Haven't seen this before

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Registered: 07-31-2004
Haven't seen this before
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Thu, 02-24-2005 - 9:11pm

There are a few guys with more than one profile up. What's that all about? Are they really paying that much? I have never thought of doing that and never will but why would they? I don't get it. Do you?

Lisa

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Registered: 03-20-2003
Thu, 02-24-2005 - 9:19pm

More than one on the same site? That would be weird.

On multiple sites, I can understand, each site has different groups of people, so in theory you are improving your odds in the big numbers game.

I've had profiles on American Singles, Match and Yahoo at the same time, but at the moment I'm down to one.

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Registered: 07-31-2004
Thu, 02-24-2005 - 9:26pm

Yep, all on match. Not sure I wanna know. Probably not good. Now ya gotta worry about more than one profile being up on how many sites? Geesh!

Lisa

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Registered: 09-15-2003
Thu, 02-24-2005 - 10:19pm

I've seen this on 2 different sites and it was the same guy both time. He has the exact same profile except his location changes. I remember one day seeing him living in san fran, chicago, and nyc all at the exact same time. I guess he didn't realize that when you click on the button to see who's online, we could see how many different profiles he had. Then a few days later I ran across him doing the same thing on another site. As far as I know he's still on both sites (if not more).

Who knows why he did it? I look at it as a big red beacon saying "Stay Away" "Stay Away." :)

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Fri, 02-25-2005 - 12:57am

Well, one reason could be that, when he's not busy racing into phone booths to change his costume, he's telling some lady that "you're the whole package". This happened to me.

I was seeing a guy for a few or six weeks and of course checked virtually daily to see his activity, which showed he hadn't gone online since he started talking the sweet talk.

Well! I'm doing my weekly searches (whether I wanted to or not -- I did it), and there he was, virtually word for word, under a new id name. Funny story, Lisa: his height changed (downward)!!! ROFL

Little did he know that one of his feet immediately got kicked out the door, and believe me his ass soon followed. I may be willing to shag just about anyone at this point, but the point is he must be Someone!

amjay

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Registered: 05-16-2004
Fri, 02-25-2005 - 5:37am

On reason to do this is that Match rotates all new profiles (still) at the top of the heap. This means if you're willing to spend a few extra bucks on a new profile - you'll get preferred positioning.

It's a quite smart strategy, though my current thinking is one month on and one month off is better.

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Fri, 02-25-2005 - 7:07am

So do ya pay for 6 months or just one month at a time?

Lisa

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Fri, 02-25-2005 - 7:47am

Right now I've paid for (I think) 6 months. I just had to take my profile off hidden status about a week earlier than planned because I got 2 replies to an old Craigslist ad and I figure giving them the MATCH ID to review is one hell of a lot easier than re-typing my life story.

I posted the ad about 1/25 and got no responses until last night.

Here's the ad URL for the curiousity seekers:

After reading how people were having luck with CL for more than just pervs, I decided to take a shot. We'll see. I posted a very abbreviated version of my profile but still had the essentials to what is a match to ME.

http://hartford.craigslist.org/m4w/57472897.html

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Registered: 07-31-2004
Fri, 02-25-2005 - 7:56am

I take it if you have kids (I don't) that you have zero time for anything else - is that right? My sisters both work but I don't hear much about their lives outside of their work or without their children. I guess that's the way it goes, eh?

Lisa

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Fri, 02-25-2005 - 8:06am

LP- I am taking SCUBA , Hike every other week, have my own company, go out to dinner as much as I want (Chilis when the kids are here / nice places when they aren't). So I have time. But not as much as someone with no kids who wants to be on the go constantly. From my very amateur experience I seem to match up nicely with someone in a similar situation. I'm not sure I could manage a relationship where I would only get together with someone every other week --- I'm hoping if the other person has kids we can do "kid stuff" part of the time.

It's tough finding activities to keep kids occupied. I'm not very good at it. And I hate taking them to public bathrooms - so this whole dating thing is a huge ruse to smoke out a mom who won't mind taking them for me --- if I have to dater he too then so be it...

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Fri, 02-25-2005 - 8:12am

Oh that's right I forgot about that. I'm glad you're doing stuff to make Dad happy too. Do you have all those other activities in your match profile?

Lisa

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