Quote from: GPU Rigs on April 16, 2013, 06:40:20 PM

Quote from: Operatr on April 14, 2013, 07:55:54 AM

If you are a hardware seller in anything other than Green (confirmed shipping to end users) status, the fastest way to be greenlit is to send me a product or prototype to review to show the community it is real as a neutral third party. PM me to arrange this if you desire.

It would seem all you are saying any company on your list has to do is send you one of their devices gratis and you will remove them from your list.

Just seems a little fishy to someone from the outside reading this thread anew and does not really lay claim to there being independent tribunal decisions if all I have to do is have our owner send you a free GPU Rig for you to say we are a legit company, then we can build one specifically for you, send it out, then the next 100 or so orders we get (as soon as you post we're a legit company), we will just run off with the money, never to be seen again...

It would seem any scammer can see the benefits of spending maybe $1000 to send you a basic free unit (in the instance of GPU devices) in order to get 100x that in 'fresh' orders and do a runner.

Anyway, its getting late, have to call it a night, hopefully we can determine a foolproof way of deciding how to discover legit companies from scam ones as this thread progresses.

Lol, no way I'd agree on that policy operatr, you might too many freebies! On a serious note, many things can go wrong going solo (such as being a despot and you decide who goes on the list and not forgetting the risk of corruption), and I think you are trying to take this as a one man band like gpu-rigs is trying to say. I would suggest a democratic way of looking at things and I would vouch for user Micon to be part of maintaining this list as he is so far doing a good job in investigating BFL. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=136392.0

When technologies are being developed, you don't normally have one company or one individual dictating terms. Groups of companies called consortiums or expert people join to write up recommendations of how standards should be adhered. The same should be applied here; a group of reputable bitcoin members (with no affiliations to any company to remove bias) to investigate and decid if a company is a scam or not.

For some banter this could happen to a one man band:

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