Ever wondered why you went through a traditional matchmaking agency and ended up with crap matches that met absolutely none of your criteria?
Most agencies have a database of hundreds to thousands of candidates, but the problem is that not all of them are still single and when you slice and dice on qualifications, that pool is often insufficient which means the matchmaking agency needs to source externally.
Now, if you're a high performing candidate (which most of our clients are) and expect at least a nominal level of baseline requirements in a potential spouse, it becomes all the more difficult to source and convince.
Instead, what agencies will often try to do is try to kill 2 birds with 1 stone by finding 2 people who are both registered within the system and matching them randomly rather than advocating on behalf of either candidate to find them someone outside the system who would actually meet their qualifications. That is because the labor cost is too high.
So in the best case scenario, they're working hard within the very limited hours they can dedicate towards you to give you subpar to no results, or worst case they're not actually working hard at all and are just taking your money and matching you at random to give you subpar to no results. In either scenario you end up with not your match.