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Now I normally don't get replies from wackos on Craigslist but this is the absolute weirdest message I ever received and never heard of a woman doing something like this. My ad was seeking a friend and her message was

 

"Hi I am a 29 year old woman who is currently in a polyamorous relationship with a 23 year old woman and a 32 year old man".......What????

 

 

I don't want to know anything else about you when you let me know you are in a relationship with 2 people. how in the world did she thing I would be interested in talking to her? And it's a shame because she was very attractive but I don't associate with freaks online. By the way today was the first time in my life ever hearing about a polyamorous relationship. Never received a wacky message like that before in my life.

 

 

Has anyone heard of this wacky mess???

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LOL, I've gotten a lot weirder and I was just trying to sell appliances. I've actually gotten something very similar to you but from multiple users, same sentence structure just different locations or ages of the people involved. It's probably spam.

 

Why would you go on craigslist for this sort of thing anyway? Didn't you know that's where vampires and transsexual serial killers go to look for victims?

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LOL, I've gotten a lot weirder and I was just trying to sell appliances. I've actually gotten something very similar to you but from multiple users, same sentence structure just different locations or ages of the people involved. It's probably spam.

 

Why would you go on craigslist for this sort of thing anyway? Didn't you know that's where vampires and transsexual serial killers go to look for victims?

 

It was a real simple ad that read........"seeking a pretty girl who is nice"

 

 

That's it. I don't know how I got a message from a freak :laugh:

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I could never be in a polyamorous relationship with others because I'm a one partner kind of person. However, for those that choose that route, it seems to work well for them. I know some people in a poly relationship and they're quite happy with their situation.

 

Different strokes for different folks. I wouldn't necessarily call them freaks, though.

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It was a real simple ad that read........"seeking a pretty girl who is nice"

 

 

That's it. I don't know how I got a message from a freak :laugh:

 

Hopefully you're joking about that last statement.

 

One lesson is to be much more specific about what you want. She's a pretty face (you said she was very attractive) and she felt she was a nice person. She had what you asked for in your ad.

 

A second lesson is to fish where you are likely to get the type of fish you want. If you're fishing in a swamp don't complain that you caught catfish rather than tuna or salmon!

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Hopefully you're joking about that last statement.

 

One lesson is to be much more specific about what you want. She's a pretty face (you said she was very attractive) and she felt she was a nice person. She had what you asked for in your ad.

 

A second lesson is to fish where you are likely to get the type of fish you want. If you're fishing in a swamp don't complain that you caught catfish rather than tuna or salmon!

 

But I normally meet nice professional women off CL like lawyers and teachers. So this was a shock

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She could indeed be a nice professional woman and be poly. It is a lifestyle choice and it isn't for everyone. But it isn't freakish IMHO.

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If that's the creepiest/weirdest message you've ever received on Craigslist then clearly the powers that be are shielding you from all of us real freaks on there lmao.

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If that's the creepiest/weirdest message you've ever received on Craigslist then clearly the powers that be are shielding you from all of us real freaks on there lmao.

 

 

Love it...

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No matter what type of ad your posting chances are you will get a sexual based reply esp if you are a woman.

 

I find the only way to avoid this is to say something like

 

"attention please use your reading skills and notice this as is platonic any sexual based msgs or content will be ignored and deleted"

 

That usually works for me at the bottom of my ads ive looked for friends on there before I met a few really good ones surprisingly.

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But I normally meet nice professional women off CL like lawyers and teachers. So this was a shock

A polygamous person is not a freak. Its just a different lifestyle choice. Its being monogamous with two people. Is it really that much more freaky than a couple in an open relationship where they sleep with others or a couple where one partner has an long on-going affair with someone else on the side.

 

What I find weird is that you say you meet nice attractive professional (career not hookers) women on the CL classifieds !!?!?

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A polygamous person is not a freak. Its just a different lifestyle choice. Its being monogamous with two people. Is it really that much more freaky than a couple in an open relationship where they sleep with others or a couple where one partner has an long on-going affair with someone else on the side.

 

What I find weird is that you say you meet nice attractive professional (career not hookers) women on the CL classifieds !!?!?

 

That would be correct

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Polyamourous relationships are not unusual. I think polyamourous people have been "in the closet" for a while, but it's not unheard of by any means. You're just late to the party.

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First off, while it's not the lifestyle for me it's working for some people out there. It's hardly the worst thing in the world by a long shot. Second, honestly, it's Craigslist, not Christian Mingle. If you were looking for something a little more wholesome you might have started searching somewhere a lot less unsavory.

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It doesn't really bother me, unless someone is trying to rope me into something like that. It isn't my thing, but I know a woman who is happily living that lifestyle. She has children, and they're doing well. And I've just remembered another friend who is in a poly relationship, with her husband and a girlfriend, who now lives with them. Her husband looks like the cat that got the canary.

 

Were you really only looking for a friend, or were you hoping for a girlfriend?

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It doesn't really bother me, unless someone is trying to rope me into something like that. It isn't my thing, but I know a woman who is happily living that lifestyle. She has children, and they're doing well. And I've just remembered another friend who is in a poly relationship, with her husband and a girlfriend, who now lives with them. Her husband looks like the cat that got the canary.

 

Were you really only looking for a friend, or were you hoping for a girlfriend?

 

Just a friend to go out and grab a bite to eat with

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Just a friend to go out and grab a bite to eat with

 

And this is something that you really can't get past, and be okay with? Did you respond at all, or just ignore?

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And this is something that you really can't get past, and be okay with? Did you respond at all, or just ignore?

 

Even though she was attractive I just can't do it

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Just a friend to go out and grab a bite to eat with

 

A single female friend, you mean? :p

 

If that's the case it's nothing to be embarrassed about. I see it a lot on CL, both guys and gals looking for "friends" - specifically friends of the opposite gender. I have responded to ads looking for "friends" and we'd email back and forth, text even, seem to have clickin personalities, finally trade pics and then, well they must have been hit by a car the very next minute, gosh darn.

 

If you really were just looking for straight up platonic friendship I'm nto calling you a liar, just sayin I've seen that approach a lot and I don't think it's anything to be embarrassed about.

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If you really were just looking for straight up platonic friendship I'm nto calling you a liar, just sayin I've seen that approach a lot and I don't think it's anything to be embarrassed about.

 

I didn't mean for him to be embarrassed by it, if this was the case. :) I just thought that if he was really only looking for a friend, then he might be able to get past it.

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