I am also not sure, this is my first attempt to ask for loan and from what I know people do this kind of stuff.
If you browse the market discussion forum, you’ll see similar threads. I guess this kind of threads help to build the credentials needed for anyone to ask for future loan later on (?), as in, credit history.
But don’t ask me in detail, I’m just doing what everyone else is doing
I’ll put my perspective this way: the loan is collateralized and I’ve informed anyone thru this forum thread
That being said, if in any case the contract was not completed (not honored by either parties, regardless). At least people will know if any scam was done. That means that whoever didn’t honor the agreement for any reason, will have harder time to deal with this kind of business ever again as people can just easily find out his/her history. This kind of thread helps to facilitate this purpose.
Of course this doesn’t prevent any scam from being done. I could bail out with 30b ISK and left my collateral plus the 3% interest that I’ve paid just today to the other party. But not everyone is all about scamming and many people care about their reputation.
@Celengan_Babi basically covered all the reasons why we have this post up.
It serves as a public record for both of us should either of us want to request/provide loans in the future.
Due to recent changes in market condition, I decided to payback the loan sooner than I had planned.
The original 30b ISK loan has been paid back to @Fazzy_Star, as well as the interest as written in the 1st post of this thread.
I also have received the collateral back in full amount @ Jita 4-4.
Thank you @Fazzy_Star for your trust, this is my first loan request and everything went smoothly