A classic generic response
Saw your post on Craigslist, and I'm definitely interested.
If you are looking for some fun, right now, or this evening I'd
love to get together. I live nearby and can host. If you're up for
a drink or two and then see what happens, that is fine by me.
I'm 26, 6'4", love to run, play rugby, and ski. I attached a photo
for you, so if you're interested let me know. I'm in the middle.
If not tonight, keep me in mind for the future! I thought your ad
was great, I'm always up for some fun and I love to meet up with
new people.
Now, on the face of it, there's nothing wrong with this response at all. In fact, it's pretty good -- he writes in complete sentences, carries the idea from beginning to end, sounds kinda fun. So why wouldn't I write him back? Because there's nothing at all in that email that tells me he's responding to me. He could have taken 10 seconds to include something about what he saw in my ad that he liked, and that might have tipped him over the edge into getting an email back from me. As it is, though, I bet he's sending this very same email to every other w4m post on CL that day.
Let me be clear: There's nothing wrong with responding to every w4m post on CL, but if you do, it's usually quite clear that your email is a generic response, with no personalization at all. And a generic response is significantly less compelling for me, as the original poster -- it makes me think that perhaps you didn't read my post at all. Maybe you're emailing every woman on CL without regard to what she's looking for, in the hopes that you'll get lucky. Maybe I'll take the effort to write back to you only to find out that you're not looking for the midget threesome I posted about.
Women include details about themselves and what they're looking for in their ads. If you can speak to those details when you respond, you'll give yourself a leg up in terms of hearing back from us.
