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One way I intend to ensure trust is to have shippers use either Paypal or Amazon payments to accept shipment payments... By proxy, a shipper's identity will not
by Eddk 16y ago
One way I intend to ensure trust is to have shippers use either Paypal or Amazon payments to accept shipment payments... By proxy, a shipper's identity will not be anonymous anymore since those services do require bank account information which is a thorough form of ID.
- swah 16y agoI suppose the payment is done after the package arrives...
- TheSOB88 16y agoThen the shipper could get ripped off.
- ImFatYoureFat 16y agoMost of these concerns are the same as with any site that deals in blind transactions (ebay, used things on amazon, paypal in general), but these sites only require you to risk your time upfront where as in the case of this site the customer is risking something they already own with the hope of future payment. Essentially its like requiring people on ebay to send items before they receive payment. The most basic way I can think of to deal with this imbalance is to have the shipper make a deposit up front to "insure" the item being ships. Upon arrival the shipper gets their deposit plus payment. There is probably a more elegant way to frame this so that the shipper does not feel like they are risking so much.
- swah 16y agoCan't you just turn it into a crime not to deliver?
- leif 16y agoThe canonical way to do this (which I will call the "hitman protocol") is a percentage up front, and the remainder upon completion. Given that the sums here are probably small, this probably doesn't fix the situation.