Did you foresee e-mail order brides?

I am not at all certain what is being discussed here, or if the author is a man or a woman. There is a photo at the end of the ad, obviously taken with a web cam. A smiling Asian woman whose tilted head suggests a submissiveness that her eyes deny, cuddling up to a pale, balding older man with dark rings in permanent residence under his eyes. The ad has a horizontal line dividing it into two parts, for no apparent reason. Did he write it or did she?

Re: Mail Order Brides

I'm sitting here in Manila wondering what to do. Business is not going so well. I hired three local guys, one after the next, to build me a web site to promote my business. I represent nearly a thousand girls, all the best material, but I just can't get them sold. The web sites just didn't work out--they attracted business, but not the right kind, not the kind that pays. And the Phillipine banks didn't cooperate. The web guys just couldn't set up a system that bypassed them so I got the money. In addition, my customers are complaining to ME about their own government. Apparently, these days it takes like 5 years for the wife to get approval, or whatever it is, and lots of them are being sent back.

So like I say, I've got a thousand girls and no customers. So I'm thinking. How do I promote my business?

I call a customer who might have some contacts. He's saying his friend has been all over the web for years looking for girls and has no luck, but he doesn't have the $5K it takes for my fee and the plane tickets, fees for the girl's visa, all that. All over the web, I ask? What way? He answers, posting ads, answering ads.... I ask, you can put up ads? Can he put up one for me? Look, tell him send me 14 new customers and he gets everything free. Plane tickets, everything.
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I picked out the one I wanted from the photos Melanio sent. I wanted them direct from the agency so I knew they were real. I found guys for the rest, real easy, and it paid my way. How did I do it? It gets easier and easier as you go along. And I got a feel for it, based on the responses I got, and what I did. Now, it's a full-time living, and who knows how far it can go. What you do is you go to a free site with a lot of frustrated guys hanging around it, some site with girls' ads and also a place to bitch and moan about them. If you can get a flame war going that gets the American girls stirred up, it keeps things current and you can keep getting responses from guys who are fed up trying for them. I even put up my own site, "No Marriage," that taps into their nostalgia for what they thought they could expect when they grew up.

So now I have guys working for me. They try whatever they think of. Hell, I even know of one guy who put up a furniture ad with a picture of some totally unrelated people, even children. Stirred up a big crisis on Craigslist and he got a lot of responses.

Like I say, whatever works....

this is in or around Manila