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The date of my first review had the wrong publication date! I wrote it May 23,2021 after the main Covid 19 pandemic.
As you all know girls on Anastasia get paid by their agencies to talk to you. Their commission is about 15% of the chat value with you. They have to give the agency about 20% so they are left with roughly 12% net commission on chats and all other revenue they generate with you ( flowers, gifts, tel. Calls, letters etc.) Some agencies have monthly contests with prizes to see which girl has the most commissions! Nice gesture!.
Due to Covid some if not most girls that have normal jobs have either been laid off (unemployed) or are working reduced hours, This applies to Fitness trainers, hairdressers, manicurists, event managers, secretaries, sales girls, clothes designers etc. to name just a few of the most prevalent occupations mentioned on their Anastasia profile. So to to fill this salary gap they increasingly go on-line on Anastasia and find ways to increase their commissions as a replacement for their lost salaries.
In their chats with you there is a definite trend to get you to go on Camshare which is outrageously expensive and borders on highway robbery! Camshare is 3 times more expensive than normal video! So for them this is a golden opportunity to make money! The usual come on's are I love to see you too you look so handsome on your pictures! What they really want is to increase their billing and their commission!. The other usual tricks are also used like delayed responses and asking to repeat what you said because they didn't understand and so forth. Some fake pre recorded videos are also still around and are being used by girls who think they are very smart- so be careful and ask them to stand up or wave their left hand. Some even have these special sequences built in! So watch for breaks in the video!
After having spent a few times talking to your favorite girl the question comes up let's move to a free site like Skype. Aaaiii then come the excuses!, I feel safe here on the site, I have had very bad experiences with free sites, I have been stalked by a pervert, I have a small child and have responsibility as a mother, I do not know how to load Skype, my computer is too old to download the software and so on! As you all know you can delete anybody immediately and permanently on Skype! So this is a very weak excuse! 90% will not agree to go on Skype and those that do will only talk to you a few times and then cancel the connection because their commission is more important to them than you and your friendship - sad but true!
This site is just a money making machine for Anastasia their agents and the girls!
The chances of meeting a girl are very remote and even if you meet them they will be nice tourist guides for you together with the Anastasia translator and cost you a pile of money - always 3 meals and translation charges!. And they love expensive restaurants! Beware of interpreters ordering too much food and running up the bill in Odessa! In the meeting there is no emotional involvement and definitely no sex! Learn some Russian and go there yourself! Well I hope I have given you guys a few helpful hints. Good luck Harry
This is a terrible site: stay away. Internet connections very poor, fraudulent pre recorded videos being used by many girls usually the most beautiful ones! After complaining I got no answer from management! Apparently they know about this scam but will not admit it, Bought 64 credits and 50 of them were used to solve tech or software problems of the site!. I saw 3 girls but either the picture blurred away into a color mess red and blue or messages said CHAT NOT FOUND and other malfunctions! Support was very slow and at certain hours non-existant - often out to lunch! Support staff have no authority to return credits. Mmgmt has to decide and this takes 2 or 3 days! I'm fed up and still have not gotten my credits back! Stay away from this site! Regards Harry
Girls here seldom have webcams so the door is open to total scam. You have no idea who you are talking to! But I would say in 99% of the cases you are chatting with a secretary or hired translator that has NOTHING to do with the profiles you chose that shows only beautiful women! 2 times the excuse was `my webcam is broken and I don't know when it will be fixed` and twice a video was shown but it was a pre recorded video! The height of fraud was when I asked one to walk around the chair. Then came a pause and you could see that another pre recorded film was being loaded where she walks around the chair! TOTAL SCAM! I reported it to the site and the girl has disappeared! Anyway stay away from this site - 99% fake chats! Good luck Harry
This site has hundreds of fantastic looking women in pictures!. But the ones you think you are writing to are mostly (90%) paid translators that churn out standard bla bla letters saying they are lonely and are looking for the love of their life and that you are the only one!. The first letter they write you is usually so convincing and touching that you answer it especially if her profile photos are beautiful and hot! But you have to open 15 of their letters before you can get an e-mail from them. Every letter you open costs about 10 dollars! So you are in for about $ 150 before you get an e-mail address from her. Until the 15 th letter they are hot and heavy with you - promising a hot and passionate relationship once you meet. After the 15th letter you can get her e-mail and suddenly because you are not paying her commission anymore her interest dies down immediately!. Usually you get 2 or 3 luke warm e-mails and that is the end! Models say they are on location and don't have time to write!
Also requests to go to Skype or Windows messenger are met with lame excuses like I don't have enough memory to load Skype or reject you outright because you don't know each other well enough.
The beautiful models ( about 150 of the total) and 95% of the other good looking women are being managed by professional interpreters. 18 and 19 year old beauties say they are looking for men up to 75 years old! It can't get more ridiculous.! There could be some exceptions but mostly the letters you get are not from the girl in the profile pictures!. So save your money and stay away from this site!. Best is go there on your own but speaking a little Russian is a must. 90 % of the beautiful ones don't speak a word of English!
Western Europeans and Americans are well liked and love when you treat them like a lady and make them laugh. Ukrainian men are rather rough are not humorous and treat the women like shirts. Use them 2 or 3 times then get a new one! At least that is what the majority of women tell me when I ask why they are not interested in their own men. Good luck guys!
Dear Harold,
We are sorry to hear about your negative experience with the site. Unfortunately, your report contains some misinformation about our services. We do our best to ensure that all the women on the site are real. While the first introductory letter is usually pre-written (and free for you), all further letters are dictated by the girls themselves. It is strictly forbidden to send anything without the lady's knowledge or to "churn out" letters. The correspondence rate (price per letter) varies from person to person from 0.5 to 20 dollars per letter so getting an email address may cost as low as $7.5. In case of a very popular (and, therefore, "expensive") girl, you can always request her contact details by paying a flat fee of 50 dollars. Like you rightfully pointed out, the absolute majority of Slavic women do not speak English, so the difference between professionally translated letters on the site and automatically translated emails should be expected. For example, translators usually adapt letters in accordance with the European expressly polite manner of correspondence while the Slavic manner is often perceived as hostile and rude. If you choose to correspond with a model, you should understand that she will have a lot of men vying for her attention, but not all of our female members are models. We arrange video chats and meetings for our clients on regular basis so you can always make sure that your lady and her letters are real. However, we cannot guarantee that every letter exchange will result in marriage. You can read some success stories at http://www.woman-from-russia.com/wiki/index.php/Testimonials but most happy customers prefer not to advertise the fact that they met their partner on a dating site
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Hello Harold!
Thank you for sharing your experience. We value every feedback. Let me remind you that you can always get assistance from us. We have anti-scam policy and 24/7 customer support to help our clients in any controversial case.