Question 1

A Trust is not associative? On a very basic level when saying Trust is not associative it basically means that trust only goes one way in relation to buyers and sellers the sellers have full trust in the consumers to pay for their goods and the buyers may not have the same level of trust because they are afraid that may encounter inferior product (Rappa, 2010)

Trust is not transitive. What is mean by this is that trust can’t be passed on directly from person to person what is mean in relation to buyers and sellers is that a seller’s trust in a customer can’t be passed from customer to customer. (Rappa, 2010)

Trust is always between two parties. Trust on a very basic level requires two parties for example a customer and a store but trust can be extended past the basic two parties if more people begin to reply on each other to do a job (Rappa, 2010)

Trust will involve direct trust or recommender trust

Trust does involve both direct trust which can between a buyer and seller, over time of both parties dealing with each other it builds a strong trust. and recommender trust is when a buyer goes to a friend and suggests the seller that they have dealt with (Rappa, 2010)

Question 2

http://www.opencolleges.edu.au

the elements that are on this site that improve my trust in it are that it states on how many people have gone though the college, it also states that it has been in operation for over 100 years, its an overall a appealing site very easy to use, it provides a lot of information about itself as a whole which shows that it can be trust worthy. From going over this site there is nothing that can could be considered not trust worthy.

http://www.creditunionsa.com.au/

the elements that are displayed on this site that make me trust them is that the moment that you go onto the site you are told the Interest rates that you may be eligible for, as a customer would scroll through this site they will discover all the different deals that they have going on that might be great for them that would assist them in this financial struggle. What would decrease my level of trust in this site it doesn’t display what exactly makes you right for the rates that are displayed when you first open the webpage, it also does not state what is needed to take out a load with them

http://www.thinkgeek.com

this site personally appeals to myself, from looking around on the site and it seems to be trustworthy because firstly its very interactive has some customer feedback areas so that customers may address their concerns, it has a wide range of stock which is good. Nothing on this site appears to be untrustworthy and lower my trust in it

https://stripe.com

this site seems to be very trust worthy it has a lot of information about all its overall services and talks about how it codes its services it is a very upfront site and tells you a lot about itself from the get go, on the down side given that it shows on how it codes some of its features on it site it may be troubling to some users that they display this information to the public

question 2b

http://www.thedogisland.com/

I have found a site that is considered to be a untrustworthy website because it seems to good to be true that there an entire island full of dogs that just roam free and do what dogs do day in and day out, the whole idea is very nice that there might be a island full of dogs but it doesn’t seem true