I am sorry, but I felt that my experiences with the dreaded Anastasia site warranted a new thread.
I have come to the conclusion that any penny, cent or dime spent on correspondence with a lady from Anastasia is money just thrown down the well of hope, never to be seen again.
I actually no longer believe that a single lady on their website is interested in a marriage with a western man.
My latest mistake was to book a flight and the rest of the travel arrangements to go to Riga and meet up as we has arranged and agreed the date before hand. She asked me to phone her using their expensive phone service and I of course obliged. Surprise, surprise, 2 days after booking the flight she then says she is to be whisked away be her work to a nearby city for the time that I had booked. Undaunted, I offered to travel to the city she said she was going to just to meet up for even a solitary dinner. "But I dont know what I will be doing" comes the reply. Suspiciously, this is all around the same time as Valentines day. Hmmm, seems somewhat dubious!!
More money thrown down the well.
This follows on from my previous visits to Ukraine, where I had 3 no shows, excuses for not wanting to meet with me for days, and just generally that feeling that they dont give a dam and they are only there for the meal ticket or perhaps a present if they are lucky.
The only one from Anastasia that I have met who seemed anything like genuine was one that I just picked from their lists when in Odessa. I had previously let rip at Anastasia and they agreed to let me have a free look at their lists in one of the offices in Odessa.
Other than her, I Have always felt that they are all just part of a scam!
This is it for me, I really feel that I do not need to do any more research into their scheming and underhand methods. What a deceitful bunch.
I no longer intend to travel to see any lady from that site. Thats enough. I have never heard of anything successful happening as a result of contacting ladies at that site. Ever!
my dear friends, i must go soon in ukraine but i have a bad sensation, i'm writing in fiance with some girl and all says me the same time "that they are obliged to meet me at airport with agency's delegate, after they offers me to find an apartment
always with agency's help, i wrote agecy and says me that taxi cost 120 eu, apartments 22eu for night and moreover i must pay agency 100eu for yours services...
i think that girls are payed from the agencies.... you had been in ukraine what do you think? bye
Yorkie....have not had same problems as you with anastasia. Always seem to meet the girls( only once couldn't meet), have no idea as to marriage to a forgeiner but as I have said many times, I never meet with only one girl, if she happens to change plans I am in position to meet with another. Who knows which of the girls you will have compatability with. Letters are a formality. Meeting person to person is most important. I don't like the pay per letter of anastasia but under my system I don't have a problem with it, not yet. I do stay away from girls that write same day back to you and don't call them using site, try to arrrange some things through snail mail. I do have a site that will try to get girls phone number when delivering flowers.
Peter23 - steer away from the agencies. Meeting you at the airport and charging that for a taxi - they are having a laugh. I have always arranged my own apartments, and the only services I have have paid for once in Ukraine were $10 an hour translation fees (maybe they can be found cheaper). Agencies will just screw you over! Fact!
Beemer, yes I know what you are saying, but there are not many ladies too meet in Latvia, so I was not in the position of a fall back plan. It was a case of gamble for it; spoke great english and all that, but that counts for nothing! Beemer, you have been a very lucky man with all your positive Anastasia experiences, I applaud you! Until I start hearing about some genuine marriage cases about their ladies, I have given up with them!
Anastasia (like Army of Brides) is one big (and very successful I should add) scam site. For example I know one girl on their site really well having been to visit her in Kiev last year 4 times. She's 23 and stunning, but not interested in marriage at all, just dating. I feel I should add that I didn't meet her originally through Anastasia but another site.
For a laugh though recently when I saw her profile on Anastasia I added her as a favourite. The next day I found she had sent me a "yes i'm interested" reply. What a load of tosh. I know she doesn't use the internet much and I know that didn't come from me. Given that she has my email address and my mobile number for sms anyway, this just shows it is all bullshit.
Having been "in the game" now since 2001, I have not read anywhere or heard from anyone who met their wife via that site. You are right yorkie67 total and utter waste of money.
I find it simply amazing the amount of threads that are dedicated to Anastasia and people keep going and getting their chops busted everytime. Plus I don't find meeting a girl as much of a success story, I mean it's a beginning but multiple times to find the "one" as one has put it here still has it's limitations.
Kind of like Olegs Army of Brides in Mariupol. How many people I have heard from here and their in Mariupol that it's a scam. I mean traveling 5000 miles for a date isn't our objective. Though it seems some agencies think they are doing guys some great favor by arranging dates for guys.
Okay, I'm a newbie, and soon as I'm done deciding wether or not to shoot my American ex-wife to be in the head and spend my life in jail after she's done taking my belongings or take a chance on this as I have a friend that has a friend who married FSU woman and it continues to work out great.
My question is, if Anastatia sucks, which I guess I'll kiss my $50 goodbye and get it out of my head that the supermodel I was talking to expressing great interest in me was really Boris scratching his balls and laughing while he rang my credit card.
What is a good site to meet FSU woman of good intent?
Scot.....you have to change your attitude....your supermodel may or may exist, better chance she is real and only has $$$ on her mind. There are some real girls there. I hope you aren't writing to only this one girl. It takes time to learn whether a girl is sincere or not and at times you will not know until you actually meet. I wouldn't write any girls until you spend time on this forum and get some good idea about girls in FSU. There are many different sites with many different rules and many different insincere girls. Just takes time to weed out the bad ones, I have my own techniques, I as everyone made my share of mistakes, just learn from them. I have been on anastasia for 6 months and feel I am progresssing, got contact info from girls and just trying to slowly pry them away from agencies hold. I think you have to have a plan when writing girls that you will be able to visit in near future or else it is wasted money. One rule of mine on anastasia...if a girl reads your letter and sends back letter same day or next day...she is probably in it for the money, pay per letters are ripe for scamming.
Thanks Beem
Yes, I usually have a more positive attitude, and I shall move forward in a more positive light, I was just having a bad day with the EX. Actually I shall begin rebuilding my empire soon and then go from there. I assumed this would all take time and regardless of my divorce I wont be completely broke so I could make the trip.
She really doesn't have to be a Supermodel I suppose, I just thought that would be a excellent side bonus to pissing off the ex when she comes around, but honestly, I figure after a while, who the hell cares about what she thinks or does.
Actually, her thinking would be I bought a sex slave and that would piss her off anyway, so perhaps this might be win win afterall.
I did an Anastasia tour several years back and I would never give them another dime. The locals they hired were looking to shake money out of us at every opportunity.
Having been on their tour, I saw how they got the girls to sell their addresses.
They organized socials to meet the girls. Girls were invited by advertisements in local papers to some of the most popular clubs in town and given a free drink. In return, they had to show their passports, agreed to give their contact info, and get photographed.
These girls may be open to meeting a foreign man, but none of them were really seriously looking to marry one. Some did get married for sure, but the percentage must be very low.
how else you could get hundreds of nice girls to show up for socials:)? they do advertise locally and ads say the purpose of the socials. and what you or ladies that show up for social really want inside own mind is nobody knows. when did you go to a tour?
One of the nicest girls I met, was on the Anastasia tour. I met a scammer on the AFA tour. It is possible to meet good girls on a bad tour and vice-versa. In the end it is a numbers game: Meet enough girls some will be good and some not so. However, on the whole, the AFA tour was much better run and Anastasia was extremely poorly run relative to the amount of money paid, etc. Our group had to take a bus to St. Petersburg from Helsinki when it was advertised as a flight. The American from Anastasia who joined the tour in Ukraine couldn't speak a word of Russian or Ukrainian, and was trying to speak German to people when we needed to find a restaurant. It was comical!
Of course, free drinks are a nice enticement for girls to come to a social, but the number of photos and addresses gathered there doesn't mean that these were all "nice girls". The only thing that Anastasia guarantees is that they have checked their passports to verify identity, age and marital status of the girls. From what I could see, we, the foreign men, were the bait to get the girls to the socials where they got photographed, but having the largest database of photos and addresses hardly makes Anastasia the best agency. In fact from my experience, it was one of the worst.
its a sad state of affairs all right. the irony is that the girls make a pittance out of themselves - its the airlines, hotels, apartment lanlords, restraunt owners, interpreters taxis etc etc who are making the real money.
Hi people! My name is John and I`m American Russian. I want to find a girl from Russia and continue my roots. I registered on AI and many girls are calling me now.I like them and I`ve been calling them many times and we had a real conversation over the phone. many of them speak English, but I don`t need it. I speak Russian and hope to bring my girlfriend to Orlando soon.