Results tagged “greatexpectations”

The aptly named Sara Valentine, a 55-year-old divorcée from Brooklyn, was looking for someone to love with, share with, and maybe go on long walks on the beach with. So, hoping for the best, she signed up with the 30-year-old matchmaking company Great Expectations, not to be confused with the Dickens classic or the less-classic Mad TV Lowered Expectations sketches (aside: who woulda thought anything from Mad TV would ever be even close to 'classic'?). But Ms. Valentine was let down by the service and now she wants them to pay up.

A judge ruled that dating service Great Expectations should refund the thousands of dollars two women paid to find the right guy because Great Expectations wasn't all that great. The service has its members create video and profiles, and claims to introduce members to each other, but for two NYC women, it came up way short. Judge Diane Lebedeff from the Civil Court said that Great Expectations was "massively overcharging" clients and that the agency "violated every mandate of the Dating Services Law!" Quick, someone who has a grasp of the law, let us know what that is exactly! GE claims that since they are an Internet dating firm, they are outside the Dating Services Law. Anyway, we went to a Consumer Affairs website and found Debra's complaint:

I paid $3,800 for the promise of 12 'dates', referred to as personal shoppers by Great Expectations ("GE"). I have been a member of this organization for 2 years and have not had one date. In my opinion GE is an unprofessional, completely disorganized service organization that provided no services. My phone calls were rarely returned. Over the past two years, when selections were made by me or one of my five personal shoppers, there was no follow-up.

Continue reading "Internet Dating Site Under Fire for Not Setting Up Clients"

I am a single man in the city and hoping to find a suitable match for myself through some sort of dating service. I've tried meeting women online, but I haven't found a 'click' yet, and I hear that there are some professional matchmaking services available. I am willing to pay whatever they cost, but do they really work, or will I just end up broke and single (again)?

Gothamist has been hearing a lot about Jasper Fforde lately, and Newsday has a feature about the British author (whose background includes stints as a film cameraman and living in a family of Oxonians). His books are described thusly: