Thought I'd put my 2 cents in on the bad trader issue. Allot of the discussion has been about traders who never delivery or never return emails about shipments. To me, there's another type of 'bad trader'. It's the ones who will actually get you the goods agreed on, but you have to pester, bother or beg!

It's understandable that everyone, at different points of time, get swamped with things - and things get backed up. But a 'good trader' will be either upfront with the trading partner and explain the trade might take x amount of time to complete (and the other person would then have the option to cancel the trade or wait). Or the other way is to communicate to the trader the progress ("I expect to have your stuff done in x days/weeks").

If you ARE that trader who is constantly bogged down with queues of stuff to get done, and have not choice but to delay stuff getting done, then the solution is simple - don't take on any more trades until you catch up. But many of the traders who get themselves in trouble, promise more and more traders materials, then they get in over their heads.

If you communicate well, most people will be understanding and not look to brand you as a bad trader. But ignore them, or not openly tell them you might have difficulties delivery the goods in a short time frame, then you desire any label they give you. I trade with many people who can't immediately or shortly get the materials out to me, but because they've been up front, and they let me know their progress every once in a while, I give them credit.

/SoapBox Off

Kevin

i have been wanting to say this for quite sometime!!
a trader who takes on 10 trades at once and doesn't reply to each one of them,and keeps them all wondering what is going on is considered by me to be this type of bad trader.
if you take on too much you have nobody to blame but yourself and its unfair to everyone involved.
if i received numerous requests all at once i would say to the one that got in first yours will be taken care of straight away, and then too the others i would put them in a queue and tell them "i could get to yours in x amount of days/weeks".
emails are so quick i have even typed replies in the subject heading and left the message blank just to let someone know what is going on.for people who take months to reply you can't tell me that you haven't turned on your computer in all that time and haven't had a chance to spend 1 minute to email somebody
(this is not aimed at people who have had their computer crash on them this has happened to me twice but i STILL managed to send my part of the trade)
one other thing don't be afraid to say "no i can't help you" or "i am too busy" a lot of traders would rather this than too be left wondering!
this post is not targeted at any one trader that i am dealing with or have dealt with in the past.its aimed at people i have given up on and people who frequent these boards regularly who are going through the same problems.
i will get off my soapbox now :rant: :wave:

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