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 | Overall Rating | 8.1/10 | | Members Database | 8.5/10 | | Profile Quality | 8/10 | | Free Member Zone | 8/10 | | Paid Member Zone | 7.5/10 | | Services | 8.5/10 | | Design & Usability | 9.5/10 | | Price/Quality Ratio | 7/10 |
ABOUT MAKSIM INTRODUCTIONS AGENCY Maksim Introductions Agency is a joint American/Russian venture with offices and articles of incorporation in the United States. This agency was established in March 1996 so they are in dating business more than 10 years and this fact tells a lot about company. Bad dating services usually close their business in 5 years period due the different reasons.
Maksim Introductions provide women personals living in Yoshkar-Ola city area. Yoshkar-Ola is not a city with 250.000 population and is located somewhere between Moscow and Kazan (in European part of Russia). For some of you city name could be strange because it is not similar to other Russian cities names but don’t be afraid such names are normal for cities located in Tatar region.
MAKSIM INTRODUCTIONS MEMBERS’ DATABASE REVIEW Women database consist of 400-600 ladies who are actively seeking foreign man for marriage or any other type of relationship. Members’ database is not large comparing to Russian top dating sites but size is not always meaning a quality. Here we have 400-600 ladies who are really interesting in marriage and live only in Yoshkar-Ola city region. We don’t know how much single ladies live in Yoshkar-Ola but we suppose that this agency represents about 2-3% percent of all single ladies in this city. And if we will take into account that women represented here want to meet foreign man we would not be surprised if this agency represents about 25% of ALL Yoshkar-Ola ladies wishing to marriage someone abroad.
Generally we give maximum points in case agency have at least 1000 ladies but here we have local introduction agency in average size city so we decided to rate Maksim Introductions members’ database by giving them 8.5 of 10 available points.
MEMBERS PROFILE QUALITY REVIEW AT MAKSIM INTRODUCTIONS We really liked profile design and information layout. Ladies’ information is quite accurate, text font and size are easy to read, photos are very accurate and professionally made. One more that we liked here is a woman’s self-description. It is not boring and standard type. It written in a letter-open style and it makes it attractive and original. In result even it is a short message it is easy to read.
And now a few words about disadvantages. The one and only disadvantage in our eyes is photos. Yes, they accurate but maybe they could be a little bit larger at least when user click on them they could open in a new window. Another disadvantage is that free user can view only 2 profile photos, all others are available only for paid members. We understand that by doing this agency is stimulating visitors to register but in general dating sites provide photos for free and men are used to see all women photos before paying for services.
Everything is OK with profile quality the only disadvantage is a “photos issue”. We give 8 of 10 points here. .
MAKSIM INTRODUCTIONS DESIGN & USABILITY REVIEW Design. Perfect unique site design makes it attractive for user eyes , maybe such effect is generated by successful color palette. Nothing more to add here 10 of 10 available points.
Usability. In general we also like usability of the site. At least there is no cause to say that we have searched a lot to find required information for “Maksim Introductions” Agency review. Registration process is also easy and quite fast. The only disadvantage is maybe too much links asking for registration. But this not a big trouble. So for usability we decided to give 9 of 10 points.
In overall “Maksim Introductions” get 9.5 from us for design & usability.
MAKSIM INTRODUCTIONS SERVICES REVIEW As all established russian dating agencies this service also provide additional services which are related to online. “Maksim Introductions” provide following services to service’ members:
Phone conversation with translator You can arrange a phone conversation with your lady with the help of an interpreter. Cost of the service varies from $8 to $15 depending on time and lady location.
Video conferencing. You can communicate with Yoshkar-Ola lady sitting at home. This service is something similar to webcam dating. Cost of the service varies from $13 to $38 depending on session duration.
English lessons. New kind of additional services is English lessons for your lady. Price depends on package size.
Snack-Bar Services. Something new we have never seen at other dating agencies. Ladies came to agency to pick up later. Ladies usually do this in their lunch break at work so why not to order a lunch for them at agency snack bar? Good and original idea!
Travel Services. This section of site requires additional review and maybe later we will review more deeper but in this review we have to say that “Maksim Introductions” together with “Virginia” travel agency will help you to organize your trip to Yoshkar-Ola from the beginning to the end.
Romance Tours. During the romance tour you will be exposed to HUNDREDS of beautiful ladies from Yoshkar-Ola who are extremely interested in establishing relationships with Western men of all ages. You have the opportunity to meet beautiful, warm and sincere Yoshkar-Olda women during our parties. This method is far superior to choosing "blind dates" from catalogs. By ordering romance tour to Yoshkar-Ola you can meet more ladies in one evening than you could meet in months with online service.
Fiancee Visa Services. If you need Fiancee Visa (K-1 Visa) Maksim Introduction service may assist you in this visa getting process.
Agency has all service customer may need and prices are quite reliable but sometimes overvalued. So we decided to give 8.5 for services.
FREE ACCESS LEVEL REVIEW AT MAKSIM INTRODUCTIONS As a free member you can browse Yoshkar-Ola women catalog, view all information about site, read women profile information. Only restriction is that you can’t view additional photos.
The main feature we like at “Maksim Introductions” is possibility to send email to any lady absolutely for free. Although you would not be able to read her reply without paying for it but usually dating sites don’t allow male members to send free emails. So this is what we like.
There are some pluses and minuses in free access level but in general we rate free level as very good, so 8 of 10 here.
PAID MEMBER ZONE REVIEW LEVEL AT MAKSIM INTRODUCTIONS There is no need to speak about paid dating services because all services mentioned in “Maksim Introductions” agency review section are paid as well as ability to communicate with ladies.
There are 8 membership packages at this service. And here comes the price list:
Pay-per-Kilobyte - $0.90/Kb - $15 initial payment
Pay-per-reply - $5 reply - $50 initial payment
Silver package – unlimited correspondence + verbal translation - $49/month
Gold package – unlimited correspondence + written translation - $79/month
One-and-only Package – correspondence with one lady + verbal translation - $35/month
One-and-only Package – correspondence with one lady + written translation - $43/month
"Effective start" package – all time membership includes all services except travel and visa services - $350 payment
"All-inclusive premium" package – all services + managers support during your stay in city - $1500 single payment
In our opinion plan variety will help you to find best which suits you very easily. In our point of view it is worth to try service by purchasing Silver Package. You will get access to unlimited correspondence with ladies. After using the service for 2-3 months you will find that one with whom you would like to continue your relationship. And than you can turn your membership to One-and-Only package and it will save a lot of money. Also we suggest you to buy ‘effective start’ package if you are planning something serious with lady you’re in correspondence.
Prices are set at the average level we can’t say that they are too expensive but maybe they could be a bit lower. So maybe 7.5 of 10 points would be the best mark here.
MAKSIM INTRODUCTIONS PRICE/QUALITY RATIO REVIEW We have found of lot satisfied user testimonials about this service as well some one scam story on the forum from American men who used this service earlier. On site there is declared that “Maksim Introductions” are fighting with scam activity and that is really true. But the main problem is that fighting with scam requires big money spending as well as customer help. But anyway there is a room for improvement here for this introduction agency because it’s not enough just to talk to women when she join service, but it’s not so easy as we think.
So prices could be a bit lower and quality could be a bit better. We rate price-and-quality as good but it could be improved. 7 of 10.
CONCLUSION OF MAKSIM INTRODUCTIONS REVIEW If you want to meet ladies from Yoshkar-Ola or travel to this russian city we can recommend you visit this service. “Maksim Introductions” is a leader on Yoshkar-Ola dating market. Ability to send unlimited amount emails to Yoshkar-Ola woman is a great feature for those who like free trials. Membership prices are not expensive. Reliable dating & romance tours service for those who interested in dating Yoshkar-Ola women.
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