How to get started on escrowing?

[Csmiami]

If im right you must be aleast sr.member to become escrow there are some members here offering a free escrow so they will gain a positive feedback. Escrow is not an easy thing you must be a very trustworthy here in the forum

If there are members offering free escrow to get positive feedback this means that they're trust farming which is not allowed.

I think that trust farming is more like asking for a lot of cheap loans from reputable members, so that they leave positive trust. Many people do offer a service for free when they start at it (see signature designers).

[cydrix]

Minimum of hero rank is required because the collateral is your accounts rank because your accounts rank has a potential to earn more than $100 weekly on signature campaigns alone now that is a good collateral to build trust and have more company or connections. However they don't based it on rank alone it is just a requirements they also monitor your trust section

[PX-Z]

Rank is not the that necessary to go with escrow, there are too many bought accounts starting from hero to legendary account IMO. So basically to become an escrow all you need is trust from everybody or the majority of the community, once people started to trust you even if you're just full member then it's okay, like Zepher from the full member he started to escrow some funds but he's not that he has escrow service but I saw him on collectibles section doing that.

[hilariousetc]

Become at least a hero member here which means you successfully spent around 480 days on the forum.

It doesn't. Rank means nothing without reputation and a popular and consistent presence here. Anyone can buy a Hero+ account for probably $50 or so. If you don't have a lengthy history here with numerous trades under your belt then you shouldn't be offering to hold onto other's money.

The problem is that if you need people to trust you in order to gain trust, how can you make the first deal (i don't know if the point is quite clear here).

How do you become trusted in any situation? You build it over time. I think a good general rule for whether you're qualified or needed as an escrow is when multiple people start asking you to escrow their funds. If people don't already have that trust or faith in you then you probably shouldn't be escrowing.

[carlfebz2]

After being around the forums for about a year, I find the escrow service a really interesting one, and would like to be able to be one myself when I rank up a little bit more. I guess that there are still some key points I'd need to know on how to becoming a good escrow (basically not getting a shiny red trust from day 0). So there goes my question, any tips on how to be an escrow?

You wont get red trust if you don't really do something stupid.As long you are doing the service well then you should be fine. Being trusted on this forum would be somehow hard specially to start up if you do really try to look on the competition where there are lots of trusted escrows on here which you can really view that people will normally go into reputable ones but wishing and becoming an escrow isn't impossible.You can start up anytime,just a piece of advice start up on small transactions which on your start up its better to make it free regarding on the service you would made.