I can’t speak for anyone else that traded with @DrGonzo13 but a goodie bag did arrive here that was above and beyond the agreed upon trade. This was my second trade with him that was fulfilled. The first time his arrived and unfortunately mine didn’t make it to him and got swallowed up by the USPS I guess. It’s a crappy spot to be in when something you send doesn’t arrive because obviously it isn’t your fault and you’re still out those beans, but at the same time I think most of us would agree we still feel like we should resend and don’t want the other guy to go without. Between not having enough to resend the same strains, being swamped with work, and honestly kind of feeling like it was more of a nice thing than an obligation it took me a few weeks to get the second pack out between deciding what I could send, running it by him and being ridiculously busy.
Shortly after he proposed a second trade and sent me a list of what he had. We went back and forth and figured out what we would trade and agreed. Again being busy it took me a week or so to get them out but after sending he confirmed they arrived about 3 days after I sent them. In this time life was really dealing him a tough hand and he was going through a lot so I wasn’t pressing him to send and figured he’d get to it when he was up to it. We actually messaged back and forth pretty regularly just BSing or checking on how he was doing. The trade itself would come up only in passing and I would tell him there was no rush.
In this time I started getting warnings from other members and he mentioned threads where people were calling him out on unfulfilled trades and getting angry with him over them. It definitely made me wonder a little bit but I hoped for the best, specially since by now he was a buddy I regularly PMed with and checked on.
Quite some time had passed since the second trade pack I had sent arrived (2 months or so) and still I was being patient (I didn’t have immediate plans to grow any of them anyway). Recently a buddy had expressed interest in growing, specifically Pennywise which was part of the pack I was waiting on. His wife has some medical issues and he wants to learn to grow for her. Now that there were immediate plans for some of those beans I started pressing the issue a little bit. It went from mentioning it and saying I could use them soon if he could get them out to actually confronting him after he said he’d provide tracking and then dipped for a few days. Between not responding to the message where I asked him about the tracking number and all the things others had said I was now concerned that I was had.
Because of that I sent a message that was a mix of anger and hurt about how shitty it would be if this was all some scheme for beans considering all the times I’d sit and have convos about losing his dad and how rough things were going for him lately. The thought that I was invested in how he was doing while he might be scamming me was a tough one. The next response was pics of the pack he had been talking about putting together and apologizing that he hadn’t responded but that tracking would be provided soon. Within the next day or two he sent me pics of it packed up and the number, arrived a few days later.
It had everything we agreed on plus some (plus a lot actually). I was like a kid opening up presents on Christmas morning! I’m very happy with it and more so glad to have my initial and sustained trust validated. For transparency I have to mention that @DrGonzo13 asked me to post here because he’s trying to make these trades right and wanted someone vouching for him which I have no problem doing since he came through. Transparency is also why I wrote this mini novel because I wanted to give a detailed overview. This wasn’t a simple quick trade where “happy with the trade, arrived safely” would suffice without the background info since that’s where all the contention is arising from to begin with. Now that all is said and done though - I’m happy with the trade and it arrived safely 
for your support and words and now I have had 2 others just message me they got there’s today and now I’m waiting for the first one to land up north especially those 6 little ones that are calling to u LoL but seriously should be landing Happy Holiday Season thanks for the giveaways it is very gracious and now I have something else to do GROW!
He’s been a little fixated lately.
… Gotta love the mind of Hunter S Thompson but also 
while bumping it but that’s a hard duty here … 