Did you know that  Match.com has around twelve million members, but only a million or so of those listed have paid their dues?

The most asked questions from Romance Clients?  "Why don't they answer my emails?"  Well, first off, you don't know and never will.  But it's a pretty good guess is that this guy or lady is cheap.

If you have had much experience as an Internet dater, you've undoubtedly had the experience of putting out first email contacts to prospective Sweetheart and then gotten no answer back.  A response rate of 30% to first emails is considered good! 
On Match.com as well as many of the other Internet dating sites, you can post a profile for free, but you have to pay to email other listers or respond to emails sent to you.

You can't tell the payers from the freeloaders.  And people who aren't paid members can't email, either to contact you first, or to answer when you write.  That means that a very high percentage of those people you are carefully looking over are too cheap to pay less than a dollar a day to be able to email you! 

Maybe that's a lot of what's behind the 30% who do get back to you.  They're the only ones who are paid up!

Though I live now in Mississippi with my new husband Drew, I'm from Maine.  I still own a house there on a beautiful island in the mid-coast area, so I get back to visit once or twice a year.  Every spring, after the snow melts, all the debris that has accumulated over the winter along the roadsides gets exposed to the light of day.  And along with tulips and daffodils, up spring the "For Sale" signs. 

For years I wondered about why so many houses came up for sale every spring.  Every other house seems to be on the market.

For years I wondered about why so many houses came up for sale every spring.  Every other house seems to be on the market.