He loses points because the OP stated

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Originally Posted by pedrobds -I will sell items within 1-2 days of receiving a bid i see as fair for the particular item I reserve all rights to hold on to an item for any reason or sell in game (though unlikely).

Between having chatted with him a bit via PM about some items here from his earlier PC thread and that line, I opted to post my offers here on Dec. 5 rather than PM them to him. I figured he did not have hidden reserves and he was not likely to draw this out indefinitely.

Maybe 1.5 days later, late Dec. 6 / early Dec. 7, he PMed me to let me know he'd posted a b/o for the Chalice Aris and I had a mini-bid war over. That was very cool of him! I'd asked to be alerted about such changes, and it was very thoughtful and responsible of him to reply - thank you again for that!

At that point, I asked him in PM if there were any hidden reserves I was under that I had not realized. I asked if the line from his OP was, indeed, the case for the items I'd bid on, and if I should expect to win them for my posted offers soon unless I was outbid. His prompt answer left me with the impression that yes, that was the case (although he did not spell it out/say it as a guarantee.)

So the deduction is because then this took four more days, three more than I expected at the beginning.

I PMed him earlier today, Dec. 10, and asked if we were going to finish this trade within the next 24 hours. It wasn't ragey or insulting, just matter of fact. If he wanted to wait longer, that was fine with me. But I had already waited longer than I expected here, had not been outbid, and so I was ready to finish this. If he was willing to trade in the next 24 hours, so was I. Otherwise, I was going to retract my bids and stop holding that fake-money in reserve to cover them. I wound up finding him in-game before he replied here. We finished the trades after I repeated my assertions that I was not pissed at him or threatening him and would hold absolutely no grudges if he wanted to keep waiting. As far as I could tell, he did understand that and was ok with it.

I can relate to how difficult it is to figure "fair market value" for inherent gear like he has here ... really, I can relate! So I do understand and forgive him being less than 100% positive about what amount of fake-money is "fair" and what isn't. I don't envy any player having to make that decision when selling pixels they don't want to keep for themselves!

Through this whole thing, pedrobds has seemed nothing other than a decent, easy-going player. I really am not left with any kind of negative impression of him or of trading pixels with him in general!

After we traded I did warn him of the coming less than A+ feedback! mark and luny-book explanation. He was even easy-going about that!

In conclusion, this trade was not as simple or short as I was led to believe, but I trust the reasons for it were both understandable and forgivable. I cannot in good conscience leave perfect feedback, but nothing that happened here is nearly so bothersome that I would worry about trading with pedro again in the future.