The Perfect Email - Replying to Women on Craigslist

I've been experimenting for a long time with different strategies on the perfect email reply to a woman's ad on Craigslist and after many rewriting sessions, I think I've come upon the perfect email reply to a woman's ad on Craigslist. Without further ado, here it is:

Hello,

I doubt this will even reach you because I'm sure the second you posted that ad on Craigslist, your email inbox was swarmed by dozens of guys who are a dime a dozen. I'm not one of those guys.


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I'm (INSERT AGE), (INSERT HEIGHT, (INSERT RACE), and don't have any issues meeting women. I (WHAT DO YOU DO) - basically I have my life together and am looking for someone to just randomly have fun with, just like you are. I'm devoted to what I do and spend most of my waking time working. I'd like to break the monotony with someone I can have a great conversation with while basically, fucking each other's brains out. Then, we get back to our business and our lives. I don't have the time for a relationship, nor do I want one, but I will always make time for some fun.

If you read this and are interested AND you're not a spambot, pls reply and I'd be more than happy to send a picture.


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So far, I've had 2 out of my 3 emails replied to for a fantastic 66% reply rate. For most guys, the reply rate is 0% on Craigslist and that’s just the sad reality of online dating on Craigslist. There is really isn't that much competition if you know how to approach Craigslist the right way. If you're going to write a stupid reply without first thinking of what she wants to hear, of course you're not going to get a reply back.

With the email I have written above, I'm trying to strike a chord in the women reading these emails - they are going to see a ton of garbage from guys - guys who send penises, stupid emails that say let's fuck, or other inane things - and what you want to do is provide a breath of fresh air to her inbox and give her something she has to think about. If she sees a big penis flashing on screen, she doesn't have to think twice about closing that as fast as possible. Contrary to most beliefs, women really don't like pensises being flashed in their face as much as a guy loves the flash of a vagina across his screen.

So the goal here is to use my template to meet women on Craigslist and adapt it to your own email replies. If you get a reply, please leave a comment!

How to Meet Women on Craigslist - The Mysterious Provocative Ad

If you've been reading my how to meet women on Craigslist series, you probably remember one of the first lessons of writing a good ad was writing something mysterious and provocative. Something that provokes a response from a woman, because she's either very fascinated or almost taken aback by what you've written. Regardless, you now have her attention, and you're about to meet a woman on Craigslist.



But, how do you write that mysterious and provocative ad that elicits the attention of women online? This is how.



1) Spend the first 2-3 sentences talking out loud, almost introducing the woman online to who you are and why you might be posting. Something’s I've said are, "What's wrong here? Life, again, and what I thought would happen when I moved to _______ has not happened." Use this time for her to get a sense of your personality without you providing any specifics. Mystery is what you want. You're not ready to provoke her yet.



2) Ask yourself a questions and provide an answer. A simple one would be, "What did I expect to happen when I moved to ________?" And provide your answer. So maybe you can say, "I thought when I moved to Austin, I'd meet all of these great interesting people, but I didn't."



3) Get provocative - After you ask yourself the question and answer it, this is where you become provocative to elicit the attention of women online. Describe yourself and why you deserve to be given attention. If you are the manager of a team that does $10 million a year in business say it. Talk about your success in business. Be direct. But be honest. And then let them know that even with all the success you've had, you're missing success in your personal life.


And that is exactly why you are posting on Craigslist to meet women. Your career is going great (or maybe not so) but your personal life isn’t' achieving the same amount or same type of success as your career. Women will understand your bragging (even though it provokes them) as a way of saying, hey, I'm not that bad of a guy, why am I not getting any love? That's the ultimate message you want to get across when trying to meet women on Craigslist.


More meeting women on Craigslist until next time. Until then, make sure you treat your acne with these acne products.

How to Meet Women on Craigslist - The Fucked Up Ratio

If you've been following the How to Meet Women on Craigslist series, then you've been able to post an ad, get a reply, and properly replied to her initial email replying to your Craigslist ad. Now you sit back and wait for her reply - you can't do anything about it now. Don't email her again until she's emailed you back - if she doesn't reply, she doesn't reply. You move on. If she does reply, then your chances of this turning into something real have now exponentially increased.

But, while you're waiting for those replies to your Craigslist ad emails to come in, you can also be on the hunt. While there aren't as many guys, there are more than enough women on Craigslist also being proactive and posting an ad. However, unlike you, the guy with the dick, she's getting bombarded with hundreds of emails, sometimes in 1 day. The ratio is that skewed. It is The Fucked Up Ratio.

For every 100 guys that post an ad on Craigslist, maybe 10 will get replies. For every 100 women, that post on Craigslist, every single one of them will get a reply. Guaranteed. That is a fucked up ratio.

So, why wade into emailing women who have posted when there are 100 other guys like her replying to her ad too?

Because you know the secrets of How to Meet Women on Craigslist - good titles and a direct, witty, but mysterious ad that keeps her wanting more. If you adapt and employ these same tactics to the women posting on Craigslist, you'll instantly double your Craigslist dating. And it doesn't hurt to practice your replies - you'll be able to quickly learn which replies work and which ones don't and you can apply these learnings to the replies to the women replying to your ad.

If you want to meet more women on Craigslist, seek them out in their personals section. But remember, be prepared by reading my Craigslist dating tips from the beginning.

How to Meet Women on Craigslist Part 2

This is part 2 of the series, How to Meet Women on Craigslist. Online dating is easier than in real life. All you have to do is write and present yourself as a decent guy, and women will fawn all over on you Craigslist. Why?

Because 99% of the guys on Craigslist are creeps, crazy, or just flat our scary. Women know this, yet they keep coming back to Craigslist, as if asking for another beating?

Why?

Because they believe in a simple thing called hope. The hope that one day, out of the blue, they are going to meet someone like.....well, you!

So because of this hope, you should also have hope that you can meet women on Craigslist and the women you meet there are going to be better than the women on Match.com, Chemistry.com and the hundreds of other paid dating sites. Craigslist is free AND it has the most interesting women.

So, the next lesson for meeting women on Craigslist, and dating on Craigslist once they have actually replied to you, is to not reply too soon BUT, don't reply too late. I've done both and while replying to soon is not as bad as replying too late, both can quickly crush the blooming flower that was that women who emailed you.

Once you get a reply for your Craigslist ad, and hopefully you followed my online dating tips here, the next thing you want to do is carefully read her reply. Over. And over. You have the luxury of time now to analyze her every single word to deduce what type of woman you have here. Its like going to the Amazon jungle and hunting - unless you know a lot about tropical animals, you're going to need help identifying what you've just shot out of the tree. The same principle applies to meeting women on Craigslist - you don't know what you have until you've actually taken the time to analyze.

So in your analysis, what are you looking for? From my experience, the types of replies you get are a very good indicator of the physical beauty of the woman behind the reply. Trust me, I've done this hundreds of times and there is a correlation/pattern I've seen in the hundreds of replies I've received from women on Craigslist.

So what exactly are you looking for? If your post was normal size in length, say 100-200 words, her reply to you should be no longer than the length of your post, and typically, the shorter the better.

I've found through my analysis of reading the emails of women on Craigslist that the less unattractive you are, the more you overcompensate for it with exquisite, long drawn out replies. So, the longer the reply, the less physically attractive she is. At least in my opinion. But if you're looking to just get laid on Craigslist (and not dating on Craigslist), does it really matter what type of reply she has as long as she replied?

Part 3 of How to Meet Women on Craigslist coming shortly.