A Watershed Moment is approaching
In preparation for a large review meeting at end of September, we seem to be reaching a watershed moment.
Our initial assessment of the remaining European commercial surrogacy
companies gave us the impression that there were some bad apples. However,
this has been overshadowed by the avalanche of mistreated intended parents
reporting in via our portal.
This has placed into doubt one of our primary and initial aims of supporting
commercial surrogacy companies, particularly from the Ukraine, by trying
to assist them through co-operatively steering them to a more ethical
and compliant path of business. Yes it is a human right to enable people
to experience the wonder of their own child. On the contrary side, the
question rising to predominance for us now is; does the human right
to not being scammed outweigh this?
Added to this are requests for co-operation from 2 major police entities,
whom we have not yet interacted with.
Celebrities like Elton John, Anderson Cooper of CNN and other high profile
influencers may be the best advertisers of Surrogacy, but unfortunately
as we are learning, normal run of the mill people putting their trust
in the wrong companies are just cannon fodder, helping these companies
to their ill appropriated millions of bounty.
The relationship between a customer and a company providing "surrogacy
services" is an incredibly asymmetrical relationship, with all
the cards being held by the surrogacy company, and the customer at absolute
risk.
Here one initial observation based on ripped off customer feedback about
providers from former east european countries.
Obviously a surrogacy provider has zero altruistic motive. Therefore.
jJust keep in mind that the surrogacy provider is there to make as much
money as possible, and you as a paying customer have what they want.
Also remember that there is still a huge wealth disparity between east
& west.
Starting from the Fertility Clinic who is being paid "per attempt".
Because of this, they have absolutely no incentive to be efficient,
and create a result in as few attempts as possible. It is best for them,
and the surrogacy company to be purposefully inefficient and fail as
many times as possible in order to maximise their income. This model
incentivises failure and a depletion of your bank balance. They are
experts at manipulating desparate peoples with a dangling carrot of
the closeness of success, and the fact that a huge pile of money has
already been invested.
Unless customers have an escrow model and (from the very beginning of
the journey) a very good lawyer, the customer is powerles to combat
this pay for failure model. You can tell that it is a scheming bogus
fertility clinic you are dealing with when, on the one hand, they advertise
things like cutting edge embryo gender selection, but cannot succeed
in pregnancy induction after innumerable tries. And who actually controls
that the "attempt" was an actual attempt, or just a fake claim
in order to generate more income?
This week will have a large inflection point for us, as we will ask
1 question to the company that is dealing with one of our colleagues,
and all of our investigators feel - from all correspondence and actions
reviewed - is running typical surrogacy scams.
Note to the responsible: trying to run denial of service attacks on
our website, spamming our submission forms and email, does not enhance
your positions. We have the service of one of the world's leading cyber
security companies. We had anticipated that this would occur.
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