TheMarchingMule
Headphoneus Supremus
I was hesitant about posting this at first, but after discovering a new update to the ordeal and consulting a friend about this, I think it's time I talked about this suspicious headphone trade I've been doing with a member starting last week (6/19). I won't name the person yet, but I'm sure you can find out who it is with enough digging.
Initial deal was to trade my Westone 3 for his Shure SE530. Simple enough. I rush to ship out the W3 on Monday afternoon, and tell him it should get to him by Saturday; he could track it via USPS. He PM's me back saying that he overslept and missed the post office hours, so he'll try to get the SE530 by Wednesday or Thursday, at the latest. I was grumpy about it, but I figure I'll let him slide; it seems like he has a busy work schedule.
At the tail end of the Thursday night, I ask him if there's any update to him shipping out the SE530. I get a reply early in the morning on Friday (my time 4:46AM), telling me he lost my address, and he wants to know what it is again, since he wants to get them out by the end of today. So I call him later on in the day (around 3PM, his time) and tell him what my address is. I start to get suspicious, because I had PM'd him my address before, and I saw no reason why he should delete any PMs regarding a current transaction.
Two hours ago, I saw him online, and shot him another PM asking for any update on the SE530. I waited for awhile, then refreshed the page; he went offline.
I just re-checked the PM he sent me that asked for my address again, and I noticed he used the old PM with the W3 tracking number on it. I checked, and the W3 was delivered to him yesterday morning.
My logical reasoning to this is that he was buying time to receive the Westone 3, and then decide for himself whether he likes it over his current IEMs. And here is where it could get hairy: what if he decides he doesn't. What is he going to do, say he doesn't want them after all and ship them back? Or what if he decides to keep them, and keeps sending me more excuses to delay the SE530 shipping until I give up (which I won't)?
This whole deal has been a frustrating cloud over my head, one I really don't need, and wish to resolve ASAP. This was a trade, and money wasn't involved, so it's not like I could file a Paypal claim on him. Any suggestions on what I should do, short of actually hiring somebody in his area to personally go to his door and make sure that the SE530s will be delivered to me?
Initial deal was to trade my Westone 3 for his Shure SE530. Simple enough. I rush to ship out the W3 on Monday afternoon, and tell him it should get to him by Saturday; he could track it via USPS. He PM's me back saying that he overslept and missed the post office hours, so he'll try to get the SE530 by Wednesday or Thursday, at the latest. I was grumpy about it, but I figure I'll let him slide; it seems like he has a busy work schedule.
At the tail end of the Thursday night, I ask him if there's any update to him shipping out the SE530. I get a reply early in the morning on Friday (my time 4:46AM), telling me he lost my address, and he wants to know what it is again, since he wants to get them out by the end of today. So I call him later on in the day (around 3PM, his time) and tell him what my address is. I start to get suspicious, because I had PM'd him my address before, and I saw no reason why he should delete any PMs regarding a current transaction.
Two hours ago, I saw him online, and shot him another PM asking for any update on the SE530. I waited for awhile, then refreshed the page; he went offline.
I just re-checked the PM he sent me that asked for my address again, and I noticed he used the old PM with the W3 tracking number on it. I checked, and the W3 was delivered to him yesterday morning.
My logical reasoning to this is that he was buying time to receive the Westone 3, and then decide for himself whether he likes it over his current IEMs. And here is where it could get hairy: what if he decides he doesn't. What is he going to do, say he doesn't want them after all and ship them back? Or what if he decides to keep them, and keeps sending me more excuses to delay the SE530 shipping until I give up (which I won't)?
This whole deal has been a frustrating cloud over my head, one I really don't need, and wish to resolve ASAP. This was a trade, and money wasn't involved, so it's not like I could file a Paypal claim on him. Any suggestions on what I should do, short of actually hiring somebody in his area to personally go to his door and make sure that the SE530s will be delivered to me?
