Deposit was made, as per an agreement. Deposit was not returned, as per the agreement.
Still, you did not provided the evidence required.
Where is the contract that you both signed to a third party verify the legitimacy of your claims?
The legitimacy of the claim is not disputed. Heck, the scammer is not only taking the Nefario route to PR, but moreover the address was listed in his list of depositors that he himself maintained for the entire interval.
You transferred 500 Bitcoins to Patrick and did not require a signed contract to secure or to determine both parties obligations? Is that the way you handle your stock exchange business?
If you think an IRC log represents a legitimate contract, you have completely failed.
How do you expect a third party to trust in your claim if Patrick alleges that your claim was not a mutual agreement? How could a third party be sure that no other agreement was settled between both parties?
IF augostocroppo would do an analysis of MOE-PR's posts as he has with CharlieContent he would probably identify similar attributes. Members trolling these board for their own humor and amusement while really adding nothing to any meaningful conversation.
I recommend you look at the thread where the user MPOE-PR requests a scammer tag for Theymos. If you compare that thread with this, you will realize that evidence is a concept outside the scope of the user MOE-PR. That and this thread are just claims...
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/claim?q=claimDefinition of claim
verb
1 [reporting verb] state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.
And the user that was shilling for usagi for months and egging her/him/it on with trying to discredit as trolls those who were asking valid questions; that user is now a valuable "analyzer of posts"?
False statement. I never have been "shilling for usagi for months" and I never "discredit as trolls those who were asking valid questions".
He's also one of very very few people here who actually behaves like a businessman, instead of just imitating being a business man like most cargo cult followers here.
A user which is unable to require a signed contract is not businessman...
I am relatively certain the only one who agrees with Joel in this thread is Joel.
I fully support JoelKatz arguments, which are very reasonable and based on factual data.