Reviews of The Right Stuff

I wished I read the reviews before I wasted my money... Dawne NEVER replies to your emails, ignores problems and just keeps sending the members to churn her fees. I told her I will not use the service until she fixes my problem, but I am afraid this will go un answered like anything else I have asked her. Go to more professional sites - at least you will not have to deal with such lack of professionalism.

Forget these websites, I'm going to get each of you Ivy League bombshells the best date you never had before.

Go to a website called Good Vibrations and look at their selection of upscale silicone dildos and strap-ons fit for an Ivy League prince or princess like yourself. Buy at least two items...a dildo and a strap-on are the most versatile combo. Make sure you get a good leather harness for the strap-on. Ivy League bombshells deserve the best Italian leather, don't they?

Name one of your new toys Yale, and name the other one Harvard. Now GIVE YOURSELF a good Ivy League Fucking!!! Get a third dildo, name it Oxford, and have an international date while you're at it.

It may be the best Ivy League date you will ever have.

If you care not to fuck yourself, or failed to study that aspect of sexuality in your post graduate studies and feel you might achieve less that world class performance that's beneath your sexual legacy, may I suggest that you sign up for The Right Stuff membership and let them give you an Ivy League screwing every time the membership renews and you pay the monthly charges. Better yet, break out Harvard, Yale and Oxford when you get the monthly bill and do the date up right! This will be the most expensive route in the long term, and you can be proud of that fact.

Readers should look over the reviews. You will see two types -- those with 5 stars and all the rest. It does look suspicious that Dawne posted her own reviews, giving herself 5 stars. The writing in these rave reviews is very similar and does not seem genuine.

At any rate, I would not recommend this dating service. I found that the number of men in my age group was minimal for this area, there was almost no turnover, and the men I did meet were simply a waste of time. Dawne kept sending out lists of new members who were not new at all. When I wrote to her that I was going to quit, she kept trying to get me to change my mind. She is quite unprofessional. If I could give Right Stuff a 0 star rating, I would.

Lucy

This site is currently rated about 4 stars too high for its actual worth. Therefore, about right for the ones who use it, I suppose. It must be rated that high because they happen to be there, I suppose.

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Extremely unprofessional service. User interface looks like it was built in 1996.

I got a message from a guy before even receiving the password to access the website. After asking for explanation Dawne replied that I had a high spam alert, which I don't, and how come I could get another gazillion automatic emails from the site? But the worse thing was that in my profile under religion it listed my telephone number. What kind of privacy is that? I'm thinking about suing them, if anyone has suggestions let me know!

The site has improved over the years, and overall I've been impressed with the quality of men. Areas I'd like to see improved include the search for matches and special interests, as well as number of members. It is a better site for educated professionals looking for a quality relationship, and I would recommend it to others.

I was disappointed with TRS.

As with many others who posted reviews, I found the web site clunky and non-intuitive. It quickly became apparent that pool was not very extensive, and I live in one of the better-covered areas. I was repeatedly contacted by men considerably older than me. While I had some pleasant dates, there were a couple of contacts who were downright pathetic.

I ended my membership over a year ago, yet Dawne continues to send me cards and offers, even though I have asked (more than once) to take me off the mailing list.

I was a member for two years and noticed that the same people showed up on the lists, month in and month out, with almost no turn over and few new members. The website is so underpowered compared with others, it is no suprirse that RightStuff attracts few members. It is annoying that you have to pay beyond the flat fee for each person you contact. I found a lot of mixed up, unhappy people and did a lot better on match.com and eharmony. Match.com has the best search engine and flexibility. But you have to work to find good matches.

Dawne is not very professional. When she started losing members she began to send the same lists out over and over, stating incorrectly that these were "new members" Not true! I suspect that many of the five star reviews were written by Dawne as they are not realistic and sound quite similar to each other. Few reviewers give five stars to any dating service and you would expect to see some 3's and 4's sprinkled amongst the 5's.

I've subscribed to this service for a little over a year, and forgot about it until I got a few emails. I never knew until recently how to search or respond to profiles, since, as others have pointed out, the interface isn't that intuitive.

In some ways, I think that's not to bad a thing. I think good UI's found on online personal sites like match.com, nerve.com (which uses the same backend system, Spring Street Personals, I think it's called, as many others like Salon.com, SFGate.com, theonine.com, bust.com), make shopping too easy (which I think is a larger problem of online dating as whole). So actually there's a sense of greater value in the profiles that you do read about.

Pros:

--I like the kinds of categories you have and that you use your own words to describe what you're looking for, or what's important to you. I think Match.com's check boxes and lists are inane, and that those in Salon.com/Nerve.com ("Celebrity I resemble the most") are so hip and edgy they can too easily detract from being earnest.

--I like how "Dawne" tries to inspire a higher standard of civility in the space ("At the minimum, reply with a 'No thank you,'"), altho' this hasn't been my experience consistently.

--I've never been able to view another male's posting, which is actually kind of good. One isn't able to write a profile informed by the 'competition.'

--If you make a change to your profile, it's done realtime.

--B/c it appeals to people with advanced degrees and high falutin' educations, it's easy to be bookish and highbrow, which might be the most comfortable way in which its typical member likes to interact.

Cons:

--It's pricey (v. other reviews).

--Not easy to use, but see above note about 'shopping.'

--The idea of being Ivy League only is a little ridiculous to me- I'm frankly a little embarassed to tell my friends I'm using such an elitist service (but that's its niche)

--Seems not to have many participants.

In summary:

I think it has its niche- it's elitist in educational level; this lends itself to a kind of elitist air which might make for initial communication that's more civil. I liked the way I was able to make use of it to describe myself, unlike Match.

Ultimately, I think how good an online dating service is depends on how comfortable you are with the way you're able to describe yourself- and for this, in my opinion, TRS does a really good job. It also depends on the selection of people you can meet, and ultimately, how successful you are in finding what you're looking for. That's a little more difficult to pin on the service. What are people really looking for online? Why would they try to find it in an Ivy League only site?

This hasn't been my best way to meet new women. I have a wife that has her own girlfriends and boyfriends, so I have a few girlfriends here and there myself. My social position demands that I associate with a class of female that maintains discretion and keeps my private life from interfering with my public life. While in the past I could get certain public officials to find girlfriends of the quality that I desired, their lack of wisdom in choosing the ones with the proper respect for my privacy and public life left a bit to be desired. Women that I met at work were also sometimes given to making public nuisances of themselves when things didn't go their way. Not that it messed up my life with my other girlfriends, but it added to my already hectic schedule. Now that I am in semi-retirement and living in another state where my good ole boy contacts are not as well developed, I decided to try the internet as a way of dating women on the side. Even if you are dating ivy league women, do not fall for any woman who refuses to post a photo no matter how she swears it is only for reasons of privacy. I have dated some real bimbos in my day before moving to New York, but I was not quite prepared for what I found online. If you are a hot ivy league college educated chick and ever in any of the best home cooking restaurants in New York City, ask when Bubba has his next reservation there and maybe you can wait for me under the table.