Reviews of Great Expectations

Great Expectations is a great SCAM!
This outfit needs to be put to shame. I unfortunately made the mistake of entering my phone number when showing some interest in their site. I was called and given the 'come in and let us show you how happy you will be line' Once in, I was interviewed and shown several albums filled with pictures of women that supposedly were looking for a single man. Being black, I noticed very few options for my race. I mentioned this and they pulled out a handful of over-weight unnattractive black women. and proceeded to force feed me a couple of them stating how nice they were and had pleasant personalities. The pressure to make contact with these women was overwhelming. Needless to say, the dates were horrible. The fees that they charge are astronomical! and they just keep adding more to the packages they have to stuff their greedy pockets with your hard earned cash. There is NO WAY I can say a good word about them and I would warn any lonely people out there to avoid them like the H1N1 virus! I wanted to give zero stars but its only 1 thru 5.

If you are looking for a serious, committed relationship then you need to stay as far away from Great Expectations as possible. It is a complete waste of time, and a HUGE waste of money.

I joined GE for $4,000 and during my one-year membership did not go on a single date. When I joined GE I reasoned that anyone who could afford such high membership dues must be financially stable and serious about meeting someone special. That may be true -- I wouldn't know since I never met an actual person through GE.

There is no compatability matching or introduction process. Basically, you look at a bunch of pictures and choose the picture(s) you like. Then you wait to see if any of the pictures likes your picture. That's it. You could be picking out Ted Bundy for all you know. And once you've looked at the membership pictures, you're done. You have to wait for someone new to join so you can look at their picture.

GE was one of the biggest mistakes I ever made. And it makes me even more angry to hear that other people were able to talk them down to $700-$800 instead of the thousands of dollars most members pay.

Just pass right by Great Expectations and take a trip to Europe instead.

I wish I had done my homework on Great Expectation.
What a rip off, their should be a class action law suit against them.
I first called them to get an idea on what the cost would be and was told they had a plan just to suit me.

Being divorced for a little over a year, and not wanting to do the bar seen, I went down there to check out what they had to say and see what they offered.......Boy was that a mistake!
I met with Stefanie Hogan on July 30th 2008,She started to tell me that they are the largest dating service in the nation, and that they have thousands of members. She told me that I would not have any problems meeting my soul mate, she said within six months I would have the girl of my dreams. (of course she did not put that in writing) stupid me!

I told her what type of women I would be interested in and she showed me some photos of what looked like models.... I told her slim, dark hair, very attractive, and between the ages of 35 to 50.
She said Oh! No problem, we have many Ladies like that (that was BS!) She told me that they run background checks on all members to make sure they don't have a criminal record, and to verify they are not married. (that's BS also.) She sold me on this plan which I did not need and told me after six months and I would have my soul mate, Yeah Right!

She asked for my credit card and told me to look over some photos of some of the members. Then she ran my card and came in with a contract. She would not let me read it and kept distracting me. At the same time she was telling me where to sign or initial rushing through the paperwork. When I asked about certain paragraphs she would say don't worry about that, it just means this or that, just initial it. She kept telling me how good looking I was and that in no time I would meet a girl. She told me she would work with me and if I found a girl I was interested in she would contact that person to have her check me out, once again (BS).

After a few months I started to call Stefanie, and was telling her that most of the Ladies that I would be interested in are all inactive, and the choices they had were not to my choosing......She would tell me to pick some anyway , just to see what they say.
I told her most of the women that I chose said no to me, and after a while I started to see the profiles I read did not match the person .......most of these women were looking for that chip- and dale type of guy, looks, body, and money. I did not have any of that...But Stefanie told me I would not have any problems , within six months I would have my soul mate, ( ha,ha,ha) the jokes on me.
When I told her (Stefanie) that I was going to sue them for discrimination, and false pretences she sort of laughed and said you can't sue us read your contract.

I have had many encounters with Stefanie regarding the selection of women, and when she got notice of me suing them, she sent me an email saying that one of the women was interested. This candidate was inactive but is available now. Stephanie continued to tell the interested candidate had said yes to me. Well I got to laugh on this one, ..I called this Lady, after calling her 4 times just to see if it was a scam, and sure a enough it was, that women never called me back.

I paid $7995.00 for this service and now it is costing me more to retrieve my money. Attorney fees are not cheap.
I Hope someone will read this before they make the same mistake I made, as did hundreds of others.
Please just remember this, it's a scam, and they do discriminate.

Joe From Wylie, TX

I had to rate them a 1 because there is no 0!!! I filled out a form online but changed my mind and did not complete the form. I did not submit and give OK the form at all. However, my phone number went through. Great Expectations began calling me anyway...I chose not to answer. After calling me for the 20th+ time...leaving messages that I did not return and then using different numbers and restricting the number, I finally answered the phone to put a stop to the calls. The woman on the other end would NOT take my "sorry, changed my mind" for an answer and proceeded to badger me with questions that I found very personal. I finally had to get angry and yell at her to just stop calling me. I found them to be very very pushy and I would never use a company like this! Shame on them!!!!!!!

I found the service here to work precisely as it was described to me and about 10 months after joining met my wife through GE. No, everything was not perfect with the service, but they did do what they said they would do. It is somewhat like a gym in that you get out of it what you put into it. One key here is that when I looked at a lady's picture, that was who I met. It wasn'ta picture of her 40 pounds or 15 years ago. They did not allow retouching of their photos and they took all the photos so there were no games. Remember, this service is geared toward busy professionals who are seriously looking for a relationship. It is not for those who want a pick-up.?

Great Expectations - awful, over rated, bloody expensive - showed people already taken as their selection of available men and what was left was left for a reason - an absolutely dreadful mistake and the biggest waste of money ever!!! They told me they would give me their special student rate when I balked at the $7K they were proposing as the price - to be fair though i got a great set of photos out of it...

eHarmony was much better - I can highly recommend as I am soon to get married to someone I met through this site - very happy and it did not break the bank!!

I just want to say that I am very glad I found this site and read some of the reviews of Great Expectations. I filled out contact info for 40+ singles.com, an ad I kept seeing on Facebook. Thinking eharmony had steep membership fees, I wanted to know if this would be a better price. It appears from all these reviews that I am wrong.
I did receive a call today from a rep from GE, but I was very busy & working & couldn't talk. I didn't have a good feeling about the whole process or the fact that they didn't have a real website to browse. I know now that the whole set up, from the membership cost ($1000-7000???) to the hard pitch sales tactics, that I will not be going in for the interview. Thanks to all for the warnings. I will be asking the friendly lady on the phone about how she likes working for a scam operation.

I am writing this review in hopes that I can save at least one person from joining and wasting a lot of money. I went in there just before internet dating was a big thing. I was quoted about $5000 and said I can't afford that. She went to talk to a manager and it went down to $2000. I handed over my credit card and i'm probably still paying for it today, years later. I was promised these men all had good jobs and were wonderful. She even was going to select some men for me and call me that evening with their member numbers. She did call and even had a dentist for me. I later saw their member numbers didn't exist. At the time I think she felt my desperation and that was my mistake. What they don't tell you is that you can pick all the men you want but there's no guarantee that any will even agree to talk to you. I would often go there in person to make selections hoping I would meet someone in the waiting room-that never happened. The men who picked me usually were old enough to my father. I did end up having two dates-the first guy was about a foot shorter than his profile the other wasn't interested. So I paid about $1000 per date. I still feel stupid about this!!

As a former GE employee I have nothing but love for this company. I worked for years in many different parts of the company - everything from phone sales to marketing manager , front desk, trade shows, direct matching etc. pretty much you name it I did it.
I have heard the squeaky wheels from bad experiences with Great Expectations. When I worked with these type of people MY experience was that 99% had gotten angry and decided all they wanted was their money back. They refused help and had made up their minds that they had been taken advantage of without ever being willing to actually TRY the service.
But in my job I also worked with MANY more people that I came to love like family. They called me to tell me how excited they were about people they were dating and ask for advice. One guy (who was a male model and banker - go figure!) came in and waited for my shift to start so he could tell me about his date. I helped people meet and had many marriages. One of sales reps let members wed on her beautiful boat. We had a wall of wedding invitations and cards with baby announcements.
When I talked to my phone sales reps each night we started out our meeting with the people who were having success that week. The 70 year olds who found out they belonged to the same country club and got married, the landscaper who found his perfect 10 massage therapist, I could go on and on. I loved that job. I miss it all the time - even the cranky poopers. What kept me going more than anything were the awful stories I heard when working trade shows. The woman who found her boyfriend was in the hospital and raced to his bedside to meet his WIFE - the single mom who found out her "match.com" was more interested in her little daughter. So buyers DO BEWARE! But remember Great Expectations has stayed in business all these years even with cheap internet competition that does nothing to verify ANY of the info given out by members. While they continue to meet face to face every person and screen them. Good luck to you all my you find love!

First of all, I have given one star because zero is unavailable. Great expectation is, in reality, great exploitation and great deception. That legal and professional scamming and stealing business uses our sincere desire to find conjugal love and dig out until the last penny in our pocket. I curse the day I heard about that tricky stealing machine.

I went to GE last December upon finding their advertisement online. I was not desperate for women, but I dearly wanted to find someone for a serious relationship. When I got there, I was taken care by Stacy. Boy!!! There are expensive for nothing!!! I was asked to pay $3000, but the bargain went down to "1980" because I was a student. Stacy omitted to mention, I guess purposefully, that my signing of the contract was tying me financially to GE in whatever situation. I should have read it; but who care... I had a good hypnotherapy with the picture of potential candidates and the reassurance that I was at the place where my soulmate were waiting for me. After realising that there almost nobody around my age range in the online database and very few member in Columbus and Ohio, four days later decided to cancel my membership. To my surprise, GE told me that I would still owe it money even if left. I stay inactive for months then reasoned that it was better to try given the fact I was paying anyway; desaster... I went to two gathering; when there was a few women, they were almost twice my age.

I started selecting any woman in the database around Columbus just to test if they were real. I actually got one denial due to membership cancellation. From there, I understood that most of those picture are fictive members. If they were not, they would show up at single events and GE would make you sign their tricky contrat if it was so sure about its services because satisfaction always tends to be grateful.

The last time I talk with the customer service, she ridiculed me that it was my responsability to read the contrat before signing it; she was right and now do it now. Well now... Because I was freshly coming from a place where people do put trap in contrats and manage to hide from you. GE is not a place any one should go if you are looking for love; it claims to have it, but what it actually has are the legal, professional, and psychological tools and techniques to steal your money. What is even the annual or bi-annual percentage of success stories at GE? I am sure nothing but scam... It is a business anly buy to use its tentacules to rip you off. STAY AWAY FROM GREAT EXPLOITATION AND GREAT DECEPTION.