Making Trades Safer

[Piotr]

I like ideas

[Piotr]

Makes perfect sense

Well this one I have to disagree with, it makes no sense to me that I'm not allowed to reveal identity of that .loving. .peach. thief.

[Mikefrompluto]

Hahah. Let me expound further. It makes perfect sense why you wouldn't want to implement the idea simply to avoid breaking any international laws that would allow the so-called .loving. .peach. thief's identity to be protected.

[Piotr]

[Langku]

What about an insurance policy. Everyone who wishes to trade pays a one time flat fee of 55$ to ME. They can make trades for 50$ (higher priced trades could be resolved successively after each prior trade is resolved). If either party defaults they forfeit the 50$ and the ability to make any further trades. 50$ is sent to cover the losses of the plaintiff. The extra 5$ pays ME. At any time they may freely withdraw from the trade program and be reimbursed for 50$.

But substitute the "ME" in this scenario with ... Piotr? Coffeevampire? Gorzo?

Oh yeah. Piotr said "Leave the moderators out if this". Maybe Kuberr could watch the money.

[Birdbrain]

What if I went through the trusted and intruded trader threads and made a list on another thread. And everytime a new name is added to one of the threads, I add it to my list for everyone to see?

[Piotr]

Nobody would stop you from doing that.

[Birdbrain]

Ok. It will take a while though

[Rass]

Just tossing this out there but if we are all on apple devices maybe the two traders can set up a time where they will FaceTime each other while dropping them in the mailbox   Would be a pain but if you guys are really scared can try this. Again just an idea

[NyghtHawk]

Idea wise that's cool but don't see it ever happening. Different time zones and schedules make that pretty hard to do methinks.

[Mikefrompluto]

You could always take a video of filling the envelope with cards and dropping it in the mail. Don't necessarily have to send the videos back and worth. It could just be for insurance in case of something coming up about a trader being untrustworthy. I think that would be the closest thing to guaranteeing a trustworthy trade without having to pay money for tracking fees via eBay, PayPal and whatnot.

[Piotr]

If I intend to steal, I will also lie by faking the video.

[NyghtHawk]

Exactly. Thieves are thieves. Middle man is the way to go if you are worried.

[Mikefrompluto]

Yeah this is true. I guess there's really no 100% safe way to trade, besides the aforementioned middle-man service.

[Rass]

Unless the middle man decides to skip out