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In 1993 a person named Leo Simson, who already had some experience in organizing a similar business in Israel, attempted to establish the first international dating club in Samara. At the time this way of earning money seemed very profitable: indeed, an emigration wave began. Furthermore, Simson also wanted to arrange his personal life. By the way, in most cases it is those people, who are themselves looking for a partner, that establish the marriage business.
But the club never reached the international level it declared: the people who really needed a partner overseas had not yet appeared. Simson had more clients than he could satisfy, but they were all wrong. They were usually searching for a person simply in order to survive, and nothing more. Still, literally in several years after the closing of Simson's club, a lot of international marriage agencies appeared in Samara.
However, they were agencies, not clubs, and their purpose was just to earn money through advertising of the goods popular in the West: Russian women. Those marriage agencies work according to a common pattern. Single Russian women pay from 500 rubles to 500 dollars for a profile in the Internet and for being included in the databases of a number of foreign agencies. This is the agency fee.
After acquaintance, if everything works out, the couple meets at the cost of the foreigner yearning for a real life meeting. By the way, some enterprising journey-loving ladies take advantage of this. Certainly, if all goes well, you can get married too...The result of such a meeting almost completely depends on you and your criteria. If you are not very particular, you have a chance to marry on the first try: the foreigners are known to be very serious about marriage.
Single Russian women enjoy popularity with foreign men, so you can count on the attention of fiancés from abroad. Foreigners are not only attracted by the beauty of Russian women, but also by their rare ability to compromise, by their kindness, softness, thrift, the ability to economize on their own needs. And what is most important, Russians are known for their complete ignorance of laws, and therefore, their rights in their new native land.
Generally, it is possible to marry abroad without the services of any agencies. It suffices to have Internet access at home and some determination in order to place a profile and a photo on a foreign dating site. The photo must be of very good quality, it is not something to save your money on.
By the way, because of such savings attempts one Samara agency client nearly lost a prospective partner - a businessman from the States. He instantly liked the woman when he saw the first professional photo of her. The American asked for more, to get a better impression. So she sent him some photos made by a fake professional, who decided to earn some money with the agency. From her point of view, she looked great on those pictures, but the American stopped writing to her very soon. When he responded following her numerous requests, he explained that he was frightened away by the seeming weight increase of the "correspondence lover". In reality it was just the treatment of light and shade. But for the Yankee the question of pounds had always been fundamental: in spite of his sumo-like size, the man wanted to find a slim companion. Another place where you should not take your pictures is at home against the carpets that hang on your walls - this is going to look out-of-place on the office desk of your respectable fiancé.
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