Reviews of Great Expectations

According to a recent study, more than 60 percent of Americans are considered overweight and more than 1 billion worldwide. With more than half of the American population being on the larger side of the physical spectrum, it makes me wonder: Oversized singles, plus size males and females have trouble to find a partner? They feel shy and not self esteem owning to the size?

Over the years, I've tried lots of personals sites with limited results. I always wondered if the responses to my ads were few and far between due to my size. Can people really be that picky?

At the end of Aug 2006, my friend gave me a link to go on, it was http://www.pluscupid.com . So I joined it, but not expecting anything because to me these sorts of sites are all the same...How wrong was I!!!!

After a few weeks I started chatting to Frank. He didn't live too far from me. However first impressions on him was, hmm a little bit rough around the edges, not what i would usually go for. But we kept talking and I liked him more and more. After a few more weeks we decided to meet. However it wasn't planned, and at the time he'd just finished work and I'd just got back from London, so on a whim we met at a local garage, which had a macdonalds beside it. We sat in the car park just talking- Hours flew past! Then we went our separate ways.

We kept messaging each other throughout the night and day and arranged to meet again. So we did, we went for a meal etc... We started dating!. Everything was great we went out for meals, went to the theatre, cinema etc. In late December he moved in with me, we both knew it was rushing things, but we're in love why not?.

We had Christmas together, then came new years eve and he took me to some woods that overlooked a river ( which is where his grandparents lived), and to my surprise he got down on 1 knee and proposed to me. It was Amazing.. I said yes!!!!... Later that day, to my surprise he arranged for us to go to London to see the new year in. It was wonderful, a ring on my finger, fireworks and this lovely man holding my hand.

At this moment in time we're looking to buy a house because the place we live in now is going to be far to small especially now we're expecting our first child together.

If you are a BBW, BHM or BBW admirer, PlusCupid.com just has the perfect match. I say to others just keep trying. Your match is out there.

Good luck and happy dating!

GE is a ripoff they will steal your money check out links and tell everyone

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Thanks everyone for your reviews of Great Expectations. I received a call from Great Expectations Sunday night and arranged for a consultation meeting on Tuesday. I spoke to a lady by the name of Patra and she definitely rehearsed her speech to me over the telephone. I asked a lot of questions and her responses were vague, often telling me that my consultation meeting will address all my questions. On Monday morning, I decided to check out the Better Business Bureau to see if there were any complaints filed on Great Expectations. Based on the complaints with the BBB and your reviews, my gut told me to cancel my meeting. I called Great Expectations at their Palo Alto, CA office and Patra answered the telephone. I told her that I wanted to cancel my meeting and would like to take some time to look into other options. She tried to convince me otherwise and I would not give in, so I thanked her for her time and she hung up the telephone on me without saying good-bye. Her response was all I needed to confirm my suspicions.

Stay away from GE! It's just super expensive online dating. They entice you with sevice and social events like professional pictures and group wine tasting trips, then they charge you an arm and both legs for membership and nominal fees for all their events. There are more attractive people on Match or Yahoo and you don't have a mediator. You're actually better off hooking up with a co-worker at a holiday party.

FYI This is not a complaint or a compliment. I responded to a newspaper ad for a dating service that listed its address as www.mynaplessingles.com. Upon supplying my contact information on their application, I was contaced and an appointment was scheduled. During the "phone interview" I was told that I would need to bring with me three forms of identification (I guess a photo driver's license was not good enough.)and one of them being a credit card. When I informed them that I had a credit card, they wanted to know exactly which major card I had Visa or Mastercard. I made the appointment and drove over an hour to get there. I thought it was strange that they would advertise as "covering all of Naples" but were located in the next county.(Naples is a one of the biggest counties in the USA) To make a long story short,Upon my arrival I called the 1-800 number I was given at the phone interview in case I got lost. I was greeted by a friendly female advising me that I had called Great Expectations. At no time was I told that my naples singles was great expectations. Needless to say I went home.

Too bad they don't have a setting for negative stars as that is what I would give Great Expectations. They use very high pressure sales and tell you that you won't get the "wonderful" price they give you right then and if you decide to sleep on it you can expect the price to double.

When you come in for your photos you will be dinged left and right for special packages that are certainly not worth the price they charge you for like having more than one photo in your profile. Nor can you edit your profile later. Once it's in their system it practically takes an act of Congress to get it changed and that might not even be possible.

After you get in there you will find that there isn't much to choose from. Then if you decide to bail you will have to pay the full price and they are on par with the mafia when it comes to collecting your membership fees.

So if you are thinking about Great Expectations don't. Run as fast as you can away from these shysters.

I just had my appointment with GE today. I've heard of the organization before, and I was just curious what it's all about. Like so many single women out there, I want to meet a quality guy and be in a happy serious relationship. I don't have a problem meeting men, but I'm very picky, and I wanted to see if GE would provide me with more opportunities to meet more quality men. Initially, I actually liked the idea of what GE was trying to do - until they showed me the prices and started applying this typical low-class sales pressure on me. You know the reason I'm still single is not just because I'm too picky. It's also because I don't put up with bullshit. And I have a great, refined sense of smell for bullshit. Plus, I'm not your usual blond ditz either. The minute I sensed this car-salesman pressure I back-off. The folks at GE don't realize that not everyone who walks in their offices is a desperate idiot. So, I lied to them - when they asked for my credit card, I told them I "forgot" it, and I will surely call them later. Yeah, dream on greedy bastards! When I got home, I googled "Great expectations + reviews". I came across these reviews. I'm so glad that I listened to my gut feelings and my brain. Tomorrow I will call GE, and I will fax them these reviews and ask them for explanation. I will also tell them that I rather die alone that fall for their bullshit.

I entered my info into "Dallassingles.org" thinking it was a fun, laid-back singles group type thing (which is kinda what the website made it look like it was). Turns out the website is for the Great Exp. dating service, which is NOT what I was looking for. They called and set up an appointment with me, never mentioning they were Great Expectations, still keeping up the impression they were just a fun group of singles who get together for fun (only because I mentioned that's what I was interested in finding).

Having never heard of this company before, I wasn't really sure what was going on when I got there, but figured I'd at least check things out. After they talked to me for a while about how great they are, they brought on the extreme selling techniques that were mentioned a couple posts below mine. After I refused the $6995 membership fee, she "went to talk to the director to see if she could get the price lowered just for me." It was then that I got up and walked out of the office. :-) My cell phone was ringing before I even pulled out of the parking lot, but I just ignored it and deleted the voicemail they left and moved on with my life.

If you are weak when it comes to sales people, don't go. You'll have "sucker" written all over your face.

I joined this site for about a year and get nothing except emails and emails from spammers or scammers. So I gave up. I don't wnat to try any online dating sites because of these experiences.

About half a year later, my friends told me to join their circle at millionairecupid.com. I know they are quite nice people. So I tried. I met many great people there and picked up my man there too. We have happily married now. Everything is so great for him.

If I didn't try great expectations, I may met my man earlier. So, if you don't want to waste your time, quit at once.

Oh man....

I'm so glad I have a strong will and that things in my romantic life are so "uncertain". I'm also glad that I have a strong background in Psychology and was able to see the warning signs during my initial interview with these people.

Somehow, GE managed to get my cell phone number. The sales gal on the phone seemed very nice and, due to my playful nature, her and I immediately started a flirtatious conversation with one another. Her 10 minute presentation turned into actually a very nice 1 hour conversation. I reluctantly agreed to come in for an appointment to check things out.

Upon my arrival I was introduced to a very, VERY attractive, "strong willed" sale rep to walk me through the interview process, etc. After discussing alot of details I began to realize I wasn't being psychologically profiled for perspective dates within the service. I was being profiled to give the sales rep the ammo she needed to turn the screws on me for the MEGA hard sale toward the end. A weaker man would have caved, because this gal was good, taking details of my life that I had shared earlier and totally twisting them in a way that left me feeling vulnerable and down right violated. I never gave them my social security number, but I have no doubt that they obviously ran a credit check off my drivers license number. They were wanting $6,995 for their VIP tier service but was willing to come down to $4000 flat for it if I signed right now. I was disgusted at how it was being presented to me and how I felt my arm was being twisted to sign.

I basically had to tell the gal that I wasn't looking to get screwed today unless she was willing to strip down and do me on her desk right there. So with that, she finally let up and allowed me to leave, finally accepting my refusal to sign. I honestly felt that I was more or less being held hostage by her up until that point.

I have no idea what kind of service these folk may actually provide as far as really meeting people or not, but the hard sale to get me to hand over my credit card was a gigantic flashing warning sign.

Do not even think of going to their office. If you are weak willed, you will get robbed blind.