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The Illustrious Idea / Re: Feature suggestions for the Matches page
« on March 18th, 2017, 05:07 AM »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.
Once the regular offer system is live and working, maybe sometime later could consider adding this multi-user offer as an extra feature?
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The Illustrious Idea / Re: Feature suggestions for the Matches page
« on March 16th, 2017, 08:20 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.
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 ;-).
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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.