It's Just LunchReviews 396

You can buy you a prostitute but you can't buy a wife. What's the point of paying $4000 for a prostitute? It's insane!
If you want a true lady, I have 2 news for you: 1. You'll have to find her yourself, court her and win her heart. 2. It will be a lot cheaper and easier.
I don't claim to be a leading expert on dating sites, but I've had a vast experience and I am very familiar with most of popular dating platforms. Eventually I got married to the most beautiful Ukrainian woman and she made me the happiest man on Earth.
So a word of advice: don't fall for this trap of paying and getting a mail-order bride. It just won't work. ItsJustLunch owners are just trying to manipulate on your wish to make things easy and to have them guaranteed.
But it's just a money-vacuum with 90% of fake profiles and 10% of completely undesirable women.

All the negatives listed in other adds on this site line up with my experience. Embarrassing to have been scammed like I was. I was promised 12 dates in 12 months for $2800. I had 3 dates after constantly prodding them. There is no refund no matter how they fail to deliver what they promised... read the fine print. Rudeness is the order of the day with a constantly rotating set of matchmakers. Given the turnover it must be hell to work for IJL. Just say NO!

If I could give a zero rating I would. Please don't learn a hard lesson like I did. AVOID this scam.
They tell you about all the quality men they can fix you up with and act like they are going to match you to someone with your criteria.
I went on 3 Zoom dates and one in person date that I would not fix my worst enemy up with. Unattractive, poor quality men. All of them. If I had seen their pictures ahead of time, it would have been a quick elimination. Meeting them, REALLY sealed the deal. Just awful.
No refunds for poor service. Just talking points they had rehearsed and lip service. 2300. 00 down the drain. BEWARE.

I live in the Seattle area and my IJL matchmaker, Debbie H., has been thoughtful, specific and very focused in arranging several dates for me. She's a good listener and only concludes our phone calls once she's addressed my concerns and questions. For my most recent date, her restaurant selection, as well as its location, were spot-on. With Debbie H. As my matchmaker, I feel confident that I'll find the right man for me!

My overall experience with IJL has been great. Working with my coordinator Debbie has been positive and has taken a lot of the guess work and rejection out of the process that one encounters relying on internet based match making services.

I realize there have been a lot of negative reviews. I had 180 degree different experience the other reviews on this site. My matchmaker Amy J has been fantastic. The one thing you have to do a client is communicate what you in a match and work hand and hand with your matchmaker for success. I would seriously consider giving IJL a chance.

This was the biggest waste of money in my life. I have tried multiple dating sites in the past. I was sold over the phone buy one of their reps that they put all this research in and will give me a great match every three weeks. They sent me up on one date in six weeks. They also told me they would send me virtual dates and they never sent any. I paid almost $2000 and they immediately told me that I am not eligible for a refund or a prorated refund after they made multiple mistakes! I reported them to multiple agencies. Please do not waste your money or time with them. I am doing everything within my power to make sure I am spreading the word so they never screw over any customers again! Please do not refer your friends or family to them. They should change their name to It's Just a Scam!

I signed up for Its Just Lunch in April 2020. During the pandemic I was offered two 'virtual video dates'. One was out of state, the other couldn't figure out how to log on. Its now been almost a year since I signed up for 12 dates and they have scheduled my FIRST date for the end of February. During the past year, I've had 5+ matchmakers - no consistency - how could they match me if they've never met or talked to me except to read my initial profile. Months went by with no contact from anyone at all. During transition between matchmakers they appear to have 'lost' my file. Or never reassigned my account. I filed and requested a refund and they denied it.
If they have been able to find ONE potential match in a year, How long will it take them to find 12 dates? Will they scrape the bottom of the barrel? Or just match me with anyone that doesn't match my criteria? The service is terrible. Not worth the money. RUN!

Fraudulent sales pitch, unable to deliver services promised, rude responses to concerns and complaints, and inability to negotiate an agreeable solution. Highly unethical business practices.

Unfortunately, this is a bit of a scam. They promise to "match" with someone who shares your interests and values and is basically "compatible" with you. But they don't seem to have enough members to do any of that and end up picking people according to age groups. I have also been misled by the "matchmakers" who provided me with wrong information about the match's occupation and other details that I consider important. In a nutshell, it is like paying $4000 to tinder and letting it match you according to its algorithm without you even approving the match... I am almost sure the algorithm would do a better job than the IJL matchmakers. Avoid, no matter how frustrated you feel about the app dating experience... join a book club.

Snatch and grab that credit card #. 14 months after taking my $; One dud date. My wing gal is a flightless emu working in a black hole; no where to be found and no internet access to get emails. Previous used car sales people one would imagine. It is an expensive "learning course". I will frame and display the credit card receipt as a diploma. I believe that's that amount of results I will receive. So dishonorable of a company to pray on the broken hearts of people trying to find love.

I signed up with IJL on April 2020 and I've only experienced DISAPPOINTMENT, LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND ENGAGEMENT BY MATCHMAKERS and WRONG MATCHES. This service has been a COMPLETE WASTE OF MY TIME and MONEY.

This experience has been nothing but a continuing cycle of frustration and disappointment. IJL keeps saying they can service you. However, you cannot service a client if they do NOT call back or listen to your criteria. I have given multiple opportunities for IJL to provide better service. But it is apparent that they don't care and there is no accountability at IJL. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS COMPANY.

I feel really misled having signed up for this service.

When signing up, I was fed all these hopes of there being young professional men who are ready to pursue a partner, even in this pandemic! Every date was exhausting and even after lots of feedback given to my matchmaking team, there was nowhere near a connection.

If you're a professional young woman, I'd say to save your money and just hang on until a better service comes around. They charge $1800 just to join, and then $98/month for membership. They'll paint a pretty picture of how you can put your membership on hold at any time if you think you've found a connection or need a break, but what they don't mention is that it still costs $28/month to NOT use your membership and let your file sit on a computer in an office somewhere.

Plus, if you try to change the status of your membership or cancel your membership and miss the cutoff you still get charged for the entire month. Watch out, y'all, there are ABSOLUTELY NO REFUNDS. That's a lot of money to risk and say goodbye to.

On top of the financial issues, I felt like all of the feedback I was giving to my team was being ignored. Despite being explicit in my priorities when finding a partner, I would find out during the dates that these wishes were all but ignored. Perhaps the questionnaire they use leads people to answer in what they think will be a favorable way, but from the summaries that they give you as an introduction before the date to the actual date themselves, it's hard not to feel misled. Part of me feels like they ask for feedback just to make the clients feel like they're being heard when they're not.

Even if all the dates hadn't been virtual, I think I would've suffered equally, if not more, during in-person dates. At least when you're at home you can call it a night and just shut down your computer. I can't imagine being in a restaurant actually having a meal with some of these men and being stuck waiting for the check with nothing more to say or ask. I didn't think finding someone would continue to be so difficult and frustrating when I was paying so much to have a team search for me. Very disappointed and frustrated that I took a chance on this service.

I joined IJL after a heart breaking break up because they offered the hope I so desperately needed that there might be somebody out there for me. I'm not one for going out much, so I thought it was perfect. The sales person raved about how "we've got LOTS of guys who meet that description" based on how I described myself and what I'm looking for. Every single match was worse than the last. Nice people, but they met none of my criteria - the most important one being no kids. IJL completely ignored what I said I was looking for and matched me with guys where we had next to nothing in common, and weren't at all what each other was looking for. It was an extreme disappointment and insult to injury to the tune of $2K. I just received my settlement check from the class action lawsuit they're in, but unfortunately they're still open for business. You'll have better luck finding someone under a proverbial rock.

I agree with a lot of the reviewers, they do take your money and then... you are at their mercy. They tell you how many people they could match you with right then... and those people magically disappear when you pay them. It appears to be a numbers game as well, a lot more men than women, I think we all know what happens then. It really is sad how they say they care and then they just throw someone at you of which you have NOTHING in common. Maybe a class action law suit would get their attentin

I've read many of the reviews here. As I went through them I had chills, mentally saying "check, check, check..."
All the horrible things people are saying here about IJL are 100% true and accurate.
So I won't ramble on here, but I'll just make a select few point (although if I had the will to go further I could keep writing for a long time).

Yes, sales folks are persuasive and encouraging but their "pitch" conveys a "services" professionalism that simply does NOT exist at IJL.
Yes, the initial in-person interview is lightweight. It doesn't truly investigate anything other than the most BASIC information which explores nothing beyond the template-style profile data that you'd fill out in any everyday online dating site.
You are NOT taken care of by an "assigned matchmaker". You will be randomly contacted by anyone at IJL as they attempt to set you up on dates. It could be any one of the many "call-centre-style" reps that have. (See next point)
Professional, qualified (certified) "matchmakers" is a pathetic joke. It doesn't take the greatest wit of man to figure out that the vast majority of the IJL staff are simply call-centre operatives. There's zero matchmaking "experience", professionalism or aptitude... in my personal opinion. I've studied people for a lifetime, and I'm confident that if they randomly pulled 20 strangers into their call-centre off the street, those 20 people would likely be just as expert inside 20 minutes as the people representing IJL as "expert matchmakers"
Yes, what many people are portraying about IJL being nothing other than a scam-style money/revenue collecting operation is a fully valid assertion.
IJL have no interest in carefully matching you to the "right person". They are interested to collect your money and evading your claims for refunds when you (inevitably) discover that they have no real ability to provide the service that they sold to you... I could go on and on and on... but I think you get the picture.

Join IJL at your peril.
If you do, I promise you that you will regret it.
I don't care who you are; ironically neither do IJL.

Buyer beware. I was contacted a sale person who was aggressive and should have set off red flags to me. The price was $3,000 which I did not like, and I said I would have to research It's Just Lunch. The sales person did not like this and became more aggressive. I said I would only buy if there were criteria of my matches met and the sales lady agreed. There is then a waiting period of one month before they will do anything which should have been another red flag. Once they have your money, they want to put you on hold for one month to make sure you cannot get your money back. The match for me did not match the verbal agreement and I knew right away It's Just Lunch Only wanted my money and did nothing more than other dating web sites that do computer matching. Paying $60 for a traditional web site, you will do better than paying $3,000. I immediately put up a dispute. I am part of class action lawsuit against It's Just Lunch for this is a company that does not care about the service they provide, they only want your money. Do not waste your time and especially your money.