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Location: San Jose, California, United States
Recent Ratings: excellent [100.0%] [10 ratings]
Overall Ratings: excellent [99.7%] [395 ratings]
Trades: with 397 Different Traders (500 total trades) [+9 pending]
Offer Response Time: 43.1 hours (1.8 days)
Last login: on 6-Nov-2009 at 9:23pm
Subscriber: since 7-Jul-2004
Member since: 20-Jun-2004
http://gametz.com/user/lain21us.html
Incidents Reported: 8
Page Hits: 15 today (3,040 in the last 30 days)
Deal Preference: Trade, Buy or Sell
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	Favorite Links:	Interests: Mysticism, Video Games Likes: Honest traders with good communication Dislikes: People who have lowball sales and overcharge for shipping (f*ck I hate them!)
Quote: without experience, belief is meaningless.
Comment (last update: 3-Nov-2009 3:48pm) I'm not a jerk, I get a lot of offers and dealing with 30 or more a day is more complicated than you think, so if I don't respond to you I apologize, it's nothing personal. Trading consumes a lot of my time, and the more busy I am in real life, the less attention I have to devote to offers. People get upset when I just deny their offers over and over. I would like to deny some offers as soon as they show up in my email inbox, but then people call me rude for decling so quickly with no explanation, or they make another offer insisting that I counter-offer, which is even more time-consuming,and there is no way for me to get away from the offer easily without actually being rude. I like to keep my trading simple, and just accept or deny as soon as the offer is made, but people can't seem to accept it if I don't even make an tempt at negotiating with them, and so it has just become easier for me to let some trades expire. Other times I see an offer and mean to check it out more closely later, but then life gets busy and I never have time to go back and sort through the 80 separate offers waiting for my attention. It may sound lazy or rude, but that's what it is. Also, sometimes I get offers that are very clearly in my favor, and I usually accept them. While I believe most people would do the same because it's common sense, I also have another very good reason. I have about $800 a month to pay for my rent, utilities, food, a storage unit, and shipping costs on trades. I get about 1000 offers each month, and I can only afford to accept maybe 30 of those in a good month, so naturally I am going to turn down the weakest offers, and accept those that are most favorable to me. I am not trying to hide this fact, so I would appreciate it if people would stop accusing me of trying to rip people off, or taking advantage of people. TRADE ME YOUR FACTORY SEALED GAMES IF I GO TO SHIP YOUR PACKAGE BUT I DO NOT HAVE YOUR NAME BECAUSE IT IS NOT ON YOUR ACCOUNT, I WILL CONTACT YOU AND ASK FOR IT AND YOUR PACKAGE WILL NOT GET SHIPPED UNTIL THE NEXT TIME I GET AROUND TO SHIPPING, WHICH MAY BE A FEW DAYS. I DON'T SHIP EVERY DAY, SO IF YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN ME ALL OF YOUR INFORMATION BEFORE IT IS TIME TO SHIP MY END, THEN IT IS NOT MY FAULT IF YOUR STUFF IS DELAYED. I CAN BE REACHED VIA YAHOO MESSENGER AS "rrdein", AIM AS "lain23us", AND GOOGLE TALK AS "lain21us". Good Traders (I love you! If you're not on my list don't take it personally, there's way too many to list): =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- monkeysmadness - This dude just gave out some of the best freebies I've ever seen. JJAAMMEESSNNEESS - Personal friend, very honest and a nice guy. BlueX - Gave me a good deal and hooked me up with tons of free stuff! kazzmo - Honest Trader with lots of great adventure games for PC! zealous_mission - Good, honest trader with good communication. Gave me a couple of pretty good deals and an all around nice guy. I highly recommend trading with him. Shipping to Canada is cheap, so don't hesitate. ComWayCom - Always very swift and professional. Smooth trading all the way. Stiff - Waited until I got out of the hospital to ship so I wouldn't miss the package, then shipped Priority Mail and added a semi-rare PS2 controller to boot. None of it was necessary, but all was much appreciated. This guy really went above and beyond and I wish I could have given him more than 1 positive feedback! Awesome Trader! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bad Traders (you fcked up pretty bad if you're on this list): =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- brianwestbrook on GTZ (don't ever, ever trade with this fcker) - This guy didn't rip me off as bad as some others, but he pissed me off so much that he deserves to be at the top of this list. We pended our deal on August 15 and he didn't ship my Action Replay until Sep 2. During this time period I made numerous attempts to contact him and ask if he was shipping soon, and he never once replied with even a word. I get the AR on the 8th and it is missing the cable. I ask, "Do you have the cable for this?" On the 27TH, after I had made further attempts to contact him, the stupid little liar writes, "it must have got lost in the mail". I asked if he had sent it separately and he never replied. This is pretty much the sum total of our communication. I was pissed about the deal, but I went ahead and left him perfect feedback because he was new and I didn't want to ruin his account. He in turn left me a "good" in courtesy, messing up my almost perfect feedback. pimpdaddysmurf on CAG - I traded him a brand new HDLoader for some DC games. Gave me bullsht excuses for over a month -- weather, school, etc. had prevented him from shipping. After a month I told him to send me my games immediately. The next day he tells me he has shipped, but didn't get delivery confirmation we had agreed on because he didn't want to waste money on my ass. Then, instead of sending me the games I waited a month for, he sends back my HDLoader, used, with no explanation. Then he starts telling people that I traded him a bootleg, and that was why he sent it back, even though he used it for several weeks and didn't complain until I told him to fulfill his end of the trade. My HDLoader was not a bootleg. I ordered 10 copies of it from consolesource.com and every single copy had the barcode on it, unlike the fakes. He would later ammend his accusation, stating that I had actually sent him a CD-R copy, not simply a bootleg. I traded plenty of these here and on CAG, and sold some on eBay, and everyone else seemed pretty pleased. If you can't admit you were wrong, don't try to pretend that I'm the one who ripped you off. Gamesrfun - This person offered me an item I wanted, in exchange for a "Dreamcast Dance Pad". I never stated or implied that it was Konami-brand, and there was no reason for him to assume this, since the vast majority of DC pads are third-party. We agreed to ship at the same time, even though he had less than half my feedback. I shipped immediately. He waited until he received the dance pad (a week later) to ship my item. A couple days later, while my item was still in the mail, he e-mailed me and told me that he had just gotten around to opening the package I sent him. He said that it was not Konami-brand, as he had thought, and that he had been ripped off, and that I owed it to him to send him a mint copy of Iron Storm for the Sega Saturn (worth about $40 at the time) to make it up to him. I told him that I didn't feel I owed him anything, as I did not misrepresent my item in even the most subtle of ways, and that I resented the implication that I had ripped him off. I further told him that I would not add anything else, after he had delayed shipping until receiving my package and then accused me of lying to him. I told him that I would be willing to cancel the trade, provided he paid for return shipping on both items, and reimbursed me for my original shipping cost. He apparently did not like this idea, because the next day I got an e-mail from the GameTZ Dispute Resolution Council telling me that he had accused me of misrepresenting my item. I explained the situation to them, and in their infinite wisdom they immediately turned him down. Lochy350 - I purchased a bunch of games from him and he only sent half of them. Never replied back to me and has not logged on to GTZ in years. Just straight up ripped me off. Guess I should be grateful I got some of the games I bought. HERE IS HOW NOT TO SEND A GAMECUBE GAME!!! (YES THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED) NO TAPE TO HOLD THE CASE SHUT ANYWHERE**
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