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Your experience may vary with Chnlove but it will invariably be an expensive experience, here is why:
I actually met my wife on Chnlove in 2010 and we are still happily married, I also met a bunch of other potential candidates using their agency based services, and then I met some with those agencies but without the help of the website.
Chnlove is sort of an IT provider that caters to mostly western men on one side and Chinese dating agencies in the disguise of translation services on the other side. Chinese women sometimes pay a fee to join the agencies, sometimes not (my wife didn't, she was actually recruited and registered for free, some women I met did pay a few thousand RMB), and most sign a contract agreeing to pay a success fee if they find a suitable husband. In 2010 I heard this success fee was 10K RMB in some agencies and maybe even more in others.
The agencies only have 3 ways to make income, through Chnlove credits of which they get a share (through translation, watching videos, phone calls ...), getting paying women to sign up and through the success fee. Since the latter two are difficult (we managed not to pay the success fee), the temptation to "communicate" for a living is high. I know for fact that some agencies mix real profiles with friends or friends wife "fake" profiles, e.g. women not looking for a partner, and some even have entirely fake profiles. The communication is handled by translators who get targets as to how much daily EMF revenue they have to generate (EMF is the credit paid message system). So yes, as some say, all men are interesting to communicate with as long as they're willing to write to pay, which explains why a 20 year old hottie is advertised as looking for a 22-70 year old partner. Some agencies will play the men until they complain to Chnlove, some are more decent and don't push it too hard, some are honest.
In my case, only 1 of the 6 women I met ever received any of my messages, and she only got two, an introduction and a request to meet up as I already was in China when I first messaged her. For the others, the translators wrote back to me out of their own initiative and would maybe call the women sometimes for an update, eventually to send them a photo of me. I also corresponded with a 100% fictitious profile, but it looked to good to be true so I did some searching and busted the agency.
I actually became oversuspicious and forced one agency to drag a women out for an "immediate" photo with a paper holding my name on it, and they did, lol!
When my first meetings failed after some time, one translator actually introduced me to her friends and for free, nice except that they were way too young for me (23-25, me being around 45). I'm still in touch with the translator who turned into a friend.
But back to Chnlove, if you want to use this service, I have some advice:
1. If it's too good to be true, it is! A young gorgeous Chinese woman is not going to fall for an old or ugly western guy unless he's filthy rich, either it's an agency scam, or she's a gold digger. Or her photos are photoshopped and she doesn't look that great.
2. Are the women real? Get your own Wechat and a QQ account. All Chinese have both, really, all! If not more than one! After a few messages, ask for their QQ account, there is no excuse. QQ accounts are given out freely in China as its easy to block someone you don't want to talk to. If they agency doesn't let go, threaten to cut them off, write to another girl. I had to do this a few times, worked every time. The new Wechat and QQ clients have inline translation, no Chinese? No problem!
3. Go to China! Don't spend a fortune on Chnlove for long distance relationships, invest the money in a plane ticket. When you go, you can try to get agencies to organize speed dating sessions for you (just write to any girl in the desired agency and address the translator directly), and don't pay for the session, it's a free event for the agency likely to attract new customers, maybe pay for translation, maybe ... Take your smartphone, get a 3G sim card and use online translation while with the girl. Make it real! I don't recommend using person translator for more than one hour on an initial date, unless you want to end up dating the translator :D
4. Be wary of someone who seems to have a strange schedule, many excuses for not delivering something ... Chnlove is about marriage, if they are interested, they will do their maximum as you should. And be wary of fairly young pretty profiles with tattoos, low education and good English, they could be ex-professionals :)
I wanted to give Chnlove a 2.5/5 because of the huge number of profiles but unfortunately I can't. I can't really recommend it because you might get scammed (how much depends on your wit), but I did meet my wife there.
In summary, I would not recommend Chn Love to a friend.
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