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WHy don't you simply contact your credit card company, complain about the 
service, and attempt to get the charge removed from your account?

It might work, especially if you can convince the credit card company 
that you have been taken advantage of.

In article <43b22b$24e@news.voicenet.com>, ktappe@omni.voicenet.com 
says...
>
>This is a warning concerning the nationwide dating service Great
>Expectations.  Hopefully it will help prevent others from having the 
same
>experience I did.  I want to note up front that the center I visited was
>located in King of Prussia, PA and that all Great Expectations centers
>are independently owned (a fact I notice, in retrospect, they noticably
>downplayed), so your mileage may vary...but I doubt it.
>
>Anyway, not having had much luck dating in the past few years, I 
recently
>returned one of Great Expectations' unsolicited mail surveys.  Upon
>receipt, they called me and scheduled an "interview," which they said 
was
>to explain their service and show me their center.  What the interview
>really turned out to be was a high-pressure two-hour sales pitch that
>culminated with "sign up for this price now or you'll pay 30% more
>later."  My resistance battered by being in the same office for so long,
>I gave in to the pitch and have been regretting it ever since.  I would
>like to suggest to anyone considering signing up with Great Expectations
>to strongly reconsider, based on the following points:
>
>1. They are expensive. The cheapest plan (at least offered to me) was
>$2,250.00 (including the mandatory $250.00 photographer's fee.)
>
>2. I strongly suspect they tailored their pricing to fit my ability to
>pay.  One of their questionnaire queries was for my credit card limits; 
>I balked and did not fill them in.  When the rep. noticed this, he spent
>considerable time cajoling me into believing they did not want them for
>any reason other than to be sure that I wasn't a deadbeat who was just
>screwing around and wasting their time.  Later it turned out that the
>package they pushed on me just happened to be darn near but just under 
my
>credit card limit.  Coincidence?  I think not. *
>
>3. Great Expectations, unlike their competitors, does not do any 
computer
>matching of clients at all.  YOU do all the work, going through page
>after page of notebooks full of eligible people.  YOU decide who to
>attempt to date while they do little or nothing to help you, not even
>narrow the search.
>
>4. No guarantees whatsoever are made concerning you getting anything for
>your investment.  If none of the people you choose want to go out with
>you, or if you get chosen by nobody, you're just out of luck.  No
>recourse.
>
>* When (if) I go on any dates, I will attempt to confirm #2 by asking 
how
>much the other person paid.  If they paid a rate that was not offered to
>me, I will seek legal recourse, for I believe it is illegal under most
>state laws (hopefully including Pennsylvania's) to tailor (read: raise)
>rates to customers' ability to pay.  (I understand that one of Great
>Expectations' competitors is being investigated for just this reason in
>either Oregon or Washington state.)
>
>If anyone has any reactions/replies/rebuttals to what I've stated above,
>I do honestly welcome them.  Right now I feel completely victimized and
>am so disgusted with myself for being taken in that I could just about
>puke.  :-(((
>
>-Kurt
>
>| Kurt Tappe                     ktappe@omni.voicenet.com
>| 184 W. Valley Hill Rd.         "Will troubleshoot your
>| Malvern, PA 19355-2214          Macintosh for food."