A very nice woman from It’s Just Lunch contacted me today. A few months ago, my mother gave me their URL. She read an article about how they are THE dating service for busy professionals and she thought I might benefit. So I visited their Web site and gave them my information. This afternoon I received the phone call. The woman quoted me a price of $895.00 for one year of service with the guarantee of 14 dates. I actually whelped when she said the amount. “Errrr, uhhhh, I uh, wasn’t expecting that high a figure… I will have to think about this a little bit more.” Eight hundred and ninety five dollars!!!! Makes the 300.00 a year I spend on eHarmony look like chump change. If I am going to plunk down a thousand dollars, it will be on a matchmaker or a mail order groom.
Who knows, it may just be a matter of time before I do write It’s Just Lunch a check. I wouldn’t put it past me.
Gah!
Even $300 is too high. I did a month or so of match.com and a few months of catholicmatch.com for a total of around $80. None of it’s worth it, but at least you can browse and get some “throughput.” The more people you date, the better your odds… 14 dates is doable in like 4 weeks, easy. That’s one month of match. Do you think that after so much time on eHarmony the people you’ve been meeting have been so different than you’d meet on any other site?
Yeah– 300.00 is too high. I did Match quite a while ago and the men weren’t as serious as on eHarmony. Of course, the longer I do eHarmony, the more I wonder if maybe it really is all the same. I don’t think I could do 14 dates in 4 weeks– it takes me forever to find anyone just to give my number to much less go out on a date.
895 bucks!!!!
i have heard of that service, but there is a better one and it is much cheaper. i belong to a dating service called After Dinner Mintz. it is a date that you meet the person for after dinner mints only. you pretend that you both had dinner and you meet in the parking lot of a restaraunt. you make awkard conversation for like twenty minutes then both get in your cars and leave. it only costs 59.99 a year.
Donna,
A tip: when I was using match I only “winked” at women who had:
(1) Photos: usually 3-4 and digital so I knew they were recent, and in which they looked happy – usually people don’t smile for photos are not very much fun
(2) No gramatical mistakes or spelling errors: I’m educated and I was looking for someone who was on my level.
(3) Humor: Was your profile as fun to read as your blog?
(4) Put down your politics and religion because it’ll come up eventually, and you’ll be sought by people who are explicitly looking for the same. And don’t respond to men who don’t have their politics or religion listed: it means they’re not serious about anything in life, one way or another.
I tried eHarmony briefly on a trial period but it was a complete debacle: I met only one person and she wasn’t much fun at all. And most of the “matches” didn’t have photos, violating precept (1).
There is a matchmaker website called catholicmatch.com that is really great for conservatives, regardless of their religion. You’ll find a lot of serious men there, it’s cheap, and it’s different from what you’re doing. I met my current girlfriend via that site and dated a lot of nice girls therefrom before that. I can only presume it’s as good for women as it was for men.