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I'll start with the perceived Pros of the site: The service guarantees that each profile will be reviewed by a person, therefore allowing them to weed out scammers and match you with legitimate roommates. The profile questions are very in-depth, which would hopefully mean that you'd find a very compatible roommate. Matches are sent straight to your e-mail, so you don't have to search through a bunch of incompatible roommates. (This is a pro and a con: To contact potential roommates, you have to pay for the service, but $20 for a year seems like a good deal.)
The cons, and my experience: This site is only good in theory. I created a profile about a month ago, but when it was accepted some answers had been changed (rent range, age range, etc). Received all the "matches" and wasted a lot of time reading through matches that didn't meet my criteria because of the changes to my profile. (Also, there is no option to search through profiles; you can only look at the ones sent to your e-mail.) Went through the FAQ, and as suggested I created a new profile that was supposed to replace the original one. There is no way to just edit your profile, you have to create an entirely new profile instead. So, followed instructions, created a profile to replace the original one, but that profile got REJECTED and I think as a result my e-mail address is black-listed. The reason I think the e-mail address is black-listed (sent to spam automatically) is because they state on their website that they don't communicate with people they determine to be scammers, and I attempted to contact them from that e-mail address twice detailing the problems with my profile. Both of those e-mails were ignored, so now I just have an inaccurate profile getting matched with roommates I cannot consider, and an inability to contact the service using the e-mail address I created my profile with. I am sending a third e-mail from a different address. At this point, there is no response they could send that would make my review more positive. What a total waste of time.
In summary, I would not recommend Roomie Match to a friend.
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