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Okay, so-

I don't usually post about my trade offers and such, because bad offers are pretty par for the course, and you gotta just let them go. But I just got one that kind of amuses me (and I do think some of it is language barrier stuff).

So, have you ever been working out a trade, and someone actually ADDS to your trade, making it worse for you?

Here's what I mean:

I got an offer of the DLP Roger and Jessica Jumbo for my Tangled PODM pin. Now, at this time, I don't really know what I want for my PODM pins, but when I looked at our Wants/Trades matches, I saw that I had a lot of pins they wanted (many of them LE 100s). So I shot back an e-mail with a ton of pins that I would do for it...

They e-mailed me back, asking how many pins I would give for it- I said 2 from that e-mail, preferably an LE 100 and a higher edition pins (like a DS.com LE 250). But I would have done 2 LE 100s, as long as they were both trending around original cost.

ANYWAY! I got an e-mail back saying that he would do the Jess and Roger pin for a Tangled PODM pin, PLUS a Duffy pin I have.

...wait, what? Before, your original offer was just the PODM for the jumbo...now I have to throw in an extra pin?

Nevermind that I said "no" to that anyway, and offered up a bunch of other pins instead. Apparently, all he heard was "I'll do 2 pins!" (not "I might do 2 pins, if they're the right pins...oh, and btw, the Tangled pin is off the table").

It made me laugh a little- I was like, "How does THAT work?". I guess it works quite well for him. Well, it would have, if I had agreed...

Sometimes I wish I were fluent in French so I was better at trading with the Paris folks- I try to use simple English, but pin trading can be tricky even between us English natives...
 
I had almost the exact same thing happen to me with a Paris pin trader and a Tangled POMH. I am sure it's partly because of the language barrier, but she was got angry when I tried to clarify the trade and proceeded to sending me a extremely long email (all in French). Thank goodness for Google translate :)

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Ahhh the language barrier.

I actually do speak (non-fluent) French so I was really excited when I got a request from someone in France. Even more excited that it was for a DLRP Pascal :D

She was very nice and did have good English and tried to figure out what I'd said when I asked if there were any other trades she'd like to do at the same time. When she said she was trying to get the English I replied in French :D and it was wonderful e-mailing in part French and part English :D

Give it a go! Even if you just use a small amount of French you've gotten from google translate imagine how nice it will look that you've tried to speak their language when they've tried with yours :)

On the trade matter, I'd put it down to the language barrier as it can get confusing sometimes (I buy from taobao which is basically chinese ebay and so I see a lot of messages get muddled in translation as I don't speak Chinese!)

Hope you still get a trade sorted :)
 
I swapped a PODM Tangled for 83141 Rapionce, Rapunzel and Pascal. The person was very happy and they weren't picky about the scene so I was happy to trade. Many others wanted the Maximus or Red Pascal scene and acted like they were doing me a favor. :eye roll:
 
One time I got a trade request for my OE pin for his LE. (Both easy to get) I wrote back and offered 2 pins to even it up. He wrote back and asked for 5, sometime people are just greedy.
 
That's funny! :)

One time, while trying to work out a fair trade I had seperated pins into groups of what I would give and they thought I offered everything!
 
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