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<blockquote data-quote="Booming" data-source="post: 8295848" data-attributes="member: 660051">Let me start off by saying if this doesn&#039;t belong in this area, please feel free to move it!Ok I just want to make sure I did what (I figure) anyone else would do in this same situation. I was offered a trade this weekend from a member on here. Although I&#039;ve never dealt with this person in the past, I&#039;ve seen his name and threads around and they&#039;ve always seemed a little shady (incorrect pictures with no name/date or old dates on fresh threads)... Now this is just my opinion and I am, as an American Vet, entitled to that opinion! So he offers me a trade literally sight unseen! I&#039;m semi-interested so I ask for a picture or even better a video of it working (he has a couple other FS threads, but this item is not one of them) and he tells me he can&#039;t do that. I explain that I&#039;m not to comfortable doing a trade when I can&#039;t even see the item he&#039;s offering to me. Than he gets pissed that I would question his word and says he has perfect iTrade feedback (one transaction over 6 months ago) and the he wouldn&#039;t ruin &quot;his rep&quot; over this item... I tell him that if he shipped 1st, since the item he&#039;s offering to trade is around $300 or less depending on the condition (who knows what it looks like!) verses my $500 items, I would be more comfortable doing the deal. That&#039;s when he became rude and basically told me to shove it!My question to everyone that reads this.... What I in the wrong?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Booming, post: 8295848, member: 660051"] [B]Let me start off by saying if this doesn't belong in this area, please feel free to move it![/B] Ok I just want to make sure I did what (I figure) anyone else would do in this same situation. I was offered a trade this weekend from a member on here. Although I've never dealt with this person in the past, I've seen his name and threads around and they've always seemed a little shady (incorrect pictures with no name/date or old dates on fresh threads)... Now this is just my opinion and I am, as an American Vet, entitled to that opinion! So he offers me a trade literally sight unseen! I'm semi-interested so I ask for a picture or even better a video of it working (he has a couple other FS threads, but this item is not one of them) and he tells me he can't do that. I explain that I'm not to comfortable doing a trade when I can't even see the item he's offering to me. Than he gets pissed that I would question his word and says he has perfect iTrade feedback (one transaction over 6 months ago) and the he wouldn't ruin "his rep" over this item... I tell him that if he shipped 1st, since the item he's offering to trade is around $300 or less depending on the condition (who knows what it looks like!) verses my $500 items, I would be more comfortable doing the deal. That's when he became rude and basically told me to shove it! My question to everyone that reads this.... What I in the wrong? [/QUOTE]

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