Michael
Salt Lake City,#2Consumer Comment
Thu, January 20, 2022
They are a scam. Every person sounds exactly alike, saying some sob story and attempts to entice you to want them, every purchase comes up as an escort service on your bank statements. And getting a refund is like pulling teeth. I'm still trying to get a refund. Do not use this service you'll be out money and I can guarantee you'll be stuck in a foreign country with someone who doesn't really love you.
Silverfox
Glendale,#3Consumer Comment
Sat, July 23, 2016
I understand some of the frustration mentioned but I can only say "There is One Born Every Minute" The Staff at A Foreign Affair (AFA) who operate the website www.loveme.com will tell you "Do Not Send Money!" they also tell you "Do Not Write Letters!" do they make money off the letters you write... yes they do. Yet they will tell you NOT to write them. The IMBRA International Dating Requirements mandates that the men in the USA be checked out for various crimes ...there is no mandate to check the women in any country. Are they all legitimate? No, but being real are all the men on this site really looking for a real relationship….No.
I have attended three AFA seminars (Yes, they are free) and at every seminar they tell you do not send money no matter the sadness of the sob story. Your finances are not something she needs to know until you are engaged. The biggest “Red Flag” is being asked for money….for any reason until you and the lady have met and established a real relationship. Never, not ever, send money when you have not actually met in person. Any woman who wants you to buy her a laptop computer, clothes or anything is interested in your wallet…not interested in you!. This is a Bell ringing for you to say Good-Bye! Of course, you need to read the information, attend the seminars, or watch the blogs, and webcast to understand all this.
I personally used this website and I have written letters and emails to woman in China and Philippines. I did have some issues with vague or outright bogus responses from China. However, the issue was resolved with one phone call to the AFA Phoenix Office, the funds were refunded, and the woman(s) profiles were removed. I only wrote only two women in the Philippines, after I had plane tickets to arrive in Cebu Philippines in August 2014. Both women I wrote to, wrote me back and asked questions about my profile and pictures! I met them both at the AFA tour in Cebu. One of those pretty ladies is now my wife and we now live in Arizona.
Why someone writes 75-100 email in a effort to find a real relationship is beyond me. My advice is; leave your most Romantic Keyboard Romeo Letter Writing At Home! Actually leave your house, get a passport! Buy a plane ticket and attend one of the tours to the city or country where the women interest you, and actually, really meet the woman! Novel idea but after 20 years in the Navy, I know for a fact, that you cannot Make Love through the Mail. Until you have hands to hold and eyes to look into it will forever remain a fantasy and just a dream… to make it real you need to go there. Until you go to the country, do not bash the website and the women on it.
When entering any relationship beware until you know she is for real ...she is also being skeptical of you! Are you for real? It does not matter if "She" is down the street or in Russia, China, Thailand, or the Philippines.
Doug H
Winchester,#4General Comment
Mon, January 05, 2015
For several years I was a client of "A Foreign Affair" dating service in Phoenix, AZ. I took a total of 6 trips abroad to meet girls, and met a wonderful woman who is now my wife (2 years married) with a 20 year age spread.
For the most part, I found the women to look exactly like the profile pictures, I found the Arizona staff helpful and knowledgeable, and the foreign field offices that I worked with were also very good.
Yes, AFA is a for-porofit business, and yes, they charge a fee for virtually everything they do, but, they also deliver value. I would never have been able to have these trips be such wonderful vacations, and meet and date in excess of 100 beautiful women without them. At no time in any of my travels did I feel afraid or worried about my safety.
In short, it was wonderful! I traveled to many cities, got tours from the natives, learned a lot about me, about the USA, about the country/culture I visited, ate food I would never have tried otherwise, etc.
Is it true that there are a few "golddiggers" amoung the girls who only want a date, a nice dinner, and for a guy to buy them a present? Yes, that is true, but it is only a small part of the available women, and no different than dating locally. Is it true that a few girls overstated their English ability, lied about their age, or other errors? Yes, but, they were few, a small percentage.
From what I read in the complaints, the men are ones that have not traveled abroad, and actually traveling abroad and meeting ladies in person is what AFA recomends for success (and rightly so!) So the real question is: Would you buy a car based on the review of a guy who had not actually driven the car, just read about it on the internet? Of course not! Should you judge AFA by listening only to people who have not traveled with them, not followed their advice? Of course not.
I went, and I loved it, and I found exactly what I had hoped for. And, I met many other guys who can tell the same story. Case closed, for me!
Barry
Orlando ,#5REBUTTAL Individual responds
Wed, February 26, 2014
These orgainization count on you wasting time on the internet, a man and a woman cannot communicate properly in cyberspace. You are looking at a pretty picture thinking of t**s and a*s and they have some person emailing you back by proxy. I also spent some money emailing and I did meet a few of the ones I wrote too. Again, do not waste your money or your time emailing. Get on a jet and go to the country.
My first tour I did the package which actually is a good value. Hotel was the best in both cities, breakfast was great and the tours of the town were excellent. You will meet many men from around the world and I am still in contact with 2 from 2 years ago. My advise again do a tour. You will also find out that for the most part these women are feminine women. It is a completly different energy of these american women. You will relise that you now are in control and they honestly do want to meet you. They dislike there men in the same way we dislike the women here.
Next month I will be travelling to Costa Rica, using the service of AFA and meeting women. In Medellin I used Amolatina, they had a sister company named Colombian Angles that you would go to the office and look at the registered women and they would set up the dates. Remember that these ladies are for the most part poor and they know how to play YOU. In the Ukraine I used Anastasa, and had excellent results and plan on returning to Odessa when the evil American empire stops interfering with the Ukraine Government.
I also have a few women that have turned out to be solid. Once you play a little bit and understand women are women no matter where you are, it is the greatest kind of Big Game Hunting in the world. A woman from anywhere else is better than a American Woman. To vailidate that statement....is there just ONE company set up in the USA for foreign men seeking American women? And marry her in her country.