Other Trader disappeared before I could complete trade.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:07 pm
I am having the direct opposite problem of the typical "bad trader." I have never run into this problem, nor have I ever seen anybody have this problem, so I thought I would bring it before everyone else and see if what I have done is OK.
Back in late January - early February I entered into negotiations with another trader from Milwaukee where he would send me a variety of GW's Epic stuff for some of PP Hordes Skorne. He mentioned that it was a collection of Epic stuff that his Epic playing friends had given to him when they stopped playing and/or left town. (It was a bit of an odd collection of stuff with a lot of excess bits included.) We agreed upon what each was going to send, and since this was a big trade and he had the lower rating I got him to send first. He was very laid back about everything and this looked like it would be a great trade. No big deal up to this point.
He sent only about half of his part of the trade, yet I had not sent anything. I contacted him, repeatedly, and requested he send the rest. As part of those requests I also asked that he send me his address since the return address labels were handwritten and hard to decipher. All of my communications stressed that I was wanting to complete the trade, either partially or completely, and that I wanted to make sure he was happy with the trade.
Most of the replies, while they still came, said that Real Life had made him busy, that he had the remaining items and just hadn't gotten around to sending them. Despite repeated requests he never sent his mail address.
I tried what Internet search techniques I knew to try different variations on the address from the return address labels to see if I could find and contact this trader some other way. All of those searches lead me to believe that the return address was either incorrectly written or fraudulant.
Eventually my correspondence to him has stopped yielding replies. I have not heard from him in a couple of months. It doesn't look like I am going to hear from this guy again.
So here it is: I have stuff from this other trader and I have sent him nothing, and this other trader has stopped talking to me. I want to send him something, but I can't since I don't know where to send it. Every indication is that I am not going to hear from this trader again, even though I want to do the right thing and complete the trade.
Do I write him off and go on with life?
Do I go ahead and try to trade the Skorne stuff to another trader?
Even if I trade the Skorne and he does come back do I tell him tough luck, his fault because he broke communication?
What do you reccommend I do?
Back in late January - early February I entered into negotiations with another trader from Milwaukee where he would send me a variety of GW's Epic stuff for some of PP Hordes Skorne. He mentioned that it was a collection of Epic stuff that his Epic playing friends had given to him when they stopped playing and/or left town. (It was a bit of an odd collection of stuff with a lot of excess bits included.) We agreed upon what each was going to send, and since this was a big trade and he had the lower rating I got him to send first. He was very laid back about everything and this looked like it would be a great trade. No big deal up to this point.
He sent only about half of his part of the trade, yet I had not sent anything. I contacted him, repeatedly, and requested he send the rest. As part of those requests I also asked that he send me his address since the return address labels were handwritten and hard to decipher. All of my communications stressed that I was wanting to complete the trade, either partially or completely, and that I wanted to make sure he was happy with the trade.
Most of the replies, while they still came, said that Real Life had made him busy, that he had the remaining items and just hadn't gotten around to sending them. Despite repeated requests he never sent his mail address.
I tried what Internet search techniques I knew to try different variations on the address from the return address labels to see if I could find and contact this trader some other way. All of those searches lead me to believe that the return address was either incorrectly written or fraudulant.
Eventually my correspondence to him has stopped yielding replies. I have not heard from him in a couple of months. It doesn't look like I am going to hear from this guy again.
So here it is: I have stuff from this other trader and I have sent him nothing, and this other trader has stopped talking to me. I want to send him something, but I can't since I don't know where to send it. Every indication is that I am not going to hear from this trader again, even though I want to do the right thing and complete the trade.
Do I write him off and go on with life?
Do I go ahead and try to trade the Skorne stuff to another trader?
Even if I trade the Skorne and he does come back do I tell him tough luck, his fault because he broke communication?
What do you reccommend I do?
