A couple of weeks ago, I answered a personal ad on excite.com of a girl that seemed pretty darn good (she even said she likes sushi!). Well, she responded and things looked good. Until I tried to reply.
Her email account (Hotmail) refused messages. The responses I got said “unknown user”.
The homepage that she sent me a URL for (angelfire) in her message was not found. And the ad that I originally responded to was taken down. At this point, I have absolutely no way to contact her. Which puzzled me, but I just wrote it off.
Today, I received email from her (from a different hotmail address, and using a different name) saying that she had gotten a new computer and found my email address as she was setting it up. She said she was going to be in my neighborhood and was wondering whether we could meet. “Cool”, I thought, a second chance.
So, I replied, hoping to set something up.
But the email was rejected by hotmail again. This time the message was that her account was full. So I figured I’d wait a couple of hours, and send again, hoping she’d have cleared it out.
Well, I sent again a couple of hours later, and it was again refused with the “unknown user” message.
Right now, I’m wondering just what the hell is going on, and whether I should bother trying any more.
Any thoughts? Anyone experienced something similar? Is this some sort of weird psychological experiment?