So I have been in some buying/selling transactions recently and I had a couple of ideas that I wanted to bounce off of everyone.
1. It would be great to have some type of escrow system to hold funds during a transaction. We are all (hopefully) honest, but there are always a few dishonest guys out there so we all have a tough time figuring out if the buyer pays first or the seller sends the item first. In theory, it would be great to have a third party hold the funds during the transaction and not release until both parties agree, and get paid a small fee for his service. With Paypal or AP it could be done pretty easily. That said, the challenge would be - how can we trust the escrow agent? I would be interested in doing this service if we could figure out a way to make it work.
2. I know that the purpose of DDF is not to buy/sell items, but we all end up having miles/certificates/GC or other items that we want to sell. It would be great to have some kind of rating system, like ebay, so that we would know if the other person is honest or not