by Tamar Caspi under
Date Night,
100hookup,
Online Dating,
Single Life
You contact someone on 100hookup and after not hearing back for a few days, you forget about the potential match and move on… just to get an email three weeks later apologizing for the delay. Do you accept the apology and respond?
Here’s my take: Short answer — yes. Long answer — absolutely!
100hookuprs meet each other and want to see where a successful first or second date could lead… so they stop actively checking 100hookup until they know where it’s heading. Why should you eliminate a prospect for giving a relationship a chance? Or, the person allowed their 100hookup membership to expire and then checked their account just to see your smiling face looking at them from the screen with the message icon blinking next to it. And so they re-up their membership and contact you. Again, why should you eliminate a prospect for not knowing you contacted them? You shouldn’t.
Give everyone a chance. What do you have a lose? A couple of hours and a couple of bucks grabbing a coffee, a beer or some appetizers? Totally worth it! Reply now and let bygones by bygones.
by Tamar Caspi under
100hookup,
Online Dating,
Relationships,
Single Life
How long is too long to wait before responding to a 100hookup email? Ideally you would respond within 48 hours — the same amount of time that is acceptable when you’ve received digits from someone who you met at a bar or elsewhere. If there’s a reason that you can’t get in touch earlier, then apologize for the delay and make sure you sweeten the pot by responding with a charming email.
It happens sometimes. Perhaps they were considering another 100hookupr and wanted to give him or her a chance, and thus ignored their inbox until they were available. This is the usual reason why people don’t respond right away and it’s perfectly acceptable. That said, don’t actually ask whether that’s the reason; simply respond that it’s okay, ask your match how they are doing, and then let the conversation go from there. If that response takes a lengthy amount of time again, then you may simply be communicating with a flake or a player. If they reply right away, however, and it’s an engaging email, then let the delay go and move forward.
Timing is everything with dating. Are you going to give up on someone because of a few weeks?