My experience with POF over a year -
Girl 1 - She made first contact by clicking yes to the 'Meet me' thing. I messaged her back with something a long the lines of 'hi got a message saying you want to meet me, well nice to meet you i'm X'. Messages carried on for about a month, at the time I was raiding in Rift (lol) like extremely hardcore and to be honest I sometimes left it like 2-3 days before messaging her back. This seemed to help me though and you need some solid willpower or a good distraction to do this. She made all the moves, she suggested we exchange numbers etc, she suggested we meet and I basically didn't give a **** ignored her days at a time and left all the work to her, whilst still being genuine with my responses to her, which were essay like near the end. The photos were pretty meh I thought to myself so I wasn't hugely bothered. Turns out when we met at the Zoo she was pretty stunning and I was quite surprised that she looked loads better than her pictures (as its usually the other way round no?). Anyway we dated about 5 times and had a mini relationship, with her staying over at my house at the peak of it - she had to go to uni miles away in a few months so we ended it pretty early. Good times though.
After this ended I went back on POF and basically thought it would now be pretty easy to find someone else - wrong. I think I got super lucky the first time. From then on I got chatting to quite a few lovely ladies, but things seemed to always fizzle out in the messaging stages, I basically didn't have the willpower to ignore these women for a few days and I think that was my downfall (what is the expression, treat them mean to keep them keen? Well I personally think this works, but its just worded wrong - Basically just don't be way too nice and clingy and try to give give the impression you do actually have better things to do with your life than respond to their messages within an hour each time). In my case this was raiding on Rift at the time, but she didn't have to know that
Anyway
Girl 2 - After refining my POF technique I got another girl interested in meeting me - Unfortunately she seemed a bit, er weird. She got offended a bit when I didn't ask her for her phone number after she told me she was deleting her profile. I was aware of what she wanted me to ask so instead i replied with 'yeah don't blame you there's a lot of weirdos on here!'. In the end she asked me straight. I didn't meet her in the end though as she seemed super clingy and yeah pretty weird.
Girl 3 - I met this one on another dating site, oasis dating. Not many women on their I don't think but I had some success. It was an older lady this time (im 28 she was 34) but she was attractive and seemed cool in the messages. She suggested I go round for dinner as she said she didn't mind cooking. By the time I arrived I think she had consumed atleast 1 bottle of wine herself and by the end of the food she was pretty much gone. Ended up putting her to bed and posting the key through the letterbox, as soon as she started balling her eyes out.
Anyway hope this was an entertaining read, seems like online dating is a mine field but there are most certainly some gems in there too.
Girl 1 - She made first contact by clicking yes to the 'Meet me' thing. I messaged her back with something a long the lines of 'hi got a message saying you want to meet me, well nice to meet you i'm X'. Messages carried on for about a month, at the time I was raiding in Rift (lol) like extremely hardcore and to be honest I sometimes left it like 2-3 days before messaging her back. This seemed to help me though and you need some solid willpower or a good distraction to do this. She made all the moves, she suggested we exchange numbers etc, she suggested we meet and I basically didn't give a **** ignored her days at a time and left all the work to her, whilst still being genuine with my responses to her, which were essay like near the end. The photos were pretty meh I thought to myself so I wasn't hugely bothered. Turns out when we met at the Zoo she was pretty stunning and I was quite surprised that she looked loads better than her pictures (as its usually the other way round no?). Anyway we dated about 5 times and had a mini relationship, with her staying over at my house at the peak of it - she had to go to uni miles away in a few months so we ended it pretty early. Good times though.
After this ended I went back on POF and basically thought it would now be pretty easy to find someone else - wrong. I think I got super lucky the first time. From then on I got chatting to quite a few lovely ladies, but things seemed to always fizzle out in the messaging stages, I basically didn't have the willpower to ignore these women for a few days and I think that was my downfall (what is the expression, treat them mean to keep them keen? Well I personally think this works, but its just worded wrong - Basically just don't be way too nice and clingy and try to give give the impression you do actually have better things to do with your life than respond to their messages within an hour each time). In my case this was raiding on Rift at the time, but she didn't have to know that
Anyway
Girl 2 - After refining my POF technique I got another girl interested in meeting me - Unfortunately she seemed a bit, er weird. She got offended a bit when I didn't ask her for her phone number after she told me she was deleting her profile. I was aware of what she wanted me to ask so instead i replied with 'yeah don't blame you there's a lot of weirdos on here!'. In the end she asked me straight. I didn't meet her in the end though as she seemed super clingy and yeah pretty weird.
Girl 3 - I met this one on another dating site, oasis dating. Not many women on their I don't think but I had some success. It was an older lady this time (im 28 she was 34) but she was attractive and seemed cool in the messages. She suggested I go round for dinner as she said she didn't mind cooking. By the time I arrived I think she had consumed atleast 1 bottle of wine herself and by the end of the food she was pretty much gone. Ended up putting her to bed and posting the key through the letterbox, as soon as she started balling her eyes out.
Anyway hope this was an entertaining read, seems like online dating is a mine field but there are most certainly some gems in there too.
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, but for me Match have been wildly successful. The trick is to cancel the moment you sign up. When asked why you're cancelling, just click the option that it's too expensive. You usually get given another month for free. Also wait until the 50% offer. It comes around every few weeks. I paid £15 and got another month free. Essentially £7.50 a month.
