LoveMe.com and a Foreign Affair are, in essence, the same dating agency, where men try to find their better half from other countries from Eastern Europe, Asia, and South America. The Foreign Affair side of the dating agency focuses on romance travel tours around the globe, while LoveMe.com is the dating site with profiles. To avoid confusion, we will just use the name of the online dating site. This site contains profiles of young women who want to marry abroad, and you can contact and communicate from afar.
The rebranded Loveme.com is one of the oldest dating agencies who provide marriage services, founded in 1995. Being so long on the dating scene, they helped in creating thousands of successful international marriages.
LoveMe.com is more than just a dating site, where you get to meet beautiful women, it is also a full-service agency for marriage. They are offering multiple services, like romantic tours, dating tips, translators, drivers, help with different issues on international marriage, etc.
Everyone can sign up for free and browse through the profiles, but for additional services, you need to buy the platinum membership.
The majority of women that are using the site are from Eastern Europe, mostly from Russia and the former Soviet republics, South America and Asia. Since there is a large pool of various profiles of foreign women, with different ethnic backgrounds, it is tough not to find the perfect match. Everyone that is interested in finding their love abroad can sign up on LoveMe.com for free. On the site, there is a mention of three types of membership (platinum, gold, and silver), but we can only find information for platinum and non-platinum memberships. The basic membership is free, and you are able to browse through thousands of profiles. If some particular women catch your interest, you can send her a message for the cost of $9.99 to get her email address. Once you pay for the specific email address (including translation service), you can continue your communication in various ways without having any further costs. If you want to get certain bonuses and discounts, you can upgrade your membership to Premium. This membership cost $95.00 for the first month and $29.95 per month for the following months. Sending a letter to a particular email address also costs $9.99, but if you are a premium member, you will pay $2.50 per message or $7.49 if you want to send a translated letter. Premium Membership gives you the possibility to use all features of the Basic Membership, including a package of 100 email addresses to send or receive messages, watch videos from all women for free, using express mail and additional translation features. If the women on the site don’t have an email address, you get their postal address, for which you have to use A Foreign Affair’s Express Mail and pay additional $9.99 or $7.99 if you are a platinum member.
Site traffic per month:
Around 1.39m visitors
First founded
1995
Most Popular Subscription:
Premium membership
One of the perks being successful for so long in the dating industry is being featured on multiple international media such as The Today Show, The New York Times, 60 Minutes, Dr. Phil, ABC Nightline and many more.
A Foreign Affair is working within the confines of the IMBRA (International Marriage Broker Regulation Act), so it is guaranteed that this agency is operating according to the law when it comes to meeting the foreign bride.
The owners of the company also met their Russian wives through their own services. They are the living proof of their website’s success. Also, the company has opened offices in a few major cities so they can provide the best customer service.
Prices
Basic membership (1 email address):
$9.99
Platinum membership (package of 100 email addresses)
$95.00 – first month
$29.95 – every succeeding month
Finally, if you want to spend a lot of money, you can upgrade your membership to Executive, where
you get the possibility to have a personal consultant, three-way phone calls with a translator, chance for video messaging, in-depth conversation with various women, private meetings, also help from an immigration attorney, etc. Costs of the Executive Membership are different for different locations.
Every tour costs additional sums and includes all travel and hotel bookings, and this traveling offer can be quite expensive. If you want to go on a tour, it is better if you have some previous preparation and maybe read few testimonials on different sites, to have a certain idea of what to expect and find your soulmate. It’s not a cheap option, so it’s worthwhile reading up on both the positive and negative experiences alike.
Since you have to pay for almost every additional feature, you have to be really careful, and not get carried away and buy extra features, that you don’t really need. Take a good look at the different deals and packages, before paying anything.
Since there are thousands of foreign women’s profiles, having an advanced search option is of utmost importance. Their search option is simple and easy to use and allows you to do searches by specific terms, characteristics or interests. After you put your particular terms for advanced searching, the site will generate all the profiles that have that particular term, so you don’t have to go through each and every profile to find the perfect match.
For instance, you can type artist, dancer, yoga lover or even an accountant, and you will have a list of hundreds of beautiful women, who have listed these terms in their profiles. Every job, profession or sport for a lady you can think of, you can find her on LoveMe.com.
Once you find a woman that intrigues your interest, you can contact her, by sending letters, telephone calls with a translator or meeting the woman in person by participating in one of A Foreign Affair’s romance tours.
Besides sending messages to the girl you like, LoveMe.com give you the possibility to send gifts and flowers to her house.
LoveMe.com organizes romantic tours around the globe, where you can build a long-lasting relationship with the women of your dreams. The site handles everything during your trip, including a tour guide who will take you on city tour, then the site will handle your Visa applications, hotel bookings for up to 45 days, transport, social meetings in different local spots with the women you like to meet and 24-hour customer service for anything that might come up.
It is better, before booking a romance tour, to purchase a membership and meet few women and establish some communications with them through letters, pictures or phone calls, so when you arrive in the city, you have some idea of what to expect on your romance tour. But, of course, if you enjoy in meeting strangers, you can participate in other social gatherings, organized by A Foreign Affair. On these events, there are hundreds of beautiful ladies. There are over 75 romance tours, from which you can choose from.
A Foreign Affair also offers a lot of other services like live Q&A forums, group or individual tours, etc.
LoveMe.com doesn’t have a mobile app, which can be considered as a downside.
If it is your first time on LoveMe.com, you might feel a bit overwhelmed by too much information and links presented on the site. The site is bustling, it looks a bit amateurish, and there are so many sections and pictures so you won’t know where to start. Besides being hard to navigate through the site, not only for the older generation but also for the younger generations, LoveMe.com shows almost every information without having to register. After using the site for some time, navigating through it becomes easier.
Registration process
Once you sign up on the website, you can start browsing through thousands of different women’s profiles. The signup process is quick and doesn’t take too much time of creating your profile and uploading your photos. Every profile contains at least one picture, and information regarding the physical appearance like height, weight, then age, educational background, relationship status, ethnic background, religion, smoking preferences, do you have or want to have children, free-form description of your image of the perfect partner, description of your unique features, interests, hobbies, etc.
LoveMe.com doesn’t guarantee the privacy of your information, neither the accuracy of the translation services for which you pay. Be careful when you share your private information with other people since there are lots of other topics that you can discuss with the potential dates, without sharing sensitive information. A significant negative on the site is that nobody verifies the truthfulness of the information on the site, so there are a lot of scam reports of people being ripped off. Also there are reports of a lot of fake profiles. Undoubtedly there have been some great success stories but it’s essential to use common sense and gut instinct. Take your time to get to know someone and watch out for any of the obvious red flags such as excessively materialistic attitude or anything that doesn’t quite add-up. Mistakes here can prove costly both emotionally and financially.
LoveMe.com has a lot of sections describing their service and also a part for Frequently Asked Questions. If you don’t find the answers you were looking for, you can contact them at (602) 553-8178, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM MST, Monday- Friday. Or you can contact them through their contact form on their site, and they will respond to your inquiries as soon as possible.
You can also find them on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter.
Positives
Successful site with more than 2 decades of experience
Romantic tours to meet the women in their countries
Advanced search engine
Impressing number of beautiful woman
Option to send gifts and flowers
Negatives
Large number of fake profiles
Lot of hidden charges
There are no safety guarantees
Hard to navigate site
Like LoveMe.com, other dating websites face the same problem of having fake profiles on their websites. Although the dating sites below have a slightly different goal, they can be considered as LoveMe.com’ competitors. LoveMe.com focuses primarily on Eastern Europe and South America, and it’s primarily an interracial, long-distance relationship site. There are many such sites, but we have highlighted three long-established sites. Two are from the Cupid Media collection of sites. These allow for a greater degree of self-selection and with fewer expensive add-on features. AnastasiaDate is the most similar in its set-up as it also does foreign romance tours.
RussianCupid.com
Anastasiadate.com
LatinAmericanCupid.com
Free browsing of women’s profiles
Advanced search option
Large database of beautiful women
Fake profiles
Hard to navigate
Browsing through site’s profiles without having a membership
Option to send gifts
Unlimited number of photos
There aren’t questionnaires when creating the profiles
There is no profile matching
Very detailed system for matching profiles
Detailed privacy settings
Easy to use website
No guarantees
No mobile app
Login issues
Since A Foreign Affair or LoveMe.com has been present on the dating scene for so long and established its reputation by initiating thousands of meaningful relationships and successful love stories. The site has an extensive database of beautiful women from Eastern Europe, Asia, and South America.
The site’s unique point is their romantic tours service in addition to expert assistance with all the issues that come up with international marriage including visa applications and the legal intricacies. These ‘extras’ all come at a cost of course.
The downside of the site is that you can never be sure if a woman’s profile is fake or not, and you can easily get carried away and pay a lot of money for features you don’t need. If you are someone who would like an overseas partner and would like a guiding hand along the way then this site makes a pragmatic but potentially expensive choice.