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Messages - Keyser Soze
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The Illustrious Idea / Re: Feature suggestions for the Matches page
« on March 18th, 2017, 05:07 AM »
Quote from Pika! Pika! on March 17th, 2017, 08:26 PM
Sure, they charge a bit extra, but they offer liquidity of sorts. I tend to use them at times as well to either trade for games I really want or Paypal funds as I am staying away from G2A after having read how many scammers there are who attempt to get games for free. I do not want to get involved in that G2A chargeback fiasco, so if those G2A resellers take the risk or have the reputation to protect themselves from that, then in a way it is still a win/win situation.
This is how I think of it also. When you trade with a re-seller you are paying for a service; they sell the game on G2A, pay the fees for selling, wait 2 weeks for the money to clear, wait for the funds to go to paypal, deal with any customer service issues, and you get your money or game instantly. That service comes with a price, but how valuable it is depends on the person. With more transparency you would probably be negotiating what percentage the re-seller's cut is instead of which games they get.
Quote from √εηη¡£ε® on March 17th, 2017, 10:24 PM
Once the regular offer system is live and working, maybe sometime later could consider adding this multi-user offer as an extra feature?
There was another thread on here suggesting something to solve the multiple accepted offers problem. Nao/Lestrade said he planned on implementing something to fix it, but that it would take time and won't be in the trading system on release.
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The Illustrious Idea / Re: Feature suggestions for the Matches page
« on March 16th, 2017, 08:20 AM »
Quote from Akylen on March 16th, 2017, 12:48 AM
Tagging new users is not a bad idea. I had a similar idea, but implementing ranks. The more you trade, the more you progress. Just like it happens in forums and on ebay. You could have symbols to indicate your progress.
It doesn't give you any special advantage over the others, but people would be able to know if you are new to trading and also if you are trustable based on the rank.
So it would be like a new rep system for this site? It would be nice to have something like that right there for easy access without having to go to steamtrades. I wonder if it is possible to import steamtrades rep and barter trade numbers. That could eliminate a lot of false new trader tags from the start. I mean we would all be new traders on here and ff everyone has a new trader tag it kind of diminishes the meaning of it.
Quote from Quantum on March 16th, 2017, 01:14 AM
I feel this should be solved by providing new traders information about how to value trade offers, including a reference to that a lot of people trade primarily to sell items on grey market sites. Personally I wouldn't mind if i.e. by default a warning was shown to new traders that it can be useful to price check offers on sites like ITAD & G2A before accepting an offer.

Which would allow the matches page to still be sortable by new traders ;-).
Sticking it to the re-sellers, huh? I agree, having some kind of trading value guidelines right here on the site is great idea. It should help cut down on the tier 0 junk games for high value game offers too (*cough*manji_chiba*cough*). Yeah G2A is probably the most objective and simplest tool to use for trade valuation when trading with re-sellers. It could hurt other trader's who aren't re-sellers and don't use G2A though. Maybe there should just be a ban on re-sellers ;)
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The Illustrious Idea / Re: Feature suggestions for the Matches page
« on March 15th, 2017, 08:47 AM »
The thing I kind of don't like about filtering new users is I think it will open up a lot of inexperienced traders to getting swindled. But if it was added to the site, I think a tagging system for users would work well. There could be an automatic "new user" tag that would last until a certain amount of trades were completed. I guess it could give the newbs some leeway and help them get flamed less when making bad offers. This would also bring back the grouping feature in way.
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The Illustrious Idea / Re: Suggestions
« on March 15th, 2017, 08:25 AM »
What about a way to add tags for other traders? Something like "preferred trader" for those you had good trades with. I used the group feature on barter in a similar way when finding matches. Unfortunately it only has 3 group choices. Also in the other new features thread Quantum suggested a way to track new traders. This could be added as a "new user" tag when a new trader signs up and could last until a certain amount of offers have been completed.