Together

Jose of Great Falls, VA April 21, 2009

I found there site on a search engine and filled out their forms. I could not find anything on the site about their fees but wanted to get more information about them. (I should have started on ConsumerAffairs.com and saved myself the grief). The first rep called me yesterday and started interviewing me without asking if it was a good time. (I was in the middle of feeding my 3 year old). I stopped her after a couple of minutes and told her I just wanted more info on them and to get their fee schedule. Ha! Good luck getting any fee info out of these people. I asked her to email it to me. She said they aren't an online dating service and don't do that. Well, they have an online website, and what does one thing have to do with the other?

OK, so I'll play along, then if you are a traditional service let's do it the old fashioned way. I asked her to mail the fee schedule to me via the US Postal Service, you don't get any more traditional. Sorry, she explained, they don't do that either since the fee schedule will depend "on the number of people you want to meet and the accessories you add to your membership." All right, scam sirens going off. She then says that this is not how they do business to which I replied that it is also not how I do business. If you can't tell people upfront what services will cost then there is something your business is hiding. She contiued the hard sell and I just had to interrupt her and tell her that I wasn't interested and to please remove me from their call list. Today I got another call from Jasmin who was oblivious to anything that had gone on yesterday. I asked her to please remove me from the call list to which she replied "but I want to understand why you wouldn't want to meet someone special." I told her that was my business and to please remove me from their call list. Luckily I didn't buy their story and didn't sign anything. I called back the number on my caller id to speak to a customer service rep and make sure that I'd been removed from the list. I got Jasmin again. She asked very pointedly why I was calling back and I said that I just wanted to be sure I had been removed. She said that "we don't have a call list and now that you've called back I'll have to remove you again." Remove me again from what if you don't have a call list? Stay away from this company. Their practices are suspect and from the other posts here they are consistent.

Madeline of Manassas, VA March 26, 2009

I made appointment in the Falls Church office. I was intervied by Sarah. I applied in May of 2008. I had to take care of aunt who had a stroke for 3 months. I called them in September and told them I was home. They assigned me a date 62yrs that never showed up because it was raining. He drove a motorcycle. I do not like motorcycles I told Sarah that.

The next date they assigned me was 62 yrs old and 2 hrs away and he called and said he didn't want to travel that far. I sad I would travel 35 minutes for a date. So neither was assigned to me by what I had ask for.

I have ask for my money back since November 2008. They have no owner I can talk too. There service dept says they are doing ther job.

I have waited. I am a year older. Not excited anymore about finding anyone wanting to travel and be a companion. It has caused depression because talking to these people raises my blood pressure every time I call them.

Elaine of Robbinsville, NJ March 25, 2009

They are set up like a professional service, but what they say they do and promise is all a scam and lies. They say they do background checks, but there is not proof that they do. They say they have lots of people in their database, but I now do not believe this. They have you take a personality test and say they match you with others that score similarly. That turns out to be a bunch of bull. They ask what you are looking for, but the matches they provide you do not fit the profile you provide.

I also found out through someone I met that for the men that sign on, their profiles are given to the women who work in the office for first dibs. Profile information apparently is not confidential. They say the people who are making the matches are professional educated people and have backgrounds in this area. That also is a bunch of bull. The so-called matchmakers have no such qualifications and probably do not even have a college degree. This business should really be looked into and shut down.

It's a scam. I was suckered into giving them 5,000 for thier services which are all a lie.

Vicki of Sebastian, FL May 17, 2008

Together dating contacted me by phone after I partially filled out some information on line but then changed my mind and exited the web site. A man named Larry called and quoted me a price of 1000.00 for their dating service. I told him I could not afford this as I was recently divorced with children and on a fixed income of disability. He convinced me that we could work something out and referred me to an off site office they had in my town that they were only at two days out of the week.

I had an appointment with Rhonda who I told that it was really hard for me to meet anyone since I was a single parent and did not work so meeting people was hard. She told me they had over 6000 members in their dating service. I told her not in my county and she said yes they did that they were right under my nose I just didn't know it because they too were in situations where having time to meet quality people was hard. So once she convinced me their were plenty of available people to meet in my county I filled out the paperwork. THEN she hit me with a price of over 3,000.00 dollars. I told her no way I was quoted 1,000.00 by Larry on the phone.

She stated she was sorry for the mixup so she would give me a more premere membership which included the ability to hold my membership if I were to meet someone and then be able to resume it if that relationship failed. I told her I was on disabililty and could not afford this. She stated how else are you going to meet anyone since you have so little time and are not out in the work force. She also told me that she already had a few men in mind for me. I foolishly signed the agreement.

When almost a month went by without any match I called her and told her I wanted out of the membership. She told me I would lose the 795.00 processing fee and I told her that was better than the whole 3,000.00. She continued to convince me that there were plenty of people right here in my county but that it took them time to match people because they did it all by hand no computer matching. This was in January 2008.

My first match was not in my county and was the exact opposite of what I put in my profile that I preferred. The second match was within Feb. 11th and in my county, we met but nothing came of it. The third match was March 20th and it was like they hadn't even read a thing in my profile that I wanted as far as looks, compatibility, history and again location he was out of my county. The fourth match not until May 8th well over six weeks and again he lived an hour and a half away from me.

I feel I have been scammed and scammed but good. Rhonda misrepresented her company, the clients available in my area and are not keeping up with their end of the contract to have a match for you within 1-4 weeks and I mean a match not just whomever they can pull out of their members files to send me compatible or not. I feel Rhonda took advantage of a women she knew had a limited income and was truely limited in my ability to meet new people. I asked for a refund before my first referral as stated in the contract but they refused and stated to be patient they would give me a match. I feel I am due the refund minus the 795.00 processing fee as stated in the contact since I asked to cancel the contract before the first referral as stated in number 3 of their contract.

I had to use money from my savings to pay for this as I live on disability and have two children. I was lied to from the beginning and denied a refund even though I asked for it within the guidelines of their own contract.

Gail of Palm Bay, FL July 27, 2006

I reseived their flyer in the mail last July 2005 and contacted them. They convinced me to drive to Vero Beach if I wanted to know more about their services. After a long interview and having to fill out a long questioner I was pressured into spending 2,400.00 for 9 matches. She also asked me if I wanted to change my life indicating that this would be the way to do it.

Most of the matches were no match at all and I seemed to be getting all new people who had just joined. At one point I received three at once. After complaining about their ethics of doing business and how exactly are you able to get to concentrate on a match if you are sending three at a time. The answer was that there was no reason that I couldn't date more than one person at a time. None of the matches were matches. It was no better than internet dating.

One match was 72. I was 58. One match was a frequent visiter in my place of business, on the unit where I worked. and after a phone call he agreed to meet me at work where he shook my hand and that was the end of our meeting.

I had nicely told them that I felt like I was too much for one of my matches because he was very old fashioned. I was told to change him over. If we were matched why should I have to change him ? Durring my last phone call to Together I was told that it was up to me to make any of the matches work, they just provided them?

After 9 matches they closed me out. I told them that the one at my place of business should not count, he was visiting there any way and we did talk on the phone. She was extremly nasty and not like the same person who got 2,400.00 out of me. They then offered me 9 more matches for another 900. They are a scam. I do not believe in their matching system and they do not care for people. The prey on lonely singles looking for a happier life.

I am now out 2,400. I am an emotional mess thinking about how I was taken in and the way they treated me after I used up my matches. I sit home and cry most nights thinking about what they did to me. They are dishonest using pressure to get your money from lonely people.

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