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International Marriage Agencies: What Went Wrong?
This article is about the Death of the International Dating Business and the changes that are going to be forced upon it. If you are interested in online dating the following article is for you!
I have been thinking regarding the form that the Russian Bride (mail order bride) business could assume. Response on various forums over the past few weeks from launch of the first part of the Death of a Russian Bride study has been interesting.
It is obvious that the clientele of a lot of the Mail Order Bride businesses are not very happy with what they presently have.
I read several forum posts along the lines that pretty much anything that put the large aggregator mail order bride/international marriage bureau sites out of business would only be a plus, even at the price of more control on the end user clients themselves. This suggested a very robust backlash against present business models.
Some readers felt that some companies have been cynically using IMBRA rules to their benefit to prevent people from giving out their personal contact information in order to continue to obtain the greatest revenue out of every client. The fact that their customers will now be required to provide background information concerning marriages and criminal records will likely hinder the great majority of Keyboard Romeos (men who want to connect but never actually meet the Russian women they get in touch with) from getting involved with the international marriage business at all. This can be seen as a risk to the high revenue and profit communication schemes run by some companies. The suggestion was made that some businesses are in basic terms exploiting Russian and other nationality women in a cynical way by putting these keyboard Romeos in contact with women in search of a spouse without consideration of the purpose of marriage at all.
I have to say that I do not agree that all agencies are as cynical as has been suggested. I have met with people in the business who recognise that Keyboard Romeos exist but who sincerely want to see happy marriages involving their American man and Russian female clients.
Removing the ‘broker’ aspect from these international relationships was seen as a good thing by numerous people. The suggestion is that agencies ought to go back to being the providers of travel facilities, assistance, translation and further services related to the outcome of a relationship. Any company with a vested interest in not seeing a positive outcome – matrimony, seems to need to be kept out of the loop.
I read suggestions that aboveboard marriage/introduction agencies in local cities in Russia and Ukraine could effortlessly get around IMBRA and state level regulations could readily avoid them if they chose. All these firms ought to do, they suggest, is to simply have all the girls put up their profiles to a Facebook group, for example ‘Single Kiev Girls Looking for Love’ and permit direct communication between both parties and then generate income from the additional services that they can provide such as translation, English training, accommodation, transfers, and the like. And all the stuff agencies used to do before their principal drive became a dollar for each letter or minute chat. Personally I can perceive that using the functionality of a social networking site is valuable but I doubt that such a pretext would be enough to comply with the requirements of a fully operative IMBRA.
This was always a niche business for the sincere men and women involved, the national online dating business is much larger than the prevailing version of international online dating. Much of the difficulty faced by current businesses in the IMB niche has come about as the result of cynical attempts to maximise revenues from the paying customers, chiefly American, men, I firmly agree with the estimate that the business has brought this circumstance upon itself.
Unfortunately, I know of good businesses in the mail order bride business who have gone out of business through their unwillingness to comply with the iffy business practices of the email factories and the readiness of fishy entrepreneurs to set themselves up to profit from lonely men. We should not disregard though the men who by means of their own greed have allowed themselves to be deluded by fantasies of willing, acquiescent and good-looking women dreaming of marrying totally undistinguished men in a different country.
Incalculable heartaches and tears have been cried by both men and women through some practices of some large scale operators and they have dragged all the business into dishonor, the quicker these businesses cease the better.
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