A) Because we don't have the manpower to moderate it
B) It opens us up to many legal issues and we would prefer not to spend out time and money in court defending libel cases

Users should use the karma system here. We tried to make credit cars mandatory to cut down fraud and most complained so we opened it back up. RCU has an extensive karma system and we advise members to use it. They should also get the info from those they are trading with such as name, phone, address, email and verify every one of those. If in doubt use escrow.

If things go south it isn't our fault. Compare us to a newspaper. You buy (or sell) a car by placing a classified ad in the newspaper. The deal happens and goes down bad. Do you run to the newspaper and blame them because they didn't run a background check on the guy placing the ad with them? Of course not. RCU is no different. We are platform for users to place ads and meet. The rest is up to the buyers and sellers and that includes protecting yourself in any way you feel comfortable with in order to not get burned.

Furthermore, we have gone well beyond all other RC forum sites with the fact that only RCU has a feedback system AND you can choose to only deal with those that are high in rating and/or credit card verified as indicated by a platinum or power trading seal.

Only after firm evidence that a trader here is in fact fraudelent do we suspend them. If somebody makes a claim and has nothing to back it up then we wait until some evidence is put forth and then we try to verify it which sometimes takes more than a day or two.