Welcome! We use the website heatware.com to give reviews of other users for transactions. Not everybody uses it but it's very beneficial, also if they're a known member of the forum then it's usually safe to go with them(paypal is always used). A little advice, nobody really likes to sell their caps so offering money is basically of no use. There's a lot of people that just offer money and I never really see them get a cap, just wait around for some buys from the actually artisans and try your hand at winning a cap.
Heatware? I think I'll try it out, thanks for the tip.
If you're on this site, use Heatware. I wish that people used it more.
reddit.com/r/mechmarket has a nice little flair system that increases with each confirmed trade.
If you're buying something, use Paypal. And don't ever label it as a gift, b/c you lose buyer protection that way.
Got it, I have a paypal ready. Who usually goes first, the seller or buyer?
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Goes first doing what? If you're buying, then typically you pay and then the seller ships quickly (and the seller should give you a tracking number the same day that they ship it).
But you should know that at least 75% (unscientific estimate) of all artisan keycap exchanges are trades, while maybe 25% are sales. To really build up an artisan keycap collection, you'll need to be patient and wait for the sales by the artisans themselves. So definitely browse around the
Artisan Services subforum and then click the "Watch" button in the threads for artisans that you like. Then you can click the "Watched" button whenever you login to see if there are new posts. The sales directly from the artisans are hard to win (usually there's a lot of entrants relative to the number of caps) but the pain of losing raffles is part of being an artisan collector (and *****ing about it is definitely part of the fun, too).
