Bad traders

Scoble:

Yep, I agree too. Have had certain parts arrive in unexpected conditions but worked it out with the other side and reached an amicable solution.

Otters, read this if you have not:

I would like to know about bad traders on LFGSS.

This shouldn't apply to those who don't respond to you instantly... you may just be being impatient and sellers have lives too.

And if something goes wrong, you should give them the chance to correct it in any reasonable way.

Assumptions for buyers: Unless you used PayPal to specify you were purchasing goods... you should accept the risk.

Assumptions for sellers: Unless you ship recorded delivery... you might lose your item and money. Don't ever expect someone to 'gift' payment.

LFGSS always recommends in-person exchanges over postal for items sold through classifieds.

Anyhow... if anyone has consistently shown bad service, or acted fraudulently, then I would like to:
1) Name and shame to encourage them to resolve it.
2) Failing a resolution, ban them.

I'm also interested in purging the forum of sellers who provide no server or contribution to the forum in any form yet continue to spam the forum with their goods.

Anyhow... feel free to report such stuff to me, or to post it in this thread. Basically... I want you all to police this stuff, and for me to be the enforcer where applicable... and eventually once we figure out what to do with bad traders for me to make other people enforcers.

And yeah the mods thread is there for breaking the listing rules (asking for an auction, not offered exclusively here etc.) so if you miss my previous post here it is again >>>>>>>>>> http://www.lfgss.com/thread48164-259.html