I recently ran into this problem just two days ago. I texted her first and asked her if she would be available on a certain day (with plenty of notice) and It was a written with some kind of sense. (No one liners) she responded 6 hrs later. Her response was"yes" and "where are you located". That was it. Two separate texts. I responded immediately and I have not heard from her. I even emailed her prior to her responding to the text because I thought maybe she might have a different number. She did email back the following day with a 6 word response. I emailed immediately and she hasn't responded yet. It kinda sucks because she's one of the best providers in my area and hottest! But her communication skills sucks. Would love to hook up with her cause she's so damn Hot but I don't like when people can't respond back in a timely manner it turns me off!
Originally Posted by eyze15
I come across the following dilemma frequently;
Do I respond quickly when I don't have time to really sit down and write a well thought out response or do I wait till I have the time to really write something worthy of his initial contact?
I'll receive a full page introduction that he obviously took the time to write while I'm driving in my car to jump on a plane and then who knows what ( I stay very busy) or I'll get it before a two hour board meeting for one of the non-profits I sit on (that never only last two hours but go on and on and on). And so he knows I received it and that I'm still around, using the same email, available and interested, I'll send out a quick, short reply.
And these short replies are often emails sent from my phone while I'm at a red light in my car, so...
My point is would you guys like it to be a quality, well thought out reply a day later, or within a couple hours a short, quick, "yes, I'd love to?"
Originally Posted by JessicaKnightly
Actually I think his biggest issue was that after the initial brief email reply she went AWOL. Not to put words in his mouth, but I'm assuming he would have been fine with the brief initial reply if she'd subsequently followed up.
To answer your question, I want prompt acknowledgement vs. a lengthy, thought out reply on an
initial email. I want to know my communication was received and on her radar screen not sitting in a junk email folder somewhere.
I am completely fine with, "Dear ATL, thank you for your kind note. You caught me (traveling/heading out/some other excuse). I wanted you to know I received your email and will respond more appropriately to the to the questions you asked (soon/ in the very near future/next week when I'm back in town/by Friday/some time frame).
Then actually follow-up. Again this is where eyze's girl dropped the ball.