Bakersfield.com

I really did not want to write an article, but apparently there's nobody who cares about this particular subject  but me. So here is my story.

In the middle of March someone at work invited me to go speed dating with them. But then they never told me exactly when or where the event was being held. So I asked google to search for the subject and found marcephne speed dating.com

I signed up for the next event that was going to be held at The Holiday Inn Select downtown on March 28. I paid my $20 using their Paypal system found on their website. Unfortunately, the email address associated with my Paypal account was my secondary email which I only check about once or twice a week.

So I get all dressed up and arrive at the Hotel downtown. It's so full of people I had to park a couple of blocks away. Inside I ask a bellhop where the speed daters were meeting. He promptly took me to the very small-and empty Kern River Room. Then he told me the daters usually meet in the bar before going to the room for the more formal part of the event.

I went to the bar area and sat down at a table full of women. And after asking about 2 questions, I realized they were Mary Kay Representatives there for a convention. They, in fact, had taken over every meeting room in the whole hotel, and seemed to be making a mass migration to the Rabbobank Arena-perhaps for some type of meeting.

When I had exhausted all of the other possible meeting rooms, I decided I was GREATLY outnumbered by women who were not there for the speed dating event and probably not even wanting to entertain the idea of changing their focus.

When I arrived back home, I went to my rarely used email account and found out they (marcephne) had sent me an email telling me the event was cancelled 2 days before -and then rescheduled for April 11.

Of course now I was checking my email daily, so as not to miss any other additional cancellations. And I really thought I checked it the morning of April 11... But it happened again! I got all dressed up and went to the Hotel downtown. This time it was really empty and quiet except for a few Massage School graduates there for their ceremony and the pianist playing relaxing tunes in the background.

After about 20 minutes of "people watching" I decided it was time to leave. When I found the email with a time stamp of about 9am on April 11, I was quite upset. They had cancelled on me a second time! This time it was because of several other people canceling-or so the email said.

It also mentioned something about a refund. But after sending at least 2 emails requesting exactly that, none has arrived in my Paypal account. As of this writing, I have submitted similar stories to both channel 29 and channel 17 news stations, and sent Marcephne another email telling them I was going to be contacting the local media.

Think maybe I should just stick with Match.com or similar dating websites. This "speed dating" thing...well...it's just way too SLOW!!!