Updated 3/02/18 (TL;DR at bottom)
Changing my rating from positive to negative. We completed this trade (https://barter.vg/u/24ce/o/1471527/) months ago and recently the key for Post Human W.A.R was revoked due to being a beta key. That fact was never disclosed at the time of the trade. I added him on Steam to discuss it and posted a message to his profile about it so he would know why I added him.
He accepted the friend request, but that was weeks ago and I have not been able to talk with him. I've messaged multiple times, though, trying to be respectful and not interrupt his gaming, until yesterday I've only done so when he's online and not in a game, which is hard to do since he's almost always playing a game when he's online. The ONE time he messaged back was several hours after I messaged him, and when I replied just a short while later he didn't respond, and after a while he went back offline. He never ONCE attempted to initiate a conversation, despite the fact I told him on his profile page there was an issue and had been attempting to contact him repeatedly.
So yesterday, I'd finally had enough and I messaged him when he was playing a game, so there's no way he was online but AFK and therefore didn't see the message (though that wouldn't explain his failure to respond the next time he came online). He remained in the game for a while, with no response, and a few hours later he went offline. This morning, he was back online, and still, no reply. Obviously he doesn't care about discussing and fixing the issue. I can only assume he only accepted the friend request because he just accepts all requests, but then I wonder why he didn't remove me when he removed my post on his profile (yeah, he clearly trims it to only keep positive stuff, no surprise) or when I've messaged him multiple times. Who knows with this guy. Even back when we made the trade he left a bad impression, as he kept trying to suggest this and that trade in chat when I made it clear I had no interest.
By the way, I have screenshots of my attempts to contact him, but it seems they can't be posted under a normal review. But I do have them in case it's disputed. Considering his attitude, though, I doubt he'd even care enough to bother. Do yourself a favor and save the aggravation and don't deal with this guy.
Edited to post link to screenshots, which I had to upload due to him retaliating and giving me -rep for doing so to him: https://imgur.com/a/V60vo
(Hopefully) final edit: The negative feedback he left for me was unsurprisingly removed, but I wanted to let others know the kind of BS he tried saying, so they can have a better understanding of the type of person they're dealing with should they choose to trade with him. Here's what he said:
"Well. seems you already make your choice. so l will be short. l am using idling program for farm cards,
where l even not logged into client and cant reseive any messages. As you didnt try contact me in other
way and dont wait until l log into client to speak with you, now l have no desire to solve this problem. Have
a good day."
So to sum up (TL;DR):
- He traded a beta key without describing it as such
- He ignored almost all attempts to contact him
- He claimed he couldn't receive messages, which was clearly a lie since he did respond once, only to never respond again
- He blames me for a) not somehow knowing he was using an idling program and b) not contacting him in (an)other way (what other way I wonder; and keep in mind, this is the same account he conducted the trade on in the first place, and so a reasonable person would expect to be able to contact him via this account)
- He removed the message I wrote on his wall when adding him as a friend letting him know about the issue, so he not only was aware of it, but then never took any steps to contact me about it and even went so far as to remove it from his profile, presumably to hide what he did from others
- He claims I didn't wait until he logged into the client, but he's logged in ALL THE TIME (and even if it is just an idling program, see above point)
- I'm always online so it would be very easy to reach me
- He only finally responded once I left him -rep, and then only to retaliate and leave me -rep (full of lies) instead of trying to fix the situation (I left him in my friends even after leaving him -rep in case he wanted to contact me at that point, but he instead removed me)
- He claimed that now (after I left him -rep) he had no desire to solve the problem, as if his actions up to that point didn't make it abundantly clear he never had any desire to
This guy is a piece of garbage and a massive waste of time (and air). Very strongly recommend against trading with him. I've done a lot of trading and dealt with a lot of people, and he is by far one of the worst. I'm easy to work with and very understanding, and would rather not leave -rep on someone but, in this case, he left me no choice, and then took it a step further.
-Rep Traded me Post Human W.A.R which was only the beta key and loading it up tells me I only have access to it until the 30th of June. Guy told me he had the game and never informed me of it being a beta and found out he had told another person "Its have beta tag, but adds +1. Maybe because game in early access"
Update Feb 2020:
-rep game from him was beta and revoked from my account later, he is ignoring me for 3+ months
Traded me "Day of Imfamy" which has now been revoked from my steam account. I purposely asked this trader if they were giving me a temporary product and he said no. Ironically, you have multiple negative feedback about the same game...really?
Dude...you basically lied and stole from me. Dont worry bro, i submitted all your steam profile names, and your SG profile, barter profile to a large group of developers. Including New World Interactive.
You are a disgusting human being.
