Report bad trader for botched IP trade?

Man, that's really shitty of him. It has happened to several people here where the out-of-state visiting trader just doesn't show up and gives no communications whatsoever.

Personally think that whenever you specifically spent the money to get beer for the trade and the trader bails on you, especially with no communication, that's a bad trader. While the tasting part isn't as severe, it certainly adds insult to injury consider the expectation. I'd out him so that other people won't have to go through the same thing that you did.

 

Yeah def worthy of a shout out with his user name here. What a dick.

 

Have you sent him a beer mail since then? If you have and he has not responded out him now. You may want to give him a chance, but based on the facts you have presented it warrants a public outing now.

 

A trade is a trade, IP or not. At least BM me, @cavedave and @mythaeus (and whoever else wants it) with his info for our personal DNT lists.

But really you should just out him. The least he could is apologize for wasting your and your friends' time.

 

Similar experience: http://www.beeradvocate.com/communi...pwalker-help-me-get-in-touch-with-him.162047/

 

jesus christ, just out the guy already. I'm so sick of these threads

sorry OP, don't mean to direct my vitriol at you. but I can guarantee that I'm not the only one sick of the dancing around. maybe if more folks took a hardline, it would give these d-bags pause before screwing the next guy over.

 

I would let it go.

 

I actually got rid of my do not trade list after a discussion with someone on it convinced me he was on their improperly, and others might be as well. If I had been more careful with who made it on it might be different, but I wasn't apparently.

I actually rarely accept a trade nowadays with someone whom I have not already traded with, or don't know personally.

 

I think even @markgugs can admit that the community has occasionally called a Bad Trader thread premature with some asperity, so I'm sure you were just trying to obviate that.

But, as @markgugs also said, this situation is pretty cut-and-dry. Sucks that this happened to you.

@IPAFan521 care to chime in?

 

'Liked' for making this writer/ex-Journalism major being forced to look up the meaning of asperity. And always loved the word 'obviate'. /end word geekism

 

Guessing he will reply that friends/gf/wife/dog didn't give him time to meet up or he just got cold feet about meeting strange people. If that was the case my advice to him if you are reading this is just send the OP an honest reason, don't make up some big excuse, just say you f'd up, offer to send free beers and hope you can build cred back up. Just ignoring it makes it worse.

 

Yea he does have a pretty solid history on here and was posting up until this Sunday then nothing, hope it was just something simple that came up for him

 

But was hitting up that beer checkin app on monday....sorry waiting for a server to rebuild so I'm killing time playing internet bad trader hunting

 

"In the Beer Advocate System the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The forum members who investigate bad trades and the automated trade system used to prosecute the offenders. These are their stories."

 

I honestly do not know what to say. I am a very vocal member here on BA in my normal threads. I flew into Nashville on Sunday and was supposed to have all afternoon to relax and enjoy the city. That did not happen because I was pulled into work that whole afternoon. By the time I got checked into my hotel and showered, I didn't have much time to roam the city and decided to cab it over to downtown. I sent a message that I was there for the only purpose of seeing if he possibly wanted to hang out. He said he cannot meet and to stay dry (never checked the weather before that and realized it was going to be a down pour in an hour or so) so I headed back to the hotel.

As he stated, I was in town for a work conference. This was my first time at this conference and I did not know what to expect. I told him that the only possible time I would be able to meet would be Tuesday night, and I was not 100% sure what time I would be finished (we were responsible for breaking down out own booth after the show ended). That took much longer than I had expected. By the time I got back to my room, all I could do was pass out and hope that I was awake in time for my morning meeting.

Long story short, I have your bottle, I have a few bottles for you to share at your next bottle share, I even have some extra bottles you can have if you would like them. I have never not honored a trade (may have taken a little longer to ship out a box or two) but at the end of the day, shit happens. My apologies.

BM me with your address and I will send you all the beer you want!

@jsboots21 @JamesShoemaker @cavedave

 

If you'd like some feedback on me, feel free to ask the following people:

@ufmj @CTJman @end_27 @TastyDelicousness @ripps1
Or any of the many friends I have made on here over the few years I have been on here.

 

I don't want to rub salt in anyone's wound, and surely the "accused" apologized. But dang...a simple 10 second text would have saved both parties. A lot of these threads are about poor communication.