Quote from: Blazr on September 10, 2015, 08:55:26 AM

Right before the forum got full of all these shitposts by a bunch of scammers.

(I do escrow seomtimes but never for myself, however I do not see how self escrowing alone constitutes a scam. The scam happens when the escrow and buyer/seller collude, that can happen if they are the same person or not.)

Blazr, I have to respectfully disagree. I think you've got something a little backwards. If the escrow and one of the two parties are the same person, isn't that the definition of collusion? How can I fail to collude with myself? I am myself and my interests are not separate from me nor is my communication separate from me. How can a "third-party" escrow communicate with one party privately if the other party is also the escrow.

There seems to be two schools of though here, one espoused by QS and Tradefortress (and maybe, hedgingly, TC), which is that when you choose X as escrow, X guarantees on X's reputation that the deal will go smoothly. The other school of thought, seemingly held by nearly everyone else, is tha an escrow X gurantees to provide a neutral, third-party mediator to manage the deal and any conflicts which might arise.

I personally cannot understand the QS and Tradefortress' opinion here that an escrow is guaranteeing on their own reputation that a deal will go smoothly. Surely the escrow cannot be held responsible if one party or the other fails to pay, or fails to send, or sends the wrong amount, or any other failure. Surely what the escrow is guranteeing is that in those cases where some dispute arises, that the escrow will act neutrally to resolve the dispute, or else cancel the deal amicably. I don't see how it could be any more clear that an escrow who isn't without a conflict of interest is critical for this role. The idea that you could escrow for yourself and not be in collusion with yourself seems, pardon me, like nonsense.

Quote from: Quickseller on September 10, 2015, 08:42:17 AM

He was talking about a situation in which resulted in money being sent to escrow and then the escrow running away with the money. This was not the case in this situation. Both at the time of the trade, and now, the other party was appearing to be happy with the trade.

So, QS, for you, if a person steals from you and you don't realize it then nothing was wrong with that? You still can't seem to see that if someone pays you to provide a service as a neutral third party, and you hid the fact that you weren't a neutral third party, and then you went ahead and received money for that service, that that is clearly dishonest and stealing. It doesn't matter if you duped your victim completely and the walked away without realizing it.

Finally, I have to tell you brought this on yourself, if you hadn't continued to pull in alt-after-alt into that crazy personal vendetta you have against me then I would never found your alts. I don't generally look into any of this stuff. The fact that you couldn't keep your personal vendettas and your escrow-scam separate is what led to your downfall here. If you could calm that hot temper, you might have gotten away with it perpetually. Who knows? That doesn't make it right to do so, but it's true that no one was really looking.

Finally, after the pages and pages that QS has written to me about alts scams and fake reputation building by doing micro trades here and there to build trust, one has to acknowledge at least a small bit of irony, as it seems like that's exactly what you were doing here. You continue to build reputation for your various accounts by doing small, risckless trades where the other person has to send first because they don't know you're the escrow. What you were planning on using all these account for beyond just picking on people and sockpuppeting your hatred, I don't know. Nevertheless, some of the irony in this has to be acknolwedged.

Here's one of the many posts where QS explains the trust-farming-scam he was actually apparrantely pulling himself: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1163292.msg12303462#msg12303462
Here's one that's chock full of irony as he pulls in a new alt in the thread about his longstanding abuse of me and he uses the sockpuppet to, wait for it, accuse me using sockpuppets! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1129059.msg12312926#msg12312926

I think QS' true character has finally been revealed to the masses, and that's probably a good thing for the community here.