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Signing Up for a Personal Matchmaking Service
Most personal matchmaking services will interview you extensively, asking questions about your relationship goal and match preferences. The service screens and researches matches for you and then notifies you via mail or phone that your match is ready. If both parties accept the match, names and numbers are exchanged, and you and your match get in touch to arrange a date. The service does the work while you have all the fun. Not bad, eh?
Prices vary from almost nothing ($150) to $4,000 or more,
depending on your city and the type of program involved. Services are not cheap because of all the work involved and the cost to
the company. Services go by time (one or two years) or by the number of
matches you receive. Prices for personalized matchmaking services tend
to be firm — and should stay firm.
Pluses: There are many advantages to using a credible matchmaking service. If you're a busy person with many responsibilities, you'll appreciate the convenience and time saved. Because the service
The personalized, confidential attention is often more comfortable than flipping through photos of prospective mates in a large room filled with strangers — or putting your personal information on a library shelf or in an ad for others to review. In addition, because the matchmaker has to match you, she has to keep the numbers relatively even with regard to sex, age, and other variables. This is a huge advantage over the library services.
Minuses: Nothing in life is perfect. So like all methods of finding a special sweetie, personal matchmaking services have their drawbacks, too — the amount depending on the specifics of that service. For example, some services have you fill out forms and interview with someone other than the matchmaker. Others claim to send your data out of town to a person or computer program that supposedly matches you. Do not use these kinds of services.
If a matchmaker hasn't met you, then that person
knows very little about your personality, so your matches are less
likely to be compatible. Also, be wary of any service that says it's
testing you. Valid, standardized psychological tests must be
administered, scored, interpreted, and kept under lock and key by a
psychologist. Chances are, the tests you take are just quizzes, and
results may not even be taken into consideration. Quizzes aren't
necessarily bad, but don't let a service convince you that it's best
simply because it uses non-standardized, unreliable quizzes.
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