Is Deckbox full of scammers?

I have over 100 trades here (probably close to 130-150 if you count people who are to lazy to leave feedback) and I have had the following issues. 1. a trader in canada who got hit with customs fees, was adjudicated by DB. 2 times I failed to receive cards, once the user got them back roughly a month later, the other I am not sure. Twice user did not receive my cards, once I compensated him (was like $5) and the other i got it back wrong address, confirmed address and resent, no issue. (stupid post office)

MOTL is frankly more work to engage in a trade, so I'm sure the effort level weeds out some people. Deckbox is a better platform, but the ease of use probably attracts a few more undesirables? I don't trade heavily but I still use deckbox on a regular basis and feel confident in the system. I just use a simple rule of thumb, if I'm not comfortable with accepting a loss on a trade, I pay for tracking. If I shrug  about the cards getting lost and possibly having to replace them, I send it PWE.

As far as condition, I find it isn't just a deckbox thing, but a cards thing. If condition matters, ask. If they swear its NM after you double checked, open a BTR. (assuming you can't work it out with them) I deal in less than NM cards a good bit from collections, but I do 2 things. I don't mark cards as any condition, and I will make sure a trade partner knows if a card is not nm. I also am happy to take pictures of any card. I haven't had anyone contact me about condition issues yet.

Last edited by jassi007 (2014-12-30 14:13:44)

You really think the post office doesn't lose mail? I tried to find some facts or figures, apparently it is not something that is really tracked, but most estimate come in around 1% ? That does mean that out of roughly 154 billion parcels sent, a billion or so don't arrive. It is a small percent but a large number.

Really? How about vehicle accidents mail trucks/planes. Destroyed beyond delivery (ie not just ripped/torn but damaged to the point where they can't read either address). Misdelivered and the accidental recipient doesn't put it back in the mail to be redelivered. Dropped/lost by the carrier and not recovered or recovered by another party. Can you seriously not think of things that could happen to an envelope on a 1000 mile journey that it may not arrive?

Even if the number you quoted is correct, and it would be nice if it was that insanely low (I don't believe it is) that is 38.5 million pieces of lost mail a year.

I'm not really trying to stir something up, you just seem really incredulous about undelivered mail to the point where it seems kind of silly. It happens to millions if not a billion or so pieces of mail a year. Like even if its 99.9% of all mail is delivered, thats still 150 million parcels not delivered successfully. It isn't a trivial number. There are 117 million households in the U.S. That means per year it happens to everyone at least once. Which means really it happens to some people more than once per year. It happens.

Last edited by jassi007 (2014-12-30 18:00:01)

I've received enough mangled pieces of mail to know that sometimes there are sorting machine mishaps.  Toploaders increase the risks of a sorting accident.