Quote from: Little Mouse on Today at 02:04:17 AM

However, I do not think any of the forum escrow provide paypal escrow because it can be reversed.

Correct.

Quote from: Billybanjo5 on Today at 01:50:10 AM

I’m at the point now where I want to buy a substantial amount and it is too much money for me to feel comfortable doing the same type of trade.

Continue with the smaller trades or do what "Rodeo02" mentioned ^{[on an exchange]}...

Quote from: Billybanjo5 on Today at 01:50:10 AM

What should I do or suggest to the seller? An escrow of some kind? Thanks for your help.

By doing that, the escrow provider can only protect your part of the deal ^{[since you're the one with reversible method]} and not the other involved party ^[seller] which means, it defeats the purpose of having a middle man for protection.

Quote from: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_methods

PayPal - regular Most world currencies 0 Extremely easy to charge back. Also, since trading bitcoin is against their ToS, good luck disputing the chargeback. Do not use.

On a side note:
- Since I noticed some users posted an outdated list of escrow providers, here are the latest threads:

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