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Re: Great Expectations (Dating Service) WARNING!

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From: Jim Dutton
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:00
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In article <alex.1053.3065C205@cts.com>, Steve Alexander <alex@cts.com> wrote:
>In article <43qhff$r78@transfer.stratus.com> fereira@isis.com (John Fereira) writes:
>
>>How much confidence can you put in a dating service that claim that they
>>will find you a mate if they're offering a lifetime membership?
>I think my posts are the only ones so far that do not flame Great 
>Expectations. I would like to point out that they never promised that I would 
>find a mate. They did not promise that I would even get a date. What they 
>promised was that there were a certain number of videos and profiles of 
>available women that I could review. They also promised that if I choose a 
>woman they would inform her and put us in contact if we both agreed to 
>meet each other.
>
>I found that GE kept all their promises. The selection was good, the women I 
>met were nice, and the service they provided was worth the money I paid for it.

 I first went to GE after my fourth wife died. I wasn't expecting anything
great and was wary of the hard sell. They asked how much I made and I told
them. At first I thought of lying. But said screw it, lets see what they say.
I told them the truth 80K. She asked how much I felt the service would be
worth and I said well if I find my lifes mate it'd be worth maybe 10K.
 She wrote this down and said hold on as she left the room. She came back and
said the most they could charge was 3K. Well I didn't want some cheap
YMCA hooker, so we haggled. I got her up to 5K and we agreed that would be
fair.
 Next she broke out the peectures. Most of the women were like barbie
dolls. There where a few famous models and entertainers. I figured I 
coouldn't be happy in a hollywood relationship. I asked if they had
any gravitationally challenged women. She didn't like that. Eventually
when I told her I'd walk, she reached under the desk and pulled out
a dusty photo album. It contained just what I was looking for. Burn victims
hair transplants, most of the major skin diseases. The usual normal gals.
 I selected one gal from a leper colony in New Guiney and we agreed to meat.
Well the beeg day came and I was as nervous as a two peckered billygoat!
I was sitting at a piano bar advising the piano player on his style when
she came walking in. She was all I had dreamed of. I could smell her a mile
away. BUT. One problem. She had her model friend along. Well this women
just would not let us talk. WHo cares if we don't speak the same language.
We had amore going for us. Eileen finally got incensed at her selfish friend
and had someone carry her out in a huff. At this point her little world
famous model friend was all over me like white in rice. It was humiliating.
 The next day I could barely make it into GE on my chaffed thighs to demand
a refund. I explained what happened and told them I was not happy. They
agreed completely and demanded not only that I get a full refund but an
extra 10K for my troubles.
 The long and the short of it is, is I'm not sure if I was satisfied with
the service. Therefore I don't know whether to recommend them to a friend.
 
-Jeem, where am I?

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 Steatopygias's 'R' Us.          doh#0000000005 That ain't no Hottentot.
 Sesquipedalian's 'R' Us. ZX-10. AMA#669373 DoD#564. There ain't no more
She then told me that she had several dates from Great Expectations, but
each time the guys expected her to be easy, and she obliged them.
I stopped dating her then. - Praveen Puri
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From: jjd@MCS.COM (Jim Dutton)
Subject: Re: Great Expectations (Dating Service) WARNING!
Date: 1995/09/26
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