I need your advice in a rather unpleasant situation.
I have a confirmed swap with a member who has very good ratings: 2.5 years membership, 200+ ratings, 10.0/10.0 and I already had 2 successful swaps with him in the past.
Swap was confirmed on the 13th of December, I sent the coins on the 16th and he received them on the 9th of January. So far I haven't received anything from him.
I wrote him 3 messages (on the 4th, 9th and 13th of January) asking if he managed to send the coins and whether he likes the coins I sent him. He was active on the site according to his profile page, but until two days ago he hasn't read the messages. Then he read all 3 at once (I checked my messages status in my sent-box, that's how I know). Still no answer.
Swap value was over 100€ and I sent more than 100 coins with silvers. Value of our last swap was high too (~70€) with silvers as well and as I have already mentioned, there wasn't any problem.
If you were in a situation like this, what would you do?
There could be numerous valid reasons which are not in our hands sometimes, I remember I was in discussion for swap with a member from Brazil who had around 50 successful swap with no problem and I was new member with 2 swaps.He even shared the pictures of the coins to be swapped, he told me that he was having some financial problems as his son was ill ,he will be confirming the swap after month and contact me , soon there were negative ratings started to appear on his profile and within few weeks he unsubscribed from Numista. I believe he never wanted to cheat anyone ,we never know what happened.......
As I was very new and he had many swap he could have easily cheated me if he had any wrong intentions, but he didn't .
There are circumstances which are not with you and we get blamed .I hope the person you are swapping with is not in any big trouble and soon he get chance to send you the agreed coins ,so I guess don't loose hope and stay calm.
I'd recommend you to check if the name and address you sent the coins are the same as for the previous successful swaps. And also check the Last access line in the profile.
If everything is ok, you just need to wait...
My personal list of scammers from Numista: erniemix, yvain, CassTaylor