Tried Craigs List...Wow!
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| Tue, 01-30-2007 - 10:39pm |
I just made an ad for myself on CL because I haven't been getting too many reponses on match or yahoo lately. They slowly keep comming, but I was starting to get bored with the types of people that have been contacting me so I thought I'd try something new. I never thought that I'd do CL, but you guys made it sound pretty good. I must admit that I am still a bit skeptical. I'm kinda afraid that I will get a whole bunch of wierdos and creeps since it is a free site. I'm in shock though... in the 5 mins that I posted my ad I recieved 3 emails already and they didn't seem that wierd or creepy at all! One was a lot older than I would like but he still sounded pretty normal. I just had to post this because I'm excited about what this new OL dating site will bring.
So can anyone give me any advice on how to use CL? I'm used to the more formated dating sites where I can see right away if they meet the criteria I'm looking for. I tired to list what I wanted in my ad but you know how that goes with guys that contact anyway. What have been your good and bad experiencs on CL?
Jen

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This is what i do ... I delete anything immedietly that I have no interest in. Then the ones I do, I e them back with a pic IF they have sent a pic.
Exactly! lol
& btw, I sort of found Carlos thru CL.
Thanks so much.. I followed what you said to change the From line after my account was created and it worked! So now I don't have to make another account.
Thanks for all the tips/suggestions also.
Jen
(and I'm pretty sure CGUN said she has seen similar things happen on CL in her area).
Yep, I sure have!
There's a couple of things about CL.
First, there's usually tons of responses because IT'S FREE. So of course you're going to get more people responding- they don't have to pay, why not?
Second, yeah, sometimes the pictures thing happens in the R&R section. And it's usually people (probably men) mocking the women, although occasionally men's ads get mocked. The problem is that so many people of both genders are unrealistic about their size- claiming to be "curvy" or "athletic" or "stocky" but the reality is that they're fat.
What I've noticed about the mockery pictures is that they're almost always aimed at the unrealistic ads or the people with laundry lists of what they want in a person. Post a normal ad, even with a picture, and you're not going to get mocked; if you're fat and claim to be not-fat, you're likely to be mocked.
Personally, my belief is that while CL is interesting, most of the time if a woman is really pretty and I email her, it's a spam trap- a fake ad set up to harvest email addresses. (I use throwaway email addresses so it's no big deal.)
For OLD, I figure if someone's too cheap to pay 25 or 30 bucks a month for a real OLD site, they're probably not serious enough about it or they're too tight, so I'm not going to bother with them. I don't even answer the CL ads anymore- I'll browse, but since most are lies anyway and the real ones are cheap people, it's hard to take CL seriously.
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