Today we received an email with this message:
A week ago, we had already received and declined this invitation. We get lots of invitations! I would love to know how these people find us!
I really do not appreciate this sort of message, of which the tone is sort of patronizing: “Your sit invitation has been canceled.” Sorry. I rejected the invitation already, thank you very much.
Cue the music. Somehow, we’ll find the strength to go on despite these “rejections.”
I got one of those emails, too, but I deleted it without reading it. Just went and looked at it in my trash, because of your post.
I had declined an invitation as well. I didn’t read the email, because seeing “canceled” in the subject line was enough.
Just went back to look at the sit listing: “There is a lot of wildlife around including deer, bobcats and an occasional bear.” If I had sat and survived, maybe I would’ve had some sitter tales worth telling! 
Thank you for bringing this up as it’s been something of an irritation for me too for quite a while.
The number of times I’ve been invited to some obscure place in the back of beyond somewhere to look after half a zoo, which I’ve then declined. To then get a commiserations email sometime later cluttering up my inbox telling me I’ve been turned down for that very sit and that it just wasn’t in the stars for me. 
It does actually feel quite patronizing and I agree, it’s totally unnecessary. I have no desire whatsoever to be informed about the outcome a sit that I didn’t even apply to, and never would apply to, especially when it reads as if I might potentially be crushed at not being chosen!
Like many people, my email account gets more than its own fair share of spam and unnecessary emails so I could really do without these thank you very much, THS!
Have these emails been going out with this copy for long? Or have they been updated recently? I’m ruthless with trashing emails, often just based on subject line, so I’d never read one till today.
I was thinking it would be funny for us to write mock copy. Like about how sitters wailed and rended our garments over the loss of a sit sacrificed to indifference.
There’s another new one for sitters that comes up as an alert after 3/4 days of a sit that says “How’s your sit at Bob’s going? Send them an update and let them know about their pets.” We had already been in comms with the HO on what’s app but sent an “update” on the platform when it arrived (in case the HO had been sent it too, she hadn’t). This is also overdoing it for us. #lessbuggingplease
Does the HO get similar e-mails?
«How’s your reviewing going? Make sure to let your applicants be informed of your process. They might opt out on you if you don’t communicate in a timely matter».
Which reminds me. I have an application I need to withdraw this weekend. 
@Cuttlefish We’ve never received that one (thank goodness!).
Wow! That’s new to me too! If only the THS team would get on with resolving the issues that need resolving instead of designing these patronising and childish messages!
Mock rewrite: Bob doesn’t want to bother micromanaging you, so we will. Come on already. Bob’s waiting on your update. … Oh, wait, never mind.
Withdrew application as haven’t heard anything for four days (although application was read almost immediately.) Took them 20 min to say they were sorry. Just proves the point. 
If you remind me, say, around September 17, I will report.
So, that’s what this looks like. I had dreaded it would be much more drab and impersonal. At least it’s kinda decent.
And of course you shouldn’t get this for sits you declined already. Sometimes I think THS has just hired the cheapest programmers they could get…
And the email from THS reminding us that our sit starts in 2 days when a week prior the dates had been adjusted and we didn’t actually start the sit for another 5 days. That one you definitely don’t need as you do a mini panic, check the dates and then breathe again. Bad enough when we often have no idea what day of the week it is never mind the date!
I think that I received this email because I did not actually click on the “decline” invitation button. I responded to this gentleman with a message instead, telling him that I am not able to help him.
When we apply to Sits, and the Owner chooses someone else, without responding to us at all, the message we get is very bland/drab. It simply says “Application declined.” Something like that, within the THS message system.
Those are just automated, aren’t they? Delete it and move on.
I got one the other day and figured it was just administrative. They had to cancel my invitation because I hadn’t clicked “decline”. They sent a nice invitation, I sent a nice reply that I couldn’t right now but perhaps they’d keep me in mind for a future sit, and they sent a polite acknowledgement. I’m not bothered by an automated thing coming in after that.
I just need to make sure that I hit the “decline” button each time, as the above email is annoying to me! I think we received about 5 invitations to sit in the past week.
Would love to know how these people find us, from all over the place. We live in Oregon, United States.
I wonder how one HO found me – they are in San Francisco and I am on the east coast of Canada!! I thought you could just search for “sitters near me”? Anyway, it would’ve been cool and I’d have said yes – why not!, but, Life Stuff in the way 
We are about to visit Quebec City and that area! So cool!
I was born in San Francisco, and my entire large family still lives in that area. We visit often.
Invitations are an open door to communication with a host. Maybe that SF sit will work out in the future sometime! Lodging in SF is so expensive; a great home in which to stay is a huge bonus! Hope you make it there someday!
I don’t ever remember getting a similar email after declining a sit invitation. I usually write a note to say “thanks but I can’t do those dates” or similar AND manually hit the “decline” button.
Touché !!!
