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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: jahbless on May 22, 2013, 01:40 am

Title: Hey SR, start showing reviewers' purchase history already!
Post by: jahbless on May 22, 2013, 01:40 am
I'm sure this issue will have been discussed before, but I wasn't able to find a relevant thread...

Every day new sellers appear on SR offering great deals (esp on BTC for cash/money pack/western union etc). Some of these sellers are scammers and some are genuine traders. The problem is that it seems easy for a scammer to set up a few fake buyer accounts (many cash to BTC transations cost 0.00BTC anyway) to give himself fake positive reviews.

This is why I was wondering... even if a seller's info page doesn't display his reviewers' user names for privacy reasons, why doesn't SR let us see the other items these reviewers have purchased? (It's not like it would be easy to determine which user a given purchase history belongs to.) This way, when we see a glowing positive review, we can always click to see that reviewer's purchase history, and so have a little more confidence in his review being legit and reliable (or not...).

Does this make sense to anyone? Has the idea been discussed and discarded before?
Title: Re: Hey SR, start showing reviewers' purchase history already!
Post by: WeBeWeedGirls on May 22, 2013, 01:53 am
you could even just colour code things, no need to give exact buyer stats, but some kind of idea would be useful.
Title: Re: Hey SR, start showing reviewers' purchase history already!
Post by: sclerogal on May 22, 2013, 02:10 am
I thought that too once I made a purchase from a vendor with a good history, and then received fakes.  There are still ways to link a user to a sale, that's the problem.
Title: Re: Hey SR, start showing reviewers' purchase history already!
Post by: jahbless on May 22, 2013, 02:22 am
you could even just colour code things, no need to give exact buyer stats, but some kind of idea would be useful.

Yeah, color coding would work too, because then you could see at a glance how reliable each review is likely to be, and it would also maintain total reviewer anonymity (almost).

You'd just want to make sure the coding is such that you can't get a "reliable" color just from making a bunch of 0.00BTC or 0.01 BTC purchases, or from making actual purchases but all from the same seller.
Title: Re: Hey SR, start showing reviewers' purchase history already!
Post by: schnelles on May 22, 2013, 02:42 am
yes, colour code might help.

on the other hand, i wish at those feedbacks i could see who made them.
because then i could contact one or two and ask them about more details about the stuff.

since on the other hand they have to be protected, there should be a chance that you contact them without knowing their SR user name
and when they answer they do it as well anonymously (like feedback #392546 or similar, so that i know which feedback it is, but dont know who the buyer was).

like it is now, a lot of feedback seems fake to me.

Title: Re: Hey SR, start showing reviewers' purchase history already!
Post by: WeBeWeedGirls on May 22, 2013, 02:50 am
yes, colour code might help.

on the other hand, i wish at those feedbacks i could see who made them.
because then i could contact one or two and ask them about more details about the stuff.

since on the other hand they have to be protected, there should be a chance that you contact them without knowing their SR user name
and when they answer they do it as well anonymously (like feedback #392546 or similar, so that i know which feedback it is, but dont know who the buyer was).

like it is now, a lot of feedback seems fake to me.

Oh god no please!!!!!! Do not want random messages from people asking for advise on buying, can you imagine??? so many msgs a day. urg.