Be careful!
User kevin777 (or kevin777.2 , kevin77.1 and other) - scammer.
He rents rigs on three hours, gives a bad rating and then requires extra hours... or not fix your rating!
I had such a guy too. As soon i told im i wont let me get scammed and that i informed the support/mux about it, he got scared. so scared that he no longer wanted free hours and didnt leave any rating at all.
just in case you want to try such tactics
I tried this tactic. Wrote in support of and that's what they said to me:
Hello! issue seems to be solved. from our side everything was ok, you don't have to give him extra hours. the mistake was made by the renter.
Thanks for using Betarigs Service!
Cheers!But it did not scare him. Vice versa. Set even lower rating and wrote me:
This is my pool information pool: mona1.monapool.com:6666 user: kevin777.1 Password: 4365 add my time and i will change the rating and praise you till the lord here's me lol So I decided to leave this invention. And do not communicate with
this scammer anymore!
Betarigs needs to seriously take a look at its features and limitations and get their shit straight. Take a few tips from ebay. It will do wonders. I moved my rigs out of here because of the absolute lack of control the rig owners have. Here are a few suggestions that I found myself making a mental note of while I was nearing the tipping point.
1. Give the option to give feedback to renters. Its a two way street.
2. Why is the feedback column limited to so few characters? If I am a renter and I'm dissatisfied with a rig owner, I need to have enough headroom to explain myself, post screenshots, etc and warn other renters of possible unresponsive owner or inflated speeds, etc. It cant be done in 8 words. I see no purpose of limiting the characters to such a low number.
3. Give the owners the option to filter their clients... like ebay auctions you can filter people to stop people from bidding on your item if they are below a certain rating, from a country you don't ship to etc. Similarly, Rig owners need to be able to automatically filter out buyers below a certain feedback or have an ignore list or something of the sort. Might even go so far as to block people without any prior rentals from renting theirs. Sure the rental frequency will drop, but give them that option.
4. There is a desperate need to have a transparent system of showing the average speed it is hashing at any time. For that you will need to revamp the outdated method its currently running on and have the owners be able to update their backup pools on the website. You will be able to monitor speeds the rig is currently hashing on, and potential renters can see if the speeds are matching the advertized rates or not. MiningRigRentals is a very good example of this feature. Leaserigs, not so much.
5. Wallets. Period.
6. Give the renter the option to put in backup pools. Pools are getting DDoSed and falling like flies, going into maintenance mode all the time. Not to mention coins forking, not syncing, pools recompiling from new source, etc. It is all too common these days. The last thing anyone wants is a renter who did not get his money's worth of hashing. Have atleast the option for four backup pools and encourage the fourth to be a different older secured coin. All pools of a newly launched coin will be down if it forks or screws up somewhere. Its always good to have a last resort safety coin to mine while you are paying for it.
7. Some 5 minutes before a rental is done (and if the owner has not set to maintenance mode, and enabled a certain feature in his settings), open up an option to book the next slot and have the buyers bid for the highest BTC/MH/day rate that are willing to pay (higher than the rate the owner put of course). This will ensure fair competition when these hyped coins launch and there's always rigs available for those willing to pay a premium and not those lucky enough to land the next time slot because they were able to click at the exact micro second the rig comes back online.
8. Why on earth are Rigs not deletable?
That's all for the rant this time. I hope some of these suggestions can be implemented some day. Thanks for listening