Oh yea I know they weren't aimed at me. I'm just trying to help make a point. I wouldn't delete your posts though. We are all allowed the freedom to talk. Perhaps things can just settle down now
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I've had successful trades with the following people:

animetama (we send each other freebies all the time now )
groink (thanks for all the extra stuff)
J. Phan
J. Soo
Richard
Terri
John (can't remember last name sorry John )
Peggy (the pesron I've trade the most with, large collection)
Kimmiez
Misheel
S. Tan
Snark
Rey
Evergreen
Alex (nice collection of H!P stuff)
L. Lee

The one single person that so far has not given me my stuff:
Donald Chang - said his harddrive crashed but is still intending to send me my stuff, its been 4 months. Occassional responds to email. hrmmm

Choe, Jae
1101 Rue la Ville Walk
Saint Louis, MO 63141-6209
(314) 439-5229

Hi
I've had successful trades with these people on here:
-Amrayu
-Ryushinu

And on Noated I've traded with these members (My noated name is SanaChan as well if they're wondering. )
-SeiChan
-Limpaway
-Kimmiez

Everything went well with these trades, and all traders were very nice and courteous, I recommend them to anyone.

For records sake, I too have not received my order of 19 DVDS (paid for on October 18, 2003). I will not be able to get my money back as well from Paypal since it was done through a checking account.

How is the IFCC complaint coming along? What progress have we made on the side of getting our money back? What is the plan of action on confronting him?

Did the phone calls to his posted telephone number [(314) 439-522] work for you? I will let you know if I get through.

Rule of thumb, if trading never make trades that are too large to have them fail. People DO rip others off constantly and everyone here has different amounts of money so it differs to what risk people are willing to take. Personally I won't send more than > 5 dvds or purchase dvds/cds from people I don't know that cost > $20.

About the legality issue that something illegal is simply illegal, I'd have to agree with ajb, but what has more significance to most of us is how much damage we're really doing. If my brother can download a song and get sued $150,000 or a person can get pulled over for driving while intoxicated and have to spend a few $100, though the monetary crime is much less for driving under the influence, I'd much rather see people downloading songs than potentially killing themselves or other persons while driving drunk. The law in the United States eventually boils down to fiscal policy and those with more power will make heftier fines for what they think to be wrong, regardless of how wrong a crime may generally be socially considered.

Therefore I suggest if you break the law, be prepared for the consequences as ignorance is not an excuse. However, if what you're doing gives you no guilt and disagree with the law, then do what your heart thinks is right and say "fuck you" to the fat bastard that thinks your actions entitle him to milions of dollars, and if you have the conviction, take him on and get the laws changed. However, it's much easier to make a law than to recind one, and people are generally lazy when it comes to political involvement; hence our legal system will continue to be bombarded with more stupid laws and eventually we'll all find ourselves lawyers only able to survive by stealing from each other since everyone producing a good or service has turned lawyer, nobody is working anymore, and we're all criminals.

No word yet from IFCC, St Louis Police Dept, Fuji, Paypal or the bank.

Just have to wait and see. Will post if I have any news

Just letting you guys know I have completed a trade successfully with Chichiri1. Highly recommended, courteous, and fast. He's already got good feedback here but I'm posting anyway

I also had successful trades with lillypad and oljdtrade

Edit: Also had a successful trade with limpaway

Ruroshin - the person you traded with, who's name you didn't remember was me. We did an international trade back in October. My nick on this board is "chichiri1"

I've traded with a couple of more great traders since then. Here are there nicks on this board:

KouSeiya315
Hideka
Luis Evangelista
marmalade_boy
Quang Vo
TLCY
Kapture520
BuruBuru

Just had a successful trade with KouSeiya315! Very nice packaging, Good Communication, and Fast Shipping.

Boydness - you rock.

Highly recommended as a trader! Nice to come across someone decent who will restore your faith in people offering stuff on the net!

limpaway wrote:

Just had a successful trade with KouSeiya315! Very nice packaging, Good Communication, and Fast Shipping.

Thank you for the post I'm glad everything got to you safely and on time I hope you enjoy your stuff!

this is really great having a reliable list to depend on.. glad I'm in the good traders list am i proud or what!! there are several people that I've traded and I feel that they are good traders as well:

michi (m'sia)
juliana phang (m'sia)
kahlan (m'sia)
oshin (us)

and there are several more people that should be in my list.. pls remind me who you are if you're reading this message (there's another guy from thailand and another one from sarawak)..

nurgee

i just updated the list of traders. i also alphabetized the list to make it easier to look through. hope this helps you guys out. and sorry about the infrequent updates. sometimes i dont notice when the thread has been posted in.
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Where do you traders meet each other ??

Are there some MIRC channels of Drama exchange that I should know ?

please inform me about how to settle trades

thanks

(here is my mail : [email protected])

Battle48 wrote:

Where do you traders meet each other ?? Are there some MIRC channels of Drama exchange that I should know ? please inform me about how to settle trades

People find me via my web page. If you search for "japanese drama trading" on Google, my page comes up number 3. Technically, it's really number 1 because the first two haven't been updated in almost 4 years.

People also find me at two other places:

KIKU-TV message board... This is because I'm known there for providing episodes for people in Hawaii who forget to put their VCR on.

d-addicts tracker and forum... I use this tracker to start spreading my own captures, and to basically get my name out there. And it's working... Many people have e-mailed me directly wanting to snail-mail trade the stuff I'm seeding.

As for the the trading process.... Each person has his/her own unique way of going about it. The best advice I can give a newbie trader is to think a lot about how you want the trading process to end, then consider things you need to do to achieve that result. The MOST important thing every successful and popular trader achieves is clear and timely communications. Don't promise the world. Don't over-trade! Keep in mind that the quality of the trade is more important then just the speed of the trade... People won't mind two to three weeks to complete a trade, just as long as you make the other trader aware of that. Try handling two or three trades at one time, and no more than that. If people inquire about trading and you're heavily loaded with trades, it's perfectly okay to turn people away.

--- groink

Okay thanks for those indications, but, well those means of settling do not appear as very efficient to me ...

well we should start a channel =)

on anniverse one of us started #jtraders so we should gather here to exchange through internet or to settle mail-exchanges.


I personnaly only possess GTO and beautiful life

but here is my mail for those who would like to recieve those series =)

[email protected] (it's my msn address to)

we should also create a mail-list and trade our lists of dramas

anyone who wants to help me to democratise trade please come at #jtraders on anniverse ; my nick : Battle48

Battle48 wrote:

Okay thanks for those indications, but, well those means of settling do not appear as very efficient to me ...

Well, that's why I said that each person has his/her own unique way of going about settling their trades. However, the way I go about it is very effective... My inventory of Jdoramas was accumulated only within the past six months of trading, and IMHO it's rather quite impressive.

http://www.macgeek.org/jdrama/
http://www.macgeek.org/jdrama/havelist.html

BTW, your suggestions on IRC, etc. is getting to be off-topic on this thread. I suggest you create a new thread and exchange your ideas there.

--- groink

i had successful trades with

ice_anime (46 cd)
lily_pad (22 cd)
limpaway (46 cd) (15 cd)
sanachan (20 cd)
terri (6 cd)

FYI... eBay seller hargow0110 has been accused several times of selling JEM captures.

http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=hargow0110&items=25&page=1&frompage=-1&item=-1&de=off

154 feedback with 91.8% positive. Man, that's baaaaaaad! You've got to read some of the feedback... Funny!

And here's his current selling list... As you can see, a bunch of them "just coincidentally" come from JEM's collection.

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=hargow0110&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50

If eBay sellers continue selling works of other people (JEM, JTV, groink, etc.) these guys will at some point cut off the supply.

--- groink