Comments on: Mail Order Russian Brides, Woovending, Shell Oil and Silence

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By: sharky

sharky — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:08:23 +0000

…not that honorable.

http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1390/context/archive

Really not.

By: sg

sg — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:03:57 +0000

What “bulk of the money”? Dating services charge fees of both men and women. Women should not expect to get paid for using a matchmaker. If any guy offered me money to let him fix me up with a foreigner, I would run. I assume Russian women would as well. A matchmaker is not a pimp. It is an honorable service.

By: Rosh

Rosh — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:51:27 +0000

This site catalogs everything you ever wanted to know (or did not want to know) about the topic of American men dating foreign women. Yikes.

http://www.online-dating-rights.com/forum/index.php

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:27:19 +0000

I suspect the issue with the Russian Brides Ads would be “who gets the bulk of the money?” – the bride or the pimp?

By: sg

sg — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:42:38 +0000

While I don’t know anything about Russian brides, I personally know people who worked for oil field services companies and major oil companies in Nigeria. The challenges working there are extreme. The company tells you when you arrive at the airport do not leave the airport with anyone other than their own company personnel. If you do take a taxi, expect to be robbed and left naked somewhere. When the companies store nasty industrial chemicals in clearly marked barrels, stored in a locked and guarded facility, they are stolen by the locals, dumped out and used as water containers. One project manager I know paid his security forces a low salary and a bonus equal to ten times their salary at the end of the month if nothing was stolen. Another more foolish project manager left his wife with guards at his home and she was raped by the guards. Dresser pulled out of Nigeria because so much equipment was stolen that they literally could not do their projects. All shipping crates they use are welded shut for transport because the locals steal everything. The folks I knew weren’t with Shell, but I doubt they have vastly different experiences.

I have as much pity on the locals as anyone, but the fact is the do not have basic functioning institutions of government. No company can go in and reform a country and a culture. Do you honestly believe the Nigerians would run their operations better independent of foreign companies? I don’t think there is much evidence for that.

You may think marriage prospects for women are far better in Russia, but I am skeptical. The fact is most women want to get married to a nice guy and have a family preferably not in poverty. If it is okay for people to use EHarmony or Match.com to find someone they want to spend their lives with why not a Russian service? Why is it less dignified for a woman to say up front she wants to get married and look for the men she is interested in, rather than hit the bars and hope for the best? Do these Russian services have a history of abusing women? Is there something I am missing?

By: R. Barber

R. Barber — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:41:37 +0000

The Internets is LOADED with sites using google ads that throw this kind of crap at us all the time. You and your so called siblings are overreacting. Get over it, and get an ad blocker and move on.

By: xavier

xavier — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:34:01 +0000

The problems with Shell and affiliates overshadows this Russian Bride scam by an order of magnitude or two. An entire country (or two) is under Shell’s thumb. The Mail Order Bride industry is mainly a scam. Just consider for a moment how much money streams through these two channels?

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:28:40 +0000

Frog, do you personally know even one person who has been involved with an over seas arrangement of this kind?

By: Troublesome Frog

Troublesome Frog — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:23:21 +0000

Dimitri,

Adverse selection is clearly at work here. The types of American men who import women for marriage are typically not the types of men who “save” women from bad situations.