Sunday, December 2, 2012

Ge-Dating.com overview, online dating site review

Ge-Dating.com   aka: Great Expectations Dating
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Ge-Dating.com overview:
Based on our personal experiences, we cannot, in good conscience, recommend that you join Ge-Dating.com. They have demonstrated to us and, it would seem, to many others, that they have a very poor record of keeping their customers / members happy. 

As reviewers we aim for two things.  Firstly, we aim to provide a fair review, based on the way a site operates and services their members, in the context of other sites, within the same general category (we try to compare apples to apples etc). Secondly, we aim to refrain from outright negative critiques.  We feel it's tempting to over-react when focusing on what a site does improperly or if they are committing an oversight that results in doing a disservice to their members.   However, what follows is factual.

At the time of writing, GE-Dating are the website arm of a US-based nationally known matchmaking service called Great Expectations. The business uses live representatives although you sign-up online to become a member of Ge-Dating.  We assume that your information is electronically forwarded to the live representatives who contact you by phone within 24 hours. In attempting to join the site (in order to review it) we were stopped in the process because the site's sign-up form would not accept a cell phone (based in the USA) as a home phone.  


Ge-Dating.com Features:
  • Over 50 locations across the US.
  • Only available for US singles
  • Over 30 years experience in the dating game
  • Cross between a traditional dating site and a matchmaking site.
  • All members are screened via telephone calls by a GE Dating Relationship Specialist to ensure members are serious about meeting and dating other singles. So you can expect a phone call from a relationship specialist soon after you join to discuss your matchmaking needs. No other dating site provides this!
  • Sign-up to GE-Dating and create your own profile and upload your pictures for FREE
  • Search for other members within your local area for free
  • Browse other members' profiles, view their photos, check out any video greetings they've posted
  • Create your own hotlist of members you like
  • Create your own blocklist of members you wish to ignore. These members will then be blocked from contacting you in future.
  • Check out the online magazine, packed with interesting articles, members' experiences, tips and advice to get the most from GE Dating.
  • Complete privacy protection - no one will know your identity unless you explicitly tell them!
  • Excellent technical support, including your very own relationship specialist.
  • Email other members using GE Dating's internal e-mail system (you must be a premium member to do this)
  • Instant message other members (you must be a premium member to do this)
  • Access a multitude of public and private chat rooms. Private message other members in the chat rooms (you must be a premium member to do this)

Performing a Search on Ge-Dating.com:
  • A full search facility is available, allowing members to search by:
    • gender
    • age range
    • marital status
    • location to within 1 mile of where you live
    • whether the member has any pictures posted
    • ethnicity
    • smoking
    • drinking
    • height
    • weight
    • plus any other features of a member's profile
It's possible that GE Dating have a third party marketing company that handles and hires its own representatives on a commission-only basis.  This scenario would bring about the conditions complained about on the net. These complaints are consistent and widespread. While we cannot substantiate their veracity, we can't help thinking that most of them may well be valid, especially after the response we received when we attempted to sign up to the site. For further informative complaints by their customers please Google "complaints about GEDating.com".

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