Hi Ya'll. The blog has been quiet for about two weeks now :( I used to look forward to checking this everyday for there were new posts everyday but now...no action. We need to get on it! I'm trying not to interpret this as everyone is doing bad on their no/low buy..but it's hard because that would be a logical assumption. Prove me wrong!
Anyway, I am doing good on my no-buy. Swapping on MUA was a good cure b/c it's getting 'new' (new to me, anyway) m/u without spending anything (less shipping). Unfortunately, I was swaplifted!! :( :( :( This totally ruined my groove I had going. Now I'm trying to work that out before setting up any new swaps. I hate to call it a swaplift but it's obvious that's what it is. I set a swap up with this girl early/mid August. I sent my end and emailed her three times since and she never responded. She's been on MUA but not too frequently. My initial guess is that she hasn't had time or forgot and that's why she isn't responding (even though IMO the best way to deal with those issues is communicate to the swapper so they aren't sitting here wondering what the hell is going on like I am!!). I don't know that she intentionally swaplifted but either way, she has her end, I don't have mine. She hasn't given me any feedback so all I'm left to do now is guess about my end and the swap. I decided to wait one month after no communication which will be the 20th of September. At that point, I will give her a negative token and post on my swap pad that I've been swaplifted and will be sorting that out before taking on any new swaps. I didn't really want to open that door but I feel I've done everything I can, given her several chances and yeah...no resolution. It is very disheartening and makes me remember not to trust all on MUA. Even though she had about 30 positive tokens and communicated openly in the beginning...guess it's just bad luck. What makes me the most mad is not that I'm out the item (I didn't want it anyway, right?) but the way she's handling it and the fact that I haven't been swapping at all because now it's kind of tainted. I just don't want to right now..can't really describe it. Way to go bad swappers to ruin for all of us :(
Anyway, I only lost a MUFE star powder so not a huge deal. I'm sure once this is sorted out I will be back on the MUA horse again :) Let's just hope it doesn't open the whole box of retaliatory negative tokens, bitchy emails and what not. I hope all of you are doing well on your no/low-buy! Talk to you soon??!!
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I was swap lifted in July so I know how hard it is. This girl had more than 150 tokens! I'd put up a neutral/negative token to let others know of your problems.
ReplyDeleteI've been so busy that I haven't posted pics of my stash that I've promised. We were house hunting, made an offer and got through the home inspection to walk away after the seller wasn't willing to fix the most expensive problem with the house. I've also had really long work hours since a lot of people have been on vacation.
Since I've been so busy, I've been able to stick to a no buy for 34 days!! DH and I haven't been buying anything that isn't a necessity and the scariest part of that is we saved ourselves over $3k in the course of one month. I am SHOCKED over that amount of money! It really has helped me stick to not buying stuff I don't really need (I did give in to a CCO MAC Perfect Topping which I've used every other day since then and then a new BE kit that came out last night - with a gift card I spent less than $50 which is amazing for me!)
I'm still here! Doing horribly on my no/low-buy though hahaha... SO has been out of the country for ~10 days and I have some depression/anxiety issues that I have problems dealing with by myself... but I'm trying to get myself under control. I only feel worse when I splurge anyway...
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to hear about your swapping troubles though! That really sucks... =/
I will probably be making a post soon once I figure out where I stand and what I can do to do better.