Let me start by saying my matchmaker was awesome. She was just cool and probably the best part of the whole experience. I don't want this to reflect poorly on her. I think she's great.
With that said, I spent a pretty large chunk of change to be set up with one great date, but maybe too great, and two dates that were just not what I was looking for. They were nice guys, and maybe the first of them could fit within the framework of what I said I wanted, perhaps, maybe, but the second one did not. I candidly feel like I was sold a curated, personalized, targeted dating experience and I paid a lot of money to be set up with guys I would swipe left on, without delay, on a dating app. And I provided pictures of exes, and described what I wanted, and got something pretty different from that.
(As for how a date can be too great, because I know you are going to ask, he has 67,000 Instagram followers despite having a normal corporate job and literally hangs out with Olympic snowboarders and actual supermodels. As in, he can have and often gets whatever he wants. So after he kissed me, rather feverishly, in the back of an Uber and held my hand, which is evidently a thing people still do while waiting for an Uber, he wasn't interested in a second date. Which I get, because, you know, available Olympians. And actual supermodels. Great guy, though, and my matchmaker was spot on, there, so it is what it is.)
I guess this was fun, but certainly not worth $1500. Ask yourself this before you sign up for this service - would you pay $500 to go on a blind date with someone you are just not and never would be attracted to? If the answer is no, don't go this route. And I say that having loved my matchmaker. They can only provide what's in their network.