Quote from: PokerLotto on April 30, 2012, 01:02 amQuote from: Cpt. Meow on April 29, 2012, 05:51 pm- This policy was introduced without any prior announcement to the vendors involved (is this common practice?) AFAIK, features are often implemented without prior discussion or warning.Quote from: Cpt. Meow on April 29, 2012, 05:51 pmI don't know about the average shipping time worldwide for a parcel, but should the new finalize policy not at least be adjusted to this average time frame for all vendors <35? It would require only a small change in code to adjust the finalize period to something around 7-10 days. At least this change would make sense. What would a 7 to 10 day forced wait for a new digital vendor achieve? If a digital item is sent instantly and a buyer can finalize within 5 minutes, that is not early finalization, that is receipt of goods and finalization. Digital vendors don't have to wait on the post office, so why should buyers of digital goods have to wait very long to pay the vendor? And for a new BTC/Moneypak vendor, a forced wait on finalization would just mean feedback could not show up for 10 days.If buyers cannot release funds from escrow due to a forced wait, it allows SR to loan the funds sitting in escrow out, at interest, with the cash advance system, potentially to other people. I figure that's the idea.If a digital vendor has something decent, he can probably unload about 100 transactions in a day or two if he's selling for the right price, meaning that by the time he would be done selling to get to the FE level, the 3 day time on the first transaction would probably not even be expired lol.