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talexeh
post Dec 17 2010, 09:28 PM

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Dear LYN Admins, Staffs & Mods, I would like to hereby apply for the Safe Trader tag.

I have been in LYN for a number of years now & admittedly, the early stage was spent spamming in Kopitiam. Over the years, I got myself acquainted with a few of the other subforums such as Technical Support, RWI, Movies & Music, Garage Sales, Anime Shrine & finally, Gamers Hideout, which I now call home.

After spending close to one year in Gamers Hideout, I followed in the footsteps of Edison83 & Deimos Tel`Arin by providing the service to buy games from digital distributors (such as Steam, GamersGate & others) for forum members that don't have the mean to do so by themselves. At the same time, I also participate actively in the discussions held in Gamers Hideout & keep my distance away from making any statements that can be considered as trolling.

Even though I don't depend on this game "gifting" service of mine to earn a living, I consider it as a serious hobby & pursue it with full enthusiasm. Whenever I have inquiries posted to me by forum members on how these digital game platforms work (or how I render my service), I do my best to explain everything to them thoroughly step by step. Of course, with the erratic state of our country's Internet connectivity, I always set the right expectation to those who are new on the pros & cons, such as the need to spend days to download the games they'll be purchasing.

Trust & empathy are & have always been the priority in all my transactions. To me, the satisfaction of closing a deal comes from being able to share the joy of owning original games without paying an arm & a leg for them. There are times when I actually sent the games to the buyers first without receiving the respective payment in advance due to various reasons such as the bank websites going under maintenance or that particular promotion involved was coming to an end in a few minutes. If I happen to know that someone has extra copies of the game that my buyers are looking for & willing to let it go at a price lower than my quotation, I would redirect my buyers there. Case in point would be Deimos Tel`Arin since he always purchase multiple copies of the same game in a pack. I also make it a point to advise potential buyers on the coming promotion or sale whenever they asked me to quote them for games that I know can go much lower in a week or two.

These days, most of my posts in Gamers Hideout are related to promotions & freebies, which I compile from the various digital distribution websites that I frequent everyday. I'm also not the type to dump everything into a post & hit the submit button. For example, recently there is a promotion in GOG.com where a total of 199 games are thrown into the offer bin. I don't know if there's any shortcut but what I did was to list them out 1 by 1 (complete with links, percentage of discounts & new prices) in The Great Game Promo and Sale Thread that H@H@ opened specifically for digital distributed game promotion. As such, forum members can just easily hit Ctrl+F to check for any promotion on their wishlisted games.

Last but not least, my warning meter has always been clean. To be honest, I'm not really sure how am I supposed to display out supporting references from members of the moderating team but I did PM H@H@ & he is willing to back me up on my application. Among the members of the moderating team that I've dealt with before are Pr1me_Minister & H@H@.

This is my tradelist at the time of writing:
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All the feedbacks I received so far have been positive & they are as listed below, with majority of the emoticons removed:
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I look forward to the verdict of the eminent members of the moderating team on my application. notworthy.gif

This post has been edited by talexeh: Dec 17 2010, 10:56 PM
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