My wife and I were both sending contacts in homeexchange at the same time, and we seem to have overloaded the system. Since then, we cannot send any messages at all. We always get “Try again in 1 minute”. But it has been more than 12 hours, and we still cannot send any messages. Does anyone have any ideas? TIA!
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Hello. There’s a limit by minute and by day now (100 requests by 24h max). If it’s still blocked today, contact the support
Hi 
did you manage to resolve this issue?
I contacted support. I don’t believe I heard back from them. Either through them, or through just waiting, it eventually started to work again. Now, I have the problem a second time. But if the 24h limit above is real, then it makes sense to wait 24h and see. Probably the message shouldn’t say “try again in 1 minute” if so, but, let’s see.
Hi Zoe,
I am not judging, just curious, did I read correctly that twice, in a matter of weeks, you sent over 100 requests in a span of 24 hours ??
I guess so. We have a very hard time even getting anyone to respond, let alone finding an exchange. We do find them eventually, and they do go well, but for us it is like a needle in a very, very large haystack. Perhaps part of the issue is that our home is not in a super desirable tourism place, for most; so a request for reciprocal is extremely unlikely to pan out. And requests for GP’s may just be highly unlikely to work: host needs to be somewhere other than their home for it to work. So, maybe a reason not to judge, if a reader’s home is in a more desirable place. It is a radically different experience for us. But I’m open for anyone else with any tips for finding exchanges!
Sending more personnalized messages could be a tip. Not necessarly different each time, you Can have a base you copy and then add a sentance for each listing (“you’re teacher, I am too”, “your garden seems very zen”, "I love your shower and its mosaics etc for example). 100 in a day is way too much imho. Just send 10, wait for answers, then 3 days after send 10 etc would be better for me and would avoid you being blocked
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I agree that personalized is best, especially for reciprocal, but (given our location), had we followed your 10 per day advice, I think we would have probably failed to find … maybe any of our exchanges, most of which have been great and led to some degree of friendship with great people all over the world. As I said, it is very rare and a special circumstance when someone wants to do a reciprocal with us: all our requests have resulted in only 1 reciprocal! And guestpoints seems much tougher. We get nibbles at the rate of less than 1 per 100, and the nibblers are initially indistinguishable as far as I can tell. I certainly think it would be great to be in a position to do it 10-per-day, but I appreciate understanding that different people have different situations and consequently experiences.
Yes but in the end you would just pass 30 days to send 100. And maybe you would have to send less with this top, and by filtering efficiently with the reverse search
Perhaps I’m just not explaining clearly, but it is clear our experiences differ greatly – maybe too much to make it worth trying to hash it out on the internet.
Possibly, but I live in an area not really attractive too. In my 15 years of experience, tailored messages work best than just sending out mass requests, that’s what I’m saying, that’s all.