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What is the appropriate way to cancel an accepted trade?

After agreeing to terms, we had some temporary issue finding the cards. That has been resolved but we decided to not go thru with the deal after all. 

Whats the best way to accomplish this without our Databases getting messed up?

thanks for any help

I suggest you both go through the motions as if cards were sent/received and close out the trade, otherwise expect to wait 90 days for it to be removed. If you do as I suggest then you can simply add the cards back on your Trade Lists.

In the future I strongly suggest you confirm cards you're offering or are being asked for, else you run into another missing card problem.

After looking over a trade offer, I will let the other member that I accept the tade in principle but to confirm the availability of cards proposed while I do the same at my end.  Some are good for doing this, others less so.  It is frustrating when a trade is proposed based on cards you need only to find out that some cards are not available AFTER the trade is Accepted, especially when the cards missing are some of the key cards in the trade.

This has often been discussed in the Forums as a point of frustration; you would think that by now this would be standard practice.

So, what happened here is, I made a blind-offer to someone for a card in their collection. Upon review they agreed and picked one of my cards. (A card I had literally seen 24 hours earlier.) But when I went to look for it, I had mis-placed it, so I let them know immediately. Before I found my card, (24 hours later), I had actually acquired the card I wanted by other means. So I gave the other person the option to complete the trade, or cancel.

In this case, a 1-1 deal will be pretty easy to modify in the DB, but I figured it would be a good learning opporutnity too.

What will the *Problem" option in Transactions do? sounds like it might work here, but I wouldn't want anything to negatively affect either of our ratings etc...

Using the "Problem" is the 90-day path for deletion of the transaction.

Excellent. Thank you.