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Originally Posted by Iceman90
My question is how did this guy afford a fee that I imagine would be comparable to what she paid, to be part of the service?
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Herein lies the problem, and why I think this is actually newsworthy (as much as any other consumer report type thing is.)
Judging from the article (and this is just my take on it), he wasn't a client. He was likely hired or given a cut of what she paid, so they got the one meetup and didn't breach their contract, and could take her money and run. And to (rarely) disagree with Captain, I don't think it was to 'get rid of an undesirable client'.
It seems like most of the posts in this thread are tearing her apart for her expectations (a guy with a job that she finds moderately attractive is not a high bar), or going to the media with this.
To me it seems like a shady company who is just trying to make easy money for little work. If she bought a 'condo' from a real-estate company that turned out to be an empty lot or a sea-can no one would be taking the real-estate company's side. Or if she was scammed by a shady contractor.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I can't believe that someone paid 7-10k for this. PT Barnum was right, there is one born every minute.
The bottom line is that companies like that feed on the fantasy that every man or woman has, that if they engage them they are going to get their hot matchup. Attractive, well educated, has a nice house and car and might be rich and wanting 2.5 kids.
so its natural that they prey on maybe the unattractive, and the over weight and the older and the abandoned.
This company's mistake is they made too many promises. 12 dates, background checks and all of that stuff that they clearly didn't do. So in a legal sense she's absolutely right. However, I really don't know what she expected. Them to find her a Brad Pitt.
A fool and her money.
As an add on I'd be curious about her interaction with them before she got set up, cause this really feels like an enormous FU towards her.
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It has absolutely nothing to do with her being a sucker.
Loneliness is a powerful and horrible emotion, and has been studied and linked to mental and physical health problems as well as mortality rates.
They're not preying on a sucker, they're praying on someone who's lonely and vulnerable.
People get bilked out of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on dating sites from bots and scams, or spend similar figures for over-seas brides. This woman was spending a few grand on what she was hoping was going to not waste her time and effort and go on countless first dates because the company advertised background checks and making appropriate matches. Which is the entire point of a matchmaking service.
Instead she gets paired with a single date that didn't meet her two basic requirements (and I say basic because even on dating sites you can filter by height, weight, and annual income - and in Edmonton, I assume number of teeth).
She never once said she was looking for Brad Pitt, she was looking for someone whom she found attractive, and if they were an actual matchmaking service, they would have known the type of person she was attracted to.
The clip sureLoss posted was basically what I assume happened here (later in that episode, it turns out his 'matches' were all rounded up last minute at the bus station).
From what I see, this company did not meet expectations, did the bare minimum amount of work to meet the fine print, and took almost $10k to do it. And instead of looking at the company closer we're blaming this on the fact that she's 'not a prize pig' or only suckers use matchmaking services?