Trading etiquette question

I've tried to go through the FAQs, and I'm a noob, so please pardon me if I missed this information elsewhere.

When you make a trade request, but don't get any response, what do you do?
Is there a common/expected number of days to wait for a response?
Are you expected to contact the trading partners?

:dunno:

Thanks!
Edwin

No, there's no set time frame, and nowadays on Pinpics, no response is pretty common.

I've heard that people actually send requests out one at a time, and "hold" the pin they're offering until they hear a reply, or they've allowed whatever time they've set in their head pass. I've never used Pinpics this way (partially because I didn't know about the "pending requests" page until embarrassingly late, so I never knew I had that option).

I've always thought of it as a "throwing a wide net" approach- toss it and see what comes to you. I never hold my pins. If more than one person gets back to me and I've already accepted, I just tell them that someone else was accepted instead.

In other words, to me, etiquette doesn't come in to play until I have a response and I'm talking one-on-one with a person.

I have lost my cable for a few days and don't have internet, I have a trade request through the forum which I am going to look at now, since I have jumped onto someones unsecured wirless but I keep getting tossed off, His request probably has been waiting a day or so, I have not ignored it on purpose, but there are times where I will have a ton of junk mail hit my inbox and in the middle will be a missed pinpics trade requests, I try to return all offers with a yes or no ASAP, but sometimes one or two get missed. If I put out a trade in pinpics and I get several returns back I usually accept the first one first then wait a few hours to hear back ( they might be at work or out) if I don't hear back I move on to the second one.

my general rules:
If I send a request~ 48 hour response time. First yes response gets priority, if 2 respond fast, better pin gets priority. counter offers not considered unless they make sense.

I recieve request~I do try to reply even if its a no, within 24 hours.

no pin trade is set until addresses are exchanged. Once addys are exchanged, I send with dc# within 24 hours, expecting the same if possible from other trader. I am fairly un concerned unless a week passes without the other trader emailing me the dc# because not everyone has paypal set up for quick shipping labels or envelopes in the house. I keep my dc#s handy until both I and the other trader have recieved our pins, then they get filed. (yup, I keep em, with notes. lol)