OMG! so much spoiling of OP's post
Just bought 2 cards from OP w/o Escrow
went first and he promised to replace card whenever they go bad , so yeah The seller is Legit
you do realize that he is using a throwaway account right? Once the cards start to go bad he can simply abandon the account he is using and start over with a new account.
He did not replace the bad cards he tried to sell wardwrick so why do you think he would replace the cards he sold you?
Just about everyone selling anything "slightly questionable" on this forum does exactly that. That's how it is here. You can also (as you know) buy or sell accounts at will. How does anyone even know if you're the same person you were 3 days ago? This forum is like the wild west. There have been DOZENS of Starbucks sellers here and 99% of them have disappeared at the first sign of a bad card (I've been scammed twice so far). Usually the seller gets screwed by his "supplier", yet another anonymous person from the middle of nowhere and then he (the seller) disappears.
ANYONE (including myself) who buys $100 worth of product for $20-$35 is either totally stupid or very naive if he thinks they are actually legit. It's a gamble just like a casino.
BY THE WAY, THE OP IS 100% CORRECT. If the card is **BAD** you can't look at the existing balance, you get the "OOOPS Something has gone wrong" message and the card can't be displayed. If you can look at the balance of the card then the card itself is still "good" but the balance has been drained by SOMEONE.
That's exactly what happened to a $100 card I purchased from DAN9090. I got the card at 6:30AM, added it to my account at 6:45AM and by 7:10 AM there were 2 "purchases" made for the total amount of the card and my balance was zero. He accuses me of running to Starbucks at 7:10AM when it's 15degrees outside here and making 2 $49.00 purchases. LOL, I was still in my underwear.
So either the BUYER cleaned out the cards **OR** the SUPPLIER cleaned out the cards after he was paid by the SELLER. In my personal experience it wasn't the seller, it wasn't me (the BUYER), but the supplier who screwed everyone. Unfortunately there is no possible way to prove anything because on this forum there is totally no control of anyone or anything.
I look at it as "you pays your money and you takes your chances."