Lately I've noticed a big drop in response rates when I contact pros I've never talked to before. Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just me?
To elaborate: I've been on the site about a year. For the first 8 or 10 months or so, booking a pro was extremely easy: I send a polite message with a photo asking to book a session and give her several time slots when I'm available. Occasionally it didn't work out for scheduling reasons or something else, but I don't think I ever had a pro just not reply at all during this time.
Over the past while (maybe 2-3 months, I think), this has changed dramatically. Pros I haven't seen before rarely reply. I'm sending the same kinds of messages that reliably got responses before, but I just don't get replies. I know that brand new pros get overwhelmed with messages and can't always reply to them all. But when it's an established pro who's active on the site it's a bit confusing, honestly. If they don't reply to me (a client who would be really convenient for them, who has some good karma, who's really polite and easy to schedule with), who are they replying to?
It's pretty frustrating, and I'm about to just stop messaging people I haven't seen before. The reason I was willing to pay to cuddle is that it's easy. Just message and book a session. If it's going to be like a dating site, where as a man you send tons of messages and most of them just go into a black hole, and where you have to carefully craft messages and try to divine exactly what combination of words is going to give you a chance with this person, why bother?
Anyway, I've been venting a bit, but I'm curious whether anyone else has noticed this change?