Why Pay For A Dating Agency?
There are major differences between using a dating agency as opposed to online dating or a dating app. Online dating apps are much more of a ‘do it yourself’ type of service, whereby you use their software to create a dating profile for yourself and then use it to try to find others. Whilst a dating agency, or personal matchmaking agency, provides an expert to do that job for you – your personal matchmaker.
So, in the search for a wonderful new partner, the major differential is that you do all the work yourself with an online dating service or dating app, whereas your own matchmaker will do those things for you when you are with a dating agency. Here are some examples of how things work, what is included in each service and who does what:
You can probably begin to understand that there are vastly different levels of service between using an online dating app, versus using a premium dating agency service. It is easy to see why the personal services provided by a dating agency would require higher investment, as there is so much more included and involved: with help from your very own personal matchmaker to create your dating profile, search for your matches, arrange dates and support your journey and assure your privacy - the list goes on.
So the question has to be 'How much more does a personal matchmaking service cost?'
In other words "is it affordable?" well yes it is, with an online dating membership typically costing between £15 and £95 per month, the annual cost can be between £180 and £1140 to join an online dating site, where you are responsible for all the work required to find matches and arrange dates. Using the services of a smaller dating agency would usually be over £1,000 per year as a minimum, and at the top end, to join a very high brow service in London, it might be anything up to £100,000 annually for their most exclusive service. More typically, memberships are from £2,000 up to £20,000 depending upon the term.
The difference in cost is simple, a dating agency will offer a choice in levels of service - your personal matchmaker does the work for you, is there to support your journey and your privacy is protected.
An online dating site requires you to do all the work for yourself, endlessly scrolling through fake and unsuitable profiles, which could take hundreds of hours to find your perfect match, if at all, with no support and no guarantee of privacy.
Why Pay More For A Dating Agency?
As most people know, you often get what you pay for in life, so joining a dating agency at a higher level will likely deliver better quality in potential matches for you. There is some extraordinary value in using an experienced and professional dating agency like Avenues. We are very proud to say that Avenues is one of the best examples if you are looking for good value, excellent success rates, and a quality service.
The Avenues Dating agency service is exclusive to people aged over 50 and dependant on your choice of membership, services can include: An ‘on hold’ period - this can be used for holiday time, dating or unexpected events - allowing you to pause your membership until you are ready to return. Coaching or counselling sessions, should you require extra support. Our highest membership level includes a home profiling interview for your convenience, or you may opt to come and see us at our offices and meet your matchmaker personally for interview, taking advantage of our in house photographer for your profile portraits. Some levels include the services of our head-hunter, who would utilise her skills to search outside of our extensive database, if there was a need, through other means, including our private and affiliated networks.
Want to Know more about Avenues Dating Agency?
If you would like to know more, and there is never any obligation to join, we offer a free and friendly chat on dating with one of our experienced membership advisers. The aim is to put you in an informed position to see if you feel the service is for you.
So please call us on 0800 644 4170 to begin evaluating Personal Matchmaking for yourself.
