If you are looking for a Russian woman (or eastern European) AnastasiaDate, Ukrainian Ladies, or Dream Singles are not your option. This is my experience with these sites.
AnastasiaDate: Imagine walking to a bar full of models and every single one of them wants you to talk to them and they find you attractive. Of course, it's every man's dream, dream, dream, and dream, as long as you keep buying drinks for them. Kinda like a strip club, the dancer would be sitting with you as long as she has a drink on her hand - no drink, no love period. This site was my first experience, after a few days and hundreds of letters received I noticed they were scripts (or introduction letters), so I changed my strategy, I put down my real name in my description and waited until I had a letter from a girl calling me by my name as I requested on my profile. Sadly this didn't happen. So I closed my profile.
Ukrainian Ladies: After my first experience, I repeated the same strategy - hide my info on my description and waited for a letter from a girl calling me by name. After a few days, surprise, I got a few letter that seemed they actually took a minute to read my profile and write me a few lines. So I bought my first bundle of credits, I quickly realized that I had to be smarter or I would end up with a huge balance on my credit card, so I had to pick just one girl. So I exchanged letters with her for a few weeks until I had the option to request for her personal contact info. I got her email only, so I emailed her and never got a response. I went back to the website and I emailed her there. Of course, within hours she replied. I asked her why she didn't answer my email, and her answer was, "I have no internet at home, I have to use the agency computer and I can only use this website." SHOCKING. I got a reduced price per letter so it wasn't expensive, but come on, who want to email a girl you like only, you don't really get to know someone by letter (taking aside I was uncomfortable exchanging letters through a website that read whatever you write).
So I loved one and found another girl, same story. When it came to having her info I only got her email, one that she only replied once, explaining that her English was bad, even though on her profile she said she had an intermediate level and she could read and write.
Time for the next one. I had to be smarter this time. I would only talk to a girl with a profile that said she could speak English, Spanish or Portuguese (I speak these three languages), so I found another girl. After a couple of letters I scheduled a video call to make sure she was able to have a conversation, she did great, beautiful girl and great conversation skills. We exchanged letters on the website (like five or six), one video call, so I asked her if it was ok for me to request for her contact info, and she agreed. I emailed her as soon as I got it and in her email she replied, "I prefer to use the website, I feel more comfortable." Shocking.
So I realized these girls just want me to spend money on the website. Don't even try to talk to customer service; they washed their hand by saying it's not their responsibility if the ladies didn't want to talk outside the website. How was this possible? They literally were telling me I was the man of their dreams. Immediately after, I requested to cancel my account and to get reimbursed for the money invade left something that was denied.
Dream Singles: I was just creating my profile, and I already had like 10 letters, and by the time I finished I had 100, and when it came back to check two days later I had like 400. Needless to say, I did not put any information whatsoever on my profile, so I didn't even start.
Lucky to me, I met a Russian lady in Canada. I told her about my online experience, and she laughed. She said Russian women are indeed interested in men from abroad, but they are not desperate, and access to internet it's not as hard as the girls on the website. When we broke up, I went to Kiev. I tried to meet girls old school, it's hard, good luck finding one that speaks English, and the average girl is really hot, but doesn't mean she will say yes.
I ended up meeting a few girls, but nothing happened. I married a girl from Ukraine, but I met her in Canada. So my advice for you would be, if you want to try online dating, avoid these websites. Find one that has a subscription fee and lets you open as many letters as you want at no extra cost, exchange email or contact info at no extra cost. And trust me, on these websites you won't find as many model type girls, but they are pretty, and of course, you will have hundreds of letters a day. Save your hard-earned dollars and be smart. I hope I help someone from getting ripped off.
Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend
