Quote from: whetherman on December 01, 2014, 07:10:15 PM

Quote from: choeymethod on December 01, 2014, 07:04:36 PM

Quote from: risinhigher on December 01, 2014, 06:02:04 PM

Hypothetical scenario:

Suppose Bob sells a guitar to Alice.
Both of them deposit the value in a shared account.

Bob gets the payment and notifies the system that all is good.
Alice does get the guitar and is satisfied with it. She however forgets to notify the system in order for the release of the amount from the double escrow account

The escrow times out and both of them loose money .
i.e:
alice has now payed x(Deposit) +x(money payed to bob) = 2x
and bob has nothing now => x(money received from alice ) - x(deposit) =0 [and the guitar is gone]

Is there a way to recover from that ?

Please note: I am a substantial investor in bitbay and believe it its future .. This is just a question ..not a fud:).

Good question, I don't think any rational person would consider this fud, quite the opposite I think constructive questions are much appreciated by most.

I'd also like to hear the answer from the bitbay team on that but I'd think since the funds don't get burned but go to the bitbay team there might be some sort of grace period, where if both parties issue a ticket to the support, with the transaction id, or something along those lines, they might be able to still get their money after the expiration date.

Again this is just speculation on my part though, but now Im curious about the solution to this problem as well.

How exactly do funds "go to the BitBay Team" ? Not sure you are correct about that. Anyhow, having a third party to clean up messes sort of goes against the whole decentralized market concept.

Sorry my bad for some reason I initially misread or misinterpreted the last sentence of this answer from the faq.

Q: Please explain how the escrow system will protect buyers & sellers in BitBay transactions.

A: The system is the revolutionary double deposit escrow. Both Buyer and Seller place deposits into a shared account. There is no need for an escrow agent. The deposits serve as the incentive to perform. Therefore theft and deception is impossible in these escrows. If those actions occur, the parties will not agree, the escrow will expire and they both lose. BitBay takes the profit out of theft.