(02-13-2015, 04:14 PM)Titor Wrote: It is opening up more options for people to get scammed. If an artist says they will take alternative payment, and all the negotiations take place in skype/etc there is no way to enforce payment, there is no social front to go with. The artist could be like "person x never paid me, so I never drew the art"But that is nothing new. Regardless of where negotiations take place (and they rarely do so publicly as is anyway), the possibility of being scammed exists.
and the other person can be like
"I did pay you! Where is my art" And never did pay, but could cause a scene against a particular person to ruin their reputation and there will be no proof to either the artist receiving the money or the person paying it, or the public eye being a pseudo-observer of the agreement
These sneaky transactions leave a loootttt of room for scamming.
As the buyer, the tool already exists in order to prove your claim that payment was delivered: screenshot the trade. As the seller, you should never, ever be handing over a product without first receiving payment.
None of these issues are newly created. Buying things from individuals on the internet has always been a very caveat emptor situation.
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