If one party has made an offer, the other party has accepted the offer for something and there is valuable consideration being exchange (and there is the absence of a term that the deal is not legally binding) then a contract is formed.
worhiper_-_ offered consideration of .1 BTC in exchange for the following:
- full member account registered in 2012. With 135 activity and 135 posts with overall neutral trust
- an escrow to verify the above, and an escrow to provide an escrow address
The seller accepted his terms, an escrow (myself) agreed to (and did) verify the above information. An escrow (myself) did provide a funding address. If anyone can point out which of worhiper_-_'s terms were not met then I am all ears. However I would argue that a reasonable person would conclude that worhiper_-_ entered into a binding contract with the seller and worhiper_-_ did not follow through on his end.
I consider myself a reasonable person (and according to SB5 IQ, "gifted"), and conclude what
worhiper_-_ sent and meren verified was void for vagueness. IMO a contract should be unenforceable if it is too vague for the average person to understand, let alone the mentally incompetent. Now you've had the learning experience; when you see a counterparty like worhiper_-_ writing a vague blank check like that (to cover idiotic terms), and the counterparty at risk verifying that check...
I have since made it a point to further point out that I will not adhere to such scammy terms and suggest alternatives so all parties can be protected on an equal basis, and decline to escrow when such terms cannot be agreed to.
Good.
However I stand by my statement that all terms the OP was requesting were met.
And that was the quasi- or perhaps actual conflict of interest: hunt scammers for free AND try to get paid as an escrow agent trying your damnedest not to get bound up with idiocy/scamming
prima facie indistinguishable from each other. Rather than dropping your clearsign, you could have legitimately said "I'm not the escrow for you" and (void for vagueness aside) their contract definitely wouldn't have been bound, until they found an escrow who agreed to do the second bullet point under the idiotic terms the blank check covered.
I do not anticipate removing, nor excluding you from my trust list in the near future. You can make your own conclusion about this.
Ok!