Bad Trader @bugdoc : MIA for an IP trade

Trade was accepted, you never got your beer, I could see this being a bad trade, although others may disagree. And just because you are not out beer, that isn't the only criteria for it being bad.

 

Bad feedback. That's a crappy move on his part.

 

I've said this before, many times, that not "being out of beer" does not negate a bad trade experience. If it's an experience that you'd never want to happen to another trader or yourself again, that's a bad experience and the trade feedback should reflect that. It's a negative feedback and his potential trade partners should know about it.

 

How long has this person been a member? How many completed trades? You could @mention them here and see if they will come on here and give their side of story.

 

Yes.

 

I fly with beer for IP trades pretty frequently, and I'll say that if I took all the hassle of flying that beer out only to be stood up, I'd be pretty unhappy. One could argue that it's more work to fly with beer than shipping it, because not only do you have to pack it very well, but then you are required to transport it yourself for the remainder of the trip (minus the time in the airplane). If they didn't reply to my messages after not showing up for the trade I'd have no qualms about leaving negative feedback.

 

Negative feedback seems pretty appropriate.

 

He hasn't been on BA in almost a month.

 

OP, time to leave appropriate feedback.

 

Doesn't the feedback get wiped if his partner doesn't also leave feedback though? So isn't this moot? Or am I misunderstanding how the system works? (I am new to trading on BA.)

 

I think this is only if both parties don't leave feedback.

 

#BINGO

Open Trades

• After 60 days, open trades are purged if they haven't received feedback from either user.

 

Isn't this a case of misaligned incentives? If you create a bad-trade environment (as a bad trader), isn't the optimum solution to just never provide feedback? Even if you have (as is the case here) 100% good feedback with a reasonable # of trades. If you make 1 bad trade, you can keep that off the books by just never responding. That seems to favor the bad trader since no one will probably search for 'bad trader threads' for someone with 100% feedback, right?

 

Look at this situation, contradicts what you have posted. Bad feedback left for bad trader,nothing for OP by BT, feedback still remains.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/bad-trader-tb3286.466097/

 

I interpret this to mean if both users don't leave feedback it's get wiped.

 

All I can say from experience.....is that I left feedback for a trade awhile back. The other trader NEVER left feedback for me. It was an *open* trade that stayed there lingering. Many traders had the same thing happen to them.

It was brought up in many discussions on what we (the site) could do to help in these situations.


My *open* trade went bye bye.

Open Trades (Partial Feedback)

• After 180 days, open trades with partial feedback are closed.
• We eventually plan on doing something creative with this data.

Happy beer trading.

My apologies....I copied the wrong one, you are correct @jrnyc ....my open trade was with *partial* feedback.