I'm deeply grateful to your feedback. It is always my desire to know how the whole trade is run and through you I learn some first-hand information about other agencies running. When information are gathered, they come closer to truth.
Maxx I understand your disagreement and in the clients of our agencies I think there are still 20-30% who really care and insist in being genuine in their letters. Usually they are discouraged, with "good" reason, "advisers are more experienced in letter composition, and since you already you pay for the service, why still do what they promise to do for you?" ( mind you, translators are usually called advisers by chinese clients) :icon_cool: And you give me hints of situation in other agencies. If we can find out totally how many women really care for authenticity of their letters, we will have the answer.
My apology and request to Jim, can you make this question,"1. There has been some discussion on how effective this group really is it he grand scheme of ChnLove, what is your opinion?" into plainer English? My English needs still improvement.:blush: I will answer your questions together with it in next post.
Neil, thank you for your good questions. I agree there are cultural differences that leads to different ways chinese and western men treating women but surely we won't jump to say one is superior to the other, right? What you heard, in my opinion is a kind of cliche ads this trade produced. Praises for western men's good qualities, often in an exaggerated way, are seen in almost every agency's ads to women.
Now in china it is about 107 men : 100 women and the amount of men is continuing outnumbering women. But I think it's something government should worry and a backfire effect of some men's stubborn pursuit to have a son as successor of the family name.
More important question is still this one, why some Chinese women want to find a foreign husband desperately? The evidence is as clear and accessible to you as to me, the amount of fees they paid. Let's for convenience set the price of a credit as $5. If you decide to make a sincere effort to find a wife on this site, I think an innitial investment of 200 credits will be enough, which means $1000, about 1/30 of average American annual income. While on the side of women, it's common to see them pay more than 10000 RMB, only as an innitial fee and the whole price can amount to 50000 RMB ~ 100000 RMB. Average annual income for Chinese people in 2008 is 15781 RMB. Therefore sometimes they risk their total savings to gamble a result. In this sense, I call it desperation.
The psychology behind their dicisions are more difficult to analyse. I believe frustration in attpemts to marry in china and blind belief that all western countries are el dorado, agency ads are usually accountable for this too, are two major ones. Those women who easily fall into mercy of agencies are often less educated or informed of real overseas world. I am glad to see more and more chinese women are opening eyes to the whole world and become immune to agencies' misleading ads and can maturely pursue their happiness.
I understand in Bruce's and Jim's feeling to success fees in your examples, if I were you I would make the same choice as you did. I still have something to say about this topic, in next post before I make some preparation.
Mike, you and Bruce raised a new topic that I haven't paid enough attention before, qualification of translators. This is again something chnlove has no rights to control directly. They can only give pressure through their rating of the service agencies provide. As to their choice between long-term or short-term, I will say more in next post with some preparation.
see you soon. :icon_cool:
