Suggestion Add an "amount exchanged" to the itrader page.

I see a lot of people's itraders, especially new users but you can't really see how much money was transferred, and if you're planning on spending a couple hundred bucks you feel more safe working with someone who has done projects that are around your budget.

It'd be nice to see the option to input the amount of money exchanged on the itrader page.

 

Thats really a good idea, but modifying itrader mod is a bit difficult task, I think BST forums should get developed such kinda mod.

 

i think the amount earned through a project or job isn't anyones business. and for that reason probably won't happen. if the seller and buyer want to publish what they spent or earned, good for them.

 

I don't want to hire someone to code 300 dollar website for me when they have 30 itraders all for less than 7 dollars.

 

then don't hire them or investigate the threads, see whats what with that member and decide from that.

 

They don't post prices or quotes.

 

Thats what the problem it will solve. We don't have to investigate all threads, just open profile, check his past transactions and bingo !. perfect guy found.

 

There's no way to verify the amount of $$ exchanging hands, it would be easy to fake, and moderators are not going to check member transactions.

 

Then we come to basic problem, iTraders can be faked too, still they are present

 

Yes, so basically, you use itrader at your own risk. iTrader is merely an indicator, much the same as reputation. It's up to you to determine the honesty of the buyer/seller. DP does its best to keep it clean, but it is not responsible for the integrity of the information or how you use it.

 

On the surface, I think it's a good idea. But there are some significant problems with implementing it:

1. It's not always possible to have that included (and verify that it's honest). There aren't set rates for some services for example, where people either offer different packages in a single thread or they quote different rates to different clients based on the project specs. No one could monitor that.

2. Not all members want their deal amounts mentioned, and not just those working for dirt cheap rates to build garbage iTrader feedback over pretty much nothing. It would also expose those buyers with bigger budgets, putting them at bigger risk of being spammed by users who want a cut of what they're spending (ie if someone sees you paid $xxxx for a site, they might start PMing you to try to sell their own sites thinking since you've spent a good bit before, you might with them too). That's why a lot of people do business entirely through PM here -- they don't want others knowing what they're spending or capable of spending. And I really don't blame them.

 

@jhmattern

Now thats called a moderators answer clearly stating the perfect points. Now I wouldn't mind if it is not implimented

 

I think there is no need add the price....Because it's already mentioned in rules..

 

So what if someone payed $6?

 

Well Germz, keep yourself in place of a buyer who bought a 1000 $ domain and from next day onward you get loads of pm from sellers trying to sell cheap domains to you at high price.

I think thats not all you want, or do you ?

 

This is the whole point why the thread where you bought or sold needs to be mentioned while exchanging iTraders. I am sure people would exaggerate the amount if they were supposed to mention it publicly creating a fake monopoly.

 

Most domains don't mention the final price that the domain was sold for, neither do coding jobs as most of the chat is made through PM. If not to post the exact amount that was exchanged, an average would do.