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Good Companies and Private Traders
« on: September 30, 2004, 11:38:20 AM »
In light of the terrible scams and bad experiences many users have had with eBay and other sellers / companies, can we start a new forum called Recommended Traders?

Those of us who have bought from trustworthy people would then have a place where they could recommend them and subsequent buyers here on AO could preferentially do business with those people instead of risking a bad sale / repair job by a person or a company that hasn't been recommended here.

I think it would be good for us here at AO, good for the honest sellers and companies and stimulate competition here.
 

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Re: Good Companies and Private Traders
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2004, 12:08:19 PM »
@ Cyberus

But surely there must be some value in this idea. For example:

I recently bought a DKB3128 board from AmiNTT, a guy who I didn't know from a bar of soap, who is an AO member. I sent him cash and he sent me the board nicely packaged and very quickly.
Now, I have the guy's name and I have a verifiable transaction that I am very happy with. So I think it is worthwhile for me to say that I trust the guy and that I would buy from him again and that he is a trustworthy person.

Now the difference between my comment and let's say, an eBay feedback, is that as I spend more time here on AO I will become known as a reliable guy and my opinion may be valued.
There are many people here whose opinions I value, and I would appreciate knowing who they have had good trade experiences with.
Maybe a safeguard would be to not allow new users or those who are not known to us here (?number of posts / type of posts submitted ?) to make recommendations in the forum.

What do you think? It has to be better than nothing.