Reviews of HurryDate

I honestly could hardly rate Hurry Date with any star, so since there was nothing lower I could choose, I chose 1 star. This dating service sucks to say it plainly.

I signed up for a hurry date and they over booked it for 24 men and only 12 women, then they said they would give a complimentary hurry date for this inconvenience, and when I went to redeem it, they totally reneged. They would not give a phone number so I could speak live to someone and discuss what happened and my disappointment.

They were cold and greedy, and would not at all recommend this "service" to any one, unless you like getting ripped off.

I cancelled my subscription with several months left to go just out of disgust.

Hurry Date did not provide the service they promised with there only being 3 guys that showed. I live in Alpharetta and have been waiting for a speed dating company for people who live OTP (outside the perimeter). I just found www.northgeorgiaspeeddating.com today. This site only caters to those who live OTP like me so I don't have to drive downtown just to meet 3 people. This site is building up a list of interested people right now and will be hosting events in March 2010. If you register now you get a promo code for 50% off your first event.

I'm going to give northgeorgiaspeeddating.com a try in 2010 and hope it works for me. At least I save the 40 min drive this way! :)

-Melissa

I went to a speed dating event at Mountain View this week.

PROS:
The place was nice.

CONS:
1. there were only 4 girls and 9 guys. One of the girls said she was actually a friend of the hostess, and that she'd been dragged along because "there weren't enough girls." The remaining 3 girls were me and two of my friends. A friend had wanted to try it out and had invited us to come along.

The hostess kept saying that more girls were supposed to come but nobody else ended up arriving. We eventually started several minutes late with said grand total of 4 girls and 9 guys.

2. It's really hard to blame the mix of people on the company... but let's just say I didn't find anybody that interesting. There were some decent people there, but meh.

Since there were less than the # of males/females in the group (the website promises at least 10 dates a night) the hostess said we'd be getting vouchers so we could go to the next HurryDate for free.

3. When I tried entering my scores, I got an error saying someone had already entered scores using my ID#. I contacted them regarding the error. No response after several days.

4. The next day, I realized I didn't have a use for the free voucher, and wanted to ask if I could get a refund instead. I reiterated the error I received regarding not being able to enter my scores. Still no response.

5. Today, I got an e-mail saying, "we missed you at the party! If you were there, it means you haven't entered your scores yet." Because of your idiotic website, dumbasses. (OK, I know that it was an automated e-mail, but SHEESH.)

DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THIS COMPANY.
1. they don't deliver with the required # of participants (seriously?! you could only gather 4 girls and 9 guys and you chose to push through with the event?)
2. they can't even match you up with the participants because of some website errors that they don't even take the proper time to resolve

How the eff can they call themselves a speed dating company when they can't even fix those things?

I went to a HurryDate last week and while there should have been 10 men, only 5 showed. Clearly, after reading all these posts about cancellations they decided to go through with the event. Even though I matched with 2 out of 5 men, neither of them chose to return my emails. I can't blame that on HurryDate. People need to understand that if they do not get people to sign up they can not have an event. A lot of times, people sign up and then get caught up in a family situation or their boss demands their attendance at a meeting and that person needs to cancel. This is not fair to the people showing up at the event. I do not agree you have the right to reimbursement. I simply do not believe HurryDate canceled and refused a reimbursement, unless that is clearly stated in the "fine print." Read the fine print and stop bad mouthing an event intended for fun. Going out and meeting people by hanging out in a bar, or the old fashioned matchmaking doesn't work for everyone. Simply hanging at the bar like a lowlife just makes you a drunk lonely single person. As for asking friends.... no one wants to get involved because if it works out you love your friend and if it doesn't you blame the friend. It is a sticky situation no matter the case. Dating sucks always has sucked, but yet a necessary step to committment. Do what is good for you, not what is good for the people who had sucky situations. Just my 2 cents.

I give them 0 stars...They take your cedit card and steel your money, without your permission.. PLease contact Tchwithheart@aol.com, if this company has stolen money from you. I will take the information and move it along. We have to stop this company from steeling our money.. This company is ripping off people every minute, we need to protect our selves..
Thank you, a very unhappy victim of this awful company..

RIPOFF - DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER!!!

I have attended several hurrydates in the past 3 years in San Diego. At first the parties were great - lots of average to above average women & men. About 2 years ago i actually met a wonderful women and had a serious relationship for over a year. We broke up, but are still good friends. Several others at the same party were contenders, but i lost track of them after getting serious with the one.

Unfortunately, when i started going to HD parties again early this year the dynamics had changed. Not as many women, and the ones who are there are not the quality of 2 years ago. Most of the parties i signed up for were cancelled, sometimes with little notice. They automatically reschedule you to the next party, and in some cases those have been cancelled too.

The last cancellation was over 4 months ago. I asked for a refund since i was going to be out of town at the next party. The refund took several months to get, and then only after 4 or 5 persistent emails. They said (for some reason that sounded fishy at the time) that they could not refund my credit card and had to mail me a check. Soon after i received the refund check they recharged my credit card. Now i am fighting them over this new charge, which they claim is for a "subscription".

Judging from my experience and the other messages here, HD seems to be in a downward business spiral and probably will not last long. Companies in this situation will often try to get as much $$$money as possible before going out of business - including making questionable charges on your credit card. I would be very, very careful about giving them a CC number.

This company is a total rip-off. Do not, under any circumstances, give them your credit card number. If they cancel an event--which they do frequently---you will never get a refund. It's been four months, and I'm still waiting for mine. "Customer service" only responds with an automated "We've received your email" response. The phone number--if you can find it on their site--has a permanent voice mail message. The only rating this company deserved is less than zero.

Real people meet in real life situations. Things are forced at singles functions and such. I have never been pleased whether using online dating, speed dating, blind dating, singles groups or whatever. You meet decent people in real life situations who don't have time for all the BS that group organizers tend to come up with. The only people who are successful are the old style type matchmakers with the psychological and interpersonal skills that are capable of actually matching up people, and that takes a lot of time and money and highly tuned skills. Speed dating is another spinoff of internet dating whose main purpose is to make money for the site owners. Personal ads in newspapers work just as well. Meeting sane people in real life works better. I would stay well clear of any organization that just takes your money and invites you to jump into the great big mess they generally create. Anybody can organize a big party if they want to. It would be better to attend functions of organizations that have similar interests to yours, so at least you have some things in common when you meet. Getting OUT and meeting people has worked better for me than staying in and letting somebody else round up a bunch of scoundrels to meet over the internet. The internet works best for those who want to carry on an email relationship and such. That's OK. I have carried on email correspondence for quite some time then been totally disappointed when actually meeting the person. Meeting in person will never take back stage to the internet, speed dating, etc., unless you are too screwed up to allow the old traditional ways to work. Look to get involved in activities you want to take part in, whether you ever meet somebody or not, you had a good time anyway. You have to broaden your horizons to meet people, and those types of people are the ones with suitable mates. Not those who hide out on the internet or only go to poorly planned functions whose main business interest is that they paid the entrance fee. That's no better than meeting in the supermarket or library, which costs you nothing and doesn't eat into your free time in order to attend.

Run the other direction from this service! Not only do they cancel the parties but have imho a deceptive website. After several parties being cancelled, I attempted to cancel the subscription and get a refund. The service was useless, and they were unable to deliver the product they advertised. Hurrydate fought it tooth and nail, I had to contact my credit card company to dispute the charge. So after all this headache, they finally refunded with an attitude. So as if that's not bad enough, 6 months later I get an email saying they renewed my subscription and will charge my card. My emails to them bounced. My phone call was answered by a machine. I have left my number with a message but they do not call back. DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER or you will wind up with them haunting you in the future! If I could, I would give them a "negative 5 star" rating.

I honestly don't know why HurryDate is getting such bad reviews on this site. I have to say that I've been to several HurryDate parties, and I've enjoyed every single one of them. Sure, there were some women who I found unattractive but isn't that only realistic? Someone I may find unattractive may be found attractive by someone else and vice versa. To each his own.

At the last HurryDate I went to, I met this beautiful, intelligent woman, and we had a mutual match after HurryDating. Believe it or not, we've been seeing each other for a couple months now! Even though I was lucky to have met her, I'm pretty sure that HurryDate is meant to be fun and not to be taken too seriously. Go out and meet people, and have a good time! Who knows who you'll meet?