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those that provide the escrow services are those individuals that have been here for quite some time, who have been involved in deals/trades/sales and have always shown themselves to be trustworthy.

I am one of the newer individuals offering escrow services and I also have 100% positive ratings (as do the other escrow providers) I hope to escrow more dealings and increase that trust as well.

The fee paid for escrow will ultimately be quite a bit cheaper than the fees you pay for eBay - that and most often the buyer pays the escrow fees.

Let me know if I can be of service if you do bring those over here to the forums to sell

Thanks. So I see the fees are usually set by the person offering the escrow service and payable by the buyer. True?

Also, is PayPal a standard method of payment? I don't yet have an ample supply of Bitcoin and want to hold as much as I can for the rebound.

yes - the fees are set by the escrow service - and typical for the buyer to pay - unless seller offers to pay - has happened but more often to not it is the buyer that pays it. My fee is 1%

and typically no, the payment is not with paypal. to do so would mean the escrow would have to pay 2.9% fee and then the seller would also pay a 2.9% fee - If i recall, 2.9% is the paypal fee for receiving funds.

as the seller, you would not be paying though - but if you were the buyer, you could always just use the USD in your paypal account to buy btc to make a purchase without touching what you are hodl'ing.

Makes perfect sense. Thank you.

PayPal is already an escrowing business so you would not need an escrow to use PayPal. Do not believe anyone telling you to use an Escrow along with PayPal as that is pointless. You use an escrow with crypto/wire or you use PayPal.

Yeah paypal really protects buyers for a long time. So escrow people here such as myself don't get involved on a paypal deal. Last thing I need is to escrow a paypal deal and have to deal with paypal 175 days later.