I have had no responses to my ad - or no one responds to my emails

I have had no responses to my ad - or no one responds to my emails

This is a free world, and to be realistic we have no means by which to "make" people respond to ads or to mails sent in response to an ad. People have thousands of reasons why they may not respond.

Men please be aware - couples and ladies who advertise for men get so many responses it is impossible for them to respond to all of them - To try and understand the problem we have been talking to a few of the new advertisers. They have told us that the response rate has been in excess of 500 emails a week. This means that to read the responses alone takes a very long time. If it takes one minute to read each mail, it takes more than eight hours to read 500 mails, and replying to them, even at 30 seconds a mail takes more than four hours.

Don't respond to ads where you do not fit the criteria of the advertiser. You are wasting their time, your time, and clogging up the mail system with hundreds of pointless emails.

Please read the etiquette section to be found on the menu.