Quote from: itcoinbay on July 20, 2019, 12:48:29 AM

you trust us in buying a VIP membership which will temporarily set you back .01 BTC, and we will then send you .02 BTC, again a net to you of .01 BTC.

Unfortunately, most Bitcoiner have principle "Don't trust, verify" or "Trust, but verify" so you can't expect people to trust you easily.
Even OpenBazaar which uses P2P model (not website which is SPOF/Single point of failure) & open-source still uses Escrow.

Quote from: itcoinbay on July 20, 2019, 12:48:29 AM

Does that seem like some long thought out scheme? If we were asking for 1, 10 or 100 BTC, I could understand the skepticism and super-paranoia, but goddammit it's .01 BTC LOL! Grin

Ask people who live on 3rd world country, many of them would be skeptical or paranoid.

Quote from: LoyceV on July 20, 2019, 06:23:22 PM

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At our site, no 3rd party payment or conversion systems, downloads, platform installs, special wallets, etc. are required. We use only Peer to Peer transactions as envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto. After all, is this is not how Bitcoin was intended to be used?

What if the seller doesn't deliver?

Or other problem which commonly occurred such as :
1. Fake goods
2. Goods broken during shipment
3. Goods lost during shipment

P.S. i don't say you're scammer or legitimate user