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I remember, a while back, someone accepted a trade offer that came up and then had people literally spreading her name around and out to get her, because the trade had been set up in chat and intended for someone else...they insisted that she had been lurking in chat and snagged the trade on purpose...what?? Like...LBB does not allow you to make a trade offer to specific individuals for a reason...that's not what it's about! This was my first bag in months, and yeah, it'll be my last...the chat completely ruined the whole experience. It's probably a good thing...at my peek, I did a bag a week, and I can't really afford that anyway...I like Wantable as a way to get surprise jewelry right now, I just wish there was a fun way of shopping for bags! lol
Several months back a girl (a rare someone who gets on my nerves, which takes a lot) arranged a trade in chat and when she sent the offer out the trade got snagged by a regular LBBer, but someone who never chats, and this girl started with the conspiracies that the girl must have been watching chat and she just assigned all these nefarious intentions to her, despite the fact that she sent this great trade offer to not one single person, but 10+ people who had that item. I called her out on it, and told her that what she was doing wasn't cool; and then she and several others started bringing up all this irrelevant stuff about the girl to supposedly strengthen the case against her, like that she always has huge bags (relevance? None), and gifts all the time (relevance? None) and never ships anything (relevance? None). And even so, so what? Why should they care? How is anyone effected by how big this girl's bag is, or that she gifts and doesn't ship anything? What business is it of anybody's? How is any of this proof she's a terrible person of poor character? Inventing conspiracies about people is much stronger proof of possessing poor character if you ask me. Not owning up to the risk you took when you arranged a trade and sent it out to numerous people knowing full well it could get snagged is also much stronger proof of possessing poor character if you ask me.
I told her something like that she can blame herself for sending that trade to tons of people, instead of inventing conspiracies. A conspiracy which may or may not be true, she doesn't know, and she shouldn't pretend to know and talk crap when this was her own fault. What's funny is the girl who she arranged the trade with, the person who was supposed to receive it, actually seemed turned off by her reaction and made it clear over and over throughout my back and forth with this girl that she's not upset about this and she doesn't think there was a conspiracy and that sending that kind of a trade had a pretty big risk of getting snagged. Anyway, yeah, I think this incident was probably my most heated interaction with any LBB member in chat ever.
For trade-backs, on something like a bindy, which are pretty popular, it's not alarming to receive a 40 double trade offer on one, I probably wouldn't check chat if I received and accepted that offer. On something unpopular, if I receive an out-of-the-ordinary trade offer, I'll accept, then check chat and see if anyone comes in about a mistake. If so, I'll trade back. If it's super ridiculous no-sane-person-would-make-this-offer kind of offer, I'll accept then actively seek them out.
However, not too long ago I had a bracelet that was quite popular, as popular as bindy's are, if not more, and I was planning on shipping it, but someone sent me a nice offer that I couldn't refuse, it was only $10 above retail, but it was a double with nice items. I never checked chat, never entered my mind that that trade was a mistake. I found out weeks later that it was a mistake when the person had opened a bag again and we were chatting in chat and she brought it up, it was actually a chat buddy of mine who had made that trade. She told me she had to go to CS because she couldn't find me at the time, and CS took care of it for her. She apparently had only meant to send one item, but it accidentally sent 2. I guess I was lucky that it was a friend of mine, and not, say, some conspiracy theorist spreading tall tales about me, because she was really understanding about me being in the dark about it being a mistake trade and I guess she even told CS at the time not to trade the items back because she didn't want to effect my bag so they worked something else out, plus I think she knows me well enough to know that had I known I would have traded back. I offered to make it up to her anyway, despite CS taking care of it, but she's being difficult about allowing me to do that, lol. But anyway, I guess the point of this story is that if you send a mistake trade on a popular item, it probably won't ring any alarm bells for whoever accepts it, so it might be tougher to find the person or get the trade mistake corrected with them before any further trading activity occurs.
I remember, a while back, someone accepted a trade offer that came up and then had people literally spreading her name around and out to get her, because the trade had been set up in chat and intended for someone else...they insisted that she had been lurking in chat and snagged the trade on purpose...what?? Like...LBB does not allow you to make a trade offer to specific individuals for a reason...that's not what it's about! This was my first bag in months, and yeah, it'll be my last...the chat completely ruined the whole experience. It's probably a good thing...at my peek, I did a bag a week, and I can't really afford that anyway...I like Wantable as a way to get surprise jewelry right now, I just wish there was a fun way of shopping for bags! lol
Several months back a girl (a rare someone who gets on my nerves, which takes a lot) arranged a trade in chat and when she sent the offer out the trade got snagged by a regular LBBer, but someone who never chats, and this girl started with the conspiracies that the girl must have been watching chat and she just assigned all these nefarious intentions to her, despite the fact that she sent this great trade offer to not one single person, but 10+ people who had that item. I called her out on it, and told her that what she was doing wasn't cool; and then she and several others started bringing up all this irrelevant stuff about the girl to supposedly strengthen the case against her, like that she always has huge bags (relevance? None), and gifts all the time (relevance? None) and never ships anything (relevance? None). And even so, so what? Why should they care? How is anyone effected by how big this girl's bag is, or that she gifts and doesn't ship anything? What business is it of anybody's? How is any of this proof she's a terrible person of poor character? Inventing conspiracies about people is much stronger proof of possessing poor character if you ask me. Not owning up to the risk you took when you arranged a trade and sent it out to numerous people knowing full well it could get snagged is also much stronger proof of possessing poor character if you ask me.
I told her something like that she can blame herself for sending that trade to tons of people, instead of inventing conspiracies. A conspiracy which may or may not be true, she doesn't know, and she shouldn't pretend to know and talk crap when this was her own fault. What's funny is the girl who she arranged the trade with, the person who was supposed to receive it, actually seemed turned off by her reaction and made it clear over and over throughout my back and forth with this girl that she's not upset about this and she doesn't think there was a conspiracy and that sending that kind of a trade had a pretty big risk of getting snagged. Anyway, yeah, I think this incident was probably my most heated interaction with any LBB member in chat ever.
For trade-backs, on something like a bindy, which are pretty popular, it's not alarming to receive a 40 double trade offer on one, I probably wouldn't check chat if I received and accepted that offer. On something unpopular, if I receive an out-of-the-ordinary trade offer, I'll accept, then check chat and see if anyone comes in about a mistake. If so, I'll trade back. If it's super ridiculous no-sane-person-would-make-this-offer kind of offer, I'll accept then actively seek them out.
However, not too long ago I had a bracelet that was quite popular, as popular as bindy's are, if not more, and I was planning on shipping it, but someone sent me a nice offer that I couldn't refuse, it was only $10 above retail, but it was a double with nice items. I never checked chat, never entered my mind that that trade was a mistake. I found out weeks later that it was a mistake when the person had opened a bag again and we were chatting in chat and she brought it up, it was actually a chat buddy of mine who had made that trade. She told me she had to go to CS because she couldn't find me at the time, and CS took care of it for her. She apparently had only meant to send one item, but it accidentally sent 2. I guess I was lucky that it was a friend of mine, and not, say, some conspiracy theorist spreading tall tales about me, because she was really understanding about me being in the dark about it being a mistake trade and I guess she even told CS at the time not to trade the items back because she didn't want to effect my bag so they worked something else out, plus I think she knows me well enough to know that had I known I would have traded back. I offered to make it up to her anyway, despite CS taking care of it, but she's being difficult about allowing me to do that, lol. But anyway, I guess the point of this story is that if you send a mistake trade on a popular item, it probably won't ring any alarm bells for whoever accepts it, so it might be tougher to find the person or get the trade mistake corrected with them before any further trading activity occurs.
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