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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: hoodlamb420 on March 20, 2012, 12:58 pm
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OK so i placed an order with a vendor less than 12hrs ago, then i wake up to fin the vendor had cancelled my because i only sent him a URL in my encryptted message, not my address. The URL was a privnote which contained my addresss though!!
anyway here are the maths of what i spent, what i got refunded and then how much it would cost me to buy the exact items again 1 hour after the vendor cancelled my order. This is the second time in a week shit like this has happened to me! I am a medical MJ user and really just want to get some meds!!!
original spend
฿-5.56
฿-5.89
฿-5.81
refund
฿5.36
฿5.60
฿5.68
then like 1 hour later i goto buy again and they cost:
฿5.58
฿5.83
฿5.91
basically why am i loosing money!!!!!!
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I had something similar just happen to me. Address sent and then lost at some point. My vender attempted to contact me for an address resend; I was off the grid for a few days. ::) So they bumped the funds back to my account.
Pain in the ass, but also something that is within my control to make sure never happens again. I count the $3 I lost to the escrow process (on a ฿12 purchase) as a small price for school.
Read a vendors profile and reviews before you have any contact with them. Send a PM to a vender before hand to introduce your self and let them know what you are interested in. Don't place an order just before you are going to be off the grid. Send a message with your order promising to respond to any questions/problems the vender may have within 24 hours; AND, ask them to not cancel your order before you have had a chance to reply.
Now, having written the above? It still sounds like the person you sent an order to may well be an asshole. THAT sounds like they didn't want to sell to you at what they considered to be their "old" price. Like your order came in just as they were updating their prices...
I would send them a PM pointing out the time line and asking them to honor the first price.
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Bitcoins have been fluctuating a lot lately, that could explain the differences.