Inquiry note is a short standard note a man sends to a woman expressing his interest in her. Such note is sent from woman's profile page with the help of "Inquiry" button. You can send an Inquiry to those women with whom you have not had any contact through our site before. The text of the Inquiry is standard. Inquiry is received by the woman's agency. The agency calls the woman, invites her to the office to have a look at man's profile. Within a week a man gets a reply to the Inquiry; this reply is also standard one, either yes or no. The cost of 1 INQUIRY is 0.25 of a POINT.

LETTER FORWARDING

If you want to contact a woman by email to make your correspondence go fast, but the woman doesn't have a personal email address, our letter forwarding service is for you. You can send a letter to any woman in our Russian brides catalog; your letter then received by the local marriage agency which uploaded woman's profile to our database, the letter is printed together with your photo and data from the Men's Catalog, the letter is translated from English into Russian, and the agency informs the woman there is a letter for her. When the woman brings her reply to the agency, the agency interpreter translates the letter into English, types it, and then the letter is sent to you through special working terminal. To send a letter to a woman costs 1 POINT; to read a reply from a woman costs 1 POINT.

INQUIRY AND LETTER: COMPARE

Inquiry is a standard note, you can not change it, while in a letter you can write anything you want, including your phone number and postal address (direct email addresses are not allowed). But Inquiry is 4 times cheaper than a letter, and it attracts woman's attention to your profile (so you can put in your profile all information you think a woman would need to know). In reply to an Inquiry you get a short yes or no, in reply to a letter you get a full letter, written by the woman, with replies to your questions, perhaps, with woman's contact details (such as postal address and phone number; direct email addresses are not allowed). An Inquiry plus reply to it is 0.25 of a POINT; a letter plus reply to it is 2 POINTs. If you send an Inquiry and woman replies no - you only lose 0.25 of a POINT. If you send a letter and a woman doesn't want to correspond with you, you lose 1 POINT.

LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION

Russian women who get registered at an International marriage agency will not sit and wait until men write them, they will come to the agency office, search through men's catalog, and send letters to men they like. Such letters we call "letters of introduction". A letter of introduction is a letter written by the woman about herself, she gives there more information than in the profile. This letter of introduction is translated and sent by the agency per woman's request to all the men chosen by her in the men's catalog. If you get a letter of introduction from a woman, it means she thinks you are her potential match, she wants to correspond with you, find out more about you and see whether you can develop serious relations leading to marriage. If you get a letter of introduction, it does not mean the woman will marry you, it only means she liked something about you and wants to know more. Usually a letter of introduction is sent to more than one man. To read a letter of introduction from a woman costs 0.25 of a POINT.

HOW TO TRACK LETTERS AND INQUIRIES

As soon as you register at A Bride From Russia, a personal account is created for you. All letters you write or receive are stored in the sections of your account called Mailbox. This Mailbox has three folders: Inbox is for letters women send you, Sent Mail is for letters you write to women, and Trash is for the letters you delete. Letters from your Mail boxes are deleted automatically after 60 days. Each letter you write or receive is accompanied with a woman's photo and information; the photo of a woman is also a link to her detailed profile. Inquiries you send are stored in the section of your account called Inquiries. You can delete Inquiries that were already replied. Notifications about all letters you receive are sent to your email; you can choose not to receive such notifications, receive them once a day, or once a week. You can do it through Account Options.

PHOTO FORWARDING

Men and women who are in Internet relations want to get as much information about each other as possible, and visual information is very important. That is why we offer you to use our photo-forwarding services. You can send women you correspond with photos in addition to the photo you have in your profile. Try to exchange photos that show your real life, your family (parents, children), friends, pictures showing you working, having rest, photos of your neighbourhood, etc. Ask women to do the same: first of all you will see how she lives, and, which is even more important, you will see how the woman looks in real life. Pictures in the profile show the best of her, in nice clothes and with good make-up. But you can be 90 per cent sure she doesn't look like this every day. To send or receive 1 additional photo costs 0.5 of a POINT.

SUMMING UP PRICES

Sending an Inquiry to a woman - 0.25 of a POINT (including woman's reply to Inquiry)
Reading a letter of introduction from a woman - 0.25 of a POINT
Writing a letter to a woman - 1 POINT
Reading a reply from a woman - 1 POINT
Sending 1 additional photo to a woman - 0.5 of a POINT
Receiving 1 additional photo from a woman - 0.5 of a POINT