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I wish I had seen the other rip off reports before I went to her. I read reviews and they all looked good but...had I known the truth...
This is a total scam. You meet in her office and she's so charming and makes a lot of great sounding promises. You write her a check or hand over your credit card and.....say goodbye to your money.
They have the worst customer service, so don't expect that anyone is actually going to listen to your concerns or answer your questions. I paid extra money for Geri's services. She's supposed to help you discuss your concerns. The operative words being "supposed to". They are very condescending and they do not listen to anything you say and then try to turn it around on you. I saw, in another rip-off report, that she responded that one customer was angry because Maureen was working from home after her surgery. Now, I am totally sympathetic and wish her well in her recovery, but...nonsense. You run a business honey. You said the same thing to me. So, it's not you? It's us being unsympathetic towards you? If you're that busy then hire some people....maybe someone not in the family.
She takes a WEEK to go through e-mails (she gets SO many) and doesn't work on weekends. So, even if your match says "no" you won't know for a week. How rude. And inefficient. How many of you can let 500 e-mails pile up in your in-box and not work weekends? Or prioritize them? When she finally answers your e-mails her attitude is so condescending. She explains the "process" over and over. Yeah, I get it, now answer the question I asked.
During today's (final) conversation with Geri (don't even think Maureen will take your call. She won't.) she didn't listen to what I was saying, I got frustration at her attempts to turn it around on me and then....she hung up on me. Great way to handle a frustrated customer. I can't count how many times I said "that's not what I'm saying". UGH. Her response? "I can't talk to you" and then hung up. ?? I call back...she won't take my call. Nice. I'm an intelligent person. I know when you're playing games with me. It's just too bad that I wasn't smart enough to see through this scam from the start.
What angers me even more is that she took my daughter's money. My daughter was perfectly clear that any man needed to live in NYC. Maureen said that she had plenty of men who LIVE in NYC. In the meantime, she was sent men who lived everywhere but. And one said that he never even goes into the city. She said that one said he'd move into the city "for the right woman" but he said he had just purchased a house in NJ. One was sleeping on a friend's couch. Maureen makes a big deal about doing background checks. So it seems that, as long as you don't have a felony record, you can lie as much as you want and Maureen will set you up with him.
When you ask for your money back you're told that their lawyer won't allow it. I agree with someone here who said that we should start a class-action suit. I'm interested if you are. As is my daughter. In the meantime I'm going to see what MY lawyer says. I think the question might be - did she make a good attempt at delivering what she promised? NO.
Does Maureen think that all this publicity she's getting can't get turned around on her? My ex-husband and many of my friends work for a large local newspaper. A good friend is a reporter. I have plenty of time this summer to work on fighting her "good" publicity with some reality.
Maureen
Bellmore,#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, July 01, 2014
Dear Readers,
Please take a moment and read my response to a very disturbing situation from this client Joann. I am attaching her photo so you can see that I only had good intentions on helping her when she came in.
Typically I would have said that I did not think matchmaking would work for her, since she is 64, very overweight and unfortunately as she even told me, is "unattractive." I told her that day, there are no guarantees for matchmaking and that if she wanted to take the chance I would take her on as a client, since she was very nice that first day! She agreed that she knew there are no guarantees, she agreed that she knew there are no refunds in matchmaking a signed a legally binding agreement.
I took her on to be a client to be a very kind person and try to help her since she knew it would be difficult to meet someone. She admitted it was impossible for her to try and meet a man on her own in this world where unfortunately men are very visual. I made a exception for her and now she is saying these LIES about the program. That is very unprofessional. She signed up for the program which included dating coaching not from me, but from Gerry. Gerry is amazing and I receive compliments every day about her and how professional she is.
We first had a problem with Joann the first month of her program because she did not read the paperwork and when my assistant Suzanne, who is also wonderful was trying to explain it to her, she became verbally abusive to Suzanne. I told her at a later date, that she cannot treat the staff in such an unprofessional manner. For example, if she acts rude to our staff, we can't take the chance that she will be rude to a man on a date!
Then she called Gerry and was raising her voice and upset Gerry as well. Gerry tried to answer her question, and tried to explain that the phone call was not productive because would not listen to Gerry. Gerry told her if she did not stop raising her voice and being verbally abusive, that she would have to hang up the phone. Joann continued and then Gerry did have to hang up the phone. My receptionist that answers the phones told me that "a crazy lady called today and was rude and very disrespectful."
I emailed her and explained that everything that she was saying was not true! I work over 70 hours a week and work every weekend. Everything incorrect that she has said is laid out clearly in her paperwork. Clients know the official office hours are Monday through Friday 9-5, even though I am literally working and doing appointments, matchmaking, making dating coaching calls with clients that have me as their coach, and emailing all my clients. When I send out a match on a Friday evening, everyone knows they have until Wednesday to answer. I am a private, upscale matchmaking service that caters 99% of the time to attractive, successful, positive and very busy clients! They need to have until Wednesday to give their answers. Everyone also knows that if they do respond to a match over the weekend, I begin checking the emails on Monday morning when the office officially opens again. I have three full time professionals along with a receptionist and two temps working for me. I run a tight ship and am proud of my team.
I sent her a total of 5 men since she joined in February. It would have been more but she put herself on hold for two months. The first match she declined because she said he wasn't active enough and smart enough since she is a college professor. This man is in shape and has a masters degree. What she fails to realize is that just because you join a matchmaking service, especially when I took her on to be extra kind and try to help her, it doesn't mean that you will find the love of your life. I believe that there is a lid for every pot and that since she knew there were no guarantees, that I would just try my best for her. I am shocked, hurt, and completely amazed that she would write this terrible, inaccurate report on me.
I was pleased that the second man said yes to her but she complained that she didn't like the message he left her. I spoke to her directly about this situation, but there was no trying to reason with her. Had she gone out with either of these two men, she might have been able to be successful with my program already.
With 1200 clients, all the best of best singles in New York, I do my best with each one. I wish I could make every single client successful, but unfortunately I can't. But I do try! I also have over 1000 success stories/marriages, so if a client works the program and is realistic, I usually can make them successful.
Unfortunately this is a case of a woman who is being unrealistic in finding a man. I was doing my best for her until now reading this report, she has obviously lost her membership with me, which is also written in her contract. Please also note, the fact that she is not successful since only February, less the two months that she requested to be on hold, is also very unrealistic. She joined a two year program, and had she not written this mean spirited report filled with lies, she might have found someone here.
She came into this telling me she's been trying on her own for many, many years, with no success at all. I do not understand why she would expect instant results here! And to write this false report when I only tried to help her shows a lot about her character!
Lastly, I will not comment about her daughter because she is lovely and has never complained to us and is still using the process. She has accepted her next match once she returns from her vacation. I am sure I will be able to make her daughter successful!
Thank you all for listening. Matchmaking is my life and passion! I am blessed every day for all of my wonderful clients.
Maureen Tara Nelson