Topic: Trading Shows Is A PITA...Opinions/Suggestions Solicited

[ilduclo]

I'm generally open to trades, but my tastes run to the more esoteric stuff


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[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

I have a huge music collection, but I stopped trading my list years ago when bittorrent got popular opting to seed instead.  It's mainly because I find trading with other people to such a huge PITA...others take this shit WAY too serious and I just don't care anymore.

I recently honored a trade request with someone mainly because the other person asked me to trade with them and they wanted LOTS of Phish with little effort.  After offering to do a hard drive swap, he insisted on doing a DVD trade.

I told him I'd do a B&P but he insisted on me trading...sigh...WTF, trying to be a nice guy...so I sifted through his list.

I ended up making him something like 54 DVDs worth of Phish.  I got 28 or so DVDs in return...and blanks to make up the difference.

When he got my DVDs, he bitched because he'd sent higher quality DVDs. 

To compensate, I told him to send me a harddrive.  He sent me a 150GB harddrive, so I filled that with more Phish. 

But he forgot to send me $$ to send the harddrive back, so I paid to mail it back to him.

This morning I get a message making waves that he's gonna start bitching that some of the burns of the DVDs aren't reading on his machine.

Honestly, I'm completely tired of this guy. 

FWIW, I already offered to put the missing shows on the HD if he sends it to me and pays return shipping.

What would you guys do?  Should I re-do the bad burns?

Tell him you will be happy to take care of any problems once he reimburses you for the shipping on the HDD.  Tell him that until he does that he need to STFU and be happy that he got anything at all. 

Terry

[ellaguru]

ive been trading via 'gbridge' as of late....

[J.D.S.]

 

Tell the guy to buy a new DVD player/burner and it will read your discs.  

this usually works.




out them!, we want names and emails. flood him with wanting B&P's from him. see how he likes it.

you've done enough..

[OFOTD]

This story is exactly why we built the Texas Tapers website. 

Now at shows when someone asks for a copy I just give them the web address.   Takes me all of 3 seconds and i'm done. 

People don't want to work to find a show anymore.  They just want someone to give it to them.  Fuck em.

The etree FAQ takes all of 5 minutes to read. 5 more to download software.  In the time they spend bitching about DVD quality or time taken they could already be downloading their own shows.

[leehookem]

word.  I don't have the time for trading any more.  I barely have enough time to listen to the recordings i've already made.

[Josephine]

I hate trading.  And I'm really bad at it.
No matter how hard I try, it always seems to take me months to send out discs.
Some of you know this firsthand.   

[svenkid]

I don't trade, but will al;most always do a bnp

[funk_pie]

I probably wouldn't do any re-burns.  Curious, did you get anything decent in the return trade?

For me, if I'm interested in something from someone, my first request is a possibility to DL somewhere, then B&P.  I offer up a list to trade for that one thing I'm looking for, but it usually ends up as B&P anyway (or just a freebie). 

I'm always willing to do B&P for folks, and I decline trades requested by others precisely because of all the BS you are dealing with.  B&Ps are great as the ball is in the requester's court (sometimes the requesting party doesn't get off his lazy ass to put the package together, so nothing lost), it's their discs you will be using (so they can't bitch), and mostly because usually the requests are for things I haven't listened to in a while, so I get a little enjoyment revisiting a particular disc while verifying the quality of the burn  

[balou2]

I'm worse than many of you.  Not only do I not trade, I won't even answer trade requests.  I got tired of being burned, tired of assholes, tired of being flamed because I wouldn't do a b&p or trade...you name.  People are so incredibly ungrateful.  Fug-eht-a-bat'em.  The ONLY people of done ANYTHING for, is folks on this site, and a few select folks in the Norcal scene (or artists).

[setboy]

I started trading when i was 14 and loved doing it. But no longer trade due to not having the time. Hell, i don't even download stuff much.

[NJFunk]

I will honor the first 1 or 2 B&P requests made at a show for that show, although usually I'll tell the person to send me CDs with music on them instead of blanks.  I've gotten some good music (and some bad...) that way.  But that's pretty much it.

[rokpunk]

yeah fuggetaboutit....it's freakin 2009, not 1999....download your own damn torrents.

[mmadd29]

I did one trade a little while ago with someone on this board.  I will trade with people on the board, or someone from back in the day and that's about it.  I've had a few people email over the last couple years, and if they only want a specfic show, or a couple, I usually just get an address and send them.  I don't have the desire to look through lists.  Everyone I sent out free stuff to has been grateful, so I'll still do it until I get my first asswipe.

[KenH]

I've fill many BnP requests for folks that just can't figure out how to d/l and burn their own. I don't mind spreading the joy at all, but nowadays it's just for certain friends.

The thing I do mind is when you write up clear, easy to follow instructions for the BnP, and people don't follow it.  Like send an SASE, but you get cash to cover postage, and no return envelope. I can deal w/ reusing the envelope, but cash means I gotta go to the post office.  Then you get crap blanks, sometimes all beat up and won't burn...