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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, February 17 2010 @ 02:34 pm

I tried out Ann Arbor-Detroit, MI IJL in Nov 2009. Overall a generally negative experience.

My first contact was great - a rep named Dawn had a conversation with me for over an hour to tell me about the service. I was very impressed by her. She said she met her husband through IJL. She assuaged most of the most significant complaints about IJL..that sometimes women will need a date and they'll send me, but that they're still focusing on matching for my best interest. She quoted $500 for 6 months, which was more reasonable than several other markets I've heard of. She listened attentively to what I was looking for and came up with several ideas of good matches.

That was the end of the good experiences. It's entirely unclear what happened on their end from that point on; I want to believe Dawn is a good person and held up her end of the bargain. I was told that weeks later, the Ann-Arbor Detroit IJL branch went out of business, Dawn was promoted to another position, and the operation was taken over by another branch in Indiana. Wow, what a cluster.

I definitely experienced the common complaint of calling and getting no answer or callbacks. Emails with no replies. In an effort of trying to remain objective, this could have been because the branch had gone out of business. Finally one day in December, they set me up with a date. We met an Italian restaurant. This girl was beautiful. Tall, thin, long red hair.

She was a little older than me (I'm in my 20's, she was 30). As soon as we started talking, I got the impression that I was in no way what she was expecting. I either looked different, or too young, or the wrong race, but it was a little bit of a struggle to finish the night. It's pretty unusual that I meet someone who doesn't want to meet me again, but that was pretty much how the night ended.

A week or so later, I had a face-to-face with a new employee with IJL. This woman had no idea what she was doing. She was just hired, and definitely lacked the finesse that Dawn possessed. She was nice enough, but did not possess the experience nor competence of anyone that exceeded your mother or sister.

That was the last I heard from IJL. It's been 4 months since I gave them $500, and I was set up on 1 date. There were 2 other possibilities (also older than me), but they both cancelled before we met.

I did, however, sign up for Match.com 6 weeks ago. I've met SEVEN fantastic women, ALL of whom I've gone on second dates with. The point there is that I liked them, and they liked me. It certainly helped that they actually could see photos & descriptions of me before we met, and that we could e-mail back and forth beforehand. Seven first dates, over a dozen total dates, and I'm out maybe 30 bucks in subscription fees. I was able to pre-select dates that were actually younger than me, and that met some of my other criteria that I couldn't do with IJL.

The biggest advantage of IJL is anonymity; I did bump into a co-worker on Match.com within 2 weeks. In no way can IJL's database of matches compare to the size of Match.com, nor can their one-date-per-month (at best) frequency compare to the all-you-can-eat approach at Match.com.

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