General Forum

I feel the membership here tends to be too nice sometimes and it causes extra members to get burned by the same person. I don't recall off hand what the paramters are for changing a feedback rating you give and I don't have the time to look at the moment but this feels like a transaction that should be marked as negative and probably adjusted to neutral if the trade gets completed (due to lack of proper communication).

Agreed. Forgive me for not going back and looking, but someone earlier in the thread said it too.

Negative feedback should be left when it's a negative experience when trading with someone. Do it to protect others, if nothing else. I can appreciate waiting for a while because we are human, and there are plenty of stories about a trade being completed after someone got out of the hospital or some other crazy happening.

I only remember one instance of retaliatory feedback being brought up. I understand it's a concern, but don't know how frequently it really happens. Perhaps Admin could implement something like on eBay - I believe (and could be wrong, forgive me if I am) that when negative feedback is left, the person it was left with has a place to respond. It doesn't change the feedback, but at least gives context. 

Anyway...back to the issue at hand. Just wanted to say that I agree whole-heartedly with this.

I am looking for some best practice guidelines regarding a trade I made that I have not received.  Two months ago, in January, I proposed a trade with someone who I had successfully traded with before through this site, and it was accepted.  I sent out my cards on Jan. 20, he marked that he sent the cards on Jan 23.  In the meantime, I noticed that he had stopped accepting trades, but I was not worried because mine were already in the mail.  The cards I sent out were marked as received and the trade completed on the other end on 1/25.  I have still not yet received the cards.

After a few weeks, I reached out to the individual to confirm that the cards were indeed sent.  Perhaps they were forgotten in whatever caused the indivdual to stop trading.  No big deal in my mind, mistakes like that could happen.  Perhaps they were lost in the mail, who knows.  I never received a response to the message confirming that the cards were indeed sent.  I waited a few weeks and sent another message.  Again there is no response.  The messages were sent through the trade portal.  I tried to send a direct message to the indivdiual, however he has turned off all messages.

In checking his profile, he is still logging on on a regular basis.

I know that there are many issues that may come up, whether it is the mail, a life issue, or something else.  However I am befuddled that they have not responded to the messages sent through the trade portal and have turned off messages on the site, yet they still log onto the site nearly every day.  Some communication would be nice.

I am not looking to leave negative feedback, but if someone cannot be easily reached and does not respond to messages, I feel like I have to at some point.

For those of you who have been in a similar situation, what are the best practices as to how to handle this?

Thanks

Agreed. Forgive me for not going back and looking, but someone earlier in the thread said it too.

Negative feedback should be left when it's a negative experience when trading with someone. Do it to protect others, if nothing else. I can appreciate waiting for a while because we are human, and there are plenty of stories about a trade being completed after someone got out of the hospital or some other crazy happening.

I only remember one instance of retaliatory feedback being brought up. I understand it's a concern, but don't know how frequently it really happens. Perhaps Admin could implement something like on eBay - I believe (and could be wrong, forgive me if I am) that when negative feedback is left, the person it was left with has a place to respond. It doesn't change the feedback, but at least gives context. 

Anyway...back to the issue at hand. Just wanted to say that I agree whole-heartedly with this.

I voted...at least, I guess "1" means yes. This would be a great, needed feature.