Some classic bad responses
Later, I'll break down what makes a good or bad response, but here are a few examples of what I'd call bad responses. These are the responses that take me only a moment to decide not to respond to.
do you have a pic...I was intrigued by your post, and I think
I'd like to learn more about you.
Yes, of course I have a pic, but you're never going to see it, because you didn't tell me anything about yourself or give me even the slightest suggestion that I might like to spend any time or effort on getting to know you.
hey sexy,, still looking for some hot rough play? 34m here,,
5'11 175 with dark hair and green eyes,, i have pics!!
GREAT! This guy, at least, has pics (which he does not include in his mail), but, still, how has he set himself apart from the other 75 guys who sent me their stats?
how are you today .. read your ad would love to talk alittle
more about the possibilities of meeting up .. 27 male here
Again... boring! Seriously, why would he think that this would catch anyone's eye?
im just the guy you are looking for. wanna trade pics?
That was in an email titled "its me". I would have liked to have told him that it's not him, but then he'd have my email address.
These are all pretty obviously bad. In future posts, I'll be sharing humorously bad ones, breaking down the ones that are borderline, and discussing the merits of some of the ones that led to closing the deal.
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On the rare occasion that I'm desperately bored enough to respond to one of these, I'll say something like "You sounds like you might be promising but you included so little content, it is hard to know. Why don't you write back and tell me some about yourself". Invariably the response is something like "If you want to know something, just ask, I'm very open." Um. Yeah. Because I have so much free time that I'm really going to interview you to drag the information out of you that MIGHT make you interesting to me. Not.
Face it guys, it sucks but it's true: you have to sell yourself, in a way women don't.
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Posted by: crash | May 24, 2006 3:23 PM