Blind emailing is what i call emailing somebody you are interested in solely from seeing a profile.

i.e not someone that you know from the forums.

This isnt something i have done a great deal of, and certainly not in a long time. But when i have tried it, i found it quite disconcerting, as it is really hard to get a response. Even when you say something interesting and witty.

I would say that i got about a 10% response rate, if that. No wonder i gave up on it pretty quickly.

What would you say your response rate is? (lets assume that a response of 'no thanks' or similar doesn't count).

Hmm, my response rate has been extremely low

Seems to have worked out pretty well in my very limited experience. Didn't keep a tally but over 50%.

Less than 10%?

My Braille Keyboard does a better job...

I was forgetting that women would probably have a higher rate! Although maybe you are just good at it!

I was forgetting that women would probably have a higher rate! Although maybe you are just good at it!

I agree. I don't like to get "blind" emails.
If you don't know me then why talk to me?

I email them and add them to my favorites if they have nekkid pics on their profile or something really ****ed up

No but close

Your rate may be better if you don't double type everything

Well isn't that part of the purpose here? To get to know people? A good percentage of people don't post in the forums, they are here to find a date through profiles.

JMO, but I don't consider it a bad thing to get an email from someone who saw my profile and would like to get to know each other.

I like it when the lurkers hit me up...

I don't email people much, but I always get a response when I do....so far.

I have only done it maybe a dozen times in over 2 years.

For the most part, a conversation did start. On 8 of them I am the one that drifted away as I got to know then. 2 I got only to a first meet. 2 I dated for awhile.

I rarely ever send out an email to someone unless I have something very specific to say.

this ties into the thought that I had conserning how many women will send off an email to initiate. I would have to agree that responce rate is low. say one in ten. *shrug*

I agree with what she said. It was excatly what I was thinking....

you are sad

I just don't feel like we have anything to talk about. I know absolutely nothing about them. And I am not sure about you, but "how are you doing" isn't much.

At least if they are in the forums, you somewhat get to know them.

Not that it is bad for everyone else, but in my case it has failed.
I have more to talk about with people in the forums.
JMO

Humm I must say about 80% of the time I have gotten a response but now has it went further then 3-4 e-mails well it does get lower and lower with each one.