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Hi, I put the topic here because I can't find another way to do what I want  ::) And I need help from everyone
I want to make a transaction on Paxful, I see an offer with a very attractive price, but it requires trading with a large amount of money, while I do not need to deal with such a large amount. I tried every means to speak with him, but I didn't have any way to contact. Anybody have experience to talk to a partner on Paxful? Please help me  :D Or know any way to contact him.
User: Teemain (https://paxful.com/user/Teemain)
Do anyone know him? I need your help  :D

You can start a trade and ask him to not send any gift cards codes and then you don't have to release anything to him. I would highly suggest staying from that user though:

- With these rates, it's very likely that the gift cards are bought with a stolen credit card.
- That user doesn't have any feedback since December 2019 (account might have been sold to someone else)

I thought about starting trading with him in offer, but it was impossible. Paxful requires me to have a minimum amount to start trading and what's worth mentioning here is that his trading started at a minimum price of $ 500. I have no need to make such a transaction nor do I have enough money on Paxful, I just wanted to trade at $ 50, so I still couldn't contact him. Is there any other way?
Thanks for this information, I would be more careful if I could deal with him, I think my information should be kept confidential.

There’s probably a reason it starts at 500... How many other paxful traders are there where you need to trade a minimum of 500$? If he has such rates, he could do massive volumes if he accepted below 500$. (As for him, there is no risk- he received plain btc...) so- if there is no risk for him, why wouldn’t he do so?

Probably because after the first customers gets blocked by amazon/ steam for using carded cards, they’ll open a dispute on paxful. (Thus locking his remaining funds).

I’d also like to add that his rep is no indicator of trustworthiness. There are rep trading groups, but you can also make 150 transactions for 10$ giftcards @ lets say 5% fee, which means it’ll only cost you roughly (10*150)*.05 = 75$ for 150 ++ rep. (Selling them back after buying them, or not doing tx’s at all- fake trading as mentioned above.) I believe there have been cases of accounts with 1k+ fake rep scamming for 100$, so it definitely isn’t impossible. (https://medium.com/the-paxful-blog/paxful-scam-defense-guide-and-scammer-archetypes-ceeeb3091ea8)

If i read https://paxful.com/user/Teemain trading history correctly- it seems to me that he never was the seller- from all his transactions of december he was the one who initiated them. He sold Amazon GC’s for btc- and now he’s doing the exact opposite thing- selling Amazon GC for BTC..,, another thing to keep in mind when lookong at these ratings.

Another guy who sells them for ridiculous rates — https://paxful.com/user/Iamhakay (who, before buying bitcoin using amazon GC, repped his account by SELLING amazon gc for btc.. Exactly the same as teemain) i’m not too familiar with the Amazon -> btc market, but this does seem suspicious.

I would avoid them all together. This simply  seems like playing russian roulette to me.

Scammers thus target their victims by lowering a portion of the price and then greed begins not to logically think about the rest of the things.
Also, positive reviewss are not a criterion but rather negative ones. If they had 10,000 positive feedbacks without any negative one, it is better to avoid them and it is better to read the negative evaluations in depth before the judgment.

So is it logical to venture with $ 500 to gain some dollars?

Thanks for your advice and analysis, I never intended to make a big deal  :D But to be fair, I believe this is not a scam service. At the place where I live, there are a few people who sell Steam wallet code for very cheap price, it is about 70% of the real value. I don't know where they got that supply, and as far as I know, it's unlimited. I want to buy from this guy because it is even cheaper when I buy locally  :D Do you understand what I mean? And now I still haven't found a way to contact him  ::)