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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: SterlingArcher on May 16, 2012, 03:12 pm

Title: FE filter in SR products
Post by: SterlingArcher on May 16, 2012, 03:12 pm
As I've said before in another thread:
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There is no need to completely get rid of FE. sometimes it has its uses, like someone mentioned before they FE for things like lotteries.
Its really up to the buyers to choose not to FE. Buyers do have the power of the market and if people are smart enough to simply avoid any seller asking for FE then those sellers wont make any money. If they aren't making money they will either change or leave. simple.

but it can be sort of annoying when looking through products on SR and finding something you're pretty excited about and then going to the vendor page to fine "must FE before shipment". Bummer hey.
It would be cool if vendors had a check box or some sort of field that is selected when creating a product that states if they require FE and under what circumstances. E.G. tick box for new customers, tick box for international, tick box for all blah blah blah.

Then it's as simple as a tick box for us to easily find products and vendors who will deal in escrow. This has the advantage of driving business to vendors who will use escrow, which will perhaps result in FE vendors reconsidering their stance, and a safer community for all.
Title: Re: FE filter in SR products
Post by: Raoul Duke on May 16, 2012, 07:11 pm
Great idea
Title: Re: FE filter in SR products
Post by: blackend646 on May 17, 2012, 05:31 am
Another thing that annoys me is when you get excited about ordering a product, get more excited when you see that the vendor looks trustworthy, and then scroll down to find out that 95% of their positive feedback is idiots enthusiastically proclaiming that they just went out of escrow. Not sure how that could be dealt with though, word filter maybe?
Title: Re: FE filter in SR products
Post by: ZenAndTheArt on May 20, 2012, 01:42 am
Good idea, it would also give us an idea of what % of vendors are asking people to FE.
Title: Re: FE filter in SR products
Post by: RickyRango on May 20, 2012, 07:49 pm
Yeah it pisses me off when I use my buyer account, which has a stellar rating and 1000s of dollars of orders, to purchase something from a new seller, and the little shit demands I finalize early so I don't scam him.  Are you fucking for real?   

I think this has already been suggested, but a seller should have to have a number of successful physical shipments before being able to ask for early finalization.