I recently found this article on The New York Times called
Ordering brides on the Web: old business, new source by JULIE CHECKOWAY
Published on June 07, 2000. Here’s the link if you want to read more about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/business/shopping-ordering-brides-on-the-web-old-business-new-source.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.
This article somewhat answered my question to where its talks about when the
customers pays for $3,000 to $5,000, including hotel and airfare. As some dating website they guarantee that
men will meet more than 800 women in 10 days.
The studies in this online dating is report by the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, the number of marriages between American men and
foreign women they met through online matchmakers has doubled in the last
decade, totaling 4,000 to 6,000 a year. Wow that’s crazy how we are looking
more online than to just meet people near our town. Plus to me I wouldn’t pay
that much to find someone and the site says they will pay for fare and hotel to
meet the person is very odd to me. A lot the dating site are making a lot of
money by promote international marriages, Internet versions of the 19th-century
mail-order-bride business which in the mid-1970's, most mail-order brides came
from the Philippines, today more than half of the 200 mail-order bride
businesses online cater to men seeking mates from Russia and Ukraine. What surprises
me that they do discount on the site where they do an Anastasia’s tours? Wow can
you say cheap. Another surprise is that a lot of the customers come back when
their relationship doesn’t work out.
Wow, this is really surprising and crazy on how much people are willing to pay that big amount of money. Especially for men who are looking on dating websites for foreign women. I didn’t know that they had this kind of stuff out there; it’s pretty scary to think about it. Meeting people online is risky because you don’t know the person at all, you don’t know how they look, or how their personality is. They could put false information about themselves and could be someone totally different. But I guess men really want to find a woman that they could marry. Honestly, I don’t think I would ever do that, because the online dating can have creeps on there. You could end up with some psycho and wouldn’t be able to get away from them. I don’t see why women would put themselves on the dating website, same goes for men. They should keep it as a casual meet, like meeting in person first and maybe start a friendship. They should get rid of these dating sites because most of them could be dangerous, even though they advertise it looking like its ok. Also, meeting a person from a foreign country is even scarier. They are coming from a different country and may have different perspectives on anything. But that’s just a lot of money to pay for a mail order bride. Why don’t they just meet up with one of their friends or be introduced by one of their friends. That could be more interesting and safer because you would actually know a little about the person.
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