Quote from: px403 on September 07, 2011, 08:22:47 PM

Hey :-) Ya, I read this forum (and run btcnow.net) but have been stuck in the damn newbies forum while everyone talks about my services. Pretty annoying :-) By the way, with some whois magic, you can find pretty much everything about me that you could ever want to know. I finally stopped trying to go through google to deal with my checkout suspension bullshit, and fixed it my own way, so btcnow.net came back online last night.

Hello Dean! It's good to find you here (BTW, a whois does not reveal any information about you!). I love you address' details:
1234 Fake St.

Be careful, cops are arriving at your door Wink

http://www.donotcompare.com/fakest.png

Quote from: RandyMarsh on August 16, 2011, 12:37:28 PM

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Order Details - btcnow.net, 1234 Fake St., Portland, OR 97201 US

sounds legit

I laughed a lot with that comment xD But in the rest of the thread we see that everyone who ordered coins are satisfied, their only complaint was the price ^_^
And, how do you deal with scammers? Is Google Checkout the solution to all our problems? Too bad that it's only available to US and UK merchants.

Quote from: Uhlbelk on September 07, 2011, 11:07:00 PM

Would you consider a non-privatized domain register coinciding with the paypal name and email a form of cyber identity. Or do you suppose a would be account hacker could easily go through the steps to both get a website in the stolen accounts name (or if the web has already been established just cite it) and convince the BTC seller his identity? A paypal account from an email address via the non privet site would either mean the user is legit or they also has access to the stolen account users webhost.

If the webpage is established and not an obvious flybynight it would increase trust but not by much....

Any other thoughts on possible cyber identification to verify a paypal accounts owner.

First of all, thanks for your proposals!
You propose to ask the user for a webpage with his paypal name and email. Am I right? For example, if my client's Paypal account is "myusername" and his email is "mymail@myserver.com", I would ask the user for a domain like http://www.myusernamemymailmyserver.tk, and then I ask the user to make the purchase from that site web?
If you meant that, I see two serious drawbacks:

1- If the Paypal's user didn't have a webpage (which happens in most cases), the scammer can set a website and then it would be the actual owner who would be considered as the stealer.

2- For most legit users the process of setting up a website and then making POST requests from is far too messy to finish the purchases.

I've been reading your previous posts in this forum, and since your donations Bitcoin address in your signature and in BitCoin Beastie is the same I guess that you are the owner. So I think that in exceptional cases I can accept any other proof of identity and provide a working "fake phone number" and a PIN. But for those cases I would prefer the user to contact me directly.

Quote from: champbronc2 on September 08, 2011, 01:28:47 AM

Hmm, looks like a good idea to me.

Heck, I was about to buy until I saw your prices were practically double the market price.

PM me and I will purchase for a negotiated price.

No scammer here btw, US citizen. Can be called, contacted at my edu address, etc.

I wish I could negotiate a lower price, but I cannot afford to lose more money. The minimum price I set is just to break even. Oh Gosh, who would think that housin... sorry, Bitcoin prices would stop going up? ^_^ I've been selling slightly below market prices when I was testing the backend, but now that it seems to work my only chance is to wait prices to go up or to invest the coins somewhere else.

In the meanwhile I encourage you to buy at btcnow.net (or at least while his prices are lower than mines Wink

). I bought my first coin with him and the service was excellent. In fact, I decided to start my service when btcnow.net stopped working.