Ratings for Users

Ratings for Users brings a new element to online car shopping.

Ratings for users work similar to popular online auction and social media sites most of you are familiar with. Only registered and logged in users have access to submit ratings on other buyers, sellers, and their listings.

Rating criteria includes:

• ratings as buyer or seller
• recommended buyer or seller
• buyer and seller communications
• accuracy of listing information
• knowledge of vehicle
• vehicle price
• vehicle cleanliness
• keeping appointments
• offers and payment
• ease of transaction

This rating system is intended to promote:

• buyer seller confidence
• a more user friendly car shopping experience
• and a user driven response to potential harmful content and bad actors

How can Ratings for Users help warn against harmful content?

While impossible to prevent all fraudulent or misleading activity from occurring, together we can make the online used car shopping experience better. Most car advertising sites do their best at combating bad players plaguing the internet we share. Website administrators spend many hours scouring content in order to find suspicious activity before it can be removed. Some sites offer a flagging mechanism but don’t act on those flagged listings or users until a minimum number of negative reports are collected. This leaves harmful content and bad users on a site for days or even weeks doing their dirty work without any warning to other users.

At Carfieds we want to offer our users a bit more control over their own protection. However, this added protection can only work with your participation. These bad players are diligent at what they do. Your defense is to first educate yourself on [Fraud Awareness] and second use any tools available to aid in your own protection such as our user rating system.