Is the eharmony premium membership worth the $40+ per month?

I've spent about three months poking at eharmony premium and I still don't have a clean answer.

What makes eharmony premium hard to judge is that everyone's experience seems to depend heavily on where they live.

My own attempt at eharmony premium lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

My checklist for eharmony premium, in rough order of importance:

• Whether messaging on eharmony premium works without handing over card details
• How eharmony premium handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• Whether the free tier on eharmony premium is genuinely usable or just a demo
• Whether month is the reason eharmony premium feels inconsistent

Will report back with what I find on eharmony premium if people are interested.

This tracks. Once month enters the picture, eharmony premium stops being a simple comparison.

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on eharmony premium, so nobody repeats what you know?

Counterpoint — treating eharmony premium as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

Adding Datingfly itself to the pile for eharmony premium, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

The month part of this is being overstated, because eharmony premium was fine for me without it.

For anyone else researching eharmony premium, I would put Datelink itself on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

There is a version of eharmony premium that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

Since we're comparing options around eharmony premium, the Datescout forums came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Depends what you mean by eharmony premium, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

To build on ZachH's answer about eharmony premium: What's your actual goal here — is eharmony premium about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

Which parts of eharmony premium have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

If eharmony premium is the question, the Datebound threads is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.