Topic: My side of a trade went missing....

So it's been two weeks and my side of the trade went missing. I sent out my cards the same way I have several times in the past, with a couple of stamps on a small bubble mailer inside my local post office. Another letter I mailed from the same location a couple days later (going to the same state) arrived within normal transit time a couple weeks ago now.

My trading partner has not sent his side of the trade due to his policy of not sending trades simultaneously to users with less than 20 positive feedback.

I understand that the cards I sent out are considered my responsibility since I didn't send with tracking and have no way to prove they were actually received, but I'm unsure of where to go from here. We still have the trade active of course (( http://deckbox.org/trades/203793?s=34654 )) but it sounds like it cannot be expected for the cards to find their way through the mail and actually arrive, assuming they didn't arrive and were not merely misplaced by the recipient or another at that address.

I was hoping a Moderator could shed some light on this situation and give me and my trading partner some insight on where to go from here. Obviously we'd both like to avoid non-positive feedback, but are unsure of how to handle this situation.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Dustin

Re: My side of a trade went missing....

Since tracking was not used, it is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the cards are delivered (or returned). Now, you guys will need to agree on another form of compensation - either you send again or PayPal your trade partner the original cost of the trade.

Please refer to the Deckbox Trade Rules for more information: http://deckbox.org/help/trade_rules

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Re: My side of a trade went missing....

Since the other person hasn't sent their cards, would an option be just to cancel the trade?

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Re: My side of a trade went missing....

Kammikaze wrote:

Since the other person hasn't sent their cards, would an option be just to cancel the trade?

Yes, I apologize, you are correct. Another option would be to just cancel the trade.

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Re: My side of a trade went missing....

Its quite possible as well that the cards are being returned to you with improper postage. The PO can be very fickle at times with how postage is handled and often wont accept stamps on Bubble Mailers so it will be returned to sender. Granted this could just be my own loving state of NY being a PITA which why I only use stamps on reg envelopes. I would advise that for future trades, you pick a limit for which you'll send with tracking automatically and therefore have a fall back on how where the cards should they not arrive in a timely fashion.

As for this trade, if the cards havent been recieved by the end of the week, the options laid out by Kammikaze and AsymptmaticPyrexia are what you options are if you choose to continue with the completing the trade or just cancelling it.

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Re: My side of a trade went missing....

My personal threshold for using tracking is $30 or if the trader is new. Some people do $20, some people do $50, some people use it for 100% of their trades. Here is Deckbox's guide for shipping cards. I personally use paypal.com/shipnow for tracking.

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