Quote from: Ahoyhoy on August 04, 2012, 10:26 amDid you look at variance in data sets? Were there any members whose stats showed unusually low 'delivery success rates' and if, so, what were the factors contributing to these? (ie a predominance of orders from outside their own country etc...)I did a tiny bit of work on that but have deleted the original spreadsheet. I took away the largest data point from the survey, but I found that the average was very stable, always around 97.5% or so. If you page scrap the data you'll see the same.Obviously some members had some bad luck, but again, you have to go to the thread to see for yourself, it's the last link in my signature.I and many others believe from empirical observation that if the consumer uses PGP encryption they are less likely to be the victims of a selective scam or affected by simple embezzlement. This is because A: the vendor is a lot less likely to think you're a chump, and B: if the vendor refuses to play ball with PGP, the odds are that he doesn't have particularly high I.Q to begin with and you should avoid a transaction with that person. Thus, however it works, it works.The interesting thing would be if SR ran a ongoing survey so we could observe trends over time.The problem is that the survey could be biased. I mean, clearly only people on the forum replied to it. It is hard to say which way it is biased too. On one hand, forum regulars are less likely to be inexperienced. And on the other hand, people are far more likely to be on the forum if they have a complaint. So it's hard to tell.I totted up the data from this specific thread and I got:G B32362  03231233074113912714604203118018017470Where Totals = 38619 in summation and;Where G = a perfect transaction and B = some manner of problem e.g. a scam, lost mail, a refund had to be shipped etcThe result was 95.07% in terms of Delivery Success Rate. Or 4.92% in terms of Delivery Failure Rate.So you see, the results are really quite stable, and I believe if you wait around until you reach 1000+ packages, then you'llfind that it is very similar to my 97.51% DSR.Cheers!Pine