Trade etiquette

[Thom Lambert]

I am curious how other folks feel about this. In the last week, I have corresponded, or attempted to correspond, with several forumites about potential trades. Normally, I am nothing but impressed with other forumites. Latelly, I have been experiencing lots of un-answered queries in threads, as well as unanswered emails.

If you post something available for trade, should you respond to all requests (I think so), even if you aren't interested?

How responsible should forumites be for keeping their trade/sale threads updated?

Does anyone else think it would be cool if items that are no longer available could be "tagged" in the index of threads?

Thanks all,
Thom

 

[u812]

I noticed this too,although I forget to update a post ever now and then.
This is just one of several over the past couple weeks.
I had a t shirt for sell on ebay.It ended with no buyers.A little while after it ended someone emailed me and asked if I would still sell it at the starting bid,I said yes and sent them the Pay Pal address.They reply back and sent the mailing address but no payment.day and a half later I sent a email thinking they may have miss keyed the address.Reply was that he had not had time and he would send it when he had a chance to log on,if you are sending an email arn't you loged on .Anyway 2 days later no contact and for 13.00 I was not going to keep emailing him,I traded it.Low and behold today I get a Pay pal payment.I refunded it to him with a note saying I had sold it because I thought he changed his mind.

 

[geegee]

How responsible should forumites be for keeping their trade/sale threads updated?

Real responsible, as in just do it! It all goes hand in glove with trading courtesy. Pretty obvious, but the lack of doing so is nowhere near as annoying as not responding to emails.

I figure dealing with it is all part of the learning curve. What are you going to do when your favorite knife forums add so many new members each week? Some just catch on a little quicker than others. geegee

 

[notdos]

I agree,, keeping your threads updated is important,,,but please don't reply to your on thread Sold and send a post from 4 pages down back to the top. Just click on your thread and find the edit button,,type the words sold or traded and leave it at that. Anybody who is interested in your item will have to click on it anyway and see that its sold or traded thus keeping old threads from being sent back up because someone wanted to say sold.

 

[Thom Lambert]

Geegee,
Yes, I think you and I might be trying to get a response from the same person.

Notdos,
Thanks for the tip....I think I have done the wrong thing, becuse I didn't realise I could edit my original post for awhile. The capability to do so is different here than on the 'other' forum.

Thom