A $150 freaking dollars from Kherson to Odessa!!!!!!!!!! It would cost about $10 for a round trip bus / Marshuka ticket!!!!!! I beg to differ with you, but $150 is a BIG PROBLEM. If I were you, I'd personally make the trip to Kherson to collect from this slime-bag.
Steelman,
I was e-mailing and talking to Olga Alekseeva last year by phone . Yeah, the beautiful blonde from Kherson. Speaks good English but she i think is older than she claims. Never went to see her . She said she wanted to come meet me in Kiev and i offered to pay her train ticket but she declined .She disappeared from Fiance .com some time ago. Anyways she reappeared on fiance two weeks ago under a completely different name which i forget with the same exact photo and said she was from Kiev now with same profile.I notified administration and she was promptly removed.
Hey Steel! Welcome back and thanks for the warning to us all. That is really the only thing we can do after we've been scammed. Warn others so they don't make the same mistake. $150 isn't to big of a hit but it still sucks. Buff is right that the bus would have been $10 but the $150 round trip taxi price is pretty accurate. Clever girl. I've had two girls meet me in Kiev on my expense. One took the train and the other took the bus. Never asked for the money. I just gave them some travel money of $100 for the way home. They proved to be real and sweet girls so I gave them the $100 even though the cost was only $20. But one girl tried your girls trick. She told me she hated trains and the bus and prefered to take the taxi to Kiev. I asked her how much and she said $100. I decided to pull out of that offer and dropped her. even if she was being truthful about hating the bus and trains (And I doubt it) it indicated to me she was a high maintenance girl. No thanks. Steel how did you like your stay in Odessa? Did you check out some of the places I mentioned in your other threads? Did you try any other agencies besides Adam and Eva? I plan to be in Odessa and Nikolaev in late February.
Steelman,
thanks for the heads-up, i've just started writing to Olga and so it's bloody good timing. she hasnt asked for money yet but from what you say it probobly wasnt far off. maybe i'll ask her for a loan as she's all cashed up now!!!!!!!sorry to hear about the lose, i hope you have better luck with the lady your with now.
stay cool,
Balint.
When I was in Odessa a while back - I met a beautiful woman from Kherson at a Romance Scosial. I asked her to dinner that night and she told me that she would be happy to oblige but that doing so would mean she would miss her bus back to Kherson.
I told her that was not a problem as I would be happy to pay for a taxi. She quickly borrowed a phone and called someone - then told me it would cost me (I think)$150 to have her friend drive his taxi from Kherson to pick her up after we had gone out.
This didn't seem very promising for several reasons a.) Since she WOULD be back in Kherson after our first date further getting together seemed difficult (and expensive). b.) There were PLENTY of beautiful women from Odessa who were EXTREMELY willing to go out. c.) My translator informed me that a taxi should cost no more than $50 and could be arranged with a local driver right where we were.
Seemed like a scam to me!
I told her that the price she was asking seemed high and that it should not be neccessary to have her friend drive up at that price. She shrugged her shoulders and my translator told me she said that if I could not afford it she was not interested. (My translator also told me that the girl had asked her (the translator) to try to talk me into it even though it was out of line).
Needless to say, I declined the lady's offer and saw her later that night with another guy who evidently didn't. But according to the other guy, he never saw her after that night.
I was more than happy with the local girls in Odessa who DIDN'T need taxi rides elsewhere.
Good stuff Jet. Your interpreter is probably right and you could have found a local taxi to do the job for $50 but it could go as high as $100. This girl was marking it up for her and her friend to split. You did the right thing and bail out. If I'm going to pay $150 for her trip back I would tell her it will be the next morning then. :)
Here is reason #1 that I refuse to answer any women with private email. It has been proven to me time and time again. Plus, when the woman is so hot that you cant believe it - thats when my warning flags go up all over the place. On top of it all, the old famous send me money but I never met you in person routine. Will people ever figure this one out??
Your right Ski. I don't like to throw away $150 either. Especially to a scammer bitch. I'd rather give it to an old Babushka or vet with no legs over there. One time I was in Russia about 4 years ago. I went to the bathroom and saw this cleaning lady cleaning the toilets. Working her ass off. She was about 30-35 and probably a single mom. I handed her a $100 bill. She looked confused and I smiled and said for you. She started to cry right there. Thanked me up and down and blessed me. It made my trip to help someone who works hard and needed money.
You know it was a strange summer for me in 2004. There was one week where I was getting scammed right and left to the point I was beginning to think there wasn't an honest person in Ukraine. I was beginning to hate it there and its people. Then one day I gave my left over chicken and some fruit to a Babushka living in the apartment next to me that I knew I wasn't going eat before I left. She tried to pay me for it. I was stunned. She makes about $40 a month pension and there she was trying to give me a few Grivna's for my left overs. It restored my faith in Ukraine. When I returned the next summer I bought her a whole chicken and gave it to her. I was blessed again. :) Come to think of it I got lucky that night at the club. :)
steelman,
In the last e-mail i got from olga she told me that she wanted to get to know me better, so i offered to contact her by phone, no problem!!! i told her that it is very expensive to call and she would need to come up with $150. magic number this one. strangly i havent heard from her since.
I always liked to use my mangerial position to influence them. I tell them I am the Head French Fry technicial at Burger King! Funny they never seem to respond to my letters after that? I wonder why, maybe they don't want to live with a man under so much stress each day! Then I tell them not to worry, I am giving up such a stressful job, and I have an interview at Walmart as a greeter. Pay is a little less, but I will be home more often and with less stress in my life!
I hate to resurrect an old thread, but can someone point me to a picturer of this young "lady", or perhaps let me know what e-mail address she is currently using??
Thanks in advance
Bucbud,
This lady is just one in a million, so you eliminate this one from your enquiries but there are thousands more behind her.
The jerk who started this thread, his posts has since been deleted after fiance.com blocked him, was thinking with his penis rather than his brain.
He knew everything, or so he believed, he travelled to Odessa to meet with 4 selected ladies, one of whom he had previously sent USD150 for a USD10 bus fare, 3 of them were no-shows and the 4th was a professional 'dater'.
Bucbud, you have nothing to worry about regarding scammers if you remember 3 simple rules:
1. Think with your head and not with your penis.
2. Never send any money and this includes not to pay for her agency, correspondence etc.
3. Try not to become emotionally involved until at least the 2 of you have met face to face.
Martin,
Thanks for the reply, I am still curious as to who this young lady is that had generated the commment
"I was e-mailing and talking to Olga Alekseeva last year by phone . Yeah, the beautiful blonde from Kherson. Speaks good English but she i think is older than she claims." JMOLUV
I am not personally contacting her, but the name rings a bell and I am certainly curious as to if it is the same person I am thinking of. A lot of allegations have been made in this thread, but no concrete information - Picture, address, e-mail, profile address or anything else. As I said, I am certainly curious. If someone can point me in the right direction I would love to satisfy my curiosity.
BUC