Hi Everyone,

I've been on Bookmooch for a while now but this is the first time this has happened. Someone mooched a book from me and I sent it. I just received the book back from the USPS with an RTS sticker that says "Refused, Return to sender." I checked this person's status and they have no points and have not logged into the system for a long enough time period that their account is now 'on vacation.'

I sent the member an email asking if he wanted the book but I've not gotten (and based on his status) don't really think I'll get a response.

Since I got the book back, I wondered if there was a way to cancel the sent mooch? I'm not as concerned about getting the point back (though it would be nice...) but I want to make sure the book off my 'sent' list.

I tried to mark it as "lost" thinking I could put notes in the record indicating the book was returned, but it hasn't been long enough.

Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Thanks & Happy New Year!
Adam

You pretty much sum up what I thought was the case. It's a bummer...I love mooching. Kind of silly to flit in and flit out, especially if you are an avid reader (I'm voracious :-)!!!!).

I'll go ahead and wait until the 17th and then mark it lost. At this point, since I paid to send it to that person and it was refused, in my mind, they had their chance. I'll re-post it and send to someone who REALLY wants the book.

Happy new Year!
Adam

The question then is how to remove the transaction from your pending page:
• you could contact tech support as Cara suggested and ask them to remove the transaction but leave your point to which you are entitled since you did mail the book;
• you could mark the book as lost even though it isn't but by doing this you would have an unjustified "lost book" on your record; or
• you could begin the process to "force receive" the book, i.e., send a reminder to the moocher from the pending page and a few weeks later, the "force receive" button will appear and you can mark the book received even though that isn't what happened either.