China Romance
General Discussion and Useful Links => The Campfire => Topic started by: shaun on December 06, 2009, 09:54:00 am
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Gentlemen I think it is time to introduce you to blossoms.com.
I am completely satisfied with the site. There are still pitfalls and translators to deal with but an intelligent man can find his way around them.
You will find women all around the world here. You will get smiles from them. The two you will get the most will be from will be young Filipino and Russian women. When you set up your profile you can filter them out so they do not see you. You can also block individual women from seeing you. I've had a couple I needed to block. I have been playing with this site since April but did not commit to it until I severed my relationship with Pinky.
You will find that many of the women that are on blossoms are also on chnlove.com. If your were wanting to talk with them but didn't because of the EMF fee this site will alleviate your fears. You pay one monthly fee and that is all. The women pay nothing. Almost everyone is with some sort of agency.
Most all of the women will tell you they are not with an agency. Many will used a translator and will deny it. It is easy to find out;
1. compare with other sites.
2. send them emails daily. If they consistently do not respond on the weekends, then you have found a translator.
3. if they are only available during very limited hours then they could be using a translator.
4. if they do not answer certain questions, then again they are using a translator.
5. if their responses are very short, then you are using a translator. I am finding if it is the actual woman they will have many many questions.
6. if the background is changing between each visit you are more than likely talking with a translator. (not completely sure about this one because of internet cafe's)
7. if your webcam conversations are 15 minutes or less; you got it translator. The woman will sit in front of webcam but translator is typing.
I will update this list and some of you comment. I was unable to be more specific because I found Peggy very fast.
What I did was I decided what my parameters were for the kind of woman I wanted to talk with. The first was attractiveness. Now you may think this is strange but the second component to me search had to do with the Chinese zodiac. I really do not believe in it but when I was challenged to look over my life in reference to women it really seemed to apply well. My ex had the worst possible sign for me. So the women has to be with 4 of the Greek Gods and the year thing. Peggy is June 1, 1963 and is dead perfect for me according to the horoscopes. I put them into my favorites. Third height, Fourth natural photo.
Then I just watch them for a while to see when they were on. I eliminated a few with that one. Then I started in blocks of 10, I had selected about 50 women. I had a pecking order who I wanted them most to who I wanted the lease. I never made it past the first 10. In fact Peggy was not on my list at all but she sent me a a few smiles. I liked what she said and my 10 had shrunk a little so I added her.
Some of them eliminated themselves. Some of them were liars. The others were with agencies. You have to spend a few weeks with them because it takes a while with the more savvy woman.
Now I talk with Peggy and plan B who by the way is with P218 in Changsha. Talking about a glutton for punishment. But good grief she is absolutely gorgeous and unbelievably rich and she still likes me. I feel a little guilty about plan B but I do not intend to go to China and leave empty handed.
Give blossoms a try with the parameters I suggest. You will be pleasantly surprised. Tell us of your experiences.
Shaun
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Can you elaborate on the filtering of the Russian and Filipino?
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Can you elaborate on the filtering of the Russian and Filipino?
You just go to " my Account" and select edit profile, then you will see a box that allows you to select Countries you do not wish to receive messages from. You can select multiple countries to block by holding the control key down when selecting countries to block. Then save!
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Thanks. I get that a lot on Chineselovelinks too. What is with the 20 year old Filipino woman that will love you long time and marry you and sex you up if you marry them?
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Nah, Philipino woman ain't for me. I've always know its going to be a Chinese lady for me. After all I am Chinese.
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I will endorse what Shaun is saying about Blossoms.
If you dont ruthlessly work the filter system, you will get bombarded with rubbish.
Russians we all know about, but the Filipinos are going to come at you in their thousands !!!
In answer to the question, The Philipines is basically a basket case Country.
Corruption is endemic at the highest level (it is said that up to 40% of their GDP is syphoned off by corruption). Add to this the total domination of Catholicism, therefore NO birth control, that leads to very large families that their parents cant support and thus there is a mountain of single girls with no chance of ever finding a husband.
Of course, there will be some good ones, but the search will be difficult and dangerous !!!
You will see many women you recognise from CHNLove when you visit the Chinese Ladies on Blossom. You may get "smiles" from many of them (a "smile" is an invite to contact, same as an admiration letter from CHNL.)
Its not difficult to spot the translator driven responses, the English is better and they only come to you during normal Business hours !!!
One point to watch, is that unless you tick the NO box, your monthly fee will be charged automatically....
Other than that, all the same issues apply, be careful, watchful and look for the jewels !!!
Maybe you will get lucky like Shaun and me, without the attendant Bull#*^*T that we are used to with CHNL.
DavidE
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Hey guys.
I am glad to see people talking about this. I was afraid this might stir up a storm and I do not need any storms right now.
I wanted to clear a couple of things up quickly. I mentioned blocking Filipino and Russian women and did not elaborate. I do not have anything against them. The do not fit the profile of the woman I am looking for.
I went to school with a friend whose father was one of Marcos' right hand men. His father has been able to work under each regime and stay alive. I have kept in contact on facebook with my old college buddy. His goal is to be president of the Philippines one day. He tells me it will take a miracle from God to resolve all of the issues and bring all of the factions together in agreement.
I am not discriminating against these women, well I guess I am but not in the vain one might think. I am only interested in Chinese women. I can't explain it. I have Korean and Japanese friends and cherish all the friends I have. The only reason I filter is to keep my focus on what I am looking for.
David E said,
Its not difficult to spot the translator driven responses, the English is better and they only come to you during normal Business hours !!!
One point to watch, is that unless you tick the NO box, your monthly fee will be charged automatically....
Other than that, all the same issues apply, be careful, watchful and look for the jewels !!!
Maybe you will get lucky like Shaun and me, without the attendant Bull#*^*T that we are used to with CHNL.
David thank you for your input and filling in some of my gaps. Good info bro. With your permission I will insert the points into the beginning of this thread.
Anyone else have good information to add please for the newbies that might read this post.
Shaun
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Just a thought. Since there is no revenue for the translators per message, its actually in their interest to end communication rather then drag it out if the lady isn't interested. FTW!
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Reg,
There has to be a hook somewhere in all of this. I could be in the fees once a person gets there. It appears that most of the women covertly communicate from the agency via web cam. If they can speak some English a man might be none the wiser about it. But if the cannot then they sit close enough to the camera that you cannot see their hands looking at you on their monitor while the translator does all of the typing. When this happens I imagine that the agency show the communication and gets a portion of the money you pay to be on their site. Understand of course that this is all speculation.
I noticed that there were a few rogues who appeared to be on the site without an agency. Again this is speculation but if at some point I discover she is in an agency I will not be surprised.
We are all still too new with blossoms to understand what is going on. Once a few of us go to China then things will be a little more clear.
Shaun
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The wowen on chnlove talk to their translators all the time on qq and the phone.
While some agencies are affiliated to chnlove, it doesn't mean they the they don't advertise their client on other dating sites too - they get the extra visit and marriage etc cash be it on chnlove or blossoms or whatever one the girl has indicated she wants to be advertised on.
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As I've mentioned here many times before, the translation costs form part of the ladies initial agencey sign-up fees. That how they have a an agencey email address, to cater to all these other dating sites such as ''Blossoms'' and the like.
The fee's you pay for EMF's from chnlove are just a bonus to all these agencies, and should be side stepped as soon as possible. So if you need translation between your lady and yourself, ...try and get your ladies agencey controlled email address, because from that moment on, there will be no EMF fee's to pay to chnlove....
David.....
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I used the site for a few months, made some interesting contacts ... some profiles on there that I found on Chnlove too. Yes some translators, some real individuals.
Since I wanted a Chinese, I blocked all other countries ...
Good site, cheap, just their photo system is pretty bad, the quality of pics is hurt by their over compression.
I can only recommend it otherwise, no bad surprises for me there, just the population is not that large if you limit yourself to Chinese only ... there is a sign up bonus which discounts subscription to 19.95 USD I think. Write it down, it works permanently.
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I sign up just to check out the site and i already found a profile using a chinese actress pictures. The profile in question is C01449875. If they don't have any non-studio pictures I would stay away.
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I realized that I forgot to mention something. You can chat with a woman on blossoms.
The site does a real time translation.
The process is a little slow and you can get way ahead of the translator easily.
The will tell you to slow down if you leave them in your dust which isn't hard to do.
You need to be patient because they will reverse words. You say love they may say hate.
It is a lot of fun though.
Shaun
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Okay, this is a dumb question: Under education there's Technical Degree, Vocational Degree, and College Degree. What's the difference? I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from a major Canuckistan University. Which one do I pick?
And another courious thing. I just tried all the people 25-31 in Canada. Every single female is Philipino!
Also, what about this http://www.blossoms.com/moneybackguarantee.php 100% guarante? Does it actually work? :)
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RegnisTheGreat,
Your guess is as good mine!! haha!!
I don't know why, there should be any difference, or why anyone would need to distinguish.
You have attended a period of time studying your subject and passed a laid down recognised final exam. The subject of your Degree is the only important aspect, it's the subject that allows you to practice your chosen profession. Who gives a damn, what box these people want to label you as.....
David.....
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Okay, this is a dumb question: Under education there's Technical Degree, Vocational Degree, and College Degree. What's the difference? I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from a major Canuckistan University. Which one do I pick?
And another courious thing. I just tried all the people 25-31 in Canada. Every single female is Philipino!
Also, what about this http://www.blossoms.com/moneybackguarantee.php 100% guarante? Does it actually work? :)
Reg,
There are no dumb questions here. I would say Technical Degree or College Degree. College would be preferable but does not tell that there is a technical component to your degree. Vocational Degree is a little more blue collar like mechanics, air condition repair and so on.
Something else I didn't mention. You can check out the women in your own country too. It appears most of them are Filipino. I have been checking them out until I met Peggy. O have not got any in America to respond back to me. Go figure.
Reg, Go to the searches window and select Active Members. Then select Canada under choose country. There are 216 active women there; 104 in the 25-35 age range. Surely there are Chinese women there. I used to look at Canada and look for Chinese women and remember seeing them there.
When I first signed on they messed up my financial and double dipped me through Paypal. I contacted them and the refunded immediately refunded the extra and gave me two months free. Wow, I never got ONE EMF credit back, EVER!!!!!!! I mentioned what happened once to blossoms.com and never had to say another word. They were all over themselves with apologies. Guess what? They actually answer the question you ask!
There just isn't much to complain about. But I have faith, someone will find something.
Shaun
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Okay, this is a dumb question: Under education there's Technical Degree, Vocational Degree, and College Degree. What's the difference? I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from a major Canuckistan University. Which one do I pick?
And another courious thing. I just tried all the people 25-31 in Canada. Every single female is Philipino!
Also, what about this http://www.blossoms.com/moneybackguarantee.php 100% guarante? Does it actually work? :)
Reg,
There are no dumb questions here. I would say Technical Degree or College Degree. College would be preferable but does not tell that there is a technical component to your degree. Vocational Degree is a little more blue collar like mechanics, air condition repair and so on.
Something else I didn't mention. You can check out the women in your own country too. It appears most of them are Filipino. I have been checking them out until I met Peggy. O have not got any in America to respond back to me. Go figure.
Reg, Go to the searches window and select Active Members. Then select Canada under choose country. There are 216 active women there; 104 in the 25-35 age range. Surely there are Chinese women there. I used to look at Canada and look for Chinese women and remember seeing them there.
When I first signed on they messed up my financial and double dipped me through Paypal. I contacted them and the refunded immediately refunded the extra and gave me two months free. Wow, I never got ONE EMF credit back, EVER!!!!!!! I mentioned what happened once to blossoms.com and never had to say another word. They were all over themselves with apologies. Guess what? They actually answer the question you ask!
There just isn't much to complain about. But I have faith, someone will find something.
Shaun
Yes, the blossoms web-site has to answer your questions and complaints. If you check the site is operated and based in California and Hawaii, they are subject to US business laws!:icon_cheesygrin: P.S. You should check their profile page carefully and you will see where their IP address is located, she could list herself as Chinese or other nationality with no picture available, but her IP is in Ghana or Nigeria" hint hint":fi_lone_ranger:
Here is a translation tool I have been trying out. This translation tool is free and translates about 87 languages, covers most if not all languages used on CherryBlossoms. This translator works well with your web-messenger and also has voice capabilities for the translated text! http://translation.imtranslator.net
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I sign up just to check out the site and i already found a profile using a chinese actress pictures. The profile in question is C01449875. If they don't have any non-studio pictures I would stay away.
Which actoress?
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In case you guys are wondering how a happily married man knows so much about CherryBlossoms, I used their site for about 6 months before moving on to ChnLove. I wrote and chatted with quite a few women there, but got tired of the four question chats! " u hav gurl " " u got job " " u luv me " " wen u here" usually I bombed out at question#3. I decided to find a site that was a little slower paced and selective! I think the free chat is nice, but when the cost to participate is free for the women and cheap for the men, the quality declines proportionately. In my opinion the women that you meet in the free or inexpensive sites are far harder to meet and harder to hang on to, they have heard every lie in the book and are less trusting due to the weekend international players or some unhappily married man just killing time on the computer. I know when I did use the site and would be chatting with someone I was interested in, I spent more time declining chat invites from the who's on-line fishers. I do not mean to rain on anybody's parade, but the world is the same all over, you get what you pay for! P.S. If you wish your chat to last longer than 3 minutes, the correct answers to the questions are " no " " yes " " yes " " very soon "
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I sign up just to check out the site and i already found a profile using a chinese actress pictures. The profile in question is C01449875. If they don't have any non-studio pictures I would stay away.
Which actoress?
Don't know the name of the actress but its one from hong kong one not too well known. I recognize the face plus the profile is gone. I guess somebody complained also about the profile being fake. Profile C01376496 is fake also. I seen that picture used before on CLL on 3 different accounts all from a different part of China.
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Robert
2 months ago I would have agreed with your assessment of the so-called "free" sites at about 1000% !! In fact i have previously posted an opinion that "cheap Sites, cheap results" !!
Now, I am not so sure about it at all.
I surely concede that the free sites are where a lot of baddies live and if you are not careful you will get stung or scammed.
For most of us here, having spent some time (and a lot of money) in the CHNLove environment, I hope we would be more aware of the traps and red-flags than most.
Thus it gets easier to spot the baddies....and for newbies contemplating these free sites, all the cautions posted here in many threads must still apply.
Like most things in life, we gotta sift the wheat from the chaff. Strange that 2 of us here, very quickly got over the perceived hurdles and found someone with great potential...and after 40 hours of QQ, I can be reasonably sure that Ming is not a scammer. But if she ever asked for money, or got found out in a fraud, I would be able to bolt (again!!!) without the attendant loss of money and Translator fraud that I and many others have been subject to over a long period of time with the "pay-as-you-go" Sites.
Whatever place you find someone who possibly meets your needs, caution is still needed, the usual rules apply...be cautious, careful and dont send money...but "have a go"....and the 24 hour rule still rules :icon_cheesygrin:
DavidE
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Excellent post David.
There will be issues with any site you go to. What one must learn is to recognize fraud always to proceed cautiously. I have been talking with Peggy for several weeks I am still being cautious. I wonder if this is too good to be true because it was so easy once we began talking.
Another thing to do is to not think with the wrong head. These women are so beautiful that we sometimes forget they are intelligent or they really are not the actual person we are talking to i.e. translator. They know the right things to say to makes us loose our minds and do some crazy stuff. I think this was the problems with the first woman I talked with. She got my attention with sexy talk and I took it, hook, line and sinker.
Saun
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There are no dumb questions here. I would say Technical Degree or College Degree. College would be preferable but does not tell that there is a technical component to your degree. Vocational Degree is a little more blue collar like mechanics, air condition repair and so on.
Shaun,
Just to make a point here ...lol!!!
The reason why there is confusion, is because they all mean basically the same thing. I haven't come across these box's in UK (or anywhere else come to that) myself, so i'm surmising that this is an American thing.
Another thing Shaun, blue collar workers such as mechanics and air conditioning repairmen do not have a degree'd education. They will have a much lower formal vocational training.
Having gained an Engineering degree (such as Reg's), allows you to title yourself an ''Engineer'', this will normally be backed-up by being a member of a recognised Institution. Whereas those that have had a vocational training, will generally be titled ''Technician''.
David.....
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David,
I do not disagree with you. It is of no concern what I might think. It is all about what the ladies think on this issue.
Looking in the classifieds for work, the typical blue collared technician is being required to have a technical degree. So, one would think...
Shaun
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I sign up just to check out the site and i already found a profile using a chinese actress pictures. The profile in question is C01449875. If they don't have any non-studio pictures I would stay away.
Which actoress?
Don't know the name of the actress but its one from hong kong one not too well known. I recognize the face plus the profile is gone. I guess somebody complained also about the profile being fake. Profile C01376496 is fake also. I seen that picture used before on CLL on 3 different accounts all from a different part of China.
Perhaps all the girls on there are really, really, really ugly....400 lb sweat hogs with lots of warts and more hair than Robin Williams...LOL
As far as the degrees are concerned, I have a batch in computer science, but I also have 47 years of construction experence. Last time I checked, the Univeristy of California, "Berkley campus dude", has a program that is execllent, it's called "work experence" degree or Life experence degree.
You simply take the class, in which you list all your jobs in life and the years applied to that job and what you did on that job.
say for instance you have 47 years of working construction, and you pick the job you have done the most and have the most knowledge in, and they come up with a test for you. If you pass, you get a degree related to that specific topic.
Kind of like the unions...if you say, have done electrical work for 4 years or more, your considered a journeyman in that field. Or a professional. Or depending on the union- a licensed professional. The more years, the higher the degree.
In my case, 47 years in the construction industry I have primarly Heavy equipment operation and electrical. I could get a masters degree as an operating engineer, or a masters in electrical design. Since I have that many years (47) in all phases of construction. I could get a masters or doctorate in engineering. or an engineering degree, since instead of studying in class, it's been on the job training, and Most people after that many years of doing the same job, probably know more than the instructors.
Anyway, that's the theory behind the class. Pay the money and get a degree. It's not cheating, but I can understand the theory behind the idea. Why go to a class where they teach you stuff you already know, and in most cases you could teach the teacher.
I've had experence in this with a teacher in computer programing classes, who got pissed off at me because I was correcting her. This elimnates pissed off teachers and wasted time in a classroom.
Most students that come from the classroom, onto a real jobsite are lost. They have not a clue as to where to start first and waste time by having to have the boss or one of the jorneyman explain what they want and where. So a degree means nothing to me, it just seems a waste of time reading books and sitting in a classroom studying things you already know. I think they have the same college or University course at many schools. Just a simple way for the school to get money for a piece of paper saying you know what you already know.
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What is thread supposed to be about ?
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maxx It started as Shaun talking about blossom.com and his experiences. People then shared their experiences with the site too. I then signed up and there was an question on the sign-up about education and I didn't know what to put (college degree vs vocational degree vs technical degree) so I asked here. Then it lead to a discussion on the choices offered by blossom.com on this question and how we (the brotherhood) viewed it and how the ladies would view what we put.
shaun I signed up to blossom.com but I got a few questions. There are some people that just want to practice English, others are looking for marriage but want to stay in China. How did you communicate our intentions? Were you up from with them with what you wanted (marriage, move here)? Did you put it in your profile or mention it in early communications?
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Reg,
It is in my profile. With Peggy at first she told me she wanted to stay in China. We talked about it. I didn't push the issue. She told me that she would move but preferred to stay in China. I met her younger sister and brother in law. A couple of more days passed and she started asking me about my house and a few other things. So I ask her if she wanted to move to the US. She said yes.
I do not have a lot of experience with this issue as I have not talked with a lot of women for a long time. But the few times I have talked they scenario was just like this one. I think they want to come but do not want to commit until they know you a little better. It took almost 3weeks with Peggy.
Shaun
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One small issue arises for those of us who have begun a relationship using the "free" sites.
We dont have EMF's to and from our Ladies as we would in CHNLove or similar, that we can use as "hard copy" evidence of the interaction we have on a regular basis. We do all our communicating on QQ...in live time.
Looking ahead , if these relationships get serious, then we wont have the hard copy of EMF's to use as supporting evidence for the relationship if ever we want to go this far with our various Immigration Departments.
Question is...is there a way of archiving all the conversations we have together on QQ, that can be time validated electronically ???
I have been taking screen shot photos of her at every QQ session that can be time validated from the file on my computer, but the only way I can get the "typing" archived is to "cut and paste" into Word. I am not sure if this is acceptable and wondered if any computer gurus out there :icon_biggrin: have any better advice
Ta !!
David
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David,
You have them through yahoo Messenger. Give it a whirl, you might like it.
Shaun
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One small issue arises for those of us who have begun a relationship using the "free" sites.
We dont have EMF's to and from our Ladies as we would in CHNLove or similar, that we can use as "hard copy" evidence of the interaction we have on a regular basis. We do all our communicating on QQ...in live time.
Looking ahead , if these relationships get serious, then we wont have the hard copy of EMF's to use as supporting evidence for the relationship if ever we want to go this far with our various Immigration Departments.
Question is...is there a way of archiving all the conversations we have together on QQ, that can be time validated electronically ???
I have been taking screen shot photos of her at every QQ session that can be time validated from the file on my computer, but the only way I can get the "typing" archived is to "cut and paste" into Word. I am not sure if this is acceptable and wondered if any computer gurus out there :icon_biggrin: have any better advice
Ta !!
David
Print it out hard copy and save them in a folder.
Don
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QQ keeps a history of all conversations, just select a contact and right click to get the history option ... I'm at over 150 pages with my sweetheart now ...
The file is local though, so if you use multiple computers, you'll have multiple history files ... I have at least 2
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Don,
I save them to a word file. They are bulky but hey it beats paper. If you talk any length of time the files are huge unless you edit them. I have so much paper now if I were to burn it every day for a year, I still would have too much paper.
Shaun
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Shaun, I checked out blossoms today. Put everything in it and even a crappy profile. Found that you can pick out several country's, so
being me, I picked out united states, and low and behold i got 3 smiles and 5 letters already. 3 from the philipines, one from mexico, and believe it or not, one from china! :dodgy: I am just checking out the USA stuff and if somthing works I can drive there cheaper than flying to china or the philippines (damned if I can spell that word). Will have to keep you all informed.
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One thing I noticed is that you can see what nation the IP address the girls are on is registered from. I get red alert sounds going off in my head if the Nation they are stating in their profile and their nationality and their nations IP address don't match. I can understand a Japanese lady in Singapore, and if the IP address says Singapore then it's ok. But if it says Japan in the profile, and the nationallity says Filipino, and the IP address says US, well then I'm very suspicious.
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David,
Extremely good point. I never thought about checking out IP addresses. David I am going to change my first post and put this bit of info there.
There is no doubt that there will be scam artists here. You need to check and double check everything you can. Check with other sites and compare notes. Is she 29 here but 32 over there. She has a Masters Degree here and some college over there.
Shaun
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just remember that IP address localizing is only 90% failproof, some real Chinese can show with a US IP sometimes ... and then the next day with a Chinese IP again.
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my experience with blossoms was as follows
i seemed to get many responses from the phillipines
which i guess would have been alright except they were
all between 18 and 20 which is a little to young for me.
at my age i dont need another daughter so i had to block
the country and then i met a few nice ones their
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David,
Extremely good point. I never thought about checking out IP addresses. David I am going to change my first post and put this bit of info there.
There is no doubt that there will be scam artists here. You need to check and double check everything you can. Check with other sites and compare notes. Is she 29 here but 32 over there. She has a Masters Degree here and some college over there.
Shaun
Shaun, read posts 18 and 20 of this thread and you will not have to edit your posts!
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even if you block that country, you still get girls from there. They get around the block somehow or the system does not work. Seems if you block a country you should not get notes from there. Will check it out agian today and see what happens. I also too got a 18 year old and a 20 year old, way to young...I'd have hijack willy's shipment.....LOL But Those photos are not retouched, at least most of them. The ones from china are, but most of the others are not.
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yes and i also got emails in my email box from women in
russia who said they noticed my profile????
that was from china love not blossoms??
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Shaun, read posts 18 and 20 of this thread and you will not have to edit your posts!
Robert,
Thank you for reminding me. I guess I have too much going on and not enough sleep. What I was talking about was putting info on the first post of things to watch for in reference to blossoms. I had planned on reading the whole thread but started at the end.
Shaun
even if you block that country, you still get girls from there. They get around the block somehow or the system does not work. Seems if you block a country you should not get notes from there. Will check it out agian today and see what happens. I also too got a 18 year old and a 20 year old, way to young...I'd have hijack willy's shipment.....LOL But Those photos are not retouched, at least most of them. The ones from china are, but most of the others are not.
Don,
Yes it is true you will get smiles and letters but it reduces over time. I get one to two a month now. It will work itself out.
Ted,
I just blocked Russia so it will be a while before they disappear.
Shaun
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Has anyone else besides David E and me tried blossoms.com? Would you be willing to tell us your experience? Successes/Failures/Pitfalls
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Hi Shaun,
I used them quite a lot, I started by blocking all countries but China. Eventually I hid my profile and picked and wrote messages to selected ladies, although I did get some interesting smiles as well.
I've made 3 deeper contacts which didn't work out because of chemistry/circumstances and other things, one of them is a penpal now and we chat occasionally.
Some other one's were translator run profiles, communication with them proved to be cumbersome, slow, I even got standard letters addressed to me, except they got my first name wrong :icon_cheesygrin: You can spot them by their logon time mostly, they only "open" during business hours.
And of course there are scams, but not that many on Chinese profiles, so blocking the other countries helps. Reporting a scam usually caused that profile to be deleted very quickly, they seem to have a decent moderation team on there.
If my current quest doesn't work out, I will use CB exclusively, Chnlove is too full of surprises for me. The only downside is the smaller number of profiles on CB compared to Chn, but it seems to be growing.
Frank
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Hi all,
I signed up to blossoms yesterday. It looks pretty good. I certainly recognised faces from chnlove.
I like the idea that the ladies may already be in my own country.
Once I figure out my plans I might take out a subscription - it's way cheaper than chnlove!
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Hi all,
I signed up to blossoms yesterday. It looks pretty good. I certainly recognised faces from chnlove.
I like the idea that the ladies may already be in my own country.
Once I figure out my plans I might take out a subscription - it's way cheaper than chnlove!
No point in joining mate - once they see that waving white cat all the women will leave the website - screaming the Brett is coming the Brett is coming!!!!! LOL:icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:
Willy
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Well I have put in my profile "no femmes fatale", but nobody read my chnlove profile so why should the ladies on blossoms be any different?
Actually blossoms has got me confused - there are beautiful ladies all over the world! Maybe I can find a Chinese lovely in the UK. I need to give this a lot of thought, but time is on my side. Blossoms is also quite complex to configure and it was a bit wonky in my Mozilla. The profile pictures are also teeny so it's a long process finding the gems. I keep finding ladies in Miss Wu's city as well - I did say that they were the prettiest ladies in all of China!
I guess the alternative is to visit my uncle if he's still in Thailand. Maybe we can find a lovely mother and daughter (or grand-daughter!!!) and get two weddings for the price of one :icon_cheesygrin:.
Somebody also mentioned it's possible to find ladies on QQ - has anybody done this? Do you need to upgrade QQ? Is it full of scammers or is it worth a go? I did fall for Miss Wu as she was really great to talk to on MSN, so I think this might be a good approach.
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I guess the alternative is to visit my uncle if he's still in Thailand. Maybe we can find a lovely mother and daughter (or grand-daughter!!!) and get two weddings for the price of one :icon_cheesygrin:.
Better get a move on Brett otherwise you are going to personally merit a grandmother, albeit one with most of her own teeth but still a grandmother!!!:icon_cheesygrin:
Willy
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There's no rush - I watched that Louis Theroux thing about a Thai dating agency, and the 60 something year old manager of the agency married a 19 year old lovely!
I think their marriage lasted about 3 days :huh:! What a waste.
My uncle is 60 this year, I wonder if his girlfriend is 21 yet!!! Actually I don't know if he still has a gf, as he's not very rich and his last gf went off with a richer American!
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the scammers from the philipines are abundant on cherry blossoms so block that
country right away. i couldnt beleive what i was getting there daily!!!!!
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Yes there are loads of scammers from there. I don't know if the ones who are working overseas are less likely to scam you.
I think I will stick with China for now, but I need to have a good think about things.