Reviews of HurryDate

I went to one of these about a year ago, it wasnt setup by Hurrydate however I forget who organized it.

Basically its a complete waste of time if you are looking for a relationship type girl. Its essentially like going to a bar.

I didnt want to go alone so I got a friend from work to come with me, told him I would cover his 20$ if he didnt have a good time. He is a real player type, 6'4, blond hair, usually dates several girls at once, countless bar/club hookups. He just barely made the min age requirement.

Im not a bad looking guy, Im in good shape, full head of hair, tall, girls describe me as "cute". I dont have the type of look that wins girls over at clubs and stuff though. I get a lot of girls that want to be friends (sigh), because Im so "easy to talk to".

So anyhow the event started off badly. There were more guys signed up than girls so the organizer pulled women off the street and let them in for free. I dont suppose they took it very seriously.

Most of the girls were nice looking - no real knockouts. There were several girls that I had a real nice conversation with, I selected 4 of them to communicate with.

One girl decided she didnt want to talk to me because she was having such a great time with this other dude she wanted double time with him so I had to stand there like an idiot for a full session once. That sucked.

My bud ended up getting a bj from a girl during the "social" that went on after the event. It was weird because she struck me as kinda weird/shy and conservative - guess you never can tell. Anyhow he told me he didnt really hit it off with anyone, he chose one girl to communicate with because she was the best looker there. 15 of the 20 girls selected him, including the one he checked. I only got 2 selections - and one of them only checked me because she got confused between me and him because we were hanging out together during the social. The other girl that selected me was very overweight, at least 200lbs.

Anyhow the girl that he had a mutual match with pursued him for about a month on emails even though he showed her little/no interest.

Basically it shows that the girls going there are just looking for a hot dude to hook up with, like most single women these days in large cities. Might as well save your 20$ and goto a bar - if you dont have luck there you wont have it speed-dating.

Not much better than meeting strangers (potential con artists or "gold diggers") in a bar with much less time to talk and a "lighter wallet". Most of the women were drunk by the time I got to talk with them.

No one seemed to be prepared (including the event host) or ask the important questions. Some broke the rules.

Many times, only one person would get their questions answered while the other would learn absolutely nothing about you. A few minutes just isn't enough time.

Only later did I realize I had to spend time creating a ridiculous "profile" and answer all those stupid questions with "That's for me to know and you to find out". Not worth the time and trouble.

I signed up for an event held in a local casino. After more than 30 min after the event was to be held the hostess told us that since there were 25 men,and only 5 women showed up that the event was being cancelled. We could get a refund,or sign up for the next event. I chose to sign up for the next event which was also cancelled. So I then asked for a refund which took more than 4 months to get,alot of disappointment. I would NOT recommend this outfit to anybody.

Hurry date was an adventure. The women there were very beautiful, but the men were so-so. I got 5 matches, two contacted me and one of them stood me up on our date. If they had ethnically or religious based events, I would definitely go.

HurryDate.com is an awesome site if you are interested in speed dating. However, if you do not live in a major city, like me, you have to be willing to travel long distances to reach a hurry date party. also, their ice breakers are cute "Send me a drink"!.

Check out DrDater.com, its a hot new site with everything you'd want: opportunity to meet new people, virtual instant message, speed dating, contests, personality tests, and dr dater parties in many cities all over the nation. it pretty much is a site that combines the features you like from different dating sites into one!

I tried speed-dating once (ExpeDate, not HurryDate), and thought the whole thing was a joke. I was rejected by EVERY single of one of the guys there (I said yes for all of them because while I could see that none of them were my type romantically, I thought they might be nice to be "just friends" with, and this option wasn't included). Believe it or not, I am by no means a bad-looking woman. It seems their rejecting me might have had something to do with my politics being too radical for them, since I did tell one guy that I was in an animal-rights group, and another guy that I was against the war in Iraq. I can't think of anything else I might have said to offend them, except maybe being a little too obvious about being skeptical of this speed-dating. But if any one of these guys felt the same way, I wouldn't be offended. So I'm sorry, but I really don't feel I did anything wrong. It seems that you have to look like a Barbie doll and have the personality and IQ of a Cosmo magazine to have any success on these things. I'm certainly glad I tried this. Even though it didn't work out, it WAS an interesting experience. At least I had a little fun offending people whose opinions I didn't respect...

I have seen several speed-dating services in action. HurryDate is not tops in the field. In my opinion, FastDater.com offers the most upscale, professional singles and the most number of "dates" in one night (35+). No other 3 minute dating service comes close. Most barely get 20 singles of the opposite sex in. FastDater.com events are more like parties!

I've done 4 of these so far in the 25-35 age range. If you're looking for an alternative to the bar scene, then this is NOT what you're looking for. It felt exactly like meeting people in a bar.

Pros:

-Looks-wise, the caliber of the women at the events was generally higher than the men. This is a plus if you're a guy.

-HurryDate has an accompanying website where you can post a pic and into about yourself. This is very useful because it is difficult to remember all of the people you talked to after it's all over and you're trying to remember who Kathy was who you doubled-matched with.

Cons:

-A good portion of the people I met lived quite far from where the event was held. I live in SF and went to SF events, and some of the people I met lived as far away as Pleasanton, Walnut Creek, and Fremont

-Out of the 4 times I've gone, I think I really only had 1 double-match that I would consider a success. Many times, when I would double-match with somebody, I would contact them via email and never hear back. Other times, I would double-match with somebody, look up their profile on the website to remind myself who they were, think to myself, "what was I thinking?" and not bother to contact them. It goes both ways and it's really the beer-goggles effect in action. I averaged about 2 double-matches each time.

-You end up talking about the same stuff over and over throughout the night: "have you done speed dating before?" "where are you from?" "what do you do for a living?"

Finally, some advice: if you're going to do this, go with a friend for support, preferably someone of the opposite gender. Before and after the speed dating begins, they give you some time to mix and mingle with the other participants. This is much easier to do with a wing-person as you won't end up looking like a creepy loner.

I've been to three HurryDate events in the Brentwood area of LA; two of them were 25-35 age range, one was men 35-45/women 30-40 (I'm 39). I had a really good time at all of them, but the problem (so to speak) came afterwards, when it came time to re-connect.

After each event I had one mutual match, whom I promptly contacted. One of them wrote back to tell me she had met so many people that I needed to remind her -- once I did I never heard from her; the others just never responded.

If you go with no other expectation than to have a good time, you won't be disappointed. I've found my skills in interviewing from my days as a sports journalist help me draw a bead on the woman across the table from me.

You meet with around 15 people in about an hour and rate each one whether you would like to meet them again. If both of you like each other then a match is produced on the website and you can begin communication. I thought the Idea was kind of interesting so I went to one. It turned out to be a total waste of time. Its actually synanymous to a bar scene. I mean how close can you get to a person after 3 minutes of talking to them. I would say its only slightly better to the online dating experience. I put all women as desirable matches but only got two who were interested in me. I emailed two of them and did not get a single reply. I think women in general have to screen men effectively and are not really open to the online dating, speed dating experience unless you happen to be Brad Pitt. the best bet for us decent looking single guys is to meet with women through their friends. This way they trust you more since you are a friend of their friends.