When people ship first because of lack of say trading reference/completed trades...do you wait until your box arrives to ship them theirs..or do you ship when you have verified tracking info in hand..is ship first defined or subjective?
If someone is so worried about a new trader, or perhaps someone with a previous bad trade, they should wait to receive the beer as the other party could always recall their box and/or who's to say it isn't a box full of rocks they've sent on its way.
Ive done it both but wondered if there was a standard..no easy answer though as expected....With better bottles I like to wait but feel totally douchie...oh well better safe than sorry I guess
I have no problem volunteering to ship first with the idea being that the person ships the day after I send a confirmation number. Its beer if you can not trust a fellow beer drinker who can you trust. I look at this way worse case I am out $30 in beer and $30 shipping I can afford to take a chance.
It's not out of the norm for someone to wait to receive a box from a new trader before sending theirs out. But if it's nothing crazy in the box I usually just go ahead and send mine after tracking. There have been horror stories about this kind of situation going awry though.
Depends on what's being traded I think. Shelf stuff I don't sweat it, other stuff I would ship after the box landed and was safe. For a BA with multiplies I just ship, I've always had great trade guys.
