A SUCCESSFUL TRADE....yea, right

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OK, here comes the rant....


I'm posting this not as a result of a recent trade that went picture perfect. This rant is a result of prior trade attempts, and subsequent trade attempts.

I'm sum up they key component of a successful trade...and you can quote me. "It has to be a little painful for BOTH parties" in order for it to be successful. It seems like every time I offer a reasonable trade, someone offers their pile of sh#% that's worth half of my trade offering, and is offended when I turn it down. They look around their knife drawer and find pieces they are no longer interested in, double the value of what they are actually worth (meaning what they can be actually sold for in real life), then poo poo the value of the piece I'm offering. Which by the way, is the same knife THEY WANT. I guess it's valuable to them until they have to give something up for it.

Come'on people...this isn't Sophie's choice.

I'll ad to this post later as I'm headed down the shore with my GF...got to go.
 
I don't know who Sophie is but I've been here 8 years longer than you and I've had one bad trade made right by the other party. I guess some do and some don't.
 
Its been my experience both here on BF and the other popular forum BST's that you will always find someone who is fishing for a "hot deal" by either low balling values, offering an item not properly described, etc.

Throughout my many trades I try to be as specific as possible in my thread and request interested parties respect my wishes. Ofcourse you will get people who do not read your entire thread and quickly email you with an offer. I will either respectfully reply with a simple "Thank you for your interest but not what I am looking for" or if it is a really lowball offer("Your Spyderco Orange PM2 for my Skyline and Recon1") I will not even reply.

I think we all do it. I am guilty of sending an email to someone who purposely wrote "NO SPYDERCOS" yet, in my offer I included Spydercos. And to be quite honest, there has been times that although the trader was not looking for Spydercos, we ended up doing the trade.

In a way, I use that first email as a gauge of the person. If I get an email stating "have seb 4 ur PT" I know that this might not be the best person to trade with. If you cant form a proper sentence(whether its pure laziness or education) I am not quite sure I want to have a transaction with you involving items costing 300+ dollars.

All in all, the internet is the public and just like in "real life" the public is make up of some characters. Steer clear and you should be good to go.


PS- I just took a look at some of the knives you trade. Those CRK's are quite beautiful and it should be expected that everyone and their mother is going to try a shot at getting one. IMO it just comes with the territory.
 
If I tried to mess with a guy on a trade, I'd just get conscience pangs and have to make it right anyway. I've had one guy who sold me a Strider with a broken tip, which actually had been reground (terribly) by the fellow who sold it to him. Strider made it right for me. Who could do it better? Love those guys. Heck, I usually lose money on any deal. Sold a brand new folder the other day, that is tight and beautiful, and I only lost about 15%. I call that a good day. I have a great hobby, and I expect that it's gonna cost me something.

Sonnydaze
 
When i first started out I was able to trade up quite a few times. I got really lucky.

Now that I have more of an expensive collection, I trade down, or value my knives lower almost always. I remember how it was not having a ton of nice knives, and I like helping people out. I'm the same with Sonny, I usually lose money on my trades, mostly just because I want a particular knife. I have also traded nice knives (crk, Striders, TAD) for multiple cheaper knives, which everyone wants to do.
 
It is very simple to politely decline an offer and move on. No need to be overly sensitive or take things personal.
 
cncpro11 said:
It is very simple to politely decline an offer and move on. No need to be overly sensitive or take things personal.
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This.
Also, make sure there is some closure as well. If someone starts a thread looking for a certain item then the least the party can do after utilizing hours of my free time is to maybe mention that the deal isn't working for them!
Sort of rude to just stop communicating in the middle of
 
cncpro11 said:
It is very simple to politely decline an offer and move on. No need to be overly sensitive or take things personal.
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Yes....you're correct....I should just spend the better part of my day declining all of those multiple chi-knees (spelled incorrectly out of utter disrespect) knives. Or, maybe I should put in the trade post....."please sell your 16 copied, lack of thought put into, let someone create then steal the idea, made on the backs of underpaid labor, cut every corner imaginable so the government you work for makes more profit knives, and pull a double at McD's to make up the difference on the trade before you waste my time" YEP..that's what I'll do.

Thanks!...much easier that way.
 
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