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Dating agencies

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PerkyOchrePeer · 03/01/2025 19:44

Are they a money making scam? I enquired about one and was told its 50 quid a month and you must sign a contract for a year. That is 600. If you meet someone and youget on, and you start dating you cannot stop your subscription and so you still pay the 50 quid each month even if you are in a relationship with someone from the agency because you have signed an agreement and once the year is up you dont take out another contract because you have found someone. What a con

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PerkyOchrePeer · 03/01/2025 19:48

PerkyOchrePeer · 03/01/2025 19:44

Are they a money making scam? I enquired about one and was told its 50 quid a month and you must sign a contract for a year. That is 600. If you meet someone and youget on, and you start dating you cannot stop your subscription and so you still pay the 50 quid each month even if you are in a relationship with someone from the agency because you have signed an agreement and once the year is up you dont take out another contract because you have found someone. What a con

If you don't manage to meet anyone within the year you can take out another subscription for another year and I think that is a really expensive way of going about meeting someone I think you would have to be absolutely desperate to do that and waste your money

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Bionicman · 03/01/2025 20:13

PerkyOchrePeer · 03/01/2025 19:48

If you don't manage to meet anyone within the year you can take out another subscription for another year and I think that is a really expensive way of going about meeting someone I think you would have to be absolutely desperate to do that and waste your money

Why have you replied and answered your own question?!! Your answer is pretty much spot on

PerkyOchrePeer · 03/01/2025 21:45

I forgot to add that bit to my first message and I didn't know how to do it again so the only thing I could think of to do was to quote my first post and do it as a response

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PerkyOchrePeer · 03/01/2025 21:58

Some people have got married via a dati g agency. If you don't meet someone in the normal way, or just meet time wasters then a dating agency is a good idea. The particular agency my friend joined was for people looking for marriage. She met someone and is now married

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