A scam dating service known as "Social Texas" exists in the city of Austin, Texas. Their primary means of advertisement is through mass mailings.
Do not be fooled, as this is not a true dating service. The owner has used his employees to do a quick sale and then he fires them and bails out after he gets your money. Mainly, what has happened is the business seems to have gone under and has it's phone lines disconnected. This individual probably operates other scam businesses in the area.
The $6,000 package known as the "Lone Star" package I signed up for gave the user a minimum of 2 introductions and a maximum of 4 per month. After using the service for 8 months, only 2 introductions (where they give you their phone number) were made. This only was delivered after massive bitching after months of inactivity had passed! The first didn't occur until 5 months after starting it.
After complaining to the owner Gilbert (Gilly) Vallejo about the slowness, his response was that I needed to be patient and be their friend before I could become interested at all in a lady. This is not dating. I did not agree with what his definition of dating was, so he eventually cancelled my membership without any refund and said I was looking for an escort service because I was looking for at least a somewhat attractive woman! He said my rules were too strict because I wanted a physically attractive woman. His all or nothing thinking translated it into a request for a playmate centerfold!
If he would have offered a "sub par" choice, I would have gladly made a decision to accept an introduction, and I told him that. This however, did not occur.
He used my shortcomings as a reason for cancellation and to not have to do the job. The other reason was the reaction from the first date, to say that I "harrassed" her (like a psycho would) because I called her too many times on one day. He then used my growing impatience as a reason to kick me out rather than help the individual quickly (reason one uses a dating service) and get back on the right track.
That seems to be the tactic, to exaggerate your shortcomings to become threatening so as to cancel your membership. One other tactic is to not send you anything in writing which depicts the package that you signed up for. The reason is they know the operate a BS business and they cannot honor what they sell. They will allow a fair amount of time to pass so that you will not remember the specifics of what you had signed up for.
To all user's in the Austin area, beware of this dating service or whatever name is used by the owner "Gilbert (Gilly) Vallejo" or his goons. Do not be fooled by his convincing reassurrences that he is legit and that other dating services out there are scams. A scam artist has no conscience. Austinites, you have been warned.
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