This thread is for discussing the way in which we forum members can recommend trusted & reliable buyers, sellers and helpers in the Brisky community.

Please add your advice, comments & suggestions to this thread rather than the existing thread about who to trust and who not.

Just an observation but this list might be misconstrued as a clique.

This list could get out of hand is my only concern? Other forums I'm on have two sub fora; a members feedback thread where each member creates their own post and a mutual post is left for each other on completion. The posts are strictly policed so that *only* feedback can be left. The other forum is a dispute resolution forum where the two aggrieved members can sort it out without it becoming a free-for-all for none involved parties.

The original thread started as a simple recommendation of those with whom I had had dealings and who I felt I could trust in the future, plus a couple of already identified scallies.

It has developed into a "good guys" thread where recommendations are being made about sellers and helpers, currently not being identified separately.

The upsides are that there is somewhere a Brisky can go to learn about known good members and avoid known bad members.

The downsides are that is may appear cliquey (as members recommend each other from long-term association), doesn't differentiate between "this is a good/helpful/knowledgeable guy" and "I had a good experience buying/selling with this this guy" and as such is potentially divisive.

Off my own bat I've been looking into possible feedback solutions for forum use and when I have some useful data I will report back. Until then we need to work within the thread format and with the mods' tacit support.

So, what do you think we do & don't need for member feedback?

Do you have any experience of other fora where this is done? Are those ways effective or not?

Regards, Mike

PS I learned my use of Americanisms originally in California where the term "guys" is not gender-specific, so here it means "everyone".

Personally I think we are trying too hard to protect people from themselves.

It's not a massive requirement to make sure that you take care and do some research before blindly sending money off to randoms on the internet.

Low post cost - beware

item silly cheap - beware

poor advert - beware

no pictures - beware

dodgy responses to contact - beware

PM's you in txt speak "Yh m8 itz still 4 sale" - be really aware! (i kid you not that happened!)

none of the above - still go to their profile, click "find content" and have a read of their forum contribution, then use your own judgement to work out if you should be sending money/items to them.

90% 95% 98% 99% of people on here are half decent human beings not out to rip people off you just need to keep an eye out for the other 1%

All that aside I'm pretty sure there used to be a "Comments" section on each members profile page, that could be used for a "feedback system" although it does seem to have vanished entirely.

However everything is open to abuse be it positive "go on mate post on there that i'm a decent guy" or negative "this guy is an absolute c*ck do not deal with him ever - robbed me blind" in the same way that eBay feedback can be swayed or tripadvisor can be the curse of a place.

The problem with the other thread is while someone may have had good dealings with person A, someone else may have had bad dealings with said person A, so where do you then put that person, good or bad??

A feedback system based within a For Sale advert that can only be completed after X amount of days might be a good idea and can only be completed by people that have posted and maybe clicked a tick box to say they are a buyer, would be a good idea. If any business is completed via PM without the person having replied to the original For Sale thread and put the tick in the box, then can't provide any feedback, meaning then that all business, even showing an interest is made in the thread itself.

The above sounds confusing but i hope people get the idea.

Or maybe, just enter into anything with caution, as Pasty says, though i will say that i bought a Fabia vRS exhaust off another member on here for £25, which i thought was too cheap considering how rarely i've seen them come up for sale on here and eBay and even confirmed with the seller that the price was correct. It was and i arranged a meeting to pick it up and handed over the cash there and then. I've also bought a PD160 off someone on here that came up for sale just before Combe, so it was easy to arrange to pick up and pay cash with the member then as well but i know it's not always easy to meet people, especially if someone lives in Scotland or the North of England when you live in the South. I always ask for pictures of the item to be sent via e-mail or PM and that way i can actually check the item out from the pictures and also check if the pictures are quite recent, so hopefully the item is actually still in the hands of the person selling.

It's good to have a list of sellers that people have dealt with and would deal with again but at the same time, it needs to be more based on actual buying/selling experience and not just because you're friends with them.

My name never came up in the other thread and i've never actually sold anything but i did send someone a wheel centre cap for nothing when they were willing to pay for it and i would help out anyone wherever possible but because my name isn't mentioned in the other thread, people might not be too willing to deal with me.

I'll wait and see what happens with a feedback system, i just hope it doesn't get abused.

Virtually every large piece of forum software has a feedback addon or should do.

Sell an item, buyer rates seller and vice versa.

Virtually every large piece of forum software has a feedback addon or should do.

Sell an item, buyer rates seller and vice versa.

Do you have any details, please? I've only found two so far, one for vbulletin and a not very clearly described chargeable addon for this forum software.

Regards, Mike