The lady I had originally requested to meet after I booked my first introduction through the
www.fianceeconnections[/b].com site, Carmen, failed to show her face in the agency 3 times!! After getting guarantees that this lady would like to meet with me, her meeting with me was pushed back twice. The really disappointing thing about this is that she was the lady I originally began contact with on the site 4 months ago and who repeatedly told me she would be waiting to see me when I got to Buenos Aires.
Instead of meeting her, a strange set of events unfolded in the office. When I got in I was greeted by my translator Virginia who told me that there was another lady (Sandra) who expressed her desire to meet with me now that I was in town. She showed me her profile on the website and I said that I would like to meet with her at some future stage next week. But after waiting 45 minutes for the Carmen "no-show" Virginia goes out to the email translators sitting behind their computers and comes back in to tell me that Sandra is actually here right now, and that I can meet with her instead of Carmen, if I liked, only to reschedule a meeting with Carmen for next week. So I met with Sandra instead of Carmen today. What was worse was that end of the intro with Sandra no personal details were swapped, only a guarantee that if I write to her through the website she could arrange to meet me sometime on my stay in Buenos Aires. The excuse was that I had not communicated with her through the website yet and needed to do so to justify the intial contact before we could swap details on our next meeting.
All my 6 introductions that I paid for through the agency were used up and of the ladys I requested to meet which I had been corresponding to through the website for the last 4 or so months I was only been able to meet with 2 of them. The other 4 I met I never contacted through the website.
Then the agency told me to pay for another introduction through the website if I want to meet with Carmen. I refused to do this.
Another problem I had with different lady I met in their office was that her private, non-website affiliated email addresses bounced becuase she had given me the incorrect address. When I told this to my translator all she told me was that she would speak with the lady and get her correct private address for me. In the end i never received it.
Yet another lady I dated from that agency - Maria did smile a lot on our date and there was lots of eye contact, but at times her mind seemed to wander off, and I even caught her checking out the waiter at one stage. so my impressions were she may not be that interested in me now after all. It even came to the stage where after about 3 hours my translator prompted her with questions to ask me - another sign of disinterest in my book. Eventualy, after emailing each other through our personal mailboxes (not the ones on the website) for about 2 weeks, corrrespondence finally stopped from Maria's end, even though she knew I was still in Argentina.
The other strange thing about what the agency did for me is that out of all the ladies that they managed to arrange introductions for me with, none of them spoke any English. (only 2 out of the original 6 that I was originally writing to via the website in the first place). I'm not sure though whether this was done intentionally, knowing that I would need to pay the agency for more help with translation services.
Another problem I had with them was that the testimonial I wrote to their website was severely edited and doctored by people in the agency to make themselves look better. This was dishonesty in my book.
Tango4two
