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The Trade Association for U.K. Introduction agencies

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We hope you find this site useful. Unfortunately anyone can set up dating agencies, even with a criminal record. However most poor dating agencies go out of business within within a few years or so, ( find an old newspaper and try ringing around the introduction agencies who were advertising two years ago?). It is easy to exploit vulnerable people, making fanciful and even well meaning verbal promises, then providing a really poor dating service thereafter.

Many members of the public encountered problems with introduction agencies, ranging from dishonest, to well meaning but useless dating agencies, (such as failing to provide a reasonable number of introductions, or only providing unsuitable dates outside of the specification set by the client - and then refusing to refund any money). At the request of the Government the Office of Fair Trading invited all the reputable U.K. based dating agencies to form an association, to protect the public by setting minimum standards for introduction agencies to abide by.

Practically all the reputable introduction agencies in the United Kingdom are members of the ABIA. Members are duty bound to provide and enforce minimum standards for their clients and to protect the public ABIA benefits include, in the unlikely event that, an ABIA introduction agency went out of business, your service would be transferred (at no cost to you) to another ABIA introduction agency to complete your service. Other benefits include having an ABIA complaints investigation procedure, whereby the ABIA may put pressure on an agency to make a refund or even expel the member. All ABIA introduction agencies have a requirement to tell you the prices before you attend an interview (this prevents you being pressure sold high membership fees and then being charged "cancellation fees for changing your mind the next day).

One of Britain's largest dating agencies (Avenues - a rehash of Club Sirius UK - who had previously gone bust once before) has again gone into liquidation. They were not accepted as ABIA members so their members did not have the safeguards afforded to ABIA introduction agencies. If you click on the ABIA web site below you can see the full code of practice required of all ABIA introduction agencies, along with a list of the approved agencies. Not all U.K. dating agencies can, or are prepared to meet the standards required for membership of the ABIA. You can also see the prices charged by ABIA agencies ( this is also an ABIA condition of membership) by clicking the official ABIA website below, selecting "find an agency" select the dating agency and click "more information" and this will show you how much they charge.

Two tips to help you select the correct dating agency for your needs. .1. Always contact two or three introduction agencies to see which one is best suited to you. 2. Ask for a copy of their contract BEFORE attending an interview and read it. Once you sign the contract most agencies make a charge if you change your mind the next day and these charges can be well over £1000. Some contracts make a guarantee of 7 introductions and are then worded so that even if you only get two dates in year ( and some people don't even get that! ) they keep extending your membership until you get 7 and that could take several years. One agency makes you sign a contract where if you make any negative comments to your friends about them you lose your membership and they keep all your fees AND they may attempt to claim damages even for telling the truth on how poor the service was read the contract well. If the first time you see the contract is at your interview TAKE IT HOME and read it properly BEFORE SIGNING there is no logical reason why you should have to join without thinking it over, at least overnight, especially so if the membership is very expensive. One non ABIA agency guaranteed just ONE introduction within SIX months of joining for £12 K ( they appear to have gone out of business in less than 8 months - wonder why?). Another agency costing over £3K guarantees just TWO introductions for your total membership WARNING if you join a non ABIA approved dating agency you will not be protected by these ABIA safeguards

This web page has been sponsored by The Executive Club of St James's (the ONLY dating agency for professionals in the U.K. to give money back performance guarantees. (see www.execclub.net for full details), to assist the public to choose the correct introduction agency to suit their needs and help them steer clear of the dubious businesses that unfortunately plague most industries including ours unfortunately. For the record - Executive Club members have many guarantees, including the right cancel a contract for 3 days at no cost , every member is guaranteed at least 10 introductions in twelve months and has the right to a refund of fees should we fail, any member may join any other agency in the world within 4 weeks of joining and have ALL their fee refunded towards their new agency. To see copy of our contracts see www.ecsf.co.uk

To see details of an ABIA approved introduction agency: www.abia.org.uk/agency_executive_club.html

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THE FULL OFFICIAL ABIA WEB SITE www.abia.org.uk

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