In reply to Steven Gliebe.

@Steven Gliebe,

You wrote: "Similar to Dan, I wouldn’t buy a plugin from Envato unless it was made by someone whom I trust."

How does a new developer build up such trust?

Certainly, having trust in the developer is one way of making a decision, but it's the code that actually does stuff on my site. So I much prefer to trust the code, and I can do that only if I can test it first.