1: How often would you be available to trade?
- Varies, usually during random periods of the day, usually depending on my work/events schedule, it can be anywhere during the early mornings to late evenings. Central Time.
2: What country do you live in?
- United States
3: What is the highest value trade you have completed so far?
- $1,500 Unusual Killer's Exclusive w/ Sunbeams and sweets.
4: Do you have any prior middleman experiences?
- Current DGN MM, term period effective 02/28/13.
5: You're middleman'ing a trade, and the seller claims to have not received the money after the buyer says he sent it. How do you proceed?
- I ask the buyer to re-verify the e-mail and name of the person who PayPal informed him that the monies went to. I'd ask the buyer to take screenshots consisting the Payment to the Seller, and their recent activity page. I'd then ask the seller to do the same, except to refresh his e-mail's inbox and ensure PayPal e-mails are on his contacts/safe sender lists to prevent accidental deletion, and to refresh his PayPal screen. If the problem still persists, depending upon the circumstances, I may request that the Seller take another screenshot, or if he'd like me to, to view his PayPal activity real-time via TV. If the funds are truly not there and it's been over a reasonable amount of time, I'd either advise the two traders if they believe it could be a banking issue, to allow more time, up to 24 hours if necessary, or contact PayPal. The items I can hold onto only until those hours pass and if so, has PayPal reviewed the transaction. Depending on the outcome here, either the monies will be depositied into the seller's account, or the buyer will pull the payment and the seller will receive his items. Under no circumstances is the buyer to obtain the items until the payment has been confirmed by the seller. I'm willing to hold onto the items until issues are resolved. As of today, January 23rd, I've had this scenario occur 3 times, once was a Scam Attempt, the second one turned out to be a Bank issue with PayPal and limits and the third one appeared to be a lock-down of the PayPal Account due to a dispute the seller had. First issue was confirmed and remedied using PayPal, TeamViewer and SR's advice, second one was resolved within 3 days after the user's bank authorized the funds to leave his account and be deposited into the seller's, and the last one was confirmed through TV, but unable to be resolved. Alternative method was suggested but traders declined.
6: The buyer and seller are negotiating between Steam items, and items from a non-Steam game. How do you handle this transactin?
- If the amount of items being traded are equal, where one trader has all the Steam Items and the other has non-Steam Trade items, I hold onto the Steam Items while the non-Steam trader sends his goods. This is similar to Activation Keys, Origin, etc, where the non-Steam items/goods are considered similar to PayPal and wait for confirmation of the seller receiving these goods, be it non-Steam games, codes, keys, etc. If the items are not equal, meaning one trader for example, has a Call of Duty BO copy, and the other has Mann Co Supply keys, and the first wants BF3 for Origin, then I hold both items and wait for the non-Steam trade to conclude between the two traders, then conclude the trade. Under no circumstances will any Steam Items/Goods be traded prior to the non-Steam trade starting and ending.
7: The seller is a tagged scammer on SteamRep. While it's impossible for him to rip anybody off if you're effectively middleman'ing, do you still proceed with the transaction? If so, how?
- No. No matter what situation the marked trader may have been, if the trader was marked by an SR Affiliated community, the mark is the same as a SteamRep mark, thus I will not assist your trade. You must appeal and have your tag either removed or demoted before I can assist you. This is in place to prevent others from being marked for knowingly trading with known scammers, and lessens the risk that the goods involved were obtained fraudulently.
8: Why should you represent Skial's community of traders on SteamRep?
- I enjoyed assisting trades that have risk and require trust in my previous trading community, without a tag. When that community obtained tags, I was able to further represent the community, on a limited basis and strict guidelines of MMing and advising the newbie Admin of how SR's workings, tags, and trading guidelines worked. Now that the community will no longer be sponsoring MM's, I've become attached to assisting trades outside of those servers and wish to remained marked as a trusted MM, as I no longer trade madly as I used to in the past. I feel I can be a great asset to those that give me the shot to prove my worth, through honesty and integrity, as demonstrated in the past. I would also like to be able to 'move up' the ladder, even become a Trade Admin at some point in the future, where in my previous community, I couldn't due to conflict of interest and their location is too far to offer good ping. I hold no ill will towards them but I'm looking for better opportunity and looking for growth within the insane trading world of Steam Trades. (And TF2/DOTA2/P2/SMNC) I also enjoy taking the time to teach players new to trading about good practices and advising them on what to look for before conducting any trade, whether I am involved or not, happy to answer questions they may have, and if I don't know the answer, point them in the right direction where they can get assistance. Finally, reason I'm picking Skial is because I feel this community's integrity and face is more honest and composed, and the servers they host are quite fun to play with, including regular game-play servers to frag with friends on.
(Note: Xel'Naga your format's got some serious spelling issues, hehe! :p )
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