What Aussieman posted in a recent thread is little more than the resentful venting of a scorned, rejected and lazy man who's best self description is 'pudgy'.
His frustration should be directed towards every single mirror he happens to look whenever he wakes up in the morning instead of trying to demonize a woman who seemingly didn't think his gifts and phone calls were good enough reason to fall madly in love with him.
Newbies to this forum or the eastern european bride search in general should consider his story and claims as nothing more than a poorly concocted mix of personal misadventure, deep mistrust, false statistical claims, false personal entitlements and unrealistic expectations.
Also treat it as a very real warning of what could happen to your own psyche if you refuse to accept responsibility for your own choices and actions. You may very well go 'coockoo' like he did.
FACT:
There are a gazillion adorable FSU women who do not depend on agencies, are well educated, attractive and SERIOUS about forming a succesful marriage with a good man to live their dreams of family lifestyle.
FACT
Among them, there are also scammers who will try to take advantage of you and prey on your generosity.
The generosity of most western men towards these women, however, is not a what I would call a 'virtue'.
If you think you're being generous for sending any woman some flowers, candy, sexy lingerie or other gifts while at the same time expecting EXCLUSIVE attention and correspondence between you, you're simply out of your mind and there is something terrible wrong your value scale. Try that crap with any western woman who lives in another state and see what happens.
Do not mislead yourself to believe that just because FSU women want traditional family lifestyles they will be mesmerized and fall in love with you over a cheap bunch of flowers or a box of candy.
The days of tricking the 'natives' into selling their land and themselves into slavery in exchange for mirrors and trinkets are over, mates.
We must learn the ladies' hearts the old fashion way.
IN PERSON..!!!
AND...we must have a clear understanding and acceptance that this campaign may not render the desired results for a wide variety of reasons and imponderable factors.
Get familiar with the inmigration laws of your land and the consequences to your finances and overall well being should your marriage go south after a few years.
Learn to take precautions....and if you do not, do not blame anyone but yourselves for it.
All in all, despite the legal inmigration obstacles, potential pitfalls and inevitable mistakes we will all make, I still believe strongly that I am much better off seeking to establish a relationship with a foreign woman than with a US one.
Been there done that...many times. No more.
Toad, brilliantly said. I would only add this: when sending something to a woman, make it something personal that shows attention. If you want to receive her exclusive attention quickly, make her feel she has your exclusive attention. Flowers are nice and also things to show her that she's frequently in your mind not only on special occasions such as sending her post cards with personal notes frequently. If I recall correctly, I read the advice about post cards on elena's site (another marriage agency). This FSU woman fell for a guy from South Africa (no I don't believe it was Thunderdome:). She said she received many gifts and letters from others. This guy didn't send her bunches of flowers every other week, but bombarded her with postcards and little things that showed her attention. I followed this advice as well when courting my wife. Later she told me the attention I showed her was very important to her in that stage. From what I have gathered, attention is very important for FSU women to a larger extent than it is for western women. For example, while at the CTIA business convention in Orlando a few years ago with a female, quite attractive colleague, I offered several times to open the door for her while going to a restaurant or leaving the hotel, etc. The response I got was that she was very uncomfortable with me doing this (!) because she was not used men opening the door for her and that stereotyped her as a female as opposed to a faceless person (!) I was only doing this out of courtesy. Of course not all western women are like this, but most career women are.
Well formulated! And I agree to the end :) I have spoken to several girls from the FSU, and only once have I come across someone I know for sure is a scammer, Anna kolesnikova. I met another one, wich I was asking about in another tread that well could be, but I never accused her of it, because I did not know for sure. BUT, the important thing Aussie, and others that might read this, is that most of the girls I have been in contact with has been serious females looking for men. What their motives are might be different from girl to girl, but at least they have been real, and they did not ask for money. There are bad apples in every tree, but most of them are healthy and tasty.
wtrav02,
What a great advise!! I will do it first think in the morning! From now on I will send at least 3 postcards a week... Even if she already told me she likes me.. only 2 weeks till I see her again.. Darn.. sorry.. I won't bother you with my love story.. lol..
If one, perhaps you, were not merely a keyboard romeo then they would be writing to a lady with, if things seem good, the intention of meeting and occupying some time with each other.
If one, perhaps you, is being negative, looking for reasons why they should not travel to FSU rather than being positive, looking for reasons why they should travel to the FSU then they, perhaps you, should not enter into correspondence if they are not ready to make a commitment to travel to meet and occupy some time with her.
It was not being suggested that an Aussie travel 4 times each year but 'only' 4 weeks a year was talked of, reasonably standard, and in particular, 3 weeks over Christmas/New Year, an ideal opportunity to travel bearing in mind that New Year is a special time for 'couples' in FSU.
If it is indeed being suggested that FSU is too far to travel for some nationalities, even once a year, then perhaps they should stick to their own back yard. Our Australian friend indicates that he only get one week of holiday during the year, not long enough to travel and 3 weeks when it is too cold to travel, what is the point of one even writing letters?
What would be the best method to find 'that' lady and have a relationship etc? Sit at home, for 3 weeks, behind one's keyboard or go travelling? Many Australians have successful relationships with FSU ladies, they obviously believe in being positive and not negative like some!
freebird1967
23.01.2005 10:32:09
This guy is A clown, Just ignore him..... He hasnt really said anything, he is just talking.
GLTALLTOAD
23.01.2005 12:14:17
The only problem with martin's idiocy is that some newbie to the website or this quest in general may read his nonsense posts and take them as a reflection of the collective forum IQ level...or worse, he may believe him and follow his advice.
That's why we need Olga's wisdom in moderating cucarachas like him.
"they seem quite content to take your money, whilst claiming you are getting good value, but indeed they are falsely advertising or indeed deceiving and lying.
Is such a site regulated under any country(s) or international law or are false advertising and deception legal on a site such as this. " Martin_UK " I didnt do anytinhg!" Martin_UK
Poor little Martin... you never said anything rude (((
Norwegian,
This thread was started by Toad's 'flaming' of the Aussie guy. He had gone much stronger than I did on 23 January and at that time, Toad referred to my post as 'nonsense'.
Compare my post against Toad's, mine isn't nonsense, nor is Toad's but if my post is still to be referred to as nonsense then Toad's has to be bigger nonsense.
All it takes if for these guys to accept that there are others around, who do know their stuff, and to stop flaming anyone who they don't agree with or just because it gives them a kick.
With regards to Freebird's latest copy & paste, he copied my post, which admittedly others disagreed with the content of, but has then copied and pasted 'I didn't do anything' which was a response I made to being accused of offending others, name calling etc.
Freebird then accuses me of being rude, to be rude is to be impolite or showing no respect. I ask again, to whom was I allegedly rude? That post was about fiance.com, not about any individual so why did individual(s) take such offence to it, and react abusively to it when it wasn't directed towards them nor could it ever be misinterpreted as being directed towards them?
If I'm wrong about something then I'm man enough to admit it, that's what having 'balls' is, Norwegian, I accept that you're man enough but I haven't seen too much sign of any others and this should not be misinterpreted as a 'general insult', we all know who in particular I'm referring to.
I have no problems with getting your point, and also agree to some of it. But why not just let them post whatever they like even if you think of it as nonsens? Why not just ignore it? And hopefully they will also be grown up people and do the same? I don't think one is better than the other... me as well..
I have no business in what you are doing, but I think things are better without endless conflicts over small un-important details about who said what... I think you have to agree? Your opinions will not change the world... not mine either.. lol.. I mean.. My children is doing this.. I ask what is going on, and they say... "He said.." and "She said.."
I just want us all to be friends.. Nothing else.. No harm
fact, Aussie man was trying to tell people about immigration laws and therebye help anyone who is doing this not to make the same mistakes.
Fact, toad is a man of pure theory wth a big mouth, some good ideas and no real experience other than a few letters. Stop pushing people around for going there and having made mistakes mr perfect done nothing know nothing about it. Sorry toad but you are getting worst at being an expert about something you only desire to to and as of yet have not!!
it seems to me toad you only come here becuase you see that you have something to offere everyone. I think the best teachers always remain student and listen to all relivent information positive or negitive. Lots of shit happens in regard to what we are doing, if we all come here and post only good stories (anyone who post bad shit is bashed by you) we will all be scammed. Let all talk and let us all listen to anyone who has been and has something to say. Oh thats right, you do not fall into that catigory so shut up and listen for once instead of mouthing off all the time
I for one like this site.. and I respect the people that run it because honestly its the most honest one I have seen... Now that being said... Why dont you think politeness would be in order for them? or Olga or whoever.... Couldnt you have asked why or at least found out if they are working on some of the problems? You were rude man.... Next time just ask, I could see if she came and gave you A snotty answer but you never gave them A chance.
Yes there is no chat.... they are working on it. But your right it is advertised
I really dont know if there are 15k women or not... Im too lazy to check beyond A normal search
But this I do know.. if they find out someone is scamming they are tossed..... My e-mails are not messed with in any fashion and they even provide a link to A translator site thats FREE.... Every single female I have had contact and been interested enough to find out about has been real... not saying scammers dont exist here but they do try to keep it nice here for us.... they provide forums for both male and females.... Now all this without the chat... is worth the money to me. If it was not I would simply leave.
There is no reason not to be civil to the people that run this site.... They are people too... Try asking next time or at least not coming out and calling them Liars and thieves ( Not verbatem I know but pretty close ) and you might not recieve such an ill tempered response from loyal customers... that fact that we are loyal should show you they deserve a little respect.
Now its over with... let us, let it die.
You talk shit! TOAD..if I could see you in person I would be able to see shit coming from your mouth.
TOAD you seem to be all talk and no committment.
I was married for 12 years to a foreign girl and in the days before the internet we used snail mail and telephone calls to stay in contact..it was a lot different back in 89..the word "scammer" as far as marriage agency brides go was unheard off.
I did the personal visit to her country and the fiancee visa thing myself and I was successful.
I can only talk from an Australian viewpoint and the requirements now for an Australian fiancee visa are a lot tighter now especially for FSU women because Australian immigration considers them all to be economic refugees until proven otherwise and its very hard to get an FSU into Australia now in the last 2 years because of the negative media publicity in this country of Russian mail orde bride scams and Immigration have really clamped down..many FSU fiancee vusas are rejected...immigration requirements and burden of proof is very high.
The process of getting your FSU bride to Australia is very expensive and time consuming and almost impossible and Australian men need to do there research as follows:
1. Have you earnt $33,000 AUD proven before tax for the past two years?
IF NO YOU CAN NOT BRING IN A RUSSIAN BRIDE YOURSELF..APPLICATION REJECTED!
2. Do you have a kids or kids from a previous relationship and are a liable parent for child
support ie kids under 18...IF SO YOUR INCOME NEEDS TO BE WELL ABOVE THE MINIMUM $33,000
OTHERWISE YOU CAN BRING IN YOUR FSU BRIDE..APPLICATION REJECTED!
3. If you have collected Social Security payments for unemployement within the last 2 years
or sickness..APPLICATION REJECTED!
4. If seperated and not divorced from a previous partner..APPLICATION REJECTED
5. Do you have $15 to 20 thousand available cash for a personal visit to an FSU bride and to
cover the costs of a Fiancee Visa and getting her to Australia..this is how much it
costs!
6. Can you wait 7 to 12 months after you vist her for her Fiancee Visa to be granted and hope that all goes well
TOAD you dont live in this country and you dont know f.cken shit so keep your trap shut..I cant see you getting an FSU women..your one of those guys that will do multiple trips to the FSU and fail because of your crumby attitude.
This is a huge exercise and committment for an Aussie and could take from first meeting on the internet until your FSU bride lands on our shores, a period of 2 years.
Aussie men..dont take this FSU bride thing lightly..its a very big committment emotionally, financially and in terms of a long time too so you need to consider this carefully.
This info is for the benefit of fellow Australians who consider an FSU bride..investigate firs and decide if you wnat to go through with this and decide to if you meet the immigration requiremnts yourself as an FSU brides sponsor.
My FSU bride adventure was had a 33% scammer content in it..12 women I wrote to, 4 scammers ( 3 with confirmed scam records on the internet )..others failed and some of the others the letters appeared to be very strange and not written by the girls themselves.
Agencies I was involved with:
Bride.ru
Confidential Connections
Global Ladies
Sweethearts
Maybe I was just unlucky..none of the girls were really super model like and sent me pictures in bikinis etc...they were good looking but did not display themselves erotically.
The girls dont have to have pictures of themselves in bikini or lingerie on the internet to be scammers.
Oh if your FSU BRIDE has a kid, then minimum income requirement for you as an Aussie to bring in her and her kid is $45,000..I meet a guy who did this recently and he immigrated his FSU bride and her 15 year old daughter ( he is 39 ) and his job did not pay enough so he left it and went to work as a prison security guard on nightshift to bring his income above 45 grand a year so he could get his bride in and it took him 12 months after the personal visit to get her here ( thats how long it took for her fiancee visa to be granted for her and the kid ).
He went on the personal visit thing for 2 months to Ekaterinburg and spent it all with Lena, a 35 year old divorced FSU women, the one lady, as he was lucky enough to have had 8 weeks long service leave accumulated which he had not taken.
Not all men are in this position.
You cant expect Department of Immigration to accept a relationship with someone you meet on a romance tour and only spent a few days with and to grant her a visa..its not that simple and burden of proof is the longer proven time you spend with your FSU bride wannabee, the better your chances that she will get a fiancee visa.
So I have not shoot down FSU women here..Ive merely stated as what my former Elena wrote to me "it takes much time and grit" to make the papers..that is bring your FSU love here to the land downunder.
Be prepared to spend the time and money to find a real girl and not a scammer..be prepared to spend the money..be prepared to investigate..be prepared to go away to her country for at least a month or two and have the time to do it..be prepared to wait a long time for her before you met her at the airport at home..its that simple.
If your a man like TOAD then...forget about it and stay at home.