Reviews of The Right Stuff

I had such bad experiences with this site - same as other folks have mentioned, regarding static, outdated profiles, etc. - that i decided to create my own site - pondigo.com. it's the best of ivy league online dating!

My wife and I have just celebrated our second anniversary.
We met on this site and we both liked it even before we met.

I made friends with some interesting people. The site is well run and inexpensive (despite what others have said).

We have friends who have tried it and they all like it.

12 years ago, before the internet, when RightStuff dating was a newsletter, my husband found me in CT via RightStuff.

I knew I had the RIGHTSTUFF guy of my dreams on the second date.
Highly recommend this service. We were the 68th couple married who met on right stuff. We're still happy and in love after 11 years. A year later, our friends met and married via Right Stuff Dating.

GO FOR IT!!!

Alas, I must agree with all the comments made by the negative raters. Moreover, in addition to the membership fee, you must pay an additional fee each time you wish to make initial contact with any member. Customer service is not an interest of the person running this site.

I like this service. I have met some great people here. A couple of my friends met their spouses here. Overall a good experience. I haven't met mine yet but I have enjoyed the dates that I have had.

I never had a bad date with the people I met thru The Rightstuff.
Everone I met was an intelligent and interesting person who was worthwhile spending a few hours with, even if there wasn't any
romantic spark between us. I couldn't say the same about the calibre of members with any other introduction service.

It was a bit dissapointing that the members I contacted frequently didn't respond, but no worse than with any other services I'm familiar with.

Like other reviewers, I had a very negative experience on TRS. The website was ancient technology, the customer service abysmal. Dawne actually contacted me to tell me that I had not responded to emails (which I had, but offline via direct email addresses). She actually went into my email account and recovered deleted emails, without asking my permission! Very unprofessional, and probably illegal as well. Beware. Try any site other than this one.

I wish I would have read these reviews before signing up... sigh.

Here's an interesting fact: there are quite a few members who appear to have "outdated ages". There isn't any functionality built into the online forms to auto-update age, and there isn't any indication of how recently a member has been active on the site. So you see numerous examples like this: 42 year-old man, A.B. Harvard '82. Computing...computing... wow. Did an inordinately high percentage of folks on this website graduate from college in their teens? Doubt it.

What this means for you, gentle dater, is that you might send a nice message to someone who:
1) is several years older than you think s/he is
2) forgot to inactivate their (clearly outdated) profile, OR, their profile is being kept on the site by the administrator as filler after the membership has lapsed or been terminated
3) is now happily married and living in the suburbs, in another state

The point is, you just don't know. There is no indication of how recently anyone has interacted with the site. It has an eerie, false storefront look and feel...

If I could give this service a negative rating, that would still be too high. Beware of this service. Even assuming that this were a legitimate service (and I believe that it is not), the customer service is so horrible that unless you are masochistic, you will want nothing to do with it. If you question the legitimacy or quality of any aspect of the service, you may receive a response from Dawne, who will ignore any concerns and send you poorly written, condescending, and rude emails filled with typos, which is ironic given the advertised clientele. I'm betting the number of eligible matches is so low because the rest of the Ivy-educated folks out there were smart enough to steer clear of this scam.

Great idea, bad execution. Like other reviewers, I found that the website seemed very 1990s, and there do seem to be unresolved technical issues. Also, does this website have ANY employees besides Dawne (who seems to be the founder/owner)? If not, I think she needs to hire some help, because she needs technical website help as well as administrative help to answer emails, questions, and requests from members. I emailed her with a request and she never responded.

I've used both Match.com and eHarmony, which are VERY different experiences. I can't really say which one I like better among these two, but I have had more luck on them than on TRS. I have not met anyone on TRS.

I give it 2 stars because I think there are some quality people on here despite the very low membership numbers. I think TRS has trouble retaining members because of the poor customer service.

I think the site's concept has a lot of potential. Perhaps she should consider selling it to someone who could take it over. Just a suggestion - DAWNE, ARE YOU READING THIS??