Ok I noticed that a new scammer accusation pops out every couple of minutes. To minimize this why don't we have an automatic Forum Gold Mediation System. What this system does is it holds fg temporary until both sides are satisfied with the trade.

Ex:- Lets say someone wants to trade their perfect Griffons for 500fg. The buyer who will be paying the seller 500fg would send the 500fg to a Mediation Bank. This bank holds the fg.The seller then sends the Griffon to the buyer. Once the buyer confirms that he received the item and seller confirms that he sent the item, the bank automatically transfers the fg to the seller.

The Feedback:-
The first thing happens is the buyer sends 500fg to the bank.
Once the seller sees that 500fg is in the mediation system, he sends the item to the seller.
When the seller and buyer both confirm that they are satisfied, they click accept and 500fg is transferred to the seller
If one side does not accept (the buyer sends 500fg to the bank but does not receive item), he flags the system and takes the necessary screenshots etc and threatens the scammer that he will post it if he does not send item. The scammer has no choice because lets say he decides not to give the item, he has his 500fg sitting in the reserve which he won't be able to retrieve so technically he lost the 500fg unless proven innocent by the moderators when the scammer accusation is posted.

The good thing about this system is forum gold is easily returned to the owner in cases of a scamming attempt. Wheres without the system a person can run away with fg and start scamming alot of people before he eventually gets locked. If the system goes wrong (one side does not accept) then there is a scam attempt and the scammer wont get his item/ fg back until investigation or until he gives up what he owes.

Yes if possible, but this would probably take way to much coding and affect the site load to be implemented

It would be awesome if it worked, so I'm going to vote yes.

we have mediators already to make sure these items are given succesfully.

Even if i would lose work, i voted yes good idea

Wow you stole my line

have to agree with this

Mediators are here to help voted no

I'm sorry but this won't work, and i doubt it's possible. This just opens users to more scam attempts because a mediator won't be holding anything.

Mediator gets the item and the fg and gives it to the correct person. There is nothing safer than that.

This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on Dec 2 2008 12:21am

this would actually open the doors to a new scam
I won't detail it here because you might use it with the current system but basically your suggestion is very exploitable

your logic is faulty theres no way to determin thsi since a ai mediator couldent hold the d2 item so no since the system could be raped quickly

hmm...

it could work to prevent the scammer from gaining anything but then would use it to attack other users and rape their fg