Human trafficking is not something you want to become involved in. It is not only illegal but also highly inhumane.
If however the women is knowingly (and willingly) offering yourself for sale it depends on the people involved. A man orders a human being with specifications like buying a new car. A woman offers herself by showing only what the customer will find attractive. The broker will only tell both what they want to hear and collect their fee. The making of a fairy tale!
But you asked about the effort. You can make the effort to find a person that has enough similar expectations and goals, someone that you are able to communicate and cooperate with as a person. It will take a lot more effort and time to find someone like that long distance than in your own home town. But if you're not willing to put in the effort, if all the effort you're willing to invest is to 'pick someone out of a catalog' and pay the expense, then you will get a bride but you won't get a wife or a partner. And you will most likely get increasing trouble and headaches as the bride becomes the person she really is; how long does a woman remain a bride...
You get what you pay for. This is not a joke. You are saying that you want a human being obtained like a piece of merchandise, but you're not willing to pay much. Circumstances for mail order brides are at best flawed and you want be cheap on top of that! You're thinking of slave, not bride.
Meeting someone, is meeting someone. People have been meeting by ships, airplanes, telephone, TV, other people, etc. since our existence; nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Mail order brides were poplar in the nineteenth century, twenty and the twenty first century. In the 1990s over 21000 mail order brides express interest in finding husbands
Mail order brides are actually legitimate. It is legal, but it falls under many obvious grey areas of the law.
One can find information on mail order brides from the following sources: List Verse, Mail Order Brides Reviews, American University, Latin Wife, Project Social Art, Love Collision.
Chinese Brides?
Traditional mail order brides--women men can literally buy for marriage--don't really exist anymore. Many people mistake the women on international dating sites for mail order brides and refer to them as such, but these sites are just a niche of online dating.
Night Stand - 1995 Mail Order Brides 1-46 was released on: USA: 1996
Believe it or not there is such a thing as mail order Russian brides. Some people are that desperate and lonely. Some people will marry them just to help get them their green card.
Westward the Women (1951)
Seven brides for seven brothers Answer: Seven Brides for Seven brothers was NOT about mail order brides. Six of the seven women were kidnapped by mountain men who forgot to bring the parson. (Adam and Millie were married in town.)
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr- - 1993 Mail Order Brides 1-14 was released on: USA: 10 December 1993
You are saying that you want a human being obtained like a piece of merchandise, but you're not willing to pay much. Circumstances for mail order brides are at best flawed and you want cheap on top of that! You're not looking for a bride, you're looking for a slave.
I have known an African American man who was married to his mail order bride, I say yes they do well.