Alright, I've had the chance to look at this with fresh eyes and I think I can identify the place where the situation diverged. The lightbulb statement for me was this line:
What about the other batch of ancient trades that you emailed me about and then sent them with expresspost?
As you waded through your gobs of email I believe you confused the first half of my initial email, which asked about the two missing letters; with the second half which talked about three trades made immediately before emailing (weekend trades and email sent on Sunday). To clarify I've inserted bolded comments below:
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Subject: Bitcoin 4 Cash trade
From: Jeffery Coleman <[email protected]>
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Hi there,
I'm eMansipater
from the
bitcoin forums. I've been using Bitcoin4Cash for a while and I
love it. For my uses a little bit of a delay once you have a guaranteed
price is not much of a problem, and being able to participate in bitcoin
trading at a lower volume without unreasonable fees is invaluable to me.
I was wondering if you've been experiencing delays in receiving mail lately,
or had any pieces go missing in transit yet? My first few trades with
bitcoin4cash took a couple weeks to complete, but the last two I sent (from Feb
10and
Mar
6respectively)
have apparently taken a bit longer, especially the first one.
This comes at little surprise to me since there are reportedly issues with
the local mail distribution system testing an experimental modification
(mail to other destinations than just you has been delayed considerably). I
mail my letters from different locations within the city just to prevent any
one person on this end from noticing the pattern and deciding to open one
up, but this slowdown would apply across the board. I did want to check in
with you though since it's been a little while, and fill you in with that
additional info in case you have been experiencing lost pieces while also
letting you know I didn't just forget to send them.
{Everything above here is referring to the same two pieces that are the subject of my current complaint}
{Everything below here is referring to trades booked 0 business days before the email, and for which payment was sent within 10 business days of being authorised to}
I've been suggesting to many of my acquaintances that they invest a small
amount of cash they would be happy to lose in BTC, to help spread the early
risk of the currency amongst as many people as possible; the transactions I
tend to make through Bitcoin4Cash are mostly the result of that. Over the
past few days I've reserved a total of close to 900 bitcoins, which is quite
a bit above average for me, and I'm hesitant to send them on through the
normal channels because of the delay in my last two mailings. What do you
suggest?
For me, as you can probably tell, anonymity is not at all a concern.
Neither is time involved, since most of these bitcoins are being held for
the long-term. It's only the security of transfer that I'm interested in.
Should I perhaps consider registered mail, or does that impact your
profile?
Anyways, I'm eager to hear what you have to say--at no particular rush.
Thanks again for offering this service to the community! I bought my first
bitcoins via bank account->email money transfer -> Liberty Reserve -> MT Gox
-> BTC and it was rather an expensive and cumbersome process. Bitcoin4Cash
is much, much better!
sincerely,
Jeff Coleman / eMansipater
I apologise for the unwarranted speculation in my original post, which I have removed (although it exists for the record as
quoted). If I believed this was the second time this had occurred, I would have been suspicious too. My original post is a good example of the paranoia that can arise when you are worried someone is trying to scam you, so I get it.
To recap without wasting anyone's valuable time, the only two letters of mine that have been late are the same two I have been communicating about with you from the beginning:
booked Feb 10booked March 6thwhile the expresspost I was asking permission to send on March 20 was for these three trades:
booked Friday March 18booked Sunday March 20booked Sunday March 20After you authorised the expresspost on March 24th the money was on your doorstep within 10 business days, as all my trades have been.
When
our conversation about the missing trades abruptly decayed I was extremely confused, but if you were operating under the assumption that I had previously been late with other trades, it finally makes sense to me. Hopefully we can get this all resolved now.