It's not ridiculous when you think about it.  I'm selling a long-term investment because I need emergency funds now (I wasn't planning on selling these for a good while).  I need the coins now and the AM auction bidder is looking for a longer-term investment in direct AM shares.  Why would I lock the coins up for an undecided amount of time, when I need them?  The shares are meant to be a longer-term investment, so it's not too much of a worry if friedcat doesn't transfer then right away, you would still be getting the dividends in the meantime sent over anyway.

Also, lophie just assumed the seller would pay for an escrow service... that he wants to use?  How would that ever make sense?    I only invalidated his bid because he made the bid with stipulations that aren't applicable to this auction.

WillBTC, I see you have negative feedback regarding direct AM share auctions.  Please do not bid unless you are making a 100% commitment to purchase if you are the winner.


I am up for using an escrow based on e-mail to friedcat being the action that releases the escrow funds, like mentioned earlier in this thread.  I will see if SebastianJu will foster this type of escrow, since I blatantly stole his auction template.