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Messages, and when to send one

Costs
Two minutes to write one properly
The rule
Wait until the stated window has actually passed

There is a message box and it is tempting. Most first order messages are sent too early, ask a question nobody can answer yet, and contain something that should not have been written down.

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What actually happens here

A messaging function exists on the order. You write something, it goes to the seller, and they reply at some point, usually when they next work through their queue rather than immediately.

The messages are stored by the system. That is the fact that governs what belongs in them. Anything you write can be read by whoever runs the market and by anything that later gets access to what the market stored, unless you encrypt it the same way you encrypted the address at minute 75.

When a message is actually worth sending

  • The stated window has passed. Not most of it. All of it, with a day or two of grace. Before that there is nothing to ask.
  • Something in the order is wrong. A wrong option, a wrong quantity. Send this immediately, because it is the only window in which it can be fixed.
  • The seller asked you something. Obvious, and worth answering promptly.
  • The hold is close to expiring and nothing has arrived. This is the important one. A message here is the step before a dispute and it should be dated, specific and calm.

When it is not

  • Day two, asking whether it has been sent. The status says whatever it says and the message does not change it.
  • Asking for tracking. Usually not available, and asking for it repeatedly is a pattern that gets noticed for the wrong reasons.
  • Anything you would not want stored. The message box records everything. If it must be said, encrypt it.
  • Frustration. It is understandable and it is not useful. The person reading it decides how much effort to put into your problem.
What a well timed message gives you
  • A record, timestamped, that you raised the matter before the hold expired.
  • Information, occasionally, that is not visible in the status.
  • It establishes that you are dealing with a person rather than a system, which matters if it comes to a dispute.
What a premature one costs
  • It marks you as impatient before anything has gone wrong.
  • It produces a reply that says wait, which you already knew.
  • It puts more text into a stored record for no benefit.

How to write the one that matters

  1. State the order and the date it was placed.
  2. State the stated window and the date it ended.
  3. State what you have and have not received, in one sentence.
  4. Ask one specific question.
  5. Say when the hold expires, without making it a threat. It is a fact and both of you are working against it.

Five short lines. No history, no complaint, no explanation of how you feel about it. A specific message about a specific date is the one that gets a useful answer, and it is also the one that reads well later if somebody at the market has to look at the exchange.

Where people stall

The stall is composing a long message on day two and then rewriting it three times. The effort is real and it is spent on a message that should not be sent yet.

The second is the opposite and it is worse. Somebody waits, does not want to be a nuisance, keeps waiting, and sends nothing until after the hold has already expired. At that point there is no leverage left and the money has gone.

The third is what goes in the box. People put addresses, quantities and personal circumstances into a stored message because it feels like a private conversation. It is a record on a system you know nothing about.

How long this really takes
What people expectA reply within the hour, like any support chat
What it usually costsA reply within a day or two, sometimes longer

Sellers work in batches. A message sent at two in the morning is read whenever they next sit down, and that is normal rather than neglect.

If you get no reply at all

Silence after a well timed message, with the window passed, is the point at which the dispute route becomes the sensible one. Do not let the hold expire while waiting for a reply that is not coming. Raising it is what the finalising page covers, and the ordering matters. Raise before the timer, not after.

In one line

Wait for the window to pass, then write five specific lines. The message that arrives on day two costs you something and buys you nothing.