Reasonable response time?

[ALilOEverything]

If you initiate contact with a couple, what is a reasonable amount of time for you to hear back? Does it bother you if it takes a couple days? Would a week be too long and then become a deal breaker if you do hear back? What if they send a note saying they are interested but really busy and want to get back to you later with a more thought out email, would that bother you?

I always worry that I'm taking too long, I like to be in the mindset before responding and make sure my husband is around. I would never take more than a couple days but I wonder if that puts people off if it takes me that long. If it's going to be more than a couple days I thought about acknowledging the email with a quick response so I don't keep anyone hanging and say we will write later.

[exploringRM]

For us it can take up to several days. Unless I know it's an absolute no way I'd like to meet it at times takes awhile for my wife to be around (and our daughter not!) to review the contacting couple's profile. And there have been a few instances where the email got lost in list of incoming mails (no we are not that popular getting all those contacts, just a good bit of traffic with couples we already know). When that happens I apologize for the delay. We also have in our profile that there may be a delay in responding as we typically both want to read the mail before responding.

As far as waiting for a response from people when we initiate a cold contact, so many people don't reply at all that the delay is not an issue.

[cplnuswing]

Originally Posted by ALilOEverything

I like to be in the mindset before responding and make sure my husband is around.

Originally Posted by exploringRM

For us it can take up to several days. Unless I know it's an absolute no way I'd like to meet it at times takes awhile for my wife to be around (and our daughter not!) to review the contacting couple's profile.

Same here. We both have to be around and in the mindset to look at their profile and answer back. If I'm doing the checking and get an email from someone that I know we have no interest in, then I'll go ahead and send a reply then. If there might be some interest, then it will likely be several days to a week before we get a chance to go over it together and respond.

If we're making the contact, we don't expect an answer right away. If haven't received anything after a week, then would assume we probably never will and just move on. If they do end up responding later, not a deal killer.