cancelling trade while box is in transit...

This thread delivered. thanks!

 

What was in the growler? Inquiring minds want to know...

 

There are definitely a few question marks about the timing, and communication of shipping info on the OPs end.

I've also never heard of a Fed Ex store not getting a pick up for 2 days, unless it's some store that isn't affiliated with Fed Ex.

Why don't you post the tracking number, and let us all see the timing of how this went down

 

I had a growler of Citra get lost for almost two weeks in the hot hot hot summer and it was still bangin-as-all-hell when I got it. I think the dude is freaking out about nothing.

 

Such a jacka$$...my very favorite kind of jacka$$.

Have you ever authored a post I didn't like??

My $0.02, check the "Ship" email box on FedEx Shipping page, and it is when the label is printed. Check the "Tendered" box, and it is when the package is ACTUALLY scanned at FedEx for the truck. I have had a number of people think I was dumb enough to be duped by that one. Multiple errors here, chalk it up, and send me my growler. (Mine only NEEDS to be by NEXT Friday.)

(ALL CAPS = CLEAR communication)

 

Tell that to Mr. Hill.

I promise this my last HF joke!

 

Kern River, AKA the OG Citra. Hill is biting KRBC's steez.

 

FYI-Traded with jmarsh123...several times...and know a dozen others personally that have...WAY awesome trader.

I'm sure no one's a villain here. Miscommunications galore, with everyone getting their beer back. I'm pretty sure this thread has run it's course.

 

and the "worst analogy of the day" award goes to: you. whether you'd "like" to win the jackpot or not, the store doesn't tell you that your ticket is a winner. the sender said he'd get the package to the receiver by friday. think harder about your analogies next time, to safeguard against irrelevance.

the receiver should have been more explicit, and the sender shouldn't have assumed that "by friday" meant "whenever, but preferably by friday." lessons learned.

 

i like that you didn't bother thinking at all.

the analogy is bad. lottery tickets come with no assurance of winning. telling someone you'll get a package to them by friday is fundamentally different, even if everyone involved is A Casual Dude.

believing your analogy is valid would make you stupid. refusing to rethink it and accept my criticism would make you stubborn. i wonder which one you are.

 

you're missing his point. what he's saying (whether he realizes it or not) is "if i say the package will get to you by friday, what i mean is that it will get to you at some point, probably. i mean, trading's a big gamble, y'know!?"

also, his point is that when someone says to you "i'd like the package by friday," you're supposed to ignore context and just assume he's expressing a desire. apparently in his world, people just spontaneously blurt out preferences. so, for example, this kind of exchange wouldn't strike him as strange:

"ok, 6 east coast locals for 6 west coast locals. i'll get a tracking number to you tomorrow. i wish i could get laid every day."

"sounds good. i like to drink coffee every day. i'll get a tracking number to you in a few days."

surely when someone says "i'd like the package by friday," it's the same thing as just blurting out "i like music." by the same token, when someone says they like IPAs, they're not trying to point you in the right direction for extras, they're just tourette's style telling you stuff that doesn't matter at all.

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tl;dr or "sarcasm free version": this guy doesn't understand that you don't write "i'd like it by friday" out of the blue, but rather only when it makes a difference when you get the package.

i have 2 trades in the works. i'd like the packages to be in front of me right now, safe and sound and not destroyed by the heat wave. for 1 of the trades i haven't sent my box out yet either. i'd like that one teleported to the receiver by the end of the day. i haven't communicated any of these desires to my trading partners, because it doesn't make a difference when they send, and also i'm fairly sure that if they thought about it they would know trivially that i have desires like "i want all the great beer in the world to be in front of me right now."

 

How is this thread alive, aside from me bumping it again?

 

kuemmelbrau bumped it up from oblivion because he took offense to people being so stuffy as to mean things that they say.

p.s. if you don't like that this ridiculous thread is still going, you could always report it and request a lock. i mean, i can probably count on 1 hand the things in the world that are easier than getting BA threads locked.