presented by Dr. Phil. The topics range on everything from the dating cycle to breaking out of your shell.

As a member of PerfectMatch.com, you will also get access to the online magazine, "Happen". This magazine is full of dating stories, ideas, and games. "Happen" offers great advice on how to plan a fun date and how to ask for a second date. There are also stories on the site of actual members that met on PerfectMatch.com and built a relationship.

PerfectMatch.com uses the latest Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Your privacy is important to the dating site so they use the best measures of security possible. Your credit card information is encrypted so there is no chance of it becoming compromised. The information you submit to PerfectMatch.com is completely up to you. You can choose how much you want other members to learn about you. A nice feature you have is to set your profile page to private so only invited members can learn about you. Your email and other personal information will not be sold to third parties and you will occasionally receive emails from PerfectMatch.com promoting products and other recommendations.

Like all dating sites, PefectMatch.com has had positive and negative feedback. Here are some of the positive features of PefectMatch.com:

•    Excellent matching system
•    Detailed profiles that include pictures
•    Centered on building long-term relationships
•    A 50/50 ratio of single males to single females

Here are the negative features of PerfectMatch.com:

•     Long personality profile
•     Expensive monthly payment
•     No instant messaging system
•     Unable to contact members if you have a trial membership

If you are new to the online dating world, PerfectMatch.com is a great place to begin. With the high number of members in the dating pool, you will receive numerous recommendations and your chances of getting a date are in the 80 percentile. Many individuals that have been members of PerfectMatch.com experienced at least 1 good relationship as a result of using the dating service. Here are some reviews from actual members of PerfectMatch.com:

"I read the books for Baby Boomers and dating. This was the site they said. Ha! Just as everyone else has said, they are like e-harmony and that isn't good. Neither one have guys interested in meeting you. I'm not even sure they have real breathing guys. They sent me a perfect match, I went to respond to him and it was closed before I could even open it. Said he was seeing someone. The process is clumsy, and I never got to talk to anyone via e-mail much less a date. So it's back to match.com. Pure volume beats "perfect" people." - Female

"For my experience, I am 27, and the first two "perfect matches" that I received were 38 and 39 respectively. They both live in close proximity to me (within 100 miles) and they both share a lot of my interests, but as with most people, I flinch at the 10+ year difference between them and myself. These would definitely be people I would have to get to know well before I would jump at the chance of meeting in person. To each their own though, and there will always be differing tastes in what people are looking for, so the site does try to adhere to as many options as possible. The other important thing is that you really need to put a picture up on the site, or you won't have very much traffic through your profile or inbox. People are less likely to message you if you don't put up a picture, because most like to attach a face to a name. In my experience on the site, the question of "does it work" comes back with a yes answer, but for me it has yet to work 'well.'" - Male

"I gave PerfectMatch 2 stars simply because I enjoyed reading the assessment of my personality, not because of any matches I received while a member. I found the site difficult to use and I got almost no "Perfect Matches" during the time I was a member. When I did use the search feature to identify men that might be compatible, there were very few within reasonable (50-75 miles) distance. Not worth the money, in my opinion." - Female

"Terrible customer service, poor screening of their members, and the introduction process does not facilitate easy communication. PerfectMatch tries to imitate eHarmony, and the do a very poor job of it. I would not recommend PerfectMatch to anyone!" - Male