Reviews of HurryDate

RIPOFF - DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER!!!

I have attended several hurrydates in the past 3 years in San Diego. At first the parties were great - lots of average to above average women & men. About 2 years ago i actually met a wonderful women and had a serious relationship for over a year. We broke up, but are still good friends. Several others at the same party were contenders, but i lost track of them after getting serious with the one.

Unfortunately, when i started going to HD parties again early this year the dynamics had changed. Not as many women, and the ones who are there are not the quality of 2 years ago. Most of the parties i signed up for were cancelled, sometimes with little notice. They automatically reschedule you to the next party, and in some cases those have been cancelled too.

The last cancellation was over 4 months ago. I asked for a refund since i was going to be out of town at the next party. The refund took several months to get, and then only after 4 or 5 persistent emails. They said (for some reason that sounded fishy at the time) that they could not refund my credit card and had to mail me a check. Soon after i received the refund check they recharged my credit card. Now i am fighting them over this new charge, which they claim is for a "subscription".

Judging from my experience and the other messages here, HD seems to be in a downward business spiral and probably will not last long. Companies in this situation will often try to get as much $$$money as possible before going out of business - including making questionable charges on your credit card. I would be very, very careful about giving them a CC number.

Real people meet in real life situations. Things are forced at singles functions and such. I have never been pleased whether using online dating, speed dating, blind dating, singles groups or whatever. You meet decent people in real life situations who don't have time for all the BS that group organizers tend to come up with. The only people who are successful are the old style type matchmakers with the psychological and interpersonal skills that are capable of actually matching up people, and that takes a lot of time and money and highly tuned skills. Speed dating is another spinoff of internet dating whose main purpose is to make money for the site owners. Personal ads in newspapers work just as well. Meeting sane people in real life works better. I would stay well clear of any organization that just takes your money and invites you to jump into the great big mess they generally create. Anybody can organize a big party if they want to. It would be better to attend functions of organizations that have similar interests to yours, so at least you have some things in common when you meet. Getting OUT and meeting people has worked better for me than staying in and letting somebody else round up a bunch of scoundrels to meet over the internet. The internet works best for those who want to carry on an email relationship and such. That's OK. I have carried on email correspondence for quite some time then been totally disappointed when actually meeting the person. Meeting in person will never take back stage to the internet, speed dating, etc., unless you are too screwed up to allow the old traditional ways to work. Look to get involved in activities you want to take part in, whether you ever meet somebody or not, you had a good time anyway. You have to broaden your horizons to meet people, and those types of people are the ones with suitable mates. Not those who hide out on the internet or only go to poorly planned functions whose main business interest is that they paid the entrance fee. That's no better than meeting in the supermarket or library, which costs you nothing and doesn't eat into your free time in order to attend.

Run the other direction from this service! Not only do they cancel the parties but have imho a deceptive website. After several parties being cancelled, I attempted to cancel the subscription and get a refund. The service was useless, and they were unable to deliver the product they advertised. Hurrydate fought it tooth and nail, I had to contact my credit card company to dispute the charge. So after all this headache, they finally refunded with an attitude. So as if that's not bad enough, 6 months later I get an email saying they renewed my subscription and will charge my card. My emails to them bounced. My phone call was answered by a machine. I have left my number with a message but they do not call back. DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER or you will wind up with them haunting you in the future! If I could, I would give them a "negative 5 star" rating.

I honestly don't know why HurryDate is getting such bad reviews on this site. I have to say that I've been to several HurryDate parties, and I've enjoyed every single one of them. Sure, there were some women who I found unattractive but isn't that only realistic? Someone I may find unattractive may be found attractive by someone else and vice versa. To each his own.

At the last HurryDate I went to, I met this beautiful, intelligent woman, and we had a mutual match after HurryDating. Believe it or not, we've been seeing each other for a couple months now! Even though I was lucky to have met her, I'm pretty sure that HurryDate is meant to be fun and not to be taken too seriously. Go out and meet people, and have a good time! Who knows who you'll meet?

I think Hurrydate on the whole deserves a positive review. Good looking guys. Good looking girls.

I've read some of the negative reviews and I'm not sure they're warranted. Hurrydate delivers on exactly what it says. People are going to get out what they put in.

The Atlanta function I attended was mixed with both good and average looking people. Some of them were really nice and others were flighty or creepy, but you're going to get that anywhere.

It's truly a great mix. You get some great looking guys and girls but you get average ones too. You get attitude and pretentiousness while there are some truly kind and nice people there as well.

After the dating is over, they don't exactly throw you out of the place either. You're free to go back and talk to anyone you found interesting. Most people leave soon after it's over, but that's their loss.

Whether or not you find your perfect match here is up for debate, but you are going to meet some interesting people nonetheless.

I'd go back

I've signed up for three Hurrydate parties. The last two events have been cancelled. One event was cancelled but no prior notification was given, basically wasting my time going to the site to find out that it was cancelled. The first event was ok: many people, great fun, a couple of matches.

For one of the latter events Hurrydate also overcharged my credit card and claim to have no clue where the money went. Customer service takes weeks to reply. Overall I consider Hurrydate a very poor choice for speeddating.

Once they delayed the event to another day. second time they just cancelled it. First time they called me. Second time they did not even call me for event cancellation. it was a couple month ago and I have not paid back yet.

I think Hurrydate on the whole deserves a positive review. Good looking guys. Good looking girls.

I've read some of the negative reviews and I'm not sure they're warranted. Hurrydate delivers on exactly what it says. People are going to get out what they put in.

The Atlanta function I attended was mixed with both good and average looking people. Some of them were really nice and others were flighty or creepy, but you're going to get that anywhere.

It's truly a great mix. You get some great looking guys and girls but you get average ones too. You get attitude and pretentiousness while there are some truly kind and nice people there as well.

After the dating is over, they don't exactly throw you out of the place either. You're free to go back and talk to anyone you found interesting. Most people leave soon after it's over, but that's their loss.

Whether or not you find your perfect match here is up for debate, but you are going to meet some interesting people nonetheless.

I'd go back.

We'll, I have been to two Hurrydates in Tampa,FL and 99% of the women I met there have serious issues. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying I am perfect(not by a long shot), but here is how they went. The first Hurrydate had about 15 women and 15 guys. Fist of all, I DO REQUIRE a woman to be somewhat attractive for me to be interested in her, I believe women call this word, chemistry.

So out of 15, I don't want to sound ignorant but 7 of them were so awful looking, it was beyong belief. So thats 7 gone, 8 left. Now the hurrydate I went to was for 25-35 year olds and I really have to question 2-3 women who were not in there 40's. 6 left(we'll say 2 were too old). Now, out of the 6, I am unsure how it works in other cities but there is plenty of time to talk here(supposed to be three minutes, always ends up being 5); 4 of the women asked what I did for a living( of which I am not ashamed, I make good money, but I don't brag), and when they found out I make under 300,000 a year,they were no longer interested in talking, which is sad, THEY actually asked the exact amount of what I made.

Now were down to 2. Out of the two, both of which seemed ok. I picked both,mutual matched on 1. Never got off the ground. We emailed a few times, but she was not a woman who I would like to spend time with. Why? Everything would have to revolve around her schedule and what she wanted to do. Why would I put up with that? And I don't even know her really well, what would she be like if I took her out on a date or started dating her. Too much of an embarrassment.

2nd Hurrydate; See above. So if you are looking for someone "normal", or a nice woman(at least from the 2 I went to), I would not count Hurrydate as trying to meet them. Sorry I wrote a novel, enjoy.

Total RIP OFF.... Hurrydates are cancelled 50% of the time, obviously you don't get a refund, they assume they own your schedule, so they reschedule it... it takes MONTHS to get a refund, but don't worry, just call your credit card company and problem solved.

BTW, their website has NO TRIAL Periods and obviously NO REFUNDS. Their nasty website with very few features has ZERO value!!!... My experience with Hurrydate has been disappointing and I will not recommend it to anyone who wants to really get to know a real woman. I know a friend of mine who went out on one and sadly, the girl he actually was a match with, realized she loved her ex-boyfiend ..... at least the hurrydate worked for her.

Again, where do you feel the worst? Right after wasting $20 for 1 hr of interviews and talkin to 10 girls from which 5 might have been hired by the organizers so they don't cancel the event, or just go out to a bar and invite 4 girls to 5 not-so-expensive drinks???