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After 25 successful trades, I have had my first negative trade experience. 

In the last month I accepted a trade with AnthonyL. He has 100% positive feedback with 98 comments. My belief is that something personal came up that has taken precedent in his life.

I sent my cards October 3rd and he marked them received October 9th. He marked his cards as sent on the 3rd as well. I have still not received them. 

I sent multiple messages this week and have received no replies.

If anyone has any insight on this collector, it would be appreciated. With 98 positive reviews, I feel he is owed the benefit of the doubt. But an entire week of silence despite numerous attempts to contact is discouraging. I notified him that I will remove my negative review if he can get in touch with me.

 

 

You sent multiple messages this week and received no replies, but his last login was on the 18th almost two weeks ago.  You can't expect a reply if they haven't logged onto the site.

I've traded twice with him, both came no issues. Most recent is marked received on his end but not complete. Do see he hasn't logged on the site since oct 18. I was going to reach out to him on Twitter tomorrow to see if he's on there. I have been wondering if something happened. 

I hope everything is ok with him.  It sounds like something has came up in his life.  

Yes, I feel like something came up. His trade feedback seemed very regular until about 8 days ago. I don't think you get 98 positive reviews without being a well intentioned trader. But I also feel like a posting a month after not receiving cards is justified. Right?

Is it reasonable to assume he would be receiving emails notifying him he has new messages though?

It does seem odd that the cards were marked and not received, was it a pwe trade or bubble mailer? I'm wondering if it's a delayed shipping; know some pwe have been moving very slowly. While others move overnight it seems. 

I'd hold hope that he will make it right for you, he seems like a good guy. Know he is in same state as me and we are definitely at our spike in this pandemic, I'm hoping him or a family member are not ill, however that could be why he hasn't logged on. 

I have also traded with Anthony in the past month with no issues. In the past couple of months, I've had a couple of different trades that have taken over one month to arrive, postmarked when the other trader said they were sent. Perhaps this is just a simple delay in mail which is possible with the climate we are in. I know it can be frustrating not receving your end of a trade, heck we've all been there, but I've got to think you are being a tad hasty in leaving a negative comment, especially when you said in your initial post you will give him the benefit of the doubt. As someone else noted already noted, you can't expect replies to your messages this week when he hasn't even been logged on since the 18th.

I too have completed a trade with him, and received his cards, but he has not "completed' his part yet. I also saw he has not been on since the 18th, so figured he has more important things going on right now, and totally understand that things happen. Hope all is well and he'll be back soon.

He may not have email notifications on also. I don't have them on so my regular email doesn't get flooded with messages. Based on past history and having been off for a bit I would lean towards benefit of the doubt. Could be a life event, could be a reserve/National Guard member called for service, we have a few members who fall into that category.