So sorry I didn't kiss your paranoid ass

[spark]

Somehow I have a hard time imagining the cost/benefit ratio of using an escrow service working out for $40 worth of plush toy...

Edit. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah. $25 fee for $40 value item. No, not going to be worth it. Even for all three together (which I usually only trade one at a time, this was a weird one) that's not cost effective at all, and that's not even addressing the fact that the shipping costs double, since both sides have to ship to the escrow place first.

[Geek King]

Edit. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah. $25 fee for $40 value item. No, not going to be worth it. Even for all three together (which I usually only trade one at a time, this was a weird one) that's not cost effective at all, and that's not even addressing the fact that the shipping costs double, since both sides have to ship to the escrow place first.

Which is why you add it to the cost for the customer. If they want to do some wierd barter deal, they get to decide if it is worth the additional goods you would ask to cover the cost of special shipping arrangements.

As always, though: Your business, your choice. Just throwing out options to think about.

[spark]

Well, it's appreciated, but I don't post here for advice. I post here to vent. If I were looking for advice, the post would end with "what should I do about this?" Most of the time a one in a hundred idiot amongst my other perfectly good customers just isn't worth changing how I do everything over. I mean this is only third trade EVER that's gone wrong for me in my entire life. And I do a lot of trading.

And no matter what you do, no matter how you bend over backwards or what options you offer or what lengths you go to, you'll never please everybody. So trying to please the EWs and SCs just isn't something I care to do. I'd rather tell them to take a long walk off a short pier and be done with it.

Actually I should share the story of my first trade disaster some time. That one was amusingly lol.