Together Dating Service ... Has Anyone Ever Actually Received Their "Money Back" Guarantee?

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Re: Together Dating Service ... Has Anyone Ever Actually Received
Their "Money Back" Guarantee?

Since the mid 1980s, the Together Dating Service chain has sold
introduction programs with a "money back" guarantee, if a customer
is not able to meet someone to marry or with whom to establish a
so-called "long term," "lifelong" or "permanent" relationship.

Has anyone ever actually received their money back, or known of
anyone who did receive a full refund based on this guarantee?

This posting results from (1) a recent inquiry to the Association
of Ethical Matchmakers received from a retired gentleman in Georgia
whose contract clearly calls for a "money back" guarantee (but who
is having difficulty in actually getting his money back); (2) AEM's
inability to locate any former or current employee of Together who
can identify a single customer who ever received a complete refund
based upon this "money back" guarantee (which has been made for at
least a full decade in all parts of the United States and Canada);
and (3) numerous administrative, investigative and legal actions
that have previously been undertaken by state Attorneys General and
consumer protection agencies for frauds and for related wrongdoing
against the Together chain (as well as against the two self-styled
"principals," personally, who devised its methods), since the New
York Attorney General filed the first fraud litigation more than a
full decade ago (during September, 1986), followed by similar cases
by Attorneys General in Arkansas, New Mexico, California, Florida
and Oregon, as well as by Connecticut's Commissioner for Consumer
Protection (to list only those actions for which AEM has an actual
consent order, assurance of compliance or the like in its files).