Personal Ad Response: Automatic Insincerity
June 18th, 2009(safe for work version)
I’d be very interested.
I’m fun, friendly, outgoing and love adventure.
Here’s my pic and look forward to further ones of yours in return.
Await your good reply.
Sincerely,
Atlas
This response came in within seconds of posting my ad, leading me to believe that this guy has set up some kind of script to scrape the site’s Women Seeking Men section and send an automated response to every new post. This suspicion is backed up by the fact that I got this same email, with the same picture, within seconds of posting an ad on this site over 6 months ago. This rapid-fire approach is bound to fail. Forget the fact that the email it sends is boring, impersonal, and kind of confusing (you’d be interested in what, exactly?), because that’s the least of this guy’s problems. Sending an email to every single girl that posts means he hasn’t personally selected her ad based on the things she said about herself and what she wants in a potential partner. In the unlikely event that a girl responds positively to this email, the likelihood that the two will get along is much lower than if he had only contacted women that are interesting to him and looking for the same things in life. In short, this email is a waste of everyone’s time.
Curious about whether this approach is actually working for him (I suspect it isn’t since he’s still doing it 6 months later), I replied to this guy. Unfortunately, I never got a response. I guess he didn’t like me calling him out on his little game.
