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How about a seller verification system that is displayed as 'seller verified' when their add is posted. If the seller isn't verified, then it wouldn't display someone as verified.
How to verify someone's details to the forum is an entirely different matter. Any information supplied by someone to become verified would be held in confidence and not openly available to the public or forum users unless needing the intervention of the forum administration (for obvious fraud reasons)...
Suggestions could include: a copy of a driver's license (if available), or a copy of a passport?, a copy of a utilities bill?, a declaration of identity by a commissioner of the peace?
Being realistic - something simple that could be provided by someone to prove identity, along with a contact phone number etc.
We rely on honesty in all these types of transactions, and there has been ample evidence of late to suggest that a few dishonest people ruin everything (from cheapskate behaviour, rudeness, failure to pay, dissappearances etc) for the majority of forum users.
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