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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Trappy on June 25, 2011, 04:10 am

Title: the GREATEST scam ever
Post by: Trappy on June 25, 2011, 04:10 am
I was just on ebay, and people are selling 0.01 bitcoins for $1.50 each.

Just think about it for a little bit... Its the greatest scam ever...
Title: Re: the GREATEST scam ever
Post by: niggerjim on June 25, 2011, 04:17 am
you mean the grey market selling to the black market?
Title: Re: the GREATEST scam ever
Post by: MeowM on June 25, 2011, 04:33 am
Except it's not and the buyer can just chargeback and get the BTC for free since Papal/eBay doesn't allow the selling of Bitcoins. The seller might even end up with their eBay and Paypal accounts permanently banned after the first transaction. You should change the title to "the WORST scam ever".
Title: Re: the GREATEST scam ever
Post by: g4bb3r on June 25, 2011, 04:39 am
Time to get some free BTC with chargebacks! Ahh, if only I didn't have moral problems with stealing.
Title: Re: the GREATEST scam ever
Post by: phubaiblues on June 26, 2011, 06:43 am
I don't think so: buyers value their *own* reputations on ebay, and aren't about to thro them away for that...and sellers can set limits on who they will sell to...many people have bought btc on ebay, if we were in a bind, and needed them right at that time...I noticed a bunch of them got sold when SR came back up, haha...price went thru the roof for a couple days: up to averaging 30bucks 1btc...for 'but it now'  ... but sellers and buyers both on ebay have reps to guard, and you can't just go around reneging on deals, or ebay would have fallen apart a long time ago...not just btc, but you could say that about *anything*: that it didnt arrive, etc...

The btc sales are same as the old loan sharks...if u needed the money, u'd pay the price...people had cash, and the only surefire way to get btc immediately was thru ebay :)  and u can buy them no problem with paypal...look back on those transactions and the feedback: most seemed happy, no rips...
Title: Re: the GREATEST scam ever
Post by: MeowM on June 26, 2011, 07:06 am
I don't think so: buyers value their *own* reputations on ebay, and aren't about to thro them away for that...and sellers can set limits on who they will sell to...many people have bought btc on ebay, if we were in a bind, and needed them right at that time...I noticed a bunch of them got sold when SR came back up, haha...price went thru the roof for a couple days: up to averaging 30bucks 1btc...for 'but it now'  ... but sellers and buyers both on ebay have reps to guard, and you can't just go around reneging on deals, or ebay would have fallen apart a long time ago...not just btc, but you could say that about *anything*: that it didnt arrive, etc...

The btc sales are same as the old loan sharks...if u needed the money, u'd pay the price...people had cash, and the only surefire way to get btc immediately was thru ebay :)  and u can buy them no problem with paypal...look back on those transactions and the feedback: most seemed happy, no rips...
The sellers can't change the feedback they left if the malicious buyer gets them banned.
Title: Re: the GREATEST scam ever
Post by: phubaiblues on June 26, 2011, 07:59 am

The sellers can't change the feedback they left if the malicious buyer gets them banned.

Why would they bother with something like that: you can't just get somebody banned like that...people buy and sell all the time there...I mean one pissed off buyer can't get u thrown off: they have arbitration, all kinds of stuff...ebay has people that look thru all that...used to be it was bad as a seller, becaue buyers wouldnt post feedback until buyer did...but again: who would waste a bunch of time, doing that...I"m sure it happens once in a while, but it seems kind of stupid and unproductive to me...again: buyers can limit who they sell too: they don't usually sell to brand new people, and that eliminates the scam artists...