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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: techan113 on September 26, 2013, 05:56 am

Title: Interesting Idea
Post by: techan113 on September 26, 2013, 05:56 am
Buyers have stats that Vendors can look up, such as total spent, refund rate, auto finalization rate, etc...

Sellers have stats that Buyers can look up, such as total transactions, feed back, rating, rank, etc...

Now my idea, is to make visible to Buyers, Sellers current amount of Open Resolution Center Claims. This would help prospective Buyer's protect against rogue vendors who are starting to scam/ selectively scam.
 
Vendors with a higher incidence rate would be labeled as riskier, and be rated accordingly. Once the Resolution Center has arrived to a resolution, the vendors rating would improve. Additionally, more recent Claims could be weighted more heavily, as well as, larger Bitcoin amount transactions.   

Transparency of non identifying metrics like the aforementioned could potentially decrease the problem with rogue vendors that decided to selectively scam. By revealing a trend early on, and better informing Buyers.

It is possible that behind the scenes this is already a system in place, but what are the pro's and con's of making it visible to all members...Especially Buyers!       

Please only serious replies, but I welcome criticism. :)
Title: Re: Interesting Idea
Post by: hypetelecon on October 02, 2013, 05:17 am
This. Do this. I think this would provide buyers with some great information about vendors before they decided to make a purchase.