Kost, (Paul) Your remarks about Tatiana Gorlakova are libel. If you voluntarily send a women money for her birthday and New Year without solicitaion it is not scamming. Being vindictive because she decided to choose someone else besides you? You were never able to provide any proof or letters that she ever asked you for any money. Maybe this is why Anastasia did not want to remove her profile? Besides most of the correspondense was outside the agency through your own interperter, so how can you blame Anastasia? You even sent Tatiana an appology and then you posted these comments. What kind of person are you? These women should not trust you. And what was with the pshchological tests you had her complete? I suggest you immediatly retract your false comments about Tatiana and remove her from the other two web sites you have reported her to as a scammer. The repercussions could be greater than you ever imagined. You know your comments about Tatiana Gorlakova are false!
In support of Anastasia, I have had very good success with them. They are very reputable and provide excellent service. There web site is full of information about how the entire operation works and what to expect. Maybe everyone should take the time necessary to read all the informationt they provide.
Anastasia is one of the better sites in my opinion. I have been corresponding with the same lovely lady for a while and plan to visit her in October. These women are very real and it is not a rip off. I have spoken to her on the phone, sent flowers thru Anastasia and another off site company that also provided a picture of the delivery. Most if not all of those women on that site are very real! I am taking my second trip to the Ukraine ths year. On my first trip, just about every woman I had corresponded with within 400 KM of the tour city showed up at the socials I attended. It was a blast!
The biggest problem I see usually is from the mens side. I spent 4 years of my youth stationed in Germany as an Army brat and then spent another 5 years there as a soldier. I learned a little Russian while in the service and can comunicate quite well now after taking some very expensive courses.
Take the time to learn a little bit about their customs, language and certain dishes (such as shashliks), be polite and be yourself. (They can spot a phoney from a mile away!)
I had a wonderful time on my last trip which was through the Anastasia tours.
This time I am going on my own as I have made some good friends in the Ukraine.
Anastisiaweb is no rip off, It is a good site.
I agree with OgdenDave - Anastasia was legit. I mentioned I was in Odessa and stopped at an Internet cafe to setup a couple of dates with short notice.
Its a crap shoot guys. If you head to Odessa, most of the cute girls are very big gold diggers - it is their favorite dream. If I had listened to one post before going? I wish I had known how greedy these young women really are in the bigger cities.
Hum very interesting OlgaAW so you found this by accident? So why is
A person working for Anastasia Intl looking though an anti-scam forum site for
In the first place and what are the odds of you finding this page?
Because I think you have better do the lottery this week as you got more odds of
Winning that, than coming across this by accident don’t you think!
But then again this it is a good source of information for all them dating scam
Sites that like to rip men off, And anyway why would Steve lie for in the first place
what would he gain out of it, but then again Crashnsplash has got a very good point "easy
does it Steve" ... if i was you Steve i would keep of the redbull for a bit.
Yup! This is an anti-flake-bubble-bursting-ball-busting forum! Read at your own risk of being bursted/busted! ;p
I wanted to use a site where I could write an extensive letter. I actually paid real money to read a letter from AW the other day to comment on the subject. I was shocked and impressed. The girl actually read my profile and asked me specific questions about my interests. And the girl was one of the prettiest girls on that site and just responded to my adding her to my favorites...
I was so used to getting the standard form-letter-fired-off-to-a-thousand-other-losers introduction letter that I am waiting on her response to my letter. I like the fact that nowadays on most websites you can see when they received and read the letter.
I know Anastasia has already taken a hammering on this forum, but I have an interesting, well it is to me, update.
Although I have read a lot of bad press about Anastasia, I had already started writing and getting involved with a few lovely, but what I thought was sensible aged girls, so continued with the 'relationships'. I was sure that the girls I was writing to were genuine.
Well the time had come for a meeting, with at least one of them, I'm a bit old fashioned and don't think it right to go there with a shopping list of names, so I wrote to the number 1 on my list on thursday last week and declared that I planned to visit her next Friday asking for her response.
We had been writing daily, and she had even taken time on her birthday to respond.
The web site gives you feed back on days and time that the girls read your letter. I wrote at 2330 on thursday UK time, but as the site is US based, so it showed as 1730, and my letter was read 11 minutes later. Ukraine is 3 hours ahead of UK, so for those with bad math, it means she read my letter at 0241 hrs Ukraine time. Well she has already told me she doesn't have a home computer and has to go to agency to get letter..... at 0241 hrs. Riiiight. Okay so obviously my letter was that important that the agency opened up in the early hours and got her down there to read it, all in 11 minutes. Right??
Funnily enough, although she had been responding daily, there has not been a response to my letter declaring my intention to arrive.
Ir may well be that she is arranging time off from work, nervous or whatever, if it was not for the intersting time issue. If no response is received in the next couple of days i will write to Anastasia demanding money back for the numerous letters I wrote and received from her.
What, Anastasia has a guarantee of money back if girl you are writing to decides she has a change of heart?????
I hope this turns out okay for you Paul. I am not familiar with Anastasia, is it pay per letter???? If so, I would
NEVER write daily to a girl. It has possible scamming written all over it. I do correspond to a girl in another site that is pay per letter( me opening), I don't like it but we send only couple letters per month, so it seems
more real. I would have sent a red flag if she sent me letters all the time.
Well for one, you plan these things meetings way in advance of the last week you come. What were you thinking? Waiting till the last minute to tell her you actually want to meet in person?
I would not wait anymore.. tell the others you want to come, but not make a big deal about it in case there is no chemistry when you meet. I don't think any girl would have a problem with this at all. It worked wonders when I went away from the long-term letter writing campaign and wanted to make sure I would write someone when I returned.
In the end, don't worry, maybe she wasn't the one -- mine wasn't. Shit happens. Maybe you'll meet her and things to smoothly. It's a crap shoot. Good luck.
Beemer & Apal -
Yep its a pay per letter site. I felt the regular letter writting was an indication of interest, the letters were good, friendly and personal, not intimate but were clearly written to me, if you know what I mean. I feel for it I guess.
Why plan months ahead, she, and the others all said that they wanted to meet blah blah, only so much can be said in letters blah etc. So I took the bull by the horns and went for it. Its easy from the UK.
I have now told all the girls I was writing to that I'm coming and none have yet replied. Hmmmmm
I guess there are some genuine girls on Anastasia but I happen to chose the ones that arn't.
Sorry to hear that Paul. I've been rather put off by the numerous girls wanting a seriously rich guy to marry anyways. Even the not-so-attractive girls are into this... geezus.
If you read one of my earlier posts, 1 girl who I was getting close to, read one of my letters 11 minutes after I wrote it (anastasia feed back) keen eh ?? but I wrote it at 2330hrs UK wich meant she read it at 0241hrs Ukraine time (with no computer at home) ..... very keen ?? I have written to anastasia support asking for an explanation, praising them of course for their anti-scam policy and suggesting that they may want to investigate this girl...........that was 4 days ago and still no response.
Anyway one of the girls does seem to be real and I'm going over next friday !! so we'll see. Can anyone suggest how to get a translator once I get out there. I have read somewhere that you can find them for half the cost of the agency provided ones.
What city are you going to? That may help, they may know someone from past. I had a good one in Kiev. I got a the number from the site where I booked my apt. I know ukrainefare offers such service..just some ideas. It is almost easiest in beginning to use their translator, that way your girl feels comfortable. If she is interested in you after a couple meetings, you may not need translator or just for certain functions. Great if you knew some russian.
Does Anastasia tell you when your letter is opened or just received? How about when it is read? Maybe agency has an automated system to retrieve letters???? Who knows??? Maybe an alien like in Men in Black working overtime!!!!!!
She is from Izmail, but offered to meet me in Kiev, so its more of long weekend together and not a couple of dates. I accept what you say about using agency translator, you are probably right.
On the letter that I write, it records the date and time writen, then under that it just says "read date and time". It maybe an automated thingy but, on all the other letters there is a respectable delay. There is also the question of is the time when the translator reads it, but I would have thought the whole idea is to let me know when 'she' reads it, oh and I've just thought - they also fire off an automated message to my in box to say 'she' has read your letter at date and time, so I'm pretty sure.
Paul,
I get an e-mail telling me that girl received letter. I have no idea when she actually reads letter, when she gets
it translated, if she gets it read to her over the phone....you see lots of variables!!! Now if she responed back with a letter in that 11 minutes, MAYBE I might be a little more worried!!!!!! I think your reading too much into it, content of letters should be examined more.
Izmail, hmmmm, I knew a girl from there. Not that far from Kiev. Does that mean your girl is coming with her own
translator or her agency is in Kiev. If you need I can give you # of translator. I put more faith if translator
is good( for you) than cost( not knowing if right message is getting across). Most are around $10, if you found a student then much less.
I personally believe Anastasia is well organised and playing by the rules SCAM. Ok, let me explain you how I come to this conclusion and what proof I have. I have been member with Anastasia for a long time. At the beginning that I felt I am dealing with a good agency who provides with good service for introduction. But, all these thought before I moved from England to Turkey. Ok, whats the connection ?? Let me answer it.. The flight from England to Ukraine around 4 hours but flights from where I am (istanbul) is only 1 hour 15 minutes to Odessa and around 1 hour 45 minutes to Kiev and then just work out between other cities. Basically what I am trying to say, for me to visit any girl in Ukraine A) less cost effective around 250 dollars return flights B) I can even go there just for the weekend as time consuming without disturbing my work ( by the way I have my own business so, there is no restriction when I can go or not) Anyway, I carried to correspodence few girls from Anastasia. Finally I have asked to those girls that they are allowed to give their adress via anastasia policy. Some gave me adress some just gave me excuse that my dad or my family does not know about this.. etc.. or some excuse... It does not really matter.. Finally I have decided to meet them... I took one week off from my work.. jump on the plane and went to Donetsk first.. Ohhh.. by the way.. girls in their letter said would be great idea to meet when I ask them that I rather meet you than writing thousands letters.. Actually, I was confidence about reality of these girls.. Because, they said they can meet... anyway I made my travel arrangments and went there.. And, Guess what ??? They suddenly have some pre-arranged travels or they had to visit their granmother, or she join to famiy union at the sea side, one of them said her grandmother died, guys..... ARE YOU HEARING ALL THESE ..... Do you know How many girl from one region gave all these excuse ?? exactly 6 girls.. Yes, you may think why 6 girls..?? Well maybe experience and maybe I was picky aswell. But what I have done here... I create my own choosen portfolio from same region and atleast if I have been dumb by any one of these then atleast I had a bigger chance to meet at least one of those 6 girls... AND WHAT HAPPEN , NONE, ZERO.... ::))) YES GUYS ZERO... ALL OF SUDDEN THEY ALL HAD SOME EXCUSE THAT THEY CAN NOT MEET ME... AND GAVE ME ALL THOSE EXCUSES I HAVE MENTIONED... Now, If anastasia insist that they are legimite then my answer is YES THEY LOOK VERY LEGIMITE BUT DEFINETILY SOME THING IS WRONG ALONG THE LINE... MAYBE GIRLS GET PAID ON A LETTER RECIEVED OR POPULARITY BASED... AGENTS GET SOME CUTS FOR THEIR TRANSLATION.. THATS FOR SURE, THEY ARE NOT DOING IT FREE... But, here listen my thinking about whats going on here... Agents find the girls, just give them some commission out of their pocket for each letter recieved by their popularity... We pay lots of money for each letter WE READ, WE WRITE... either way everyone makes money... Very polite answers to most letters.. convince you that they are not scamm... But heyy... I admit I was stupid enough to carry on and spend my money on just dreams... Because they drag you in to beatifull girls heaven... and you say.. ohhh... she is nice and wrote me letter... Ok, I am not saying there is not ANY honest girls here aswell.. Yes, there are... but if we put as percentage all around say 2 out of every 10 girls.. And, as soon as they find someone they get marry and they erase their membership from Anastasia..
Okey guys... and recently I test same things, this time from Odessa region .. ::)) And, specificly find girls from Odessa. Why ? atleast they are all in one region and easy to meet them one place and I dont have to travel around... from one city to another city... right ??
Anyway, This time I wrote another 6 girls... back and forward corresponding... finally I have told them that I want to meet, I am coming to odessa to see you in person.. etc.. they said great.. and even told me ( atleast few of them ) I can show you odessa, beautifull city and show you night life.. and we could meet in person and atleast we can know each other better... YES IT SOUNDS NICE.. ISNT IT ? Anyway, I have told them I will rent apartment and ask them to gave me their adress.. NONE OF THEM GAVE ME THEIR ADRESS THIS TIME ( I thing they are getting better ::) ) And, Ask them to gave me their agency phone number , none of them gave me their agency phone number... Matter of fact Anastasia does not even provide agency phone number and details to their registered and well paying members like I am... ( unfortunately ) And just to bait them, I said I will be travelling on the 17th August..(gone now ) And, all of them replied back even some of them I can see from my sent letters box they read but did not reply till today 20th.. The one replied says, Ohh.. I am really busy, I can not meet you sorry to dissappoint you etc.. If I can have time I will call you.. leave your numbers to my translater ( I dont know how da hell I am suppouse know translater number, even if I asked for that number for numerous times.. ) Basically, same thing happen again... Reason why I have done all these ?? Before I mark anyone or any business or person.. I always want to make sure before I accuse them.. But, the girls who were expecting me on 17th did not realise one thing...?? I was actually going there on the 23rd ::)) So, fail safe system.. Sorry girls .. I am business man I am not stupid.. Yes, the money I have spent is a lot money for many peoples.. Maybe its not much for me, but what upset me.. Anastasia or some claiming anastasia is legimite.. But they are not totally legimite.. And, its like, there is one old saying.. If you go to open market , sales man put few fres fruits on display... and when you ask him to give you 1 Kylo or )(almost 2 pounds) say apple... they put the bad ones at the buttom of bag and put
Lucky -- Geezus if what your saying is true it would seem like a scam to me too. I was able to get the telephone of the agency translator before I arrived. I was not about to meet any girl unless I had a way to contact her while I arrived.
Army of brides allowed girl to give me the #. Disappointing meeting. Girl was gold-digging scammer lying through her teeth with each letter...
She dates local men, same with most all of these 'real' agency girls anyways. The whole thing is enough to make one sick.
I think we should pressure these sites to allow us to purchase the name of agency these girls supposedly work through when we get 'contact info'.
I am not surprised with your story. Girls can be famous for not meeting with guys. It sounds to me like they are just letter writers and do not want to meet. I am sure you are hopeful that girls did not meet you because they were not interested in you personally. I would never in my right mind meet 6 girls from same city. For one, they would not find you serious, second, many girls in same agencies share info about guys they are writing to, third, with no contact info BEFORE you meet, no way of telling how much interest girl really has for you. For me, it has probably
been a 50/50 proposition about actually meeting. Have only one main girl to visit and one in case. Worse comes to worse...local agencies
Beemer - have to agree 100% on that. I am here to say girls and agency managers and maybe other members of their staff do share information a man writing several women from the same agency. It is the worst situation to encounter, they do not think you are serious and that you are more than a little insincere when you write several of them and want to meet more than one for some reason.
I think it has to do with their fears of encountering a man who just wants to have fun and the more severe risk of encountering the sex tourist.
I had an online argument with one girl who was being fake, obviously insincere and overly cheerful about every word she wrote - then next thing I know, some other girl was writing me about the foul attitude of what this girl said about me in her agency when she recognized my profile in some other girl's stack of letters.
The other agency I used in Odessa appears to have moved its services across two major websites. One is pay-per-letter and the other is this site.