Are people really this desperate?

Jean Green has had a long-running dispute with Dallas Singles matchmaking service. I won't bore you with all the details, but it boils down to the fact that Jean paid the service $13,400 for 30 dates, and she says the few men they sent her way were completely unsatisfactory.

Even if Jean had been elated at the service she received, she paid $446.67 per date. Are people really that desperate?

"Frisco widow, matchmaking service going separate ways." The Dallas Morning News; July 6, 2012; p. 1B.