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If the person you're dealing with doesn't mention shipping details and addresses are exchanged, do you assume that it is a cross shipment trade, you're shipping first or they're shipping first?
I'm curious about this, as it has come up twice in the past couple of months for me. In both cases the person I was dealing with exchanged info with me. In both cases, all or part of, the payment had to be sent via the post office, due to not having sufficient funds in my Paypal account. And both times the person just assumed that I would be okay with them shipping their end when they received mine.
Also, in both cases, and this is the catch, they had less than half as much feedback as me. One even had less than a quarter of the feedback I have.
For me, cross shipping is default. If addresses are exchanged and a day is agreed upon as the day that "the ball gets rolling," then that is an implicit agreement to cross ship. If someone has equal or more feedback, I could understand the misunderstanding, but in my case, people with less feedback assuming that someone with twice as much feedback would be okay with sending first and receiving last just doesn't compute.
Maybe I should be clearer in the future. It just all seems like common sense to me. But it takes a trader on the other end to make an assumption too in this situation, so maybe not so much.
What are your thoughts and experiences with trades in which something that you took as implicit wasn't as clear to the other person as you had thought?
I'm curious about this, as it has come up twice in the past couple of months for me. In both cases the person I was dealing with exchanged info with me. In both cases, all or part of, the payment had to be sent via the post office, due to not having sufficient funds in my Paypal account. And both times the person just assumed that I would be okay with them shipping their end when they received mine.
Also, in both cases, and this is the catch, they had less than half as much feedback as me. One even had less than a quarter of the feedback I have.
For me, cross shipping is default. If addresses are exchanged and a day is agreed upon as the day that "the ball gets rolling," then that is an implicit agreement to cross ship. If someone has equal or more feedback, I could understand the misunderstanding, but in my case, people with less feedback assuming that someone with twice as much feedback would be okay with sending first and receiving last just doesn't compute.
Maybe I should be clearer in the future. It just all seems like common sense to me. But it takes a trader on the other end to make an assumption too in this situation, so maybe not so much.
What are your thoughts and experiences with trades in which something that you took as implicit wasn't as clear to the other person as you had thought?