Bad Trader: @bstyle

You weren't clear on anything, except for your feelings.

 

Based on everything that you have just laid out, I have no idea how you can possible believe that this box actually exists. I'm not trying to be harsh, but you are obviously blinded by the fact that you guys had a good relationship over the last year or so. The excuses that were given are not innocent to me, they are juvenile. I'm not saying that things like "left the box at home on accident" don't happen, however, that should only delay shipping a day or two at most. Personally, if I actually had a box packed up and ready to go it would drive me insane to not ship it out and get that task off my plate. Only the laziest of individuals could stare at a packed box for weeks and not ship it out.

Also, if this box did exist then you would have the tracking number. I'm a nice guy but I will not be tracking your box for you at your request after I drop it off and send you the number and the ETA given to me by the shipping company. Even if it slipped my mind to send the tracking number to you, I would immediately send it over if you asked me for the progress. I'm not going to personally track your box for you when I could just send you the number and you could handle it yourself.

While I do not track my partner's boxes to send them updates, I do monitor the progress so that I know that everything is okay with the package. If I noticed that a box was delayed I would immediately let them know. The fact that as of today this box that is "on the way" is on day 7 when it should have only taken 4, and yet you have no tracking number and no update from your trade partner is a huge red flag. Best of luck, but at this point this does not look good at all. While this person may have a good reputation, this is not good trader behavior and they should be named so that they know that you are not going to tolerate this any longer as it sounds like you have asked for this return box more than enough times at this point.

 

This can easily be verified by gaining access to the tracking # in question. I think we all know that this new information is highly questionable at best. Get your box and move on from this love affair. It's unfortunate to know that someone else will now end up dealing with this guy.

 

It only took a few minutes to figure out who this is. Thank you for the tip.

 

I'm able to track any incoming shipments via my Fedex, UPS, and USPS apps, regardless of whether the shipper has provided me with a tracking number. If you have these apps set up and don't see any tracking info, then your trading partner never actually sent anything to you. Delivery exceptions can happen (they have happened to me a handful of times w/ Fedex), but you should be able to confirm them via your Fedex/UPS/USPS app.

 

This must be your first time reading one of his comments. I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that the Untappd buyout went down because BA was having trouble maintaining the servers due solely to this guy's overly lengthy commentary.

 

Hey, do not detract from the overly verbose contributions of the rest of us long winded BAs

 

Did you ask your trade partner for a tracking number? You can use it to see that there was an exception.

 

it’s pretty simple at this point, either tell the guy this thread exists and he will be tagged if beer not received or just tag them already. A lot of handwringing going on here.

 

Didn’t want to like every comment that suggested to out the trader, but yeah out the guy. You came to this specific forum for advice and it’s been giving and you’re being stubborn about taking it. Completely understand where you’re coming from but shit happens. Good luck

 

Annnnd, coming from me it must sound absurd, but...this guy man. He has me blocked, clearly, because he spent an inordinate amount of time hand wringing in the trade value thread over "why won't people just send me whalez for my shitty beer it's not fair beer values are unjust (for me only)" and I called him out on it.

I can be an overly verbose poster but this guy is so up in his feelings all the time without recognizing other people are experiencing the same world he is, and he fails to step back and look at a better way to go about things.

This thread is only making that more painfully clear. So much that could have been done on his part to make the experience better. Not just in his trade, but also in being concise and more importantly, FORTHCOMING, as to the facts of this case. I can't help but feel that there's been a lot of intentional withholding of information.

 

Based on info in this thread and OP trading feedback there seems to be only 1 option. If you’re so inclined to look.

 

Welp this was a giant waste of 30 minutes