Just a warning that if you like simple and easy trades you may not want to deal with mylittleponysparkle.
What should have been a super easy trade of my pony for a few of her LPS figures turned into just over a month of messages, questions being ignored and waiting.
The trade started out normal enough and she had decent feedback and replied to my messages quickly so I didn't think anything was off until I actually mailed my pony. I had initially contacted her on Oct 12th and after sending pics back and forth and deciding the trade she had said she could mail on Monday, Oct 27th so I agreed to ship the same day. So when Monday came around I put the pony in the mail and PM'd her the tracking and said "thanks again for the trade" expecting to get a tracking number back or at least an "I mailed yours also" type of response.
Instead I got "Thanks to you too! : )" on Oct 28th? Nothing about mailing my package.
My tracking showed delivery to her on Oct 29th.
On the 30th I got "Thanks so much! Expect your littlest pet shop pets soon."
I assumed the "thanks so much" meant she got the pony?
Then on Nov 3rd I get "Expect your package soon : )"
I didn't get anything in the mail so on Nov 6th I began asking about a tracking number or when the package to me had been mailed. This question was avoided by her saying that she hadn't gotten "Bonnie Bonnets" yet... which was not even the pony I sent her. Nothing about when her half of the trade might have been mailed. I replied that I had sent her Glittering Gem which showed as being delivered, copied the tracking and again asked about my half of the trade. Again she replies that she hadn't received anything from me and did not say anything about my package from her being mailed.
Then she apparently sends me $10 via Paypal "to cover half the pony and shipping" and says something about not getting the package if it was sent to NY? (her address was in MA).
This goes on and on for a number of messages with her each time not answering anything I ask until I actually call her post office and leave a message with the postmaster inquiring about the package and providing the tracking number. The next day I get a PM from her saying she received it. She also listed the pony up on her Etsy account immediately as "Sparkle Gem". Not sure if it was actually an issue that the PO had not put the package in her PO Box or if me calling her PO made her realize that the pony better magically appear in her possession.
In the meantime I finally get this response about her not mailing my package:
"Also I have had an injury and for the past 2 weeks have not been strong. I was thinking oh I'll let her know her package is on its way soon thinking once I got yours I would send it out. Since I didn't I was confused too. So sorry. I will send it out priority Monday. I tried to today as well."
Monday comes and goes without tracking so I request it on Tuesday and she just copies the number. I get the package 5 days later which does include the 3 pets I traded for plus other pets and the accessories that were in the picture. Not sure if this was her trying to "make things right" or if she just couldn't remember which ones I wanted so she dumped the whole lot in the mail.
So this was from Oct 12 to Nov 15 drawn out with not shipping and ignoring the same questions over and over and such bother. Should have been such an easy, easy swap.
I also found this huge thread on Nov 3rd when I started having doubts.
http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,344948.0.html(And of course kicking myself for not running a search before contacting her in the first place). She obviously did the same thing to a number of other people and has not learned anything about trading in the past year despite claiming that she had back then.
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