Message to a reticent Toyspeed seller

[AE86less]

The seller has been in touch and I now have a number to use when I contact the shipping company tomo... today.

Thanks for the help guys

[iOnic]

me thinks the person should be named afterwards so that people know to tread (trade?) carefully in future. How hard would it be to have a system similar to NZH with feedback and ratings? I rarely buy stuff off people on forums unless I know them personally otherwise it's too risky handing over $$$ and ending up in a situation like this

[Malcolm]

I'm pretty sure the trader ratings system is just a mod you can download for phpbb2. I administered a phpbb2 forum for a couple of years and installed a few mods on them (quick reply box down the bottom of topics is a godsend, I wish we had one on here), and it's pretty straightforward, you've just got to be careful you don't bugger anything up. I think the issue however is that phpbb don't really offer support for version 2 boards anymore, so they'd probably want to upgrade to phpbb3 first, but I'm sure that would be much more of a headache and cause all sorts of problems.

[iOnic]

Yep it's a mod for their forum software (vbulletin)

[thaphatty]

recent

Sorry I had to.

[MR2BOY23]

recent

Sorry I had to.

[Bling]

I rarely buy stuff off people on forums unless I know them personally otherwise it's too risky handing over $$$ and ending up in a situation like this

What you can do is approach someone local to the seller that is well known and ask if they will act as a middle man. Quite a popular method on Oldschool to ask for someone from xxxxx area to do a pick up / sending of an item. Often its due to sellers on trademe not wanting to send items, but there's no reason it can't work for buying off other forum users if the $$$$ amount is big. A box of beers for the middle man isn't much to pay for peace of mind

[cat007]

recent

Sorry I had to.

I don't get it

[Bling]

I'm guessing just a miss understanding as to the word in the thread title. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/reticent+

Maybe.

I had to look it up tbh

[iOnic]

[Malcolm]

recent

Sorry I had to.

kids these days... I guess they just don't read enough books.

[rollaholic]

recent

Sorry I had to.

face, meet egg

[Distrb]

recent

Sorry I had to.

face, meet egg

[pc]

Name & shame, do the rest of Toyspeed a favour.

Anonymity is a tool available for dodgy fuks to use... until you take it away.

[OllieS]

[try_hard]

sent the boys around to collect the goods and ruff him up

[shihad]

lol was it a dunedin member spose you cant answer that.