Complaint Review: CharmDate.com - Internet

This company specializes is matchmaking services between Russian and Ukranian women and men from various countries.

The site is very expensive, charging at most $7.00 for each letter received or sent.  So, in order to be able to send a letter to a "lady" and read her reply is $14.00.  Supposedly, after 10 letters sent and 10 letters received, you have established a "safe" relationship and can request the "lady's" personal contact info (email addresses, phone number, and maybe even street address). If you are counting, that's at least $140. BUT!  When you are new, you must earn the status of "Member in good standing."  This is achieved by being actively invloved (writing and receiving letters) on the site for 90 days.  That would be approximately $168 if you wrote to 1 person, one time a week for 12 weeks.  Still a good bargain if the "ladies" were who they say they are and were actually interested in forming a relationship with a guy like you.

Ok...you meet the girl of your dreams.  It doesn't matter.  They will all respond to you and profess their undying love for you after a few letters.  You're thinking, "Wow! I just have to write and receive 10 letters, then I can get the personal information for Svetlana, Irina, Elena, Olga or Viktoria (you'd think that they had only 5 girls' names to choose from), and I am home free.

Well, I wrote to a woman named Elena, from Dnipro, Ukraine for over 90 days (I was a newbie), so excited to be able to FINALLY request her personal information. I did so.  The response was "Sorry, the lady (CXXXXXX) has currently not disclosed any contact information." (Direct cut and paste, except for the Xs.)  When confronted with this, she merely stated, "it's a big step."  After an additional 2 months of writing to her, it's still a "big step."  Unfortunately for her, it's the last step!

Undaunted, but a bit upset, I wrote to someone else from Odessa, Ukraine.  I no longer had to wait to become a "member in good standing," because my 90 days (or fee) had been fulfilled. After sending 10 letters and receiving the most tender, loving, and erotic responses, I decided to ask for "Viktoria's" contact information.  Again I received, "Sorry, the lady (CXXXXXX) has currently not disclosed any contact information.

They claim that these women are vetted and authenticated.  Yet, conveniently, when push comes to shove, you have no way to contact them. You have spent at least $140 to write and receive letters from a photograph; or perhaps a short video (which you pay $14 to view, in addition to the letters).

The webite is masterful.  The women are breathtaking.  But it is all a chimera. Nothing is real. The women are paid to have you write them letters and to read theirs.  I had a woman named Natasha, who was breathtakingly beautiful, write me 6 and 7 letters a day.  Do the math. Of course, us stupid men want to read them, so we pay.  I wrote her for a while, asking various questions about her and her life.  I got letters in return, but NONE of my questions were answered, and it seemed as though she hadn't even read my letter.  Which leads me to another point:

Few of these women speak English, so a translator supposedly reads and translates the letters, then forwards them to the "lady."

If you will watch a movie on Netflix entitled, "Love Me" ( a film about Russian and Ukraine dating), you will witness a part where it's admitted that many times you are only talking to a TRANSLATOR" and not the woman at all!  Witness how lonely men spend thousands of dollars, only to be left heartbroken and penniless in the end, with one woman actually MARRYING a man, then dropping the hammer that she didn't want him!

Friends, perhaps I was stupid.  But this site had write ups by NBC news and various other reputable news outlets.  I went in with good faith to be royally screwed.

Avoid CharmDate.com and its affiliates like the plague!