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Summary
AnastasiaDate is an online dating service designed to pair men up with women in Russia, Ukraine, and other Eastern European countries. However, members report many issues with this service.
Pros
- You will get lots of attention
- Translators are available to make communication easier
Cons
- You must pay for every interaction
- Likely will be more expensive than other dating platforms
- Challenging to move conversations off the site
- Customer reviews indicate that many women are leading members on to get them to spend more credits
AnastasiaDate Review: What You Should Know
By Lydia Noyes
Updated on: Feb 27, 2020
AnastasiaDate is an international dating service that pairs men with women from Eastern Europe, predominately Russia and Ukraine.
It’s free to make an account and browse the profiles, but you’ll need to pay for every interaction on the site with credits.
The service was founded by a Russian-American couple in 1993, and it is designed to help you connect with new people, whether it’s for love or friendship.
The company promises to keep your information strictly confidential and claims to use a sophisticated service for detecting and removing scam accounts. AnastasiaDate claims to connect over 6,000 couples each year.
In this review, we will take a look at what this service offers to help you decide if it is right for you.
How Does AnastasiaDate Work?
You will start the signup process by sharing whether you are a man or a woman. However, only men can make accounts on the site. If you attempt to sign up as a woman, you will be redirected to a Dating.com, a different international dating site tailored towards both men and women.
For men, you can fill out your profile by sharing information like your age, height, weight, marital status, hair color, educational background, profession, hobbies and interests, and more. You can also submit up to four photos.
You will immediately be able to browse the profiles of women and send them messages. As your profile will briefly be highlighted on the top page of the site, you should soon be inundated with messages. Each of these messages is free to read, but you’ll need to spend credits to respond to them.
In many cases, your match may only have basic English skills. AnastasiaDate uses interpreters to translate these messages for both parties so that you can understand each other. The company policy states that these interpreters will never share your messages with anyone else.
It’s forbidden to share your contact information through AnastasiaDate unless you do so through the company’s permitted routes. These include phone calls and by sending flowers or presents where you include your contact information in a personal message.
How Do Credits Work?
If you want to do anything more than browsing, you’ll need to pay for credits, the site’s online currency. The costs for credits depends on how many you buy:
- 20 credits: $15.99 ($0.80 per credit)
- 160 credits: $96 ($0.60 per credit)
- 1,000 credits: $399 ($0.40 per credit)
How many credits it costs to access different features also varies. For instance:
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Send and receive messages through letters (messages will be translated as necessary): 10 credits per message ($4–$8)
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Send virtual gifts like a profile sticker or a short video lesson like yoga or meditation: 15 credits per gift ($6–$12)
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Send real-world gifts like flower bouquets, perfume, gift cards, food baskets, English lessons and more: 49 to 960 credits ($20–$384)
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Message in real-time through Live Chat: 1 credit per minute ($0.4–$0.8)
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Online chat while seeing videos of each other through CamShare (no mic included): 6 credits per minute ($2.4–$4.8)
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Have a live phone call through a translator: 100 credit deposit for 10 minutes, 10 credits per additional minute ($40–$80 plus $4–$8 per minute)
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Have a live phone call without a translator: 5 credits per minute ($2–$4)
You can also subscribe to a monthly membership for $9.99. This provides you with 10 free three-minute live chat sessions per month and the ability to send unlimited Love Notes (a notification to indicate interest) each month.
You can cancel your membership at any time through your online account.
Is Your Information Safe?
AnastasiaDate claims to protect all site users with a leading Safety and Security System where all members are confirmed to be authentic by the staff.
Though you can provide information like your last name, address and contact information when you sign up, it won’t be shown in your profile and won’t be sold to third-parties.
Analysis of Customer Reviews
AnastasiaDate averages 1.5-stars based on 20 reviews on our website and 2.9-stars based on 130 reviews on Trustpilot. Here’s a summary of the main takeaways:
Common Compliments:
- Lots of beautiful women who are eager to talk
- Profile information easy to navigate
Common Complaints:
- Too expensive for anything but browsing
- You need to pay for every message
- Some users got scammed by women they had chatted with for months when they tried to visit them
- Many women hired interpreters to answer their chats to catfish users
- Many women are married or have kids
- Many photos are fake or photoshopped
- Difficult to move conversations off the site
- Women seem to be compensated if they keep the conversation going on the site
- Women drag out the chat response time to make users pay more money
Popular Alternatives to AnastasiaDate
| AnastasiaDate | Dating.com | RussianBrides | Russian Cupid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price Structure | All interactions cost credits, expect to spend $4–$8 to send and receive each message | All interactions cost credits, expect to spend $4–$8 to send and receive each message | All interactions cost credits, expect to spend $4–$8 to send and receive each message | Unlimited communication available by paying a monthly subscription |
| Membership Available? | Yes, for $9.99 per month | Yes, for $9.99 per month | Yes, for $9.99 per month | Yes, $13.33–$39.99 per month |
| Membership Features | Unlimited initial contact, ten free three-minute conversations | Your account is showcased to other members, a one-time package of 20 credits, 10 free chats, unlimited introduction messages | Discount on all credit packages, free 3-minute conversations with 10 users, send 3 free messages to ten users, send intro emails for free, use of Let’s Mingle every 24 hours | Unlimited messages through live chat and email, no ads |
| Main Features | Women can message you for free; translators facilitate conversations when necessary | Available for men and women across the globe | The primary focus of the site is helping men find mail-order brides from Russia | Photos are less polished, women specify what they are looking for in a partner, less likely to reach out immediately with flirty messages |
Diving into the details, we first want to note that the same brand manages AnastasiaDate, Dating.com, and RussianBrides. Each site has a very similar feel and pricing system. You’ll need to pay for each interaction, and the women are incentivized to keep all communication on the platform.
As soon as you make an account on any of these three, you will immediately be inundated with sexy pickup lines from members trying to get you to chat. While you can respond to these chats for free, any contact after your initial message requires paying for credits.
Russian Cupid, in contrast, is set up more like a traditional dating website. Once you pay a monthly subscription fee, you can chat with an unlimited number of members. This site includes the most “normal” looking women, many of whom have selfies in their profiles instead of professional modeling shots.
In our view, RussianCupid seems to make the most sense for people who are interested in creating a real connection with someone across the globe. The pricing structure is transparent, the women have more specific information in their profiles, and you won’t be bombarded with flirtatious messages within seconds of signing up.
If, however, you’re looking for some long-distance flirtation and aren’t concerned about cost, AnastasiaDate and its sister sites will likely lead to more instant gratification.
The Bottom Line
Once you sign up for AnastasiaDate, set up your profile, and watch the flirtatious messages come in from gorgeous women, you might start thinking that this site is too good to be true. In many cases, you would be correct.
AnastasiaDate is designed to suck you in from the first second so that you spend money. Customer reviews make it very clear that many of the women on this site treat it like their job, with the goal of getting you to spend money on conversations, gifts, and live cams.
Many users shared that they struggled to get real contact information from their matches and that even when they flew to Russia or Ukraine to visit them, their time with them was limited, and they were forced to pay for a translator to accompany them. In several cases, users found that their matches were leading double lives and married with families.
There’s a chance you could find love on AnastasiaDate, but the odds are good it will cost you a lot of money and heartbreak to get there. Other sites, like RussianCupid, seem more focused on creating genuine connections, so your time might be better spent there.
Customer Reviews
Posted on Jan 18, 2015
My experience
I think you guys are doing a fantastic job helping people meet Ukrainian or Russian girls. For years I felt alone and If it weren't forAnastasiadate.com, we would not have found this love and friendship we have with Tanya. We both are very grateful for the service you provided us and making it possible for two lonely hearts in the world to meet and discover their soul mate. I am now engaged to be married.
Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Helpful Review?
9 People Have Voted
Posted on Jan 17, 2019
Good site
Definitely would recommend this site. There are many options for finding what are you looking for. Girls there are some of the most beautiful women I have seen on any dating site. I don't think it's a scam. My good friend told me about it after he tried a few others dating sites. I just registered and didn't have any problems with that. I hope things will turn out ok for me.
Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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3 People Have Voted
Posted on Dec 8, 2014
Not for me
I didn’t find the one I was looking for... But what can I do... This site is not for me...maybe somebody’s have some luck there.
Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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13 People Have Voted
Posted on Nov 21, 2017
Deception in your emails, you open then they disappear!
They changed the way you can view a lady. You used to be able to click on the lady to view her profile before you pay to read her letter, so if for some reason you don't like her profile or things about her, you can just pass on her (for instance she smokes, she has 3 kids, she's not from the country you thought). You just don't know. Or if you open a letter from a lady you like you better write down her ID number or you will never find it again; it just disappears. It just seems with all that money they're making they could change there website. Unless these are not real people, just people sitting behind a computer making money for the company, unless they change it. That's what it feels like. Bring back the desktop versions for letters too. Thanks.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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25 People Have Voted
Posted on Oct 16, 2015
Oh no! Get me out of here!
I had a nine month "relationship" with a woman on Anastasia Date that presumably was searching for her "soul mate". Nothing could be farther from the truth. Yulia B. is indeed a beautiful woman who lures men to Karkov, Ukraine in hopes of their having a romantic interlude with the woman of their dreams and may have the intent of marrying. Unfortunately, Yulia forgets to tell them she is a lesbian and that will never happen.
She talks men out of getting a hotel and has them use a chosen apartment she has set up for them where they can be alone. But she is never alone with you. She constantly has her interpreter by her side (even though you may speak intermediate Russian as I do) or her realtor. The apartment is 4 stories up in an old building with no elevator and she charges you probably nine times the going rate. She makes her money off the unfortunate men by skimming off the apartment, taxis (she never uses her car) restaurants (she has a deal with) and gets a cut off the interpreter.
She refuses to be touched, even hold hands, and is constantly wrapped up like a mummy. Beware of this woman. You easily catch her in lies and you fly back out of town like I did after only the second day.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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34 People Have Voted
Posted on Nov 26, 2015
Don't fall for fake reviews
Of course AnastasiaDate is a scam, I detail the scam, the scammer women at the site, the scammer agencies in Ukraine that work with Anastasiadate. I used the service for two years and I met nothing but scammer women who did pro dates. They would meet me and get translation fees for their friend or whatever. Most just wanted me to chat with them in video chat because they are paid 12 cents a minute. The local agencies in Ukraine make a bundle on the deal. Everyone makes money off of stupid American men. And when we meet the girl eventually after months of chatting, she is disinterested.
That is only because usually the women at the site are married or engaged to be married.
This industry is dying because of sites like anastasiadate. They cannot stop with the lies and the deceit. But we can all speed this along if we abandoned such horrible services and focused on the sites that actually provide honest women who look for real relationships.
Stop believing in this garbage fantasy. Wake up.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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41 People Have Voted
Posted on Dec 8, 2015
Better than being robbed by a gun, and they won't take your iPhone
Without a doubt, the site has loads of profiles with photos of very beautiful women. Unfortunately, whether you read messages, send replies, chat or even view attached photos & videos, this site charges you for pretty much *everything*, and these 'beautiful women' (assuming they're real) use every trick in the book to lure you into reading one more message, writing one more reply, chatting for one more minute and viewing one more photo or video... and all that keeps the AnastasiaDate.com cash register ringing at an alarming rate.
I currently live in Kiev, Ukraine, and I only contacted girls who speak English and live in the exact same city. So lining up a date on this site should have been at least as easy as any of the free sites I've used to find dates in the same place, right? Unfortunately, it wasn't. With the goal of spending as little as possible, simply to verify that this site would lead to at least one real-life date, I spent over $200 USD in just 5 days, received replies from over 40 girls, and ended up with nothing but more invitations to keep emailing and chatting, longer and longer, adding more and more $100+ charges to my credit card.
Additionally, the profiles and messages I saw seemed VERY fake to me, and having used online dating services for years, I can spot a fake a mile away. And the girls almost always write back within 24 hours. Does that sound normal for an online dating site to you? It sure doesn't to me, but I'm sure it helps keep that cash register ringing. When you bring all this up with one of the very friendly customer service people, they'll happily send you a link to their 'anti-scam policy,' which they seem to think should convince us that we're not being scammed. But the fact is, if someone can live in Kiev, speak Russian, and not set up a single date with a girl who lives in the SAME CITY after hearing back from 40+ girls and spending $200+, when free or super-cheap sites like Badoo, OkCupid and VK work perfectly well, it's safe to say that AnastasiaDate falls far, far short of delivering what it promises.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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45 People Have Voted
Posted on Sep 28, 2017
Of course, no good
I have met many girls on the Anastasia site from Ukraine and Russia where I met some of them later in person. As you know, I had to spend some money before I get their contacts. To make it short, all the girls I met have agencies where they charged me to have a translator along with each of the girls I met on daily basis. About $ 75 a day. So wherever I went, the translator was with us paying for food too.
The first two travel trips were bad and costly, but nothing to compare to the last girl named Marina, who is from Nikolaev in Ukraine. She wanted me to meet her family, claiming they were poor, and we got engaged. I, of course, bought a lot of gifts for the whole family. We got engaged, and I applied for a US Visa for her. After about ten months and many costly trips visiting her, the US Visa was ready. I sent her $2000 so she can get a medical exam, transportation, and other expenses she may need. She called me asking for more money, claiming that was not enough. So I sent her another $ 1,500, not mentioning the monthly allowance I used to send her. About $ 500 a month.
The end of this scam is that the girl never went to the US embassy. It was a scam all along. So I notified the embassy to blacklist her.
You may think that I would not continue seeking a girl after this big scam, but I did meet more girls. However, before traveling to meet them and within few days of meeting them online, I used to call my credit card company to trace where the payment is going to while I was at Anastasia site. After an investigation, these girls that are supposed to be living and talking to me in Ukraine, the charges were coming from an island called Cypress. When I confronted the girls, they are probably prostitutes working for gangs.
After that no more communications at all with anyone from the internet period. I do not trust anybody on the internet, back to the old-fashioned way to meet girls in person here in my city, and whatever I spend on them is much much less than the hassle of meeting an untrustworthy girl in a country I do not know.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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48 People Have Voted
Posted on Dec 6, 2017
Stay away from this scam, you will lose money and time.
It is impossible to get an email or a phone number of a lady no matter how much money you pay. The ladies are not real, and you can find their photos at other sites, so it is easy for the company to create a database. The answers to your letters are written by the interpreters, and you never correspond with real ladies. Even if you do so, you WILL NEVER get any contact details. It is called FRAUD in any language. Stay away!
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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36 People Have Voted
Posted on Jul 7, 2018
Total waste of money
My negative experiences with this site echo the other reviews on here. I just recently quit AnastasiaDate as of about March of 2018, as well as their sister site AsianDate. I would like to report that their fee structure for using the site(s) has changed since this article was written. You now only have four credit purchase selections of $20, $80, $160 and I believe the highest is $500. I do not recall the prices for each level but I believe that is about the same for each credit level.
What they have done, which I feel is a rip-off, is now they have implemented a membership fee of $15.99 per month just to have the privilege of purchasing credits. There are a few perks with this membership, but almost all were useless to me. If your membership did expire, you could still use your credits you purchased, but could not see how many credits you had left. They also rip you off by charging six credits per minute for cam-share.
Due to some great financial downturns since 2010, I considered myself as being fairly poor, so I was very cautious in making purchases and using the credits. I had some similar negative experiences on both sites, and only had one good experience with one lady on AnastasiaDate.
Her name was Tatyana and she was a farm girl from Moldova. Unlike many other ladies, she seemed very real in our conversations. I sent her long letters and she seemed to reply to most of what I told her about, but with very short letters (even though I asked her to send a long letter back). This is one of the red flags I have about this site. She did, however, send real pictures of herself doing something, or of her and a member of her family. If these photos were fake and staged for this site, they were believable. Anyway, after several letters back and forth, I asked her to leave this site and contact me personally. She refused on the grounds that she did not believe we could continue the conversation as she did not speak or read English very well, even though she listed her English skills as intermediate. Red flag number two. I even told her that I could use a free translation site and send her letters in both English and translated for her to read. So my final message to her was if she did not want to leave this site and join me, then it was goodbye.
I left the site shortly after that.
I would also mention that they have ways of charging you credits even though you never meant to spend them if you click on the wrong thing. Sometimes I would click on the chat pictures to view the ladies profile and end up being charged for a chat, even though I never did chat with her. This is another rip-off. I complained about it and got some of my credits restored, but not all of them.
The only thing good I can say about this site is their profile structure. Most of the time, all the information that I am looking for about each lady, is on their profile and it is easy to use. This site has other sister sites like AmoLatina and ArabianDate along with maybe a couple of others, that have changed their structure and are much more unfavorable to use, as you would have to waste credits to find the information you need to make decisions.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Helpful Review?
27 People Have Voted
Posted on Aug 7, 2018
Biggest scam ever!
This site is horrible! The ladies on this site are ALL paid to chat with lonely men. The longer you stay online, the more money they make, pure and simple. Two women I was chatting with admitted that to me! I am an idiot. I tried it many times and got scammed each and every time! I lost a TON of money. Customer service consists of lying scammers too. They will just say that you being scammed is your fault, etc. You have been warned!
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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33 People Have Voted
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