Me and my partner want to engage in a sequence of Bitcoin transactions. The first transaction involves me sending $400 in BTC, and the second transaction involves my partner sending me $900 in BTC. To establish trust, both of us are willing to deposit $900 in BTC into an account, which will be returned to us after the completion of the transactions.
How should we proceed? How do we find a trusted intermediary?
Edit: To clarify: "the partner" is just a person I met on the internet, there is no trust relationship between the two uf us. It is in both our interests that this sequence of transaction will take place as described.
Thanks a lot for your inputs!
There has to be a reason for these transactions IMO before any reputable person here is going to help. Going just by the scenario you described it would look just like trust farming, which will end up not looking so good for you or your "partner".
The intermediary you have to look for also needs to be trustworthy. It should be someone that has a legal background preferably instead of just someone that both you and your partner knows like a friend because it would be very easy for one to bribe the other.
There are lots of escrows in the internet. It is preferably that it is a complete stranger to the both of you with credibility and expertise because of the reason I previously stated.
You should probably not comment unless you have a clue of how a situation works. Plenty of people on this forum have held a lot more then $900. Whether they held it for an escrow deal, a signature campaign, or just because someone asked them to, they did it without any issues. If you want to spam, go spam gambling discussion.