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    #1832
    oompaloompa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭oompaloompa


    amandaf675 wrote: »
    jesus... i never have mail on pof :(

    Do you have photos?

    If you like, you can have some of my mail? :p


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    #1833
    amandaf675
    Registered Users Posts: 488 ✭✭amandaf675


    Yup i have photos Up :)

    haha i feel unloved now


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    #1834
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Chin up. Your better off getting a good mail once in a blue moon than hundreds of useless ones every day.


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    #1835
    KyussBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    Gillo wrote: »
    Really is it, thats great because I wasn't sure.
    You are going to reply now aren't you? like soon...

    Seriously though, I was chatting to someone like that for a short while, mails were grand it was only when we started texting each other, complete nightmare if I didn't write back within five minutes there was another text; "where are you? / "Write back please". I'd definitely be ignoring them Oompa.

    oh yeah, speaking of "not wanting to let go" I checked my credit card statement this morning and it turns out a site I had been using actually run a rolling subscription and had charged me €100 since the start of the year despite me not having signed in since mid Dec, it's my own fault for not checking my statements each month but as I hadn't being using card for anything I didn't bother looking at them (so yeah my own fault), but just in case anyone else out there is paying for a site, just make sure you're aware if it's a subscription or a once off payment.
    Yea every paid site I've seen (primarily match.com) is like that "Get a subscription FREE for one euro your first month and €30 quid rolling subscription".

    They also only accept credit card, or something that can be debited automatically, and the promotions are obviously just to get your card hooked into the system; turns me right away from those sites, as it's plainly dishonest; they must make a lot of their money from scamming people on the subscription smallprint.


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    #1836
    Gillo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    In fairness, there wasn't a discounted rate to hook me in just a lot more features and it was my own fault so I'm not knocking the site at all, I actually found the paid features to be pretty good at the time.


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    #1837
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Galvasean wrote: »
    So the sis continues her experiments in online dating. She set up a POF account yesterday at about 7pm. She now has 16 pages of mails. That's right 16 pages, not 16 individual mails, 16 PAGES. Bear in mind there are 10 messages per page :eek:
    All this from setting up an account, filling it in, uploading photos and buggering off for a while.
    Puts things into perspective for me, ie: don't feel discouraged if girls don't reply lads. They probably can't handle all the mail!

    That site struck me as being full of people just looking to get there leg over when i used it and i bet a lot of the messages are of that nature. Still 16 pages is unbelievable. Must be pretty overwhelming as well.


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    #1838
    mstan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭mstan


    Larianne wrote: »
    Or Block user. ;)

    She can try it....but I'll just PM her Boards account if she does.

    Damn it oompaloompa why wont you just love me ;)


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    #1839
    oompaloompa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭oompaloompa


    oompaloompa wrote: »

    Mind you, I did have a 60yr old man ask me to meet him at 6.30 for a drink in a bar in Dundrum... said he'd be outside smoking, described what he was wearing... we could have a coffee, then back to mine...fee was no problem! :eek:
    mstan wrote: »
    She can try it....but I'll just PM her Boards account if she does.

    Damn it oompaloompa why wont you just love me ;)

    I'll love you anytime mstan.... five dolla suit you? :D


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    #1840
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I received a couple of messages of a girl today. Even though i'd normally reply just to be polite, i really think it's not a good idea to do so this time.

    For one she says on her profile she has kids even though i said on my profile im not looking for someone with kids. Second she has no picture on her profile. And third from reading her profile it seems like she may have a lot of emotional baggage.

    Even though i dont like doing it, i think it probably is just better not to reply this time.


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    #1841
    yoyo83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭yoyo83


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    I received a couple of messages of a girl today. Even though i'd normally reply just to be polite, i really think it's not a good idea to do so this time.

    For one she says on her profile she has kids even though i said on my profile im not looking for someone with kids. Second she has no picture on her profile. And third from reading her profile it seems like she may have a lot of emotional baggage.

    Even though i dont like doing it, i think it probably is just better not to reply this time.

    one thing i hate about POF guys with no profile pictures i mean seriously how are u meant to go on that and not see his face?? and they make up lame excuses ah i dont know how to upload a photo or i dont even have a photo! obvioulsy i wont be replyin to u! i know one guy on it and he has a girlfriend and hes still using POF.....


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    #1842
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    amandaf675 wrote: »
    jesus... i never have mail on pof :(

    How much does your profile say about you that would give someone a chance to see what you have in common?

    If I look at a profile, attraction from the photo is only a starting point, after that there has to be something I can see in the profile to hang a mail on - a common interest, or something I can ask a question about, or crack a joke about. That's much more important than the photo for me. I would mail for the right profile with no photo, I wouldn't mail Kate Moss if her profile read "don't know what to write, like to go to pub, lol!". I wouldn't know where to start.


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    #1843
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    How much does your profile say about you that would give someone a chance to see what you have in common?

    If I look at a profile, attraction from the photo is only a starting point, after that there has to be something I can see in the profile to hang a mail on - a common interest, or something I can ask a question about, or crack a joke about. That's much more important than the photo for me. I would mail for the right profile with no photo, I wouldn't mail Kate Moss if her profile read "don't know what to write, like to go to pub, lol!". I wouldn't know where to start.

    jesus do girls actually write things like that? I've seen a small few guys that have written in txtspk but generally nothing dumb like that.


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    #1844
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    stupidusername wrote: »
    jesus do girls actually write things like that? I've seen a small few guys that have written in txtspk but generally nothing dumb like that.

    I take it you mean this bit;
    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    "don't know what to write, like to go to pub, lol!".

    Yeh, common enough. As is a few lines of "xxxxxxxxxxx", double line spacing, or saying "I'm only on here 'cos my friends say it's great" and other strategies to fill up the required space quite uselessly. Some people represent themselves quite poorly.


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    #1845
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    Yeh, common enough. As is a few lines of "xxxxxxxxxxx", double line spacing, or saying "I'm only on here 'cos my friends say it's great" and other strategies to fill up the required space quite uselessly. Some people represent themselves quite poorly.

    That is probably the most annoying thing I've seen on profiles. A one liner in text speak about "lovin da craic" isn't going to make me go weak at the knees.

    Why fill out lines of shíte with "xxxxxooooooxxxxxxxxxlooooollll". Seriously why?!


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    #1846
    oompaloompa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭oompaloompa


    parker kent wrote: »
    That is probably the most annoying thing I've seen on profiles. A one liner in text speak about "lovin da craic" isn't going to make me go weak at the knees.

    Why fill out lines of shíte with "xxxxxooooooxxxxxxxxxlooooollll". Seriously why?!

    I think it's a good thing when people fill their profiles with xxxxxxxxxxxx.... it shows you straight off that they can't manage 4 sentences, straight away you know they couldn't engage you in any interesting conversation :rolleyes:


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    #1847
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    oompaloompa wrote: »
    I think it's a good thing when people fill their profiles with xxxxxxxxxxxx.... it shows you straight off that they can't manage 4 sentences, straight away you know they couldn't engage you in any interesting conversation :rolleyes:

    Oh yeah I agree. Text speak and people lol-ing just annoy me though!


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    #1848
    yoyo83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭yoyo83


    oompaloompa wrote: »
    I think it's a good thing when people fill their profiles with xxxxxxxxxxxx.... it shows you straight off that they can't manage 4 sentences, straight away you know they couldn't engage you in any interesting conversation :rolleyes:

    not worth the hassle at all! i never forget the date i had! he bought me out for a spin and all he did was rantin about the other drivers! he had some rage and when i said i wanted to go home he wont even bother to drop me off at the house i had to beg him but he shouted at me and said FINE, that hour i will never get back! the next day he accused me of deletin his POF account, i dont even know how to delte someone else account! he was some freak!!!


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    #1849
    oompaloompa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭oompaloompa


    parker kent wrote: »
    Oh yeah I agree. Text speak and people lol-ing just annoy me though!

    I mention that I don't like text speak or bad spelling in my profile.... I get lots of mails from the PC brigade, and from dyslexic guys complaining that I'm rude etc


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    #1850
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    yoyo83 wrote: »
    not worth the hassle at all! i never forget the date i had! he bought me out for a spin and all he did was rantin about the other drivers! he had some rage and when i said i wanted to go home he wont even bother to drop me off at the house i had to beg him but he shouted at me and said FINE, that hour i will never get back! the next day he accused me of deletin his POF account, i dont even know how to delte someone else account! he was some freak!!!

    Wow. I mean....fúcking wow.


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    #1851
    yoyo83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭yoyo83


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    Wow. I mean....fúcking wow.

    i know and he contacted me again a few months ago! i told him to crawl back under the rock where he came from!


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    #1852
    Denisejcc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭Denisejcc


    amandaf675 wrote: »
    jesus... i never have mail on pof :(


    I feel your pain Amanda,,, meet your twin! :rolleyes:

    when I first joined a few weeks ago I had tons of mail, its all dried up now, dont understand there, surely theres new people joining all the time, they cant all be looking at my profile and thinking YUECK!!!:rolleyes::o


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    #1853
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    yoyo83 wrote: »
    i know and he contacted me again a few months ago! i told him to crawl back under the rock where he came from!

    And you didn't go for it? Jaysis, picky or what? :pac:


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    #1854
    yoyo83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭yoyo83


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    And you didn't go for it? Jaysis, picky or what? :pac:

    no after the way he treated me on the date? i dont think so!


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    #1855
    careymary
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭careymary


    yoyo83 wrote: »
    not worth the hassle at all! i never forget the date i had! he bought me out for a spin and all he did was rantin about the other drivers! he had some rage and when i said i wanted to go home he wont even bother to drop me off at the house i had to beg him but he shouted at me and said FINE, that hour i will never get back! the next day he accused me of deletin his POF account, i dont even know how to delte someone else account! he was some freak!!!


    Thats wierd I pretty much had the exact same date with a guy, didnt meet him online though, did his name start with an R??


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    #1856
    yoyo83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭yoyo83


    careymary wrote: »
    Thats wierd I pretty much had the exact same date with a guy, didnt meet him online though, did his name start with an R??

    nope started with a K and from Waterford


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    #1857
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Denisejcc wrote: »
    I feel your pain Amanda,,, meet your twin! :rolleyes:

    when I first joined a few weeks ago I had tons of mail, its all dried up now, dont understand there, surely theres new people joining all the time, they cant all be looking at my profile and thinking YUECK!!!:rolleyes::o

    When you joined first your name would be in the new members list, so people view and contact you early on. After a while you may need to be a bit more proactive, send some mails, or view some profiles at least just to thrown your bait in the water (on PoF...see what I did there? :rolleyes:)


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    #1858
    careymary
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭careymary


    yoyo83 wrote: »
    nope started with a K and from Waterford

    So there are two of them in the world, bit freaky!


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    #1859
    Denisejcc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭Denisejcc


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    When you joined first your name would be in the new members list, so people view and contact you early on. After a while you may need to be a bit more proactive, send some mails, or view some profiles at least just to thrown your bait in the water (on PoF...see what I did there? :rolleyes:)

    Ha ha very good Kevin, I keep thinking of Keith duffy when I see your name YUUUUM:D

    I sent a few messages last night = no reply

    Also clicked on a good few profiles = still no new messages :D

    I am texting one guy though...


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    #1860
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Denisejcc wrote: »
    Ha ha very good Kevin, I keep thinking of Keith duffy when I see your name YUUUUM:D


    Yeh, funny that....;)


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    #1861
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    yoyo83 wrote: »
    no after the way he treated me on the date? i dont think so!

    Eh, yeh, I knew. Has :pac: lost all meaning??


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