Originally posted by: Passions
Does anyone have an account? Can you help me out in getting this jap girls email? I dont want to pay $20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :brokenheart:
I think that after you called her a 'jap girl' things would fizzle out anyway so we should all just save our $20 on that one.
Ok, my lame and somewhat pathetic take on online personals. Followed by a heart warming 'how we met' story.
Yahoo personals were ok when they were free...although yes, it was roughly 85% cattle who often had children, then 10% decent looking girls who had children and the remaining 5% were either not looking for anyone like me or just plain didn't respond. (probably because what they were really looking for and what they said they wanted were two different things) Since match.com bought them out, like I think they have with virtually all personal ad services the numbers have dwindled and there was no way I was paying for that.
That said...
I met my girl off a match.com ad...there were few girls I was interested in and I refused to pay for the service. They had a '7 day free trial' about 3 years ago though which I signed up for. Any girl who looked good in a pic or even sounded half way decent received a generic email from me during that 7 day trail. Match.com uses some double blind thing on emails so that you can't talk to them outside of the match.com email system. Supposely its to 'protect you' but really its just a way to force you to continue paying their monthly fee.
So I emailed like 40 girls that may or may not have been dateable. I got like 5 responses. My current girlfriend said she had just started dating some one but wouldn't mind getting to know me as friends in her first email. I said sure, and of course lost interest in that after about a week of emailing. I kept talking with like 2 other girls via email but they didn't go anywhere either. 7 day trial ended, I stopped bothering with that.
So fast forward a little over a year later. I am just getting over a painful re-dump. (Girl wanted me back only to dump me even faster than the first time we went out. Hard lesson learned: burn bridges and keep them burned.) I'm going through all those old emails and looking at yahoo personals which were at the time still free. I was talking with this one girl but it turned out she had just lied in her ad and actually had a kid. (LOL, oh man I was out of there.) I notice in one of my old emails from my current girl had accidentally left a reply history in one of her messages. The reply history contained her real email address.
I sent a 'hey, whats up...I lost touch with you.' message to her. Her boyfriend had dumped her like 3-4 months ago. We chat. Blah, blah...I call her. Etc, etc...we meet. She is very cute, even though I had not seen any pictures of her at that point. We really hit it off in person...etc, etc we're together now. She's a great chick, I'm going to marry her. So....sometimes it doesn't suck I guess.