Re: For sale: 1 Btc Brass Casascius 2011 Coin with Typing Error in Hologram
... I tried auctioning earlier on this forum and unfortunately couldn't come to an agreement about shipping and payment methods with the highest bidder. Instead of auction I ask for offers starting at 1,5 BTC or the equivalent in euros or USD.
For anyone wanting to deal with this seller, please note that he doesn't accept any of the in this community commonly accepted payment and shipping methods. As the highest bidder I can confirm that he didn't want to use minerjones as an escrow because minerjones is, and I quote "eagerly recommended by the members of the forum".
Would hate to see someone loosing his precious time on this.
If you were a newbie, and there were thousands of strange anonymous people in front of you, would you give your money to one that a few tell to be absolutely trustworthy?
It has surprised me how strong community spirit there is on this forum.
Don't get me wrong, but because I'm cautious and suspicous person, strong recommendations for one user to act as possible escrow got me alerted instead of feeling secure. Could that be for something the users of forum could learn from?
It's almost too good to find out that there's an online community where people help make money and help each other out doing something that's kind of like a hobby or something as enjoyable (well many might be total professionals as well). It could be like this and that would be a perfect situation, but I would need to follow the forum and its users for months to come to such conclusion and be sure about it.
As a less-than-active forum member who checks in only from time-to-time... I used MinerJones as escrow (at the recommendation of the seller no less) for a recent purchase based solely on his reputation/trust feedback. It would be quite the ruse for an entire forum to back MJ's service if it were the least bit scammy. MJ makes decent commission when all the deals add up... It would be a detriment and risk to himself to abscond with forum member funds. Why shoot a cash cow when you can keep on milking for eternity? Everything went smoothly and I'll be using his services again soon.
Though I appreciate and respect a certain level of caution, recognize that MJ has more to risk than gain by stealing funds. People send him physicals for escrow/reasons... meaning he's able to be relatively located... Years of service to gain his reputation that now nets him who knows how much yearly. It's illogical to let all that business to fall to a competitor for a heist of 1.5 - 2 btc.
Further, perhaps the new buyer wouldn't want to be physically identifiable. I'd rather send btc via net than out myself as a holder with coins to spend in the public eye. There's cautious and then there's full on paranoid. Deals of magnitudes higher value occur regularly. Just escrow it man.
Thanks for solid reasoning. Your argument is valid and I don't have anything to dispute.