Trader Rating or Buyer/Seller feedback

[Top Shelf]

Just wondering if there has ever been any thought into including some sort of rating system for buyers and sellers?

It could be worthwhile, as right now I just use join date and brief post history to determine if the person might be legt

[ricosuave]

I know that most of the time it's checked, but I don't like to see the seller 'edit' the post of what they are selling, and for how much afterwards.

[photon]

We're not primarily a buy/sell forum so putting money (time) into creating and maintaining such a feedback system and all the additional administration that would be incurred (what if someone gives a false negative feedback, or contests a feedback, if a mod doesn't take a bunch of time to dig into the truth the feedback system becomes useless) isn't really something we want to do.

Treat it like kijiji or craigslist or any other buy/sell venue; if you are unsure take precautions. There are other feedback venues (eBay, there's another 3rd party feedback website that I can't remember the name of), or take reasonable precautions when making a deal (use escrow sites, meet in person, test the item before paying etc etc).

[albertGQ]

What about a sticky with poster's experience buying/selling with other CP members?

[Yeah_Baby]

What? And take the fun out of meeting a stranger in a Superman hat outside Deerfoot Meadows Best Buy? Never!

[pylon]

What I think could be an easy way to do it, is for the seller to keep links to the original threads stores on a document somewhere on their desktop, and just email the links via PM. If you ask someone for a Thanks! A+ transaction as the last post in the thread, that should be good enough.