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 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Feb 2, 2017 20:28
 Subject: Re: This will reduce scammers by 95%
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 Topic: Suggestions
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In Suggestions, Jamesf077 writes:
  How about giving some power to the community. Three seperate suspect scam reports
from seperate members and the store is automaticaly suspended until admin have
time to check it out. The rule could be a report has to come from established
users with a minimum positive feeback score.
Say, when you have over 100 feedback you are allowed access to the 'scam
report' button. I'm sure a simple programme could be installed to facilitate
this.

I agree. That would be a good added safety feature.

Jim
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Feb 2, 2017 14:56
 Subject: Re: This will reduce scammers by 95%
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In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:
  I believe that if Bricklink will allow new sellers to set up a shop ONLY AFTER
THEY HAVE COMPLETED 10 successful transactions as buyers- the scams by 0 feedback
sellers (that pop everyday) will stop by a high margin.

The beauty of this is that they can't start multiple new seller accounts
to prop up their buying feedbacks too.

I think this will work...

Putting aside all the posts that say it wont work, I think it is a great idea.
It will not stop 100% of all the scammers but it will stop at least 95% (like
you said). Yes, as one poster said, coming up with an idea that would stop 100%
of the scammers of course would be better but to stop 95% with just one simple
change like this would be great.

Here are just 3 thoughts as to why I think your idea would work great at stopping
95% of the scum scammers:


1, Scammers like to make their money fast and disappear. Needing 10 FB's
would cause them to have to wait until they placed 10 orders, receive invoices
and pay for all 10, and then wait until they receive their needed 10 FB's
from 10 sellers. This would take more time and effort them most scammers would
be willing to spend.

2, Going along with the #1 above, scammers like to set up one fake account take
as many suckers as they can then disappear as that seller and then open up different
fake account, scam some more suckers, etc. They cant do that with out waiting
for those 10 feedbacks for every account they open. Also, for every false account
they open they will need a real address for each fake account or they will not
be getting any of their orders. Some of those orders will be returned which will
also start to raise flags.

3, Scammers DO NOT like to spend their own money, they only want to take ours.
Even if they only place 10 cent orders the postage will still be at least around
lets say $2.50 so times that by 10 equals at least 26.00 bucks.


Jim
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Oct 28, 2016 11:41
 Subject: Re: Add feedback link to order detail screen
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  That wouldn't work well, because it would be exploited by scam sellers --
they would never mark the orders as shipped, so they would not get negative feedback
and could extend their scam. or, for a less extreme example, a seller.who thinks
they might get a negative could avoid it by not marking the order as shipped.


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Marc.

Not if the original button is left alone for posting mass feedback.



I do like the idea as long as there was a "Contact Buyer" button right next to
it as already suggested.

Jim
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Sep 5, 2016 18:17
 Subject: Re: Pay Your Fees Now! (please?)
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You guys have to be kidding me!! The reason it has the word 'Now' is
not for the sake of demanding anything. Think about it guys, the word is part
of the phrase "Pay Your Fees Now" and is attached to a button that directly takes
you to a page to do what?... To pay your fees now, not latter but now.

It is the correct grammar for the situation and to add please to the button would
actually be incorrect because the phrase "Pay Your Fees Now is not asking you
to do anything, it is not a demand, not even a statement - it is a button.

By giving us the button, "Pay Your Fees Now", they are just trying to simplify
the procedure so that we don't have to hunt around to figure out how to pay
our fees.

Jim
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Aug 6, 2016 12:33
 Subject: Re: No feedback for cancelled orders
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In Suggestions, Shintaku writes:
  Hello,

Can someone explain me why are feedback allowed for cancelled orders?

Example: I have a buyer, who bought hundreds of euro of stuff from me. After
7 days you can start a NPB. After 14 days you can cancel the order if you are
lucky that they do not reply. If they reply, it needs 21 days to cancel the order.

If you cancel the order BEFORE 21 days, they can leave a negative feedback.
If you cancel the order after those 21 days, they cannot leave a negative feedback.

So I usually wait 21 days (or 14 if I am lucky).

Thus, people can block hundreds of euro worth of lego from your store for 21
days. Yes, they will have a penalty, but it's however a big loss for a seller.

I believe that it would be more useful if no feedback for cancelled order was
allowed.

Please if I am not correct help me to be corrected.

That is not a good idea. The principle behind the idea is good but in general
it is not a good idea because unscrupulous people can use it to their advantage.
Examples:

1, I am a seller and you purchase some parts from me but one lot the average
price has sky rocketed and I realize that I can actually sell them for allot
more - no problem, I just cancel the order and block you from my store. no explanation
to you, nothing. Now I don't need to worry about any negative feed back.

2, I am a seller (like House Of Logos) and I have become really behind in filling
orders. You contact me about the fact that I have not sent you your order for
over a month - no problem. I just refund you your money, cancel your order and
again, no worries about negative feed backs.

There are allot more examples that could be brought up. The point is that preventing
leaving feed back for canceled orders can be abused.

Jim

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