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I sent emails to few people on the bartertown boards and they didnt even have the courtesy to reply back after the intial email. If you want to sell something to somebody you need to reply back or if you dont like the offer tell the person so they can make a reply back that plain good manners.

Looking for manners on the internet is like looking for a girlfriend in a cemetary.

ewwwwwww

Yeah: almost impossible to find, but dammit there oughtta be one around here SOMEwhere!

insidius wrote:Looking for manners on the internet is like looking for a girlfriend in a cemetary.

Not the quote I would have used, but it does work.

dafrca

Looking for manners on the internet is like looking for a girlfriend in a cemetary.

LOL

Not easy to find what you're looking for but, sometimes, you're desperate enough to settle for whatever you can get a hold of?


Ewww..
'Sid. You nasty.

E

Please and thank you.

I have made several offers of late for possible trades, I never get replies or the person wants more from me than their stuff is worth.

It is frusterating, When i started here last year I had numerous great trades with great peeps. Now they want you to ship to them first and they have a rating ( ). There have been too many scams for me to send first if they have no rating.


Oh well thanks for listening to my rant!

I was just thinking the other day that we should start a thread on this, and if it becomes useful, make it a sticky or even part of Bartertown's policy.

Trouble is, Bartertown is a loose confederacy - anything that doesn't have to do directly with what happens here on the boards is nearly impossible to enforce. Still, maybe we could share some ideas that would make a good sticky.

I think rtomas30 is on the right track, but we need more than just a nebulous claim of "he didn't write me back and that hurt my feelings." I've been here on Bartertown for about six years, and in that time I've attempted to communicate with untold dozens of folks, many of whom didn't even respond with a "no, but thanks."

On the initial contact, there are many factors to consider. Your recipient, for example, may have a mail filter that blocks messages from your domain as spam; it would be as if he never even heard from you at all. He may have several offers and only chooses the best ones - the others (sadly, that may include yours) aren't even worth his time. He may have already sold/lost/eaten whatever it is he was advertising by the time he gets your note, or he may have reposted an old listing and forgot to edit out the pieces that have already left the collection!

What gets to me, and something that might work as a part of the board policy, is when a deal has been initiated, and one or the other parties backs out without telling his trading partner. This kind of behaviour really chaps my hide. In fact, I think it's just barely this side of the line for what would constitute a negative trader reference: you had a deal going, both parties seemed to agree with what was going on, and then inexplicably he retracts his offer without word or warning.

I would certainly think twice before trying to negotiate again with a person who behaved like that!