Originally Posted by
theweave
Just saw this thread for the first time!
I know that it is far too late because neither Chris nor I can even remember who the person was, but Chris did a trade last year where he sent a number of ccoupons (nothing HV or anything but over 10 coupons) to this person and they sent a couple of coupons and said they were sending 2 Pre Paid MasterCards that they no longer needed. They said they were worth over $5 between the two.
So Chris said okay and the exchange was made. When Chris got his envie, he opened it and found the 2 M/C in there, on the back were some dollar values written in sharpie pen. It added up to over $5.00 so Chris figured all was good.
Imagine his surpise the following week when he went to a store and handed over the two cards for payment. The cashier swiped the first one and it came back "balance zero", sure enough the second one was also empty.
Chris was a little peeved off but in the end, never replied to the person or anything.
Noting can be done about that now, but just wanted to share what I think, is the only trade that we have seriously been burned on!
Having said that, just got a trade request from a noobie tonight (0 posts and 0 trade rating) asking for a simple trade.. 5 coupons for 4 CP stamps. I am going to give the person the benefit of the doubt and do it. Chris was a noobie too once... you have to start somewhere. Hopefully I won't have to come back here and report the person!!!
Great thread though!