The FLAKER who BURNED me

So there I was... dreaming of new stationary and notecards and wishing I could have a bunch of new sets without buying big packets.. I did a couple small swaps for a set here and a notecard there, but it wasn't enough. So I set up my own Stationary and Notecard swap as a type 3. I sent a big fat mailer ($9 in postage if I remember right...) to my partner and she loved it. My partner, was a newbie. The ONLY newbie I allowed into my swap based on our email exchanges. AND JUST GUESS who swap-bot partnered me up with??? The newbie. Now, I was a newbie once, and not that long ago, so I wanted to stay positive and give this person a fighting chance... but the person never responded to any of my other emails and has literally disappeared off the face of the earth. Hasn't logged into SB since the date the partners were assigned for this particular swap... I was so bummed out. Part of me never wants to host a Type 3 again, the other part wants to move on and forget it. But there are some swaps you get attached to, and when you are crafting your part of the swap, all you can do is day dream about what might be coming your way in a couple weeks... the anticipation builds, and the let-down ends up taking a lot of wind out of your sails. So that is my sad story... I have others, but that one stung the most because of my love of paper and how much i invested in my part of the swap, and the fact that i trusted someone and let them into the swap as the host, even though based on my rules for the swap, they didn't qualify... boohoo.

Sadly I have been flaked on several times over the last 6 months. I never had this problem when I first joined. The one swap I was really disappointed to not receive was a snail themed swap. It was sender choice of what and how much to send, it just had to be snail themed. Since this is about bad swap experiences I can't help but share the fact that someone once sent me a half empty box of maxi pads in a medium flat rate box destash. I mean, I don't want to seem ungrateful but maxi pads? Really lol?! At any rate, this is a WONDERFUL idea for a swap and would be grateful to receive some snail themed goodies.