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Why so many cancellations lately?

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Passanie

Nov. 2, 2009
7:58 PM

Why so many cancellations lately?

I've both initiated trades and had potential trades come to me that have been canceled lately. Like three in the last week. Why do you think this is happening so much more often now? It didn't used to.

I have several recent and highly popular books on my want list and a sneaking suspicion that has something to do with it (though I have some recent and highly popular books my willing to trade list too). It's rather frustrating. Does this happen a lot when you want new or popular books?

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paulnaff
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Nov. 2, 2009
10:31 PM

RE: Why so many cancellations lately?

Passanie wrote:
I've both initiated trades and had potential trades come to me that have been canceled lately. Like three in the last week. Why do you think this is happening so much more often now? It didn't used to.

I have several recent and highly popular books on my want list and a sneaking suspicion that has something to do with it (though I have some recent and highly popular books my willing to trade list too). It's rather frustrating. Does this happen a lot when you want new or popular books?

It did used to happen. Cancellations are part of the process. Every trade is unique in that all that matters is what the specific parties to the trade want to do. The only thing happening recently that would account for more trades not being completed would be some inactive accounts that were recently re-activated en masse, a number of which were involved in trades that ended up expiring.

Three canceled trades is not many; I've had streaks of ten or more trades completed or canceled a number of times. It probably seems like something that is happening with greater frequency because you are making relatively few trades. Agreed, it's frustrating, but there's nothing you can do about it. It does seem people are more reluctant to accept offers when they have new releases in demand; they tend to want to find the best trade for themselves rather than just wait for an offer. They also fall in love with having 60,000 items available and can place more value on that than actually getting something in exchange for the item; kind of like trading bachelorhood for marriage.

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CCase

Nov. 3, 2009
8:38 AM

cancellations

I have turned down some trades or cancelled them as the books I would be receiving are described as being very well used, where as what the trader wants from me is in very good shape. Looking over my past trades, there has only been two where I received a book that was actually as good as the trader described.

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