I've been on this website for over six years now & one consistent thing is people getting screwed in the market by unscrupulous sellers. This site is big enough that people can blend in & make some very vanilla posts to up their count while never actually being noticed. Then, next thing you know, you run across a (insert expensive part here) for a great price in the market with the aforementioned person as the seller. Check the guy out & he's been here a year or so with a couple hundred posts; maybe has positive trader rating from a couple small deals. He answers all your questions promptly and seems open & honest so you feel pretty good about the deal. Since it's too good of a deal to pass up you scrape together the money for the part and kick it's ass out the door headed his way. Then you wait. Aaaaand wait. Maybe you get a lame ass excuse about this or that. And you wait.
You try to believe the guy for a bit mainly because you don't want it to be true.....but you got dicked. I've watched guys deal with this shit over & over & over because there is no true way to regulate it.
So with my long-winded preamble out of the way, let me get to the point. How does this board, it's members, & it's staff feel about setting up a dedicated "account" of some type through which funds must flow. This would be a third party account where the money must be accounted for before shipment of item, held until item arrival, and subsequently dispersed upon delivery of the item to the buyer. I'm not talking about every transaction because that would be impossibly time-intensive. Let's say everything over a certain dollar amount ($500...maybe $1000?) has to flow through this account. The administrator of the account/board could retain a % fee for doing so (amount also TBD). Seriously though, we don't have a lot of $1000+ transactions. Couple per week maybe? This could be a serious safety measure for our members & would basically eliminate big-time scammers overnight. If they KNOW they aren't going to get the money, they will go to another board. It will leave us to our vices of blowers, turbos, etc. knowing we'll get that for which we pay.
What say you?
You try to believe the guy for a bit mainly because you don't want it to be true.....but you got dicked. I've watched guys deal with this shit over & over & over because there is no true way to regulate it.
So with my long-winded preamble out of the way, let me get to the point. How does this board, it's members, & it's staff feel about setting up a dedicated "account" of some type through which funds must flow. This would be a third party account where the money must be accounted for before shipment of item, held until item arrival, and subsequently dispersed upon delivery of the item to the buyer. I'm not talking about every transaction because that would be impossibly time-intensive. Let's say everything over a certain dollar amount ($500...maybe $1000?) has to flow through this account. The administrator of the account/board could retain a % fee for doing so (amount also TBD). Seriously though, we don't have a lot of $1000+ transactions. Couple per week maybe? This could be a serious safety measure for our members & would basically eliminate big-time scammers overnight. If they KNOW they aren't going to get the money, they will go to another board. It will leave us to our vices of blowers, turbos, etc. knowing we'll get that for which we pay.
What say you?
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