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Rudarstilski
Alija Sirotanovich Mining Ops
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Posted - 2008.03.17 11:50:00 -
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Idea goes like this
you select a number of transactions from your wallet journal, right click it and press "Ask for refund" upon which a contract interface appears (a new contract type will have to be created for this to work). You select the target (a person, corp or alliance) press "Confirm" and the target receives a refund request.
The target's refund request includes:
- the name of the person who asked for it, obviously
- full details of the selected transactions (date, time, description, cost, etc + including private contract details if the selected transaction is a contract payment)
- the balance of the transactions
- service cost (you can ask for extra money or enter a negative value if for example you agreed that the corp pays for only half of the cost - think subventions)
If the target agrees he can say 'accept' and pay the money.
Why
Such a system would enable corporations and alliances to transparently control the use of corp funds by lower-ranked members, it would also reduce the need to give not-entirely-trusted members access to parts of the corp wallet since they can pay from their personal wallet and then get a refund through a trustworthy system.
Also, since it's a purely isky thing and does not require a location it would enable some small-scale in-alliance/corp logistics to be done through a POS, instead of a needing a station for contracting. It's a trustworthy system that leaves no room for false interpretation that potentially breeds mistrust in corporations and alliances.
Possible applications
- restrict corp wallet to new corp members without hampering corp functioning
- refunds to pvpers for lost ships and accidentaly destroyed blues
- subventions to pvpers - buy ships and fittings at 1/n price
- "ey bro, could you bring me that skillbook on your way back from Jita and leave it at the pos?"
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Please comment 
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Vested Interest
Hedion University
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Posted - 2008.03.17 15:32:00 -
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The word you are looking for is "reimbursement" not "refund".
Although you can pretty much do this with a contract, not sure how this will help.
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Rudarstilski
Alija Sirotanovich Mining Ops
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Posted - 2008.03.18 14:16:00 -
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 Originally by: Vested Interest
The word you are looking for is "reimbursement" not "refund".
Although you can pretty much do this with a contract, not sure how this will help.
Ah :) Thanks :) Changed :)
You can't confirm if a person has really spent that money with a contract agreement. The only way to be sure is for it to be a part of game mechanic. It is also much more convenient when dealing with a larger number of costs (like multiple ships and their fittings and ammo).
Organizing a subvention plan for pvp ships, for example, is big work without the reimbursement contracts since the paying party always needs to double check the numbers before paying (typing errors etc) up which means a large enough number of man-hours to make such a system untenable in practice.
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