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I find a guy who willing to sell a $100 amazon gift card for $40 bitcoin. He offers two kinds of trading: First is to contact him on Whatsapp, second is to buy it on hexpay.org. This is the first time I have heard about this marketplace. Is it legit ? Or just another pure scam site ?
Thanks in advance

Hexpay is an autobuy site. You click, the item will be delivered. I suggest you not to continue because you are not even sure if the item you will be paying is the amazon on just another fake. It is known that hexpay is widely used by people selling illegal stuffs. I saw people using it's autobuy feature here in bitcointalk in selling hacked or cracked accounts.

So that means the site manager do not care about checking goods before upload it ? Well, from what you say, this site is totally trash. Thanks for your advice. I might lose my money there. I will contact this guy on whatsapp and use escrow to buy this AGC

HexPay is an autobuy site, users can list whatever they want. We do not escrow payments and cannot protect users from falling for gift card scams, however we will remove them, please email them to abusereports@hexpay.org.
Thanks!

Both this ways are not good, there is zero consumer protection on Hexpay and dealing someone though Wahtsapp is basically p2p trading without middleman.
Contact your seller and tell him that you will buy his gift cards only when escrow service will be involved in your deal. If he refuses then you better skip this offer.

So what is the point of your service if you can't protect buyers from getting scammed. You can make a simple inbuilt bitcoin wallet which can act as escrow, there will be not much manual things to handle.

First rule of buying anything is to always use escrow and to never use autobuy sites. Don't buy that giftcard, only buy it if you use escrow. The idea is good, but the execution of things on the site is just terrible.

Better idea would be to use a site that actually upholds some standards such as a site like Paxful or LBC which can gurantee that the seller is going to be good. I'm not saying all scams are going to be prevented on these sites, but at least you're able to ask people if they bought it with cash so they can't chargeback, look at their feedback and so on.

It allows a bit more piece of mind than buying from an autobuy site that probably bought a ton of stolen credit card purchased amazon gift cards.


Most autobuy sites are good, well if they're reputable. This one sadly isn't so I would just avoid it and find a more reputable site that you won't have a high chance to be scammed on.

I think is 100 dollar amazon gift card only price 40 dollar is very cheap price
hexpay.org not popular service , and price very cheap is becareful
if you want amazon giftcard you can find in paxful or localbitcoins.com

What are recommendations for an trusted autobuy website. You say that is hexpay not popular, if we have a more reliable service like this, alternative?
localbitcoins?
thanks

With autobuy services it is not possible to check everything. The seller might have real codes but he obtained them via carding fraud.
So how can service operator check that? The only way is to remove fraudulent sellers is AFTER they commit a scam.
Hexpay is only platform for trading, just like eBay - the only difference is that eBay offers customer protection service, hexpay doesn't.

Our service is there to help the seller, and you should only buy from sellers you trust since we don't escrow payments.


It's not us selling the GC, anyone is able to sign up and sell.


Correct - It's up to the buyer to make sure the seller is legit, and sadly due to the poor moderation and terrible features of the BTCtalk marketplace (who thought it was a good idea to let noobs self moderate sales threads!?) scammers will try to get your money.
Many others use our site with no problems, and on forums where scam reports are not ignored and the marketplace is moderated it works a lot better.
Lately, we have written some code that finds a lot of these GC scams and hopefully deletes them before users purchase them.

So, there have no any trusted autobuy service or platform for trading digital things with bitcoin payments?
Trusted, i mean with buyer protections.

Nope. The definition of autobuys makes it near impossible to enforce any kind of solid "trust" for all vendors at an autobuy site.

if that sites is new to you and you don't know anything about the site then my suggestion is better you don't use it because you don't know the site is legit or not and from what you read on here, i see that hexpay its not give guarantee and do not escrow payments, so you can stay away from the sites and you can find another person that want to sell amazon gift card. i think you can find it in another site if you only want to buy amazon gift card or maybe you can found it in here as i remember there is a person that selling amazon gift card, maybe you can contact the seller and make a deal with that person.

Hexpay is pure scam site. It pays you for first few sells/purchases and then stops and make profit for the bastard owner . It has no support, so you cannot even mail someone.
Rest is your decision.

Don't deal with that. Hexpay is fraud/scam website don't go with it. Here are some peoples stories https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/dont-buy-anything-through-hexpay-here-is-why.912633/