I did just yesterday his first email was as follows
I am very sorry for the late response. Thank you for the interest in babysitting Diane. You are to babysit on Mon-Fri from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm and your duties include feeding, bathing, changing of her diaper and clothes when dirty. This job also includes light laundry and cooking. I urgently require your services and would want you to get back to me with the following; Why you think you are fit for this job, how many years of experience you have, your Fee per hour, Reference, Little about you and your zip code in order to determine the distance from my house. I hope you understand that I am looking for a babysitter that is a non-smoker, hardworking and a honest babysitter. Have a great day and hope to hear back from you soon.
The last one I got..I am glad for the quick response and interest in taking care of my daughter. You seems to be a very hard working lady from the little I read about you which also portrays your love for little children and this has convinced me a lot that my daughter is going to be in a safe hand. I wouldn't want to lose you to someone else and for this reason I wouldn't mind making your payment upfront before my arrival to the States if the negotiation goes well between us and again to show how serious I am. Presently am in Ontario, Canada on vacation but I'll be back to the States in less than two weeks.
It would have been nice to talk over the phone but I will so much appreciate if emailing is used as the best form of communication for now due to the network problems here in the last few days which I hope would be restored soon, however you can still reach via text on my cell phone #: 8136449608 if need be.
I'll be looking forward to starting work with you as soon as I return from vacation. I'll call immediately I arrive to the States in order to give you the direction to my house. We are going to meet two days at lunch time for an interview in a public place of your choice or at my house before you start the babysitting of my daughter but I can assure you that everything is going to be fine and you have nothing to worry about.
I got divorced to Diane's mother because of her infidelity few months ago and she left without our daughter, so you could imagine how the stress of taking care of a baby and at the same time preparing for work would be on me. Diane is a young and loving, she has no allergy at all and does not have schedule for anything such as nap and I am definitely sure you are going to like her when you start babysitting her and then you are going to know me better. I am going to send our pictures to you later. As my impending babysitter, can I really trust you? Cause I am going to transfer more than the amount that you have charged for the one week, I will want you to help send part of the payment to the shipper who is bringing in some new furniture to my home and I will want that to have arrive before you start work cause there are no furniture in my home at present. So kindly get back to me if you can be trusted to do this for me. I am going to pay $15 an hour for the first week but I promise to increase it if you take very good care of my daughter. I hope you are okay with this. If you are okay with this then get back to me with the following details in order to proceed with the payment;
Your full name
Address
City
State
Zip code
I am glad to see your references in the previous email. I hope to hear back from you soon.
Thanks
I too saw him on Sittercity.I thought it sounded normal until I got the 1st response.I still wanted to give him a chance but after the 2nd response there's no way.