What's the surity of getting paid here?
fundedPeople succeed in answering AJ's questions 0% of the time (0 success in 15 attempts).
Answers by: Justin Lilly | JJeffryes | Adam Thorsen | Grumbling_Goat
Perhaps a better system would be to have question askers deposit the money in an account, almost like istockphoto.com, and later they can apply that money to questions. The money could be held in a subaccount for that question until they choose an answer or until 30 days (or some other number) passes.
Having askers deposit money in an account first would make it much easier, psychologically, for them to give the money to someone. Right now, they have to hand out money after they get their answer. Which is hard, since once they read the answer, they have what they want, and honesty alone might not be enough to get them to pay someone.
Exactly. No one these days is of such high scruples. You are right jeffryes, I believe the model should be similar to Rentacoder and other such sites where the site intervenes and makes sure that both the parties are satisfied and don't remain skeptic of the procedure.