Guys Use VIETNAM CUPID--the girls are real and only 20 dollars a month and can talk to who ever you want--this only helps for Vietnam woman but maybe there is a Phillipino Cupid etc and yes CUPID writes their own reviews to dominate google--international cyber scam police should get involved and shut these guys down--i went to the Vietnamese police but they did nothing

Yes if I remember correctly I was paying about $7 an email, wow I was fooled, and you are right as I too just asked for the lady to send me a close up of a tattoo she had as a way of subtly confirming she was real but never got the photo, yes it hurt as I had fallen in love with her after countless messages but today I am happy and found my lady but not through a meeting from iDate Asia. Like this guy says, for God's sake look else where...!

I couldn't agree more with this post[. It is extremely expensive and I was NEVER sure I was chatting with the lady or the translator. For example, I chatted with a lady, off and on for several months. On one such chat, I was getting some bad vibes so I asked the girl if she knew me, her response was "I'm getting to know you', a totally inappropriate answer to my question after several months of chatting with this woman! Just proved that the 'person' I was chatting with was NOT that woman.

Also, if you click on the girls photo that are requesting a chat, you will find that about a THIIRD of the girls aren't even online. It's just another way for greedy iDateAsia to get into your pocket.

In my experience, I have spent thousands of dollars over the last several trying to find the 'right' one, wells guys look somewhere else, this sight is 80% fraud. If the girl states that her age range is 18-70, it's a fake, no matter what their age is. If they are very vague and a short description in their profile, they are probably fake.

Ask the girl you to send you a photo of them with a piece of paper with your name printed on it, chances are 99% they won't or give some lame excuse, such as, it's against agency policy, or I even had one girl tell that the agency would get her fired from her job if she did that. Such rubbish!

Joe J,
The cost of a Credit on iDateAsia ranges from US $4 up to $7, depending on discounts for bulk purchase.

How much they are each worth is a question of the honesty and integrity of the Agency you are working through and the reality of the "Lady Member" you might correspond or Chat to.

Thus each EMF message, sent or received through the translating Agency, will cost between US $4 and 7.
And of course the man has to pay for both the, messages he sends as well as those the Lady sends.

The Chat facility is in reality a translation service for an IMS - Immediate Message Service - but frequently is not quite so 'Immediate', indeed delayed by the operator handling, and thus those delays by 'silences' can pad out the total time of 'Chat'.

Chat is costed at 1 Credit for every 10 minutes of time, thus $4 to 7.
Any attached Voice message costs 0.3 Credits,
Animated Emoticons selected by you to attach 0.3 credits also
And then any Pictures attached/transmitted during a Chat cost 1.5 Credits or $6 to about 9!

Love calls, all costs payable again by the man, tend to be horrendously expensive!
Apart from a mandatory 1 Credit Reservation Fee, EACH MINUTE of a CALL incurs a 1 Credit Debit.
And the time of Debit starts from the moment your Call goes through the Hong Kong central connection facility.
It may still be another 2 or 3 minutes before your call actually gets to the Lady you are attempting to talk to.

So a 20 minute call, all up, will cost a minimum of US $84!
Plus the call cost attributed to you by your Overseas call provider too!

All in all iDateAsia and the other Qpid Network sites are money making ventures run by predominantly Chinese greedy money making business people, and there is little integrity and value offered by them for the purposes of 'Love Matching' Western males to Oriental women.