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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Tuesday, September 25 2007 @ 04:03 pm

I went into the office last year and was kind of skeptical. I didn't feel like I should have to pay anything to meet someone. I was using some of the free online sites and I was getting dates from them but nothing more than a first or second date. I decided to give it a shot and schedule an appointment with Great Expectations. I was really nervous but when I walked in I was greeted with a friendly smile and conversation. I met with Lori and she was wonderful! After I met the staff I felt at ease with the situation and decided to sign up. Yes, it was more money than the online sites and more than I ever thought I would be paying for something like this but I could afford it and it looked like a great program. I started receiving responses about a week after my photo/video and profile went up. They were all great guys went on a few dates but nobody I really clicked with. Then about 6 months later David picked me and we've been having fun ever since! What I really love is not only did I meet someone great but everyone I met through the service was quality and going places. I'm so glad I met David and it wouldn't have been possible without Great Expectations. I would highly recommend this service!!

Great Expectations: LIES and UNPROFESSIONALISM!

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, May 06 2009 @ 04:38 pm

I recently joined Great Expectations, and I don't know how to say this strongly enough: avoid them like the plague.

During my membership interview, I asked very specifically about the number of female members Great Expectations (GE) had within the age range I am interested in. I was 32 when I joined, and I said I wanted to meet women around age 24-35. This is not unreasonable! They took a long time to answer my question, instead replying with "Oh, we have new people joining every day." I finally got them to admit that they had around 125-150 women in the St. Louis area in the age range I had specified. Long story short, after I paid my $5,295 (yes, you read that correctly!) I discovered that they have NOWHERE NEAR that number of members in that age range.

I made numerous phone calls to speak with the director, but she took almost two weeks to return my phone call. When she did, she told me that I should be willing to date women up to age 40 and that I should be open to dating women who live in other parts of the country. I made it VERY CLEAR during my initial membership interview that I was interested in meeting women IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA and within an age range of 24-35. Those are my choices, and she has no right to tell me who I "should" be interested in dating. Even their receptionist took my side on this one, saying that most men aged 32 would not be looking to date 40-year-old women.

The director claims I need to "give them more time," but the rate at which they have women joining in my age range (maybe 1-2 new members each month, from what I have seen) certainly doesn't justify a $5,295 price tag! They should have been honest with me about their member numbers and allowed me to make an informed decision, but I'm sure they knew that if they told me their real member numbers, there is no way I would have paid that amount of money. No reasonable person would!

I notice one of the GE employees posted above that the only people who have bad experiences with GE are those who are negative, etc. This has nothing to do with me being positive or negative -- I'm actually a very positive person! My anger comes from the fact that they deliberately misled me to get my money. I'm a reasonable person; I didn't expect miracle results, or to somehow meet the woman of my dreams within two weeks of becoming a member. My complaint is not that I didn't meet my dream girl right away; my complaint is that GE deliberately quoted me inflated member numbers to get my money. For what it's worth, I can also say that GE is probably the most unprofessional company I have ever worked with. They seldom return phone calls, and I haven't been able to make an appointment with their director in six weeks of trying.

Sadly, at this point I am being forced to work through the Better Business Bureau and the MO State Attorney General's office to try to get my money back. I should mention that they are NOT accredited by the BBB, where they currently have a rating of "C" and 22 complaints on file against them in the last few years. (You can verify this at the BBB website.)

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