Quote from: zencomp on November 14, 2015, 11:04:43 PM

Quote from: TookDk on November 14, 2015, 10:00:11 PM

Quote from: Studio60 on November 14, 2015, 08:29:21 PM

One thing you can do is offer free escrow services. There is a user called Monbux with a ton of trusted feedback from doing this. You do need to be trustworthy to get started, but you can start small. So for example, start in the currency exchange section whenever you need to trade bitcoin for Paypal or something. Start with small amounts and ask for positive feedback for successful trades. Once you start having trusted feedback you can offer free escrow services where you hold a small amount of bitcoin for people and settle disputes if something goes wrong.

With all due respect, starting out offering escrow services is a sure way to be stamped as not being trustworthy.
I have seen many users getting a very bad start by doing this.

The best way to "earn" trust is to start with being a good community member, make good posts and contribute the community.
The actual "trust" is in most cases given based on a some type of trade or business relation.

In order to trade, then will you need a product, either digital, physical or a service.
In any cases will you have to use a recognized escrow for the trade, most people will not trust a person with no record.

After some time will you start to have a trade record and together with your community contribution can the person that potentially will trust you have an idea what type of person/trader you are and use this as parameter in the trust evaluation of you.

the reply was perfect way of getting trust on bitcointalk, as you are newbie first you have to post on thread some good information and help others, and after you earn some higher position then i think you can start the escrow service, but the above reply explained you everthing what you need to do to gain trust on bitcointalk

In theory yes, in practice it's much more difficult. There are plenty of people here offering escrow. If you or I, with no trust, go advertise our services we'll kind of be laughed at because it's so easy to find someone with a lot of trust! Believe me, I've tried and every one laughed at me. (Not that that is a reason to not try, but still...)

I think a better way to do it is to arrange a transaction to earn trust, ideally with friend. They send you some BTC, you send it back. The trust was gained, they can give you the trust remarks formally and you have something to work with for escrow services going forward.