I generally agree with you Quickseller. Of course this is not exact science, but the "benefit of the doubt" has exonerated too many untrustworthy users here.
*There are a number of examples of when I may have a gift card that I am willing to sell a gift card for less then face value that does not involve any kind of fraud/money laundering:
- I received a $50 Amazon Gift card from my Aunt/Uncle/ect. for Christmas/my Birthday/ect.
- I just purchased $x thousand dollars worth of appliances/supplies from Home Depot for a new patio and was given a $500 Home Depot gift card to entice me to come back for my next project
- As an incentive for me renewing my contract with AT&T, I was given a $100 gift card to Target
- I participated in a promotion at Walmart in which I receive a $25 Gift card after spending $x dollars in one trip
- ect.
None of these examples covers having a seemingly unlimited supply of several kind of cards. As I said on OP that's a big red flag. anonymous22 is selling
14 kinds of cards and offers to get a lot of others too. It's very hard to believe they are obtained by legal means.
I've applied my best judgement here and of course I could be wrong. Fortunately removing a feedback is even easier than adding it. I've asked him to prove the origin of their cards to any very trusted user asking him not to disclose the method itself. I added the negative trust only after he refused. However the offer is still opened and I'll remove the feedback as soon as a very trusted member confirms the method is legal.
I am not able to vouch for any Gift Card sellers, however I don't think that anonymous22 is laundering money via Gift Cards.
We disagree on this point but I recognize I can't be 100% sure. But he, you and everyone else must recognize how easy it would be for him to prove he's not doing anything wrong, right?
Like I said, it is possible that he is buying gift cards from a website (or other reputable source). Doing a google search for "buy gift cards cheap" comes back with the first result being "
Buy Gift Cards: 83,831 Discount Gift Cards - Save up to 35%" I would find someone who is claiming to be able to sell large amounts of gift cards at one time to be more suspicious, as I would think it would be more difficult to get $500 worth of 1-800-flowers gift cards at one time (obtained legitimately), while someone buying on one of these kinds of sites might be able to get a single ~$50 gift card for any random store every week.
I am not 100% sure either. I have a $50 gift card from him from over a year ago that I have not had a chance to use that I just checked the balance on and it still has $50 on it.
I don't think I would consider your offer to be unfair, nor unreasonable.
anonymous22 has a shady past. He was reselling bad cards and made a fuss over refunding Negative feedback was removed as he paid back. I'm 99% sure his cards are fraudulently obtained and he will troll you with the I didn't nothing wrong as I'm just reselling excuse.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=729896.0I was not aware of this. It looks like this was regarding Starbucks GC, which are known for being a money launder's heaven. I might be less willing to believe he is legit in light of this information/thread.