Dan,
This is the problem. As one of the negative feedbacks said, when he first accepted the trade from this member, the feedback was 100% positive. Then this member went on a run of 7 trades where he did not fulfill his end of the trade and never responded to any messages from the trade partners. I know we all have things going on in our lives but, if so, then clear up the trades that are ongoing and don't propose or accept any trades till things improve. I am in that situation right now. This member has regularly logged onto this site during the past five months so I can only assume he did this intentionally.
I continue to have members who don't show the decency to respond to proposed trades even after being told through a PM that they are interested (to the point that I quit proposing any) or respond to PM asking if they would be intersted in trading (these are active members who are logged on almost every day). I am often tempted to leave Negative Feedback for their lack of email etiquette.
When I saw this post, it made me start wondering if there would not be a way to alert other members of a possible trader who is going rogue. More often than not, by the time the a Negative Feedback is submitted, the offender has had the opportunity to entice a few more trades. We all hesitate to leave negative feedback, some for months after the fact.
I am thinking along the lines that, when a member fails to communicate in a timely manner (let's say 5-7 days covering a weekend and that the member who is not responding has logged on since the last attempted communication), then either through a Neutral or Negative Feedback, or an "Alert" button in the Transation Manager page of the problem trade (I prefer this idea), an alert would be created in possibly a location on this site or maybe better still, on the offender's profile page near his Feedback rating, just for that purpose. This would allow other members to note those who are potentially fraudulent. If an identified member cleaned up the problem, the alert on him would be removed.
This idea would have to be developed; I have just started trying to imagine what would work best. I can say that if someone leaves Neutral Feedback, the receiving member's feedback % does not change. So if a member is less than timely in fulfilling his end of the trade, he may remain unnoticed if all other feedback is 100%. After all, most of us probably see something like "100% Positive 35 Comments" for a member and think all is good yet he may have several Neutrals expressing difficulty in completing the trade.
Just an idea to try to protect on of the great things about this site.
Bruno
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