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It happens a lot. When I put a trade out there I leave it on a month. If no responce I withdraw it.

There have been times I haven't noticed I've gotten messages until I read my email letting me know.  I have sometimes missed messages by a few days because of this.  When I read them I don't always respond immediately because I think of how to reply. 

That being said whether I decide to accept or decline a trade offer (usually I decline because I'm slow on shipping stuff and don't want the trader to worry if or when they'll get cards), I always return a message.  To me that's common courtesy, and even if I decline, it leaves the door open for a possible future trade.  Hearing no response from someone would just make me want to add the to a list of people I don't want to trade with because they don't take time to respond.

As was iterated in the last couple of posts I'll generally leave it for a couple of weeks and if I don't hear anything back I'll remove it. I'm not sure I've ever had to decline an offer (probably less than 20% of my trades were from offers)  but I may have countered one or two. I find that the majority of people who actually want to trade will make an effort to do so.

My 2 cents worth   Most of my trades are less the 4 cards

I have quit making offers for the most part.  1. I have withdrawn 10 offers after waiting 2 weeks or more.  With several messages to the members with no replies.     2.  main reason   I need one or two cards and I have a lot of cards that they need.  I want them to pick out the cards and not me.

Now when I get an alert I will message the member and ask if they are interested in a trade.  1. 10%  I do get offers that way.  2.  10% I get NO thanks for many reasons.  3.  80% I get no replies.

I also send messages when I see I have 100s of cards that one member needs.  I offer the members to set the price for any or all.    1.  95%   I get no replies.   2.  I 4%   I get No Thanks to buying     3. 1%  Have done a deal

No replies are frustrating.

If I propose a trade and hear nothing back after 1 week, I'll send a message.  After 15 days if still nothing I will withdraw the trade.

Guilty as charged!  I looked through my messages and saw that I missed one...yours.  Please accept my sincerest apologies.

Chuck, that has to be the best picture of you I have ever seen. 

But on that note, the message laert symbol of the envelope does not always appear by my name, so much so that I now have taken the habit of checking messages even when there is no envelope symbol.

I usually send a message first asking if they have time for a trade before I pull cards or take time to make an offer

mark

The dreaded no response is very frustrating. I even see some members who say they are looking for trade partners so I try a request with no response. 

My usual routine is to wait two weeks with an email after a week. When the two weeks are up I'll just withdraw the offer. I try to always send a message back quickly to a request that I receive. I have had to decline some trades because of multiple offers requesting the same card or cards. 

I try to answer back within 1-3 days. What gets me is when I send an offer and it's declined without a response. Sure, it's their right. But, how am I supposed to know what I did wrong? Why not counter? I'm no expert with prices on football cards and I've had a few trades declined that involved football cards, and I have no idea if I did something wrong. I don't understand why some people won't respond, I'm not waiting over 2 weeks for a response when they log in daily.