taultunleashed

Hello!

I understand this forum has a number of different purposes I was thinking more in the area of buying, selling & trading if we had a certain team or group of active (trusted) members who are made "middle men/women" for people looking to make a transaction buying selling accounts and we provide the service of the middle man to ensure no scamming takes place and build a much more tightly nit community here on TaultUnleashed.

Sukotto

We played with the idea back a couple of years ago, and could never get enough "dedicated" people to make it work. But I'm willing to entertain ideas...

It's not actually that difficult to ensure that the middle-men are informed, and that you keep a dedicated team going. For a while now, I have thought about putting up a trade board, maybe we can team up on this venture? You know I have a bit of knowledge with it.

Only problem with trade boards, are they will be flooded with spam.. and not many actual users. Atleast that is what I see when I look at current trading boards, such as the one here and over at OC. I think a site that was similar to the old playerauctions might do better. I think feedback and the like would almost have to be mandatory too to keep fraud down.

Another thing that is hard to prevent.. fraud. Somebody selling a good account, gold or whatever, and then puts up a reversal on paypal (as they do not guarantee virtual good sales). Suddenly we are the bad guys.

Well with WoW accounts it goes without saying that it is highly likely the buyer will reverse the payment. The only true way to prevent a scam in this matter is for the middle man to accept payment via a non-refundable payment source, then to name change the account to prevent the seller from scamming. Otherwise there will be scamming.

Scamming is something you have to deal with but no one said you can't be proactive in this.

Yea I just cant help but wonder if you made it a non-refundable payment source (cash only, check, etc), you would be greatly limiting the majority of the sales, even sellers. As who wants to wait 2-7 days just to verify payment. Unless you know of another non-refundable payment sources?

Yes I do actually. I know of 4 off-hand.

Such as? Turnaround time of payment/confirmation?

Verification of payment within 12 hours, possibly less. As short as a few minutes, depending on service used.

Such as? I dont know of any that have a no refund policy.

There are some, but we don't have any kind of a partnership *shrug*. I will tell you this, they are not convenient like paypal/moneybookers which accept credit cards. Credit cards are the bane of online sales.

That is what I figgured, since you were not using it yourself.