Stage four of five
In a dispute
A dispute is a written record read by somebody who does not know either of you and has no reason to care. Everything you write is evidence, including the tone.
Nexus market mirrors
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The six messages
- Opening a disputeFour lines at the top decide how the rest is read
- Replying to an arbitratorAnswer what was asked, in the order it was asked, and stop
- Answering the other versionWhen their account of it contradicts yours
- Listing your evidenceAttach it, do not describe it
- Accepting a splitThe most common outcome, and how to take it without spoiling it
- Withdrawing a disputeSometimes right, occasionally a mistake you cannot undo
What is different about this stage
Every other stage on this site has one reader. This one has a third. The vendor reads it, and so does whoever is deciding, and those two people want completely different things from the same paragraph.
The third reader has no memory of your order and no appetite for the narrative. They want to know what is claimed, what dates it rests on, and what you are asking for. A statement that opens with the claim gets read. A statement that opens with the story gets skimmed until the reader gives up looking for the claim.
| What a statement does | How to tell it is working |
|---|---|
| States the claim first | The whole thing could be summarised from the first two sentences |
| Rests on dates | Every assertion has a when attached, and no when is approximate |
| Separates shown from asserted | Nothing is claimed that you could not put in front of somebody |
| Names an outcome | The reader knows what you want without having to work it out |
| Stops | Nothing is repeated, and nothing is added for weight |
Volume reads as weakness. That is unfair and it is consistent. A long statement suggests the writer does not think any single part of it is strong enough on its own, and a reader working through a queue will take that hint whether or not it was meant.
What this site cannot tell you
How any particular market handles a dispute, what the windows are, who decides and on what basis. Those vary, they change, and nothing here is checked against anything. These pages cover what a dispute statement has to do, which is stable, rather than which button opens one, which is not.
If you kept no notes
If you are in a dispute and have no notes from earlier, write down what you can remember now, dated today and marked as recalled rather than recorded. A statement built on things you are sure you remember falls apart the moment one date is wrong.
Where this goes next
However it ends, something gets written afterwards. Afterwards covers feedback, public questions and the notes worth destroying. Listing what you can show is the page to read first if you are opening one today.