Great Expectations

This dating service is a HUGE waste of money. They misrepresent their value, the «deal» you’re getting and I feel totally ripped off, as the saying goes. If you wish to cancel, which I did, they give you the run-​around, the manager is not available, etc… so that they don’t have to refund your money. They also use a lot of pressure to buy the upgraded photo package or you really won’t get enough exposure, etc…
Under no circumstances, use this company. If one person heeds my advice, I’ll feel that my comments have made a difference.

This is a horrible dating service. You do not want to join. Not only do they insist upon monthly automatic deductions from your bank account but when you discover that their service is not what it was advert ised as being and the many hidden costs (photo shoot, sending «flirts», etc.) there’s no turning back — I had to put a block on my checking account to get them stop charging me and that was after they reluctantly agreed to allow me to pay by check.
While the staff was friendly enough and did try and help you as new members joined, their data base is very very small.

In August of last year I foolishly signed a 3 year contract with Great Expectations because of the high-​pressure salesmanship of the agent. These contracts are not cheap. It is now April, and I have had NOT ONE contact! They claim to have a higher caliber of person on their roster and I believed them. I wouldn’t know, since I have not met ONE of them. They have not responded to any of my letters or phone calls of complaint. I really feel as if I have been ripped off. strongly advise against using this service.

This is not Walnut Creek but the Sacramento Great Expectations Call Center and you can reach them at 916−927−2700.
First mistake: I signed up online for a dating service. I didn’t know it was linked to Great Expectations until they called me. When you fill out the online form — they ask for the best time call for an interview. I thought — wow — that’s cool — that’s nice and personal… so I gave them — M-​F; after 6PM.
The first call came from Great Expectations at 2PM on a Thursday. I ask them to please call back M-​F, after 6PM, like I wrote on their form.
I received more calls that were all at times and days other than after 6PM; M-​F. Weeks later, I receive a «restricted» call at 8PM. Second mistake: I pick up the call. And yep; you guessed it — it’s them again. But they were calling when I asked them to for the first time. So I say — I signed up 3 – 4 weeks ago. Let’s cut to the chase; is there a charge for this dating website? She says, yes there is. So I say — well, then I really am not interested any longer… thank you. The next thing I hear is CLICK! She hung up on me! Grrrrr. Well. I got over it (surprisingly) and decided that was it.
Fast-​forward to today, Sunday morning — Memorial Day weekend. Set the stage: I wake up after a long and lovely sleep and take a long and lovely shower. I walk to my favorite local market and do my regular Sunday morning purchase of the NY Times and the Chronicle. I come home, make a lovely brunch of shrimp, asparagus, salami and scrambled egg tossed with pasta and cheese (I know; there’s a joke in there somewhere about all this food, being single, online dating, yadda yadda). I sit down to eat, click to the Giants game and… I raise the first fork of food to my salivating mouth and… and RING RING RING. It is 1015AM so I think it must be something urgent and important. Well; it dang well better be.
Third mistake: I answer the phone. It’s «Misty» from f@#$%g Great Expectations. I tell her about my last phone call with their company and how someone hung up on me and that I’ve lost my mojo to join — I really don’t want to pay to join and it’s 10:20 on Sunday morning… and it’s really too darn early to do this, besides. And I haven’t had my caffine yet.
So Misty begins to ARGUE with me. Fourth mistake: I should have ended the call. She is defending her coworker by saying she could not have possibly hung up on me — that my cell phone probably dropped the call… blah blah blah. So I tell her no — I know what it sounds like when someone hangs up on me and that woman hung up on me. Then…
CLICK!!! You guessed it. She hung up.
So I thought about it and decided to call the office to speak with a manager. The nice receptionist said there’s no manager until Tuesday. We talk for awhile then she then places me on hold for about 3 minutes.
Someone comes on the line and identifies herself as the Assistant Manager. I tell her my story and she said …“Oooh I’m so sorry. I’ll tell them not to do it anymore. There are alot of people back there and we just cannot hear everything they say.” I ask her if they monitor their calls or record them and she said no. Hmmm. Call Center and no monitoring/​recording? Interesting. So then I say — you know… this isn’t right and I am going to post my experience on «Yelp.»
So she says «What’s Unilocal???»

it is a high end dating service
the price is in the thousands, and they will use very high pressure to get you to go for it.
they are nice enough.
they quote 1 out of 5 will say yes to contacting you on average,
I see about one out of 50.
I remember that there was one lady that was on ‘7 on your side’ or something like that that was trying to get her money back from them.
it seems like a place for Christians with dogs to meet each other.
not like I don’t like that sort of person, they just do not like me.
there are better dating services for lots less money that are more effective.