Thread: Become an mmobay middleman ONLY $100!!!!!!!

Yesterday price dropped to $60. Today all posts were removed and price is $50 now. I brought up the point (post deleted on MM thread) that the fee can't be too low or it would be a conflict of interest with their auctions and their $3 verification (No phone call or ID sent in) to sell on it.

MM on EGS does around 90 transactions a month. So if mmobay can produce half of that, you should be able to cover $50/month. You know what really kills this? TrustWho. lol Because if TW claims 99.7% fraud rate what is your $50/month MM going to add to 99.7%?

I asked if my 200 feedback on EGS counted for the 50 mmobay feedback, and the admin said no. So even I can't MM until I get 50. Surely I couldn't have faked 200 feedback and be TW verified.

Originally Posted by rpgreseller.com

Go Brtev!! Go Community!, and Go Mike too. (It shows leadership merit and open mindedness to be flexible and follow popular advice.)


I didn't know MMObay was doing a $3 verification to sell. By that, do you mean that all sellers are going to have to drop a few bucks before they post an offer in the forum? - (It appears to have worked for real poor) although I know that 'free' has more mass appeal and is a better standard for start ups.

My understanding is that a lot of MMs do it for free as a community service and as a way to get rep, rather than just as a way to make $20-30 each time. e.g. I've seen people offer it for half that. Some of them simply just want the recognition of being a valued member.

In an exclusive community, I could see MMing being something that could even become a full time job if the price was fixed and there were few MMs. Charging by the month for the right could make it highly exclusive.

50 native feedback to do it seems awfully high. One thing that's a big problem is that feedback isn't native. Hopefully, we'll see Trustwho adopted at all the major forums. I'm going to give Marcus some time to breath and relax before asking about how to integrate here at rpgreseller. EGS is supportive, MMObay already has it. That's a good step in the right direction.

200 FB on EGS, that's really high. Congratulations on the achievement!

90MM per month isn't bad at all. That's approaching the ability to just do that as a full time job if the pay is coming through. I've heard that there were some payment issues at EGS and some MMs backed out of the business.

I knew you had a lot of experience, but not that much.
Any feedback on how MMing ought to be done? I haven't established a system for that, and I'm still setting up the site for traffic but I believe I'll one day have a tipping point and it'll all happen... what is the ideal way to set up MM at a community like this?

Oops let me clarify. It's $3 to verify yourself on mmobay auction site. You can sell without paying. Clicked on a few random auctions and didn't see any sellers with TW icon. See, conflict of interest. haha

Plug for VGS haha: I was considering $1 charge on VGS, as a way to verify PP accounts like mmobay.net $3 charge but I didn't want scammers to use $1 fee as an excuse to not get verified.

You are correct about people doing MM for free for reputation. Sythe.org was actually brought up in the thread before it was deleted.

Integrating TW here would be great. On VGS, I will probably not integrate this though because I don't want to anyone to get too comfy. I want all my members to verify every TW member and never take anything for granted. Otherwise there may be another casles incident.

About the 200 feedback, I had transactions for 1-2m gil to people, and those were a lot of work for not much money. haha but built pretty good relations with people. So even in my EGS prime, I was very community oriented.

For MM forum, just copy sythe.org. You should talk to anyone there willing to talk eg admin, other MMs. Anyone willing to give feedback would be great. They may have a negative response if you're doing Runescape though.

Basically you should have 1 MM that has an extremely high reputation for each MMO who could can get the ball rolling. Basically anyone who is willing to display their person info like this: YOU - http://rpgreseller.com/klancy/ and has all your qualifications will be fabulous.

I actually have Middlmen Guide that I'm been working on. You might want to read some of it. http://virtualgoodsandservices.com/showthread.php?t=15

If you can solve all the logistical problems of having MM verify & secure accounts + receive payments like Playersauction.com you will have an instant winner. Let me illustrate:

EGS MM: Buyer/Seller posts. Wait. MM verifies PP ID. Wait. Seller PMs account info or items to MM. Wait. MM verifies items. Wait. Buyer pays seller. Wait. Seller confirms payment. Wait. MM releases account or items to buyer.

Awesome MM: Sellers pays MM fee and sends info simultaneously to MM. Buyer pays MM fee + payment to MM. 2nd party sees post and sends payment to MM. Wait. MM releases payment and account info to respective parties.

EGS transaction takes average 3 days while because you're dealing with 3 people with different schedules. Awesome MM transaction takes 1 hour. lol But of course you need to be able to solve all the logistical problems involved.

There's currently 1 EGS MM and the site is littered with many complaints regarding the delay of service. Good luck with your MM service.

PS The Recaptcha is really annoying for every post. What can I do to get rid of it? haha I know you're trying to prevent spamming, but is there another way?

MMObay gets first MM for WoW.

Very nice prices.

http://vbforums.mmobay.net/showthrea...leman-Services

He's charging $25 the same price as EGS for his buyer's package + buyer gets a seller background check and working phone number.

Seller's package is guaranteeing payments like Player Auctions Player Guardian so $50 isn't bad at all.

If I were ever to do this, I'd be charging 10% for secure payments. It's risky business even for someone who is confident at verifying the other party.