Two ideas for the marketplace

1. Feedback system

What if the feedback system is implemented for BST's as well?

For example, a BST could have positive feedbacks & negative feedbacks left by people who have bought from the BST. All the reviews would go through approval queue, and a review would require screenshots as well of the work done or proof of incomplete work.

If the seller finds any review unfair, he could report the review with some sort of proof.

This way in each marketplace forum, people can sort the threads by the ones with most positive reviews or the ones with negative reviews.

The only issue I see with this idea is the workload it would increase, especially when a seller decides to report a specific review.

The positive side? Buyers can find quality BST's easily.


2. Warning system

Similar to the idea above, let's say if the person reviewing the seller finds any issue with the offered service or if it's not like what was shown in the review and the quality has degraded, a warning would be given to the seller.

If the warning count hits 3 or any X number, then the BST would be closed and the seller would have to go through the review process again. Warning points could also be given if the % of negative reviews are more than the positive ones, and also if negative reviews keep coming in.

Also if the negative reviews are more and very recent, the BST could be automatically be closed too until the service is reviewed again.

Are you aware that Negative Reviews can be Manipulated?

So now here's a X Seller and here's a Y Seller,X decides to destroy Y's BST and farms accounts to post negative reviews about it,Done.

Also as per your Feedback 1 of reviews being gone under review,I think even that can be manipulated easily depending on the BST

Razentyler said:

Are you aware that Negative Reviews can be Manipulated?

So now here's a X Seller and here's a Y Seller,X decides to destroy Y's BST and farms accounts to post negative reviews about it,Done.

Also as per your Feedback 1 of reviews being gone under review,I think even that can be manipulated easily depending on the BST

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If the 1st point was so easy, people would have done it already. Do you see all the BST's loaded with negative reviews? There could be preventative measures such as IP check, ISP check, IP quality score, user agents, account age, post count or anything you can think of when manually checking reviews.

About the second point, sure but the seller would have the ability to dispute the review if he deems its unfair or fake.

Thing is people are already leaving reviews in BST's, but this time the data would be sorted and made use of instead of just sitting idle in a thread where people would have to scroll down through numerous pages just to find a single review.

who is going to check all those screenshot proofs? too much work and also seller can fake it. Nobody can actually check to see if the reports is real or fake and also there is privacy issue too, many people doesnt want to share their website details with others so a third party reviewing their reviews is breach of their privacy. this is BHW, People try to hide what they are doing.

None of these works unless BHW act as a escrow system and process all payments. In that case any review will be valid and they need to change the review and rating system to something like Steam or Amazon, Those two are damn effective, specially steam.

Meerakat said:

If the 1st point was so easy, people would have done it already. Do you see all the BST's loaded with negative reviews? There could be preventative measures such as IP check, ISP check, IP quality score, user agents, account age, post count or anything you can think of when manually checking reviews.

About the second point, sure but the seller would have the ability to dispute the review if he deems its unfair or fake.

Thing is people are already leaving reviews in BST's, but this time the data would be sorted and made use of instead of just sitting idle in a thread where people would have to scroll down through numerous pages just to find a single review.

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IP Check,ISP Check,IP Quality Score,User Agent,Accounts Age etc - Hire VA's and you can bypass this

Infact a Buyer should care to scroll through the BST to ensure if the service is Legit or Not,Talk with the Seller and then decide accordingly.

"If the seller finds any review unfair, he could report the review with some sort of proof."
This proposal of Meerakat's stands as if it's happen then it would be a pretty good job.

Adding feedback on BST or Main profile page will be a good option, current feedback stats not visible.

But, second point I totally disagree, it will be used by many competitors, they will have a fake account and a vcc to buy JR.VIP and done. Then buy a service if rank drop due to google update or something buyer will say its this seller fault. Many buyers buy 3 SEO package at a time they will report the one for bad result who charged more and done a fair job.

At last everyone is a seller on this forum. When I say everyone it means 99.99% even more. So, if your good review is done by a real client from a bad ip or something it is gone. You must be knowing forum track each and every ip, they even can detect the VPN. So, whatever is currently going on is good.