Karsten
Behind the scene of JollyRomance
Being a Investigative journalist and having a background as a researcher, I may add some extra to all the bad reviews of JollyRomance (JR). I was at the site for 6 months chatting with at least 20 girls, some of them for a short while, others for months. That JR is a money machine is obvious. You only have to stay there for a very short while to notice this. But there is much more. First, the claim that the girls are not real is not true. They are. JR use photoshop to make them look like goddesses, but photoshop is also used to make photos of politicians etc look fabulous. Nothing new. If you can make a girl send some private photos, you will see that it is her on the profile photos. In some cases, they look even better. In other cases, they don't. Second, when being enrolled into JR, the girls have to sign a contract that forbids them to communicate outside JR, e.g. on facebook or Skype. You can gain their confidence and trick them to write down your name so they can look you up at facebook to send a message so further communication can take place there. You can even trick them to write down your phone number. But don't have any false hopes. They will not contact you this way. You'll have to pay the insane amount of money to get a real date. The girls are different. With some, you can create a high degree of trust; with others, they have a hidden agenda. In any case, you cannot get them to communicate on another platform. They are simply to scared to leave JR's platform. If they leave, they risk losing everything. They will be kicked out, and cannot look for another Ukrainian dating site because they are all (or most of them) run by the shady owners of JR. Third, some girls make a living being at JR. They get a tiny fraction of the money you pay for opening and sending letters, watching videos and chatting. Working full time, the girls earn less than working at a factory in Ukraine. This tells a lot because the standard of living for the huge majority of Ukrainians is far worse than the lowest end of the so-called 99%'s. Its quite easy to detect if someone works full time, or being at JR adds a complementary income. Those who works full time are online 16 hours or more each day. This is sad for the girls/women but its a fact of life. Fourth, The reason why I became interested in JR is that one of my friends had an awful experience. He paid the around €800 to set up a date. In the end, he paid at least three times as much. The date took place in Odessa. He went there and stayed at a hotel for a week. Everything was arranged for him: the date took place at one of Odessas most expensive restaurants. It was at the time when Covid-19 was at a rampage so there were no customers beside my friend and the girl who couldn't speak English -- none of all those I talked with could speak or understand English despite the fact that in their profile they claimed that their English was intermediate to advanced. So an interpreter was used at my friend's expense. Given the fact that the interpreter was always around in that week, and all meeting during this week took place at that restaurant where the girl and her interpreter always ordered the most expensive meals, this ballooned the expenses. And he had to pay for the taxis as well. The girl lived on the outskirts of Odessa. If my friend would not have stopped the circus, the full costs could easily have been €5,000 For these reasons, you have every reason to avoid Ukrainian dating sites, because they are all alike. Sidenote: In Europe, it is a firm called Place2Bill that funnel the money to the owners of JollyRomance and the other Ukrainian dating websites. Although I don't know in how many countries the 3D security bank system works effectively, Place2Bill has been on the banks' black list making it impossible to pay by credit cards. Since JollyRomance only accept credit card payments, they might have digged their own grave using Place2Bill which in part may be a part of the network. I asked JR's support whether they would choose another mediate than Place2Bill. their answer was that this is not in their cards. My guess is that they will soon create a new intermediate to replace Place2Bill. This will give JollyRomance et al more time to live.
Response from JollyRomanceOct 8, 2021
Dear Karsten, Thanks for your feedback! We carefully approve all the ladies to be registered on our website. Our lady members’ profiles are not confirmed unless we verify their ID and background. Our regional partners make sure that there are no bogus profiles, that the ladies you see in the pictures are the ladies you are actually corresponding with (such profiles have a label "Validated member"). Also, we make sure that they are single and interested in meeting a man through our site. Please be informed, that we do not sign the contracts with the ladies to communicate out of the website. Also, please pay attention, that we can not force the lady to communicate with you out of the website. We do not pay the ladies for communication with men and prohibit our Regional Partners to do so. If we find out that the lady is paid by the Partner for communication on her behalf, we fine the Partner and immediately delete the lady’s profile. Kindly understand, that we are the communication platform and we do not guarantee that you will find your soulmate. But we give you an opportunity to communicate with different ladies. Lady herself can set up the level of English whatever they want. We can not somehow influence the level they select since we do not test their language. Ladies use translation applications in order to communicate better with you. We are always glad to assist you with the website via [email protected]. You can always as for assistance. We're glad to know about your experience and always ready to help you in case of any website-related questions. Best regards, Jollyromance Customer Support




