Hello!
Excuse me if this was mentioned before, but what if make DDE optional?
The point is if I myself want to buy small cheap thing I don't care much about loosing my 2 dollars and I'll be satisfied seeing seller's good reputation. And some people in some countries buy a lot of such cheap things at once from different chinese sellers, so using dde will take unneeded efforts (just annoying duty) and money.
dde doesnt require effort though, when you use the templates all of the game theory is handled by the client based on the type of business you are doing. Most people have enough to cover deposits for their volume
If he is buying tons of things from Chinese sellers will he need to tie up collateral based on the DDE requirements (create demand for BAY) because of this? This is assuming listing requires DDE or is that optional if the buyer wants to pay with DDE and thus cover himself in the event of a bad vendor, or doesn't want to pay if he feels he is sufficiently covered by reputation?
Yeah you are correct, if he is a buying a lot or selling alot. But look at it this way. If you sell 10 items per day then you are probably making very good money, If each item nets you 100 dollars, and turn around time for your deposits is daily, you only need 100-1000 dollars tied up at once. Which is okay. If you make 1000 per week, its reasonable to think you had 1000 to insure your business.
Think of it like free business insurance.
I should mention, you should read Halos documentation. The part about the "change management" system. Its breaks up the outputs to denominations for buyers and vendors who want to do large volumes.
So it breaks it up 1 5 10 50 100 500 1000 etc...
This allows you to do many contracts at once with multiple denominations.
So actually I think the custom deposits is more of a concern with low volume sellers, not high volume. Because someone new to the markets will have to take a guarantor contract in order to buy their "first coins". Or if they are not making a lot of money either, they are more poor, coming up with a deposit might be a little bit harder.
The same is true for pegging. Because a person who is always tight on funds will have subpremium liquidity(set to freeze faster) since they will spend any funds that were frozen almost immediately.