ALWAYS check Heatware Refs!

[Ryan]

There has been a number of scammers attempting to impersonate established traders by referring to Heatware accounts they don't actually own. You should always email the person's registered Heatware email address to verify that the person you are dealing with is in fact who they say they are!

Be very wary of new members who contact you through the PM system!

[LeeBoA]

roger that, always message the heatware account to confirm its his heatware if the guys a newbie.

[stevelam]

alright well i just signed up for this heatware evaluation type thing..never heard of it until i came across these forums.

[BMan]

Thanks, I signed up as well. If you plan on BST, I would highly suggest you get an account as it only benefits you more!

www.heatware.com

[angelove]

I signed up with them using gmail accounts and never got the confirmation email. I think I've signed up with them at least 2x and it's getting annoying for me.

Am I the only one experiencing this?

I'd prefer to keep my yahoo/hotmail accnts free from this because I like gmail's setup more for communication. =(

[bubble.tea]

roger that, always message the heatware account to confirm its his heatware if the guys a newbie.

hey this is a good suggestion.

I'm going to try and start collecting best suggestions for safe trading practices, and post it up.

[malaco0219]

Also with regards to Heatware, beware there were people living negative feedback to people who they never dealt with.


Is it possible to have a RFD feedback system?

[bubble.tea]

...Is it possible to have a RFD feedback system?

Most definately. vBulletin..the forum engine has a module or WHATever it's called., 'plug-in' that provisions for this.

Whether the admins want to integrate it....is another issue altogether. Start a thread recommending it.

Make a poll with two options. Yes, No. Question is., do we want an internal RFD Feedback system?

[malaco0219]

Most definately. vBulletin..the forum engine has a module or WHATever it's called., 'plug-in' that provisions for this.

Whether the admins want to integrate it....is another issue altogether. Start a thread recommending it.

Make a poll with two options. Yes, No. Question is., do we want an internal RFD Feedback system?

you wanan do the honours? hahaha =]

[bubble.tea]

you wanan do the honours? hahaha =]

I do believe I brought it up previously., and it didn't take off...though I didn't make it exclusively on this thread subject alone. It was touched on in a subsequent post to the scammer thread., where I screenpicked a couple proposed options on this plug-in.

[pmc]

I actually just registered to do a transaction, i was looking to leave feedback for the seller and couldn't find any, so i just registered on Heatware also.
Also i thought this was a good time to make my first post.

[Ryan]

Most definately. vBulletin..the forum engine has a module or WHATever it's called., 'plug-in' that provisions for this.

Whether the admins want to integrate it....is another issue altogether. Start a thread recommending it.

Make a poll with two options. Yes, No. Question is., do we want an internal RFD Feedback system?

It's in testing.

[bubble.tea]

It's in testing.

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Can I help trouble-shoot it please. I've been known to be QUITE efficient at detecting 'issues'.

I have references (namely a couple of your own mods).

[malaco0219]

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Can I help trouble-shoot it please. I've been known to be QUITE efficient at detecting 'issues'.

I have references (namely a couple of your own mods).

lol
pwnage!

[ji2o0k]

It's in testing.
interesting, but what about people with existing heatware feedback? Do we have to build that up over again ?

(I guess we could ask the previous people that we did transactions for to leave feedback again)..........hahha oh man........

[skyblue12]

interesting, but what about people with existing heatware feedback? Do we have to build that up over again ?

(I guess we could ask the previous people that we did transactions for to leave feedback again)..........hahha oh man........

that's pretty annoying considering every time you have to leave like.. comments and stuff :lol: and some people have done a LOT of trades.. pretty hard tracking down every single person and getting them to leave feedback again :|

[GimmeGear]

I don't know if anyone is paying attention to this thread - but I'll try posting my question here.
I signed up with heatware (have not traded yet) and I wanted to change my email address to a non-personal one. I made a mistake and entered a wrong email address, so I could not re-activate the account. I emailed support at heatware 3 times now in order to reset the account, but I have not heard from them yet. It has been close to 2 weeks now.
I am planning on just setting up a brand new account, but I'm concerned that that will look fishy. Any recommendations?

Thanks.

[Ubershopper]

In response to questions like, should I start a new heatware account, etc...

There is no need to start a new account, unless you care about making your usernames match. I believe what Ryan was suggesting was that if you are going to make a trade or deal with someone and they are telling you they have a positive Heatware (or Ebay or other feedback system) rating, you SHOULD NOT take their word for it. Go to that system and message that userid directly to confirm it is the same person.

I would further caution that just because a username matches, this is no reason to believe it is the same person. A scammer could pick an Ebay or Heatware account with a positive score (not their account), then come to RFD and create an account with that userid and claim to be the same person...

[aimfox]

i have no idea how to use heatwave. can ebay be usuable? :)

[nork]

Heatware is probably the very best place on the internet to find out if a trader is good or bad. It has the most info there is and the most members of any such group. Members swear by it and all good forums (fora) do as well.
One point i might bring up. Some forums, not this one, but others i know for sure, ban the use of things like hotmail email addies. They want you to use your standard account. The reason is that a large number of bad guys, around the world, use hotmail and other such accounts when they are scamming. This brings these accounts into dispute i guess you could say. Now i am not writing here to debate wether they should do this or not, so please, no discussions on wether you think they should or should not ban hotmail and other such accounts. This may even apply to gmail accounts as well. Again, only telling you what i know and what i have read. I do know for a fact, though, that some forums ban accounts like hotmail.

My reason for writing this? Easy, i see, above, that at least one person has complained that they applied for a heatware account and it didnt go thru. So maybe this is why. Try again with your main email account. I happen to have the email addy for the person who runs heatware and will provide it upon request. That is, if i can find it, havent used it for years.

Again, dont complain here or email me about the reasons you dont think hotmail and other accounts should be banned. I am only one person reporting what i think i know, thats all. If you believe me fine it you dont check it out for yourself.
Try forums like techimo, anandtech and others like that, of which there are a dozen or so.