Experiment

[puckster]

I have been looking at a lot of letters coming accross the wires, and also listening to the Girls.
I decided to try my hand at  letter writing, to see if I could interest any ladies in me.
 One thing I've notice is they often refer to men as amigos. What they call a amigo and what you call amigo are two seperate things. If a young lady is hanging on me nibbling my ear I have a hard time calling her a freind, but that maybe  a friend to her.
I send out 30 emails or so saying that I want to be your friend, and not only that but I'm going to be in your neck the woods this coming week, all of which is true. My response rate was about 40 percent which I consider pretty good. I also sent a  picture. I even uploaded a personal vedio for one very special amiga.
I attribute my responses rate to these factors ; I'm not telling them I'm going to be there at sometime in some theoritical distant future. How  can you expect them to get excited about some guy who MIGHT show up in one  year.
 They see who they are talking, a foto.
 I'm not pushing any kind of heavy agenda, if it works fine if not se la vi, well we can always be friends, right.
 I'm writing in spanish. Lets Say some gorgous babe from china writes you in maderin. If you can't understand what's said how do you know what to write in response?

[Jeff S]

... in response to Experiment, posted by puckster on Nov 24, 2002

A guy on the Russian board tried that. He called it the Rambo approach. He booked his trip and them wrote women saying he was serious about getting married and would be in their city on such and such a date. He had a huge response as I recall since the women all knew he was serious. I've heard it said on these boards that only 10% of the men who actually get started on the MOB scene actually travel to the foreign country - and so lots of the women listed at agencies get disappointed and frustrated after communicating with a few men who never seem to be able to take it to the next step. I'm not sure how accurate the 10% number is, but I do know a number of men who I encouraged to take this route ended up making it a sort of game, rather than taking it seriously.

It goes without saying that you'll get more responses if you write in Spanish. That's fine if you're willing to accept a girl with no English ability, since she'll probably assume you have at least a conversational ability in Spanish. The pros and cons of dating/marrying a woman with no English have been debated ad nauseum on these boards, so I'm staying out of that debate.

Best of luck on your approach. I'm betting it'll be a very effective way to fill your dance card.

- Jeff

[puckster]

... in response to Re: Experiment, posted by Jeff S on Nov 25, 2002

I love that reponse, Ok if I keep my 'dance card' full, that'd be 'vale la pena'.So let's have a few dates, give love a little time to grow.That's not only me talking they'd like that, too.