Great Expectations Of Clearwater Florida Miss reprecented the group I joined Clearwater Florida
I joined Great Expectations "Events and Adventures" in April. I was told that there would be at least 4-5 activities per week in my area and that there would be men my age in the group. First meeting the men were ALL to mostly over the age of 50. I am 38 and told them I do not date older men. Every time I went to another event it was the same thing. Then the meetings became less and then none in my area.
I contacted the event coordinator Ryan. He was not at all helpful and tryed to blame me for how I felt. He acted like I should be willing to drive over a hour and that he couldnt find advents in my area that would be good for the group. S9o now Im stuck paying $1000 for a group that hads men in thier 50s-70s who only meet maybe 5 times a month and more that a half hour away. How fair is that. I would highly recommend everyone run from signing up to this group unless you like to date OLD folks and dump a bunch of cash doing so.
Jennie
Tarpon Springs, Florida
U.S.A.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
Lorenzo
Saint Petersburg,Florida,
U.S.A.
Check to see if Great Expectations is a member in good standing of your Better Business Bureau
#4Consumer Comment
Wed, July 16, 2008
Jennie, I feel your pain and you have my sympathy. I used to live in N. California
before I moved to Florida in 2005. Back in 2003 I went to the local office for
GE in Palo Alto, CA to find out information for membership and their fees. I was quoted $4000 for just a one year standard membership and was told that GE requires all new members to sign and abide by the member contract.
The staff member made many promises and told me how they were the best and most popular of the dating/singles services for adults. Of course they must have told you the same and made similar promises to you as well. I told them I wanted to think about it and surprisingly there was no pressure on me to join. Later I did some research and contacted the same office to
ask if they belonged to the local chapter of the Better Business Bureau. The person I spoke with told me she did not know and that she was a recent new hire. This woman seemed quite ignorant and because she worked there
I expected her to be able to know the answer to my question. I therefore concluded that Great Expectations has a practice of hiring receptionists and office workers who are temps and these people are told very little
information about the business's practices. So then they are as much in the dark about GE's policies to the same level as anyone who goes into their office to inquire about membership. Remember these women are temps and not permanent hires so they don't need to know too much!
I did contact my local BBB office and to my surprise I was told that GE is not a member at all. Anyone considering buying an overpriced membership should be very wary and cautious and check with your local chapter of the BBB to see if Great Expectations is registered. I don't know if GE is a member in any BBB office here in Florida. Even if that chapter in Clearwater
is a member I would still steer clear of joining GE. They charge very high member fees that are very exorbitant and they will make promises that
they have no intention of keeping! I did contact the office once and they would not give me much information by phone. They insist on talking to
people in the office. I have read so many complaints here on the Ripoff Report
from members in other states and it's not surprising that GE has so many numerous compaints from disgruntled members everywhere!
Best of luck to you Jennie,
Lorenzo
St. Petersburg, FL
Mslauramc
Powder Springs,Georgia,
U.S.A.
I feel your pain
#4Consumer Comment
Sat, June 07, 2008
Jeannie-
I had a bad experience with their Atlanta operation. However, mine was the events having predominately women attending with only a handful of men. Most of the men were younger than me or the ones my age had no children and were looking for a baby maker. I just filed a report.
Laura
Sean
Portland,Oregon,
U.S.A.
There is hope
#4Consumer Suggestion
Tue, November 08, 2005
Jennie,
2 women from New York won in a court case against Great Expectations. Here is a link to the news article.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20051108/D8DO1C580.html