Private Messages

[Srman77]

Why is it that some people never respond to PM's? I recently ran into this with a person who seemed to be interested in a potential trade, but after a couple of pm's back and forth they never responded, and left me hanging in a manner of speaking. If you're not interested in making a deal or think what I'm asking for it too much then at least have some common courtesy to tell one way or the other. Maybe I'm asking too much for people to show eachother a little common courtesy and respect by responding?

[roaddogg02316]

Why is it that some people never respond to PM's? I recently ran into this with a person who seemed to be interested in a potential trade, but after a couple of pm's back and forth they never responded, and left me hanging in a manner of speaking. If you're not interested in making a deal or think what I'm asking for it too much then at least have some common courtesy to tell one way or the other. Maybe I'm asking too much for people to show eachother a little common courtesy and respect by responding?

I experience the same thing. I kindly go around in the set building forums to see who needs what. I have alot I would like to move. So I try to see who I can help. Well alot of people don't keep that up to date and the mods feel that it isn't important to remove threads when they are outdated.
I was told they tell people to ask for it be deleted. I have seen several who mark it complete. But the thread remains, basically to me wasting space and another thread to open and waste your time when you see it is complete. Thank goodness you can scroll over it and it gives some of the post and you can see if it is marked complete.

Well to the PM issue, I will reply to threads and then even PM them to be sure they need stuff. I have resorted to keeping track of when I PM'ed people and it really irks me when I notice later they have been on since my message. It's like they aren't interested and just choose to ignore you.

I ran into a guy wanted to buy some old vinyl records I have in the Other Items section. Well I give him a price after he asked and then I don't hear back. I notice he has been on since I gave it with no reply. I then get a reply back he had a family emergency and that my PM- I sent one basically saying whats going on? I sent you a price.
Well he gets all in a tizzy that it offended him. And now he doesn't want to deal. Well my response back was basically if you had a family emergency then why have you been on the forum since I sent the PM and you didn't reply. I didn't get a reply to that one.
So basically people are just ignorant or for some reason they just don't get the PM's.

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't like messing around. I want to get a deal done sooner rather than 50 PMs later.

[CYmarlins]

i completely agree. it is really frustrating when no one responds back to ur PM's.

[tndcollectables]

I have had that happen twice already on here in the short time I have been a member.

[BGT Masters]

It happens A LOT and the same people do it time and time again. On occasion though its not the most mature thing to do I'll just ignore them or I'll just give them a polite "No Thanks." If they ask for something. I hate looking through people's stuff just to get ignored time and time again by the same people.

[roaddogg02316]

It happens A LOT and the same people do it time and time again. On occasion though its not the most mature thing to do I'll just ignore them or I'll just give them a polite "No Thanks." If they ask for something. I hate looking through people's stuff just to get ignored time and time again by the same people.

I haven't gone that far, always trying to deal. But it's like if I go to someone telling them I have something they need, you would think they would acknowledge me. A couple times I wonder if I already asked a guy and he told me he finished the set but I forgot.

Hence why I was asking the mods to somewhat get people to mark when they complete a set. And then it can be deleted, but I was told that is too much trouble for them to do.

[BGT Masters]

Mines mostly people that come onto my trade thread post CMB. Normally its the people with badly unorganized buckets with tons of cards to sort through. And after wasting 30 minutes I'll shoot them a reply/pm with cards of interest just to get ignored. Like I said, it normally takes 4-5 times in a row before I just stop bothering trying to trade with them. As for the deleting your own thread thing. I'd love it, but unfortunately from what I hear if someone can delete their own thread, how the system is set up, they could delete anyone's. It would be nice to be able to just delete your own posts/threads.

[roaddogg02316]

Mines mostly people that come onto my trade thread post CMB. Normally its the people with badly unorganized buckets with tons of cards to sort through. And after wasting 30 minutes I'll shoot them a reply/pm with cards of interest just to get ignored. Like I said, it normally takes 4-5 times in a row before I just stop bothering trying to trade with them. As for the deleting your own thread thing. I'd love it, but unfortunately from what I hear if someone can delete their own thread, how the system is set up, they could delete anyone's. It would be nice to be able to just delete your own posts/threads.

Yeah it would be nice if you could remove your own stuff. I actually went thru the other day and cleared out a bunch of threads, marked the message "delete" and the thread title "delete"
They were all old stuff from a few years ago. You would think it would be archived, some were, some were not.

Only reason I dislike they won't remove threads is the fact I'll go try to help people build sets only to find they haven't kept it up to date and they already finished it.

[AThrash37DSnyder]

People dont care about answering PM because it takes too much energy for them to do that

[jaybird_1981]

Do you really think we see every thread posted on here? Changing a thread title to deleted doesn't mean someone will see it. If you report the post to be closed it will get closed.