I decided today to narrow down the women that I am really interested in and whom are interested in me so have sent out letters asking for personal contact information (address, tel # etc).
In the space of 1 minute, two girls decided not to write anymore, which is fair enough - from the same city - so I suspect they are agency replies than the girl's reply as I doubt they are sat there 24/7.
Without real contact details, I'm vary wary of wasting my time with agency based girls whose letters have raised alarm bells over the past few weeks as not being genuine.
With an agency or without an agency mate, any girl who wont give contact details (baring the ones who when you ask, the agency steps in and tell you all about their rules about this, then its a whole different ball game, see below :o) ) you shouldn't bother these evasive and anonymous women with anyway, there are 1000`s who will happily give you their address if you ask for it :o)
If a girl asked for your postal address would you hesitate to give it ? I doubt it, so why when she knows you are at least 2000 miles away (and across several miles of ocean !!) would she worry about telling you her postal address ? Unless she has something to hide !!!
I mean, how do you send a girl flowers (other than through Finace.com (Flamingo ) or a gift if you don't have her address !!?!!?
I have recently been approached by the agency (Queen of Hearts, mentioned it in another post ) who have been acting for a lady I have been writing to for about 6 weeks. I asked for her home address after 1 week of beginning to write to each other and it arrived in the very next letter the following morning, along with her home telephone number (which I had not actually asked for !!) no mention of it being against agency rules or anything like that, then 5 weeks later the agency popped up and said hello, and asked me very nicely if I would like to use their services directly, no insistence, no badgering, no threats to cut our letters off, just a very friendly and warm hello and this is what we can do for you if you would like to consider using us directly. Their prices are quite frankly pitiful, $1 to translate an A4 page of text !! I cannot possibly say that is unreasonable. I know some will say, "But there are Free translating programs on the net"
And to that I can only reply, "If you know any Russian at all, you wouldn't use one unless you knew enough to correct the many and I mean Many mistakes it makes !!" I want my lady to be able to read and understand what I write, and vice versa !! Many of these programs are quite good, but they strip out stuff they don't understand, or put in totally wrong words sometimes, and I don't know enough written Russian to be able to spot a dropped b*llock !!!
My X wife speaks quite good English, but she used to put her letters through a translator and amend the bits she knew were wrong, apart from the very odd bit she had not spotted (but which were glaring obviously wrong to me, being English !!) that worked fine for us. However, a friend of ours in her city used to write to me, he used the translator for his letters to me too, but he speaks poor English and his written and read English is very poor, his emails were gobbledygook compared to the ones my X wife wrote !! Same translator, different typist !! :o)) Trust in the agencies is a better way to do it, at least you will be able to read what your girl writes, and she read yours too !! Its not a waste of $1 per letter if it does all this for you both !!!
The only thing they have not yet given me, but they will do now I have said yes I will use them, is her personal email address, but hey, they have translated about 25 to 30 letters each way in the past weeks and not charged me one penny !! I have to say I am very impressed with the way this agency goes about its business, very courteous, and not in the least intrusive. The principle even said that I was Not bound to accept their offer and I could continue writing to my girl through Fiance.com if I wished, but I have to say I have no fears of using them as they have given me No reason to feel in any way pressured or obliged.
Furthermore, the immediate reaction when I agreed to take their more than reasonable offer was that they will send her next letter to me from her own email address and take down my girls profile from Fiance.com, today !!! A good sign of their and her sincerity I think you will agree :o)
Absolutely, any girl with an agency or not prepared to write nice letters but not give personal contact details is not sincere or genuinely interested in a meeting. The fact that both replies so far were very likely from the same agency confirms my suspicion about how involved agency reps. must be acting on behalf of their clients likely without consultation. I'm alleging here but it's more than likely and quite odd that I'm just not going to waste my time.
Pull a lengthy letter through (any) translator and read what comes up.
Yeah, lidicrous words, raped grammar and very incorrect applications of known words, but one thing will invariably shine through - the bottom line, the meaning of the letter.
But also the 'tone' it is written in, and this is what you're after. If unsure pull it through another one, and it will teach you more, from meaning to site-dependant peculiar discrepancies.
Whilst chatting (entering short sentences only) ask, don't guess, when something is unclear, and be adament in her telling you or explaining. If you 'guess' the ship might sink.
You of course will do same, and this way one learns a lot more than only using a translator.
Nothing wrong with them in principle.
And whilst letting the dust settle, surely you will agree that off-topic sequential remarks not prompted for could be explained as a monologue?
Dma,
You're here long enough to have found the ropes presumably.
If someone is unwilling to divulge you some personal details like an address or phone-number be aware of following:
- quite a number of women have been pestered by unwanted phonecalls during ungodly hours by drunks who ooze hormones
- some women also have had their doorbell rung by aforementioned characters
- and some will not give you these because they don't know you well enough, don't trust you or simply don't like you
And yes, also there are those who will drop the front and cancel their comm's then. Be glad, especially when they already have rung your alarm-bell, simply learn from it.
But the latter you could have done already, at least should.
The sea is full of Sturgeon ........
fair points but I am equally opening myself up to being phoned or called round at ungodly hours by drunken women full of hormones looking to get their wicked way. lol
I just want to see that they're genuine. If they can't be bothered based upon the nice letters written to date and grogeous profile or are more likely 'screened' by agencies, then I'm not interested. Their loss. Simple. The genuine ones are more than happy to give their details, it's the others that I need to filter out.
So far so good.
The dead wood is being filtered and so far one adorable princess will be forwarding her contact details for an up close and personal chat. Others are expected to follow as they're just in receipt of my request. I couldn't ask for more which will make better use of my time than follow dead end leads.
lol @ Tim.....wise not to continue pal..:))
Just been forced to explain to my lady why I was laughing out loud at the PC!!!!,bit difficult to explain the finer points of women and fish!!!!!!!