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I have a question on how I should handle a trade.

I accepted a trade from a new member to the site and told him that, since he is new, I would prefer to wait to receive the cards before shipping his out.  He said he understands and agreed to my wishes.  In a later message, he stated the cards were pulled and he will ship them out in a couple days.  That was 1 month ago.  Since then, the cards have not been marked as shipped, I have not received them and he has not responded to 3 messages I have sent him through the trade and he is still listed as logged in.  

I want to give him some more time and assume he has run into some difficulty and not been on the site lately.  My question is, when I decide it's been long enough, how do I remove the trade from "in progress" without him also marking the trade as complete?

There is, problem & unfinished in the option.

But it's been so long I've forgotten what one dose what. So posting this will help, someone will explain what they both do. I don't want to mix them up on you.

But do post feedback on his page to give everyone a warning if it hits the wall. 

Hey @awgydawgy this guy makes me look perfect :)

I believe you mark the trade as unfinished and then have to wait for 60 days or inactivity on the trade and then it will go away (I'm not positive on the time frame).

I had one and marked it forgotten (I believe that was the word) and about 60 days later it was Gon-zalez (gone) 

I would mark it as "Problem" first. Give that 3-7 days. If he/she still desn't respond, change it to "Unfinished". If nothing about the trade changes (no status changes or messages inside the trade), it will disappear 90 days after changing to Unfinished (unless that has changed recently) and the cards you have stay in your FS/T list. Since nothing has been marked as shipped, that's all the info you need in this case.

I had this issue a couple of months ago. I was told by a member to mark it problem and it will go away after 90 days. My 90 days is tomorrow so we will see what happens

Just to give update. My transaction was marked as a problem and did not go away after 90 days. So I marked it unfinished

 Now to wait another 90 days to see what happens

"Problem" means there is a chance to work it out. "Unfinished" means the trade will never get completed. Just posting it so everyone reading this thread knows for the future.

Thanks everyone for the advice.  He told me he thought they were sent but hadn't been and that was a week ago.  I moved it to unfinished and sent him a heads up of what that means.