In April, I arranged a trade with fanklyit. We agreed to ship via USPS with Delivery Confirmation. He lost the delivery confirmation number, but I got the package and the trade was fine.
In early May, we arranged another trade - his BM Apparition for my SOG PE II. We agreed to trade via USPS with D.C. again. He got the SOG PE II just fine, but I didn't get my package when expected. He had lost the D.C.# again, but this time no package. He said it must have been lost in the mail and quickly agreed to return my knife. If he had been able to produce a delivery confirmation number, I would have just written it off to a lost package. However, he had again failed to send a delivery confirmation number, and I thought it was odd that he was so quick to suggest returning my knife. We agreed that he would return the SOG PE II.
By the middle of June, I still had not received the knife. At this point, I asked him to delay shipping it for a couple weeks as I was relocating and did not want to lose it in the process.
When I got relocated, I notified him of my new shipping address, but I got no response. Then, after I posted a thread for him to contact me in GB&U (search 'fanklyit', and you'll find the thread), he said that he really liked the SOG and basically gave me a choice of two knives other than my knife - a Kershaw JYD II or a BM Leopard, both worth less than my knife. I figured I'd cut my losses and said I'd take the JYD. He said he'd mail it to me. He has repeated this promise a couple of times over more than month. Still, no knife.
I e-mailed him last Friday (to three different e-mail addresses), but he has not gotten back to me.
He has experienced some personal problems / difficulties in this time period, and I'm sympathetic to these, but he has initiated and completed at least one other trade in the last month without completing our deal.
Am I out of line in expecting him to return my knife or send another knife?
Has anyone else had a problem dealing with fanklyit?
In early May, we arranged another trade - his BM Apparition for my SOG PE II. We agreed to trade via USPS with D.C. again. He got the SOG PE II just fine, but I didn't get my package when expected. He had lost the D.C.# again, but this time no package. He said it must have been lost in the mail and quickly agreed to return my knife. If he had been able to produce a delivery confirmation number, I would have just written it off to a lost package. However, he had again failed to send a delivery confirmation number, and I thought it was odd that he was so quick to suggest returning my knife. We agreed that he would return the SOG PE II.
By the middle of June, I still had not received the knife. At this point, I asked him to delay shipping it for a couple weeks as I was relocating and did not want to lose it in the process.
When I got relocated, I notified him of my new shipping address, but I got no response. Then, after I posted a thread for him to contact me in GB&U (search 'fanklyit', and you'll find the thread), he said that he really liked the SOG and basically gave me a choice of two knives other than my knife - a Kershaw JYD II or a BM Leopard, both worth less than my knife. I figured I'd cut my losses and said I'd take the JYD. He said he'd mail it to me. He has repeated this promise a couple of times over more than month. Still, no knife.
I e-mailed him last Friday (to three different e-mail addresses), but he has not gotten back to me.
He has experienced some personal problems / difficulties in this time period, and I'm sympathetic to these, but he has initiated and completed at least one other trade in the last month without completing our deal.
Am I out of line in expecting him to return my knife or send another knife?
Has anyone else had a problem dealing with fanklyit?
Seems the only way he'll respond. :thumbdn: