General Forum

It would be nice if there was a page that we could list questionable traders to keep us all informed about problems/issues before trades happened.

you can actually search the forum for any subject, so you can put in a user name to see if there is any postings from or about that user

mark

I rarely trade here, but I'm not in favor of a Wall of Shame. I do strongly encourage all traders to give honest feedback on every trade. If they did, people could assess each trade based on that person's feedback. 

v3

I'm all about the feedback. I leave feedback on all trades and I check feedback before entering into a trade. It's our best way to communicate to eacho other on how a trader behaves. I've only had one trade with a problem and that user's feedback profile reflected it. I chose to give him the benefit of the doubt.....but his feedback profile was spot on. I should have listened.

Agree with v3.  I always read the Feedbacks of the Trade proposer.

I want to be on the Wall of Shame.  Who is on the veterans committee that I can talk to?  Of course everyone will say Don Mattingly deserves it more.

Nah. Both you and Mattingly only merit Wall of Pretty Bad. 

Oh, I should have known.

I agree that a "Wall of Shame" would be bad. The reason for feedback is obvious and works well. If everyone would just check out the profile of members proposing trades or that they want to trade with before moving ahead with a trade, it usually works well for all parties involved.

I've been a member of Beckett for about 15 years now. Once a "bad traders" thread started that was easy to get to, new members got scared off. Even after a "good traders" thread was started and right there with the other thread, it didn't seem to help anything. Besides Beckett charging money for nearly everything now, the site quickly dropped off in the number of regular members b/c of the constant threat of getting scammed. Even with their very good trade/feedback system, the threads scared people away. When you see a list of hundreds of scammers on a site with tens of thousands of members and the list goes back about 8 years, it looks scary!

With over 700 documented trades/purchases/sells across several sites, I've never been scammed. That doesn't include the deals I've done with no real documentation. You just need to do the work to make sure someone is reputable.