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Hello fellows,
If I decide to buy or sell some goods on this forum, what's the safest process since I guess it's p2p transactions? thanks

If you are either buying or selling there are two major things you need for both.  Make sure you get a pic of the item in question with something signifying you are the current owner, like a piece of paper with your user name and date next to the product.  And second is always use or offer escrow for transactions.  And the escrow agent should be a trusted member here.

Good luck and welcome.

1. Pick the right section of the forum to sell your item
2. If you pick the wrong one, somebody will tell you, trust me
3. Post photos of said item with proof you own it in current time
4. Accept escrow with a reputable person
5. Only trade with trusted on site escrow
Don’t forget to say where you are shipping it from


It’s most fun to auction your items starting at $0

Just for info if you are wondering where to find reputable escrow, use this list:
Recommended bitcointalk escrow services (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910.0)

Welcome to the forum 8m_zk.

This thread should answer most of your questions...https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5277761.0

Avoid making transactions that the other party is demanding that you will not avail an escrow. If the other party is reputable and can be verified through his trust score, you can have the option not to use an escrow.
But even if he has a good trust score, it's always the best choice to hire any of the available escrow. It will make your transaction ease and safe.

Determine whether you want to buy or sell, and then try to gain trust, as it is easy to gain, then you can buy and sell easily.

But if you want to make it easier for you. put a large amount of money on the escrow, for example, 0.3 bitcoin with some trusted account, and then you can buy and sell without the need any escrow. seller/buyer with ask the escrow member to recover the money if any scam occurs.


In the end, gaining trust needs more money and patience.

Just remember to post your thread on theses boards, digital items in Digital goods board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=93.0), physical goods (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=51.0) and if accounts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=234.0) here. 

Aside from the thread linked related to escrow, you can also check this one BitcoinTalk Escrows: Ranking & Blacklist → Avoid scammers! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276897.0)

The safest process is: never transfer money or goods to anyone (including high ranking members) first and should use the escrow service at the forum. You absolutely don't let your guard down even though you have successfully traded with that person many times.

Just make sure that there's an escrow that will middle in every transactions you made so that you can assure your safety as well pick those trusted escrow with good experience in the said job and don't pick those cheap guys telling that they offer a escrow service to add more security on transactions.

Thank you for your advise!

P2P transaction would be the safest but we know its only limited via localle but if you do tend to go international then having escrow would be suggested if you are buying into someone.
Its a hassle process yet trust would be the main issue in most cases because due to anonymity feature of crypto then someone can easily scam out without delivering the item or
simply a fraud.Theres a dedicated board for buy and selling of goods on this forum which you can actually check it out.  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=51.0

This is the major reason the op asked to be directed. If they are lost as to where they can get a safe deal and not get duped, I think it is only proper to properly direct them to the right links which you did not provide here.



Thank you for the information. I did not know there is a thread for reputable escrow in this forum. But it is like most escrows will exchange for foreign currencies against my local currency in Africa.

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p2p transction is not safe because there is no middle man involved on this unlike to non p2p like a centralized exchange , binance for example where they manage the funds that goes out and goes in on thier platform .
p2p isnt limited because you can do p2p online and they are less restricted compare to non p2p platforms .
it can be less hasle than a non p2p if you both trust each other but it can be hassel when not because you will feel the need of an escrow .

Selling goods or any related to physical products might be risky to both seller and buyer, it could be the buyers are fraud or it could the sellers that there's no real item to be delivered.  So, it really hard for a newbie to start a business here just like selling goods, unlike, if your account here is fully established and valuable members, it could be. 

Regarding the escrow, I don't know how it will work.  I think it's a little bit of hassle holding both transactions the physical product and the payment, unlike if the is a digital product that easy to transfer.  I prefer to buy in the official and trusted store for any physical product that you want to purchase online IMO.

Well, good luck OP with selling your products.

Best option can be third party who is 100% trustable.

For example, if you buy tablet you send crypto to third party and when you recive tablet third pary send crypto to seller.
Ofcourse third party always take some litlle commision.

What is an escrow? Ive never heard it before but looks like its a middle-man something like that?

Yes its a middle man which can make your deal more secure and to understand how this things works better you read this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276897.0 since that one explains how it works. Also you can see the list of trusted escrow so better go on the list and avoid picking other users who's credibility/trust are not yet tested.

I think online buy selling work isn’t a secure process for all people we know that have many scammer on crypto market. So be aware, and i want tell you that you can buy sell through trusted person or any high ranked Member of this forum.

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it will be very nice if people believe in another people but I think buying and selling on this forum might be risky and your money might be loss.

That should be nice but unfortunately we cannot trust so much the people which currently we are talking about certain transaction since we don't know how trustable they are so for funds security and to avoid scam better to bring up some good escrow upon dealing someone to make sure that the deal will became safe and the funds are secured.

Dealing with random people whom you don't know is quite risky and you're right.  But it's different here in the forum, we have a trusted Bitcointalk escrow service  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910.0) that can act as a third party for both buyer and also the seller that makes transaction smooth and safe.

But of course, they will support the trades between the buyer and seller if it is legal in your country, if it is illegal in your country, the same as well here also it is illegal.  Making a physical or any digital transaction online must use escrow service, much better to pay a little for them than to say sorry if you were scammed.

Always use escrow if you want to do any transactions here. I can't begin to enumerate the number of times people scam each other here. That's my 2 Satoshi

Scams are common things happening here as other people want to earn money without spending some sweat so if a person would want to try doing some lending business here they should grab a collateral this is more important rather than having escrow since you wouldn't need to pay any third party person just to hold any certain assets for borrower to make sure he will pay.

Even on those traditional markets excluding on this crypto market then scams had already been existing since from the start.As long there's money involved and those people who do have criminal type of thinking
then scams do really exist no matter what and we cant really get rid of those.Therefore the best thing to do is to set out those transactions which would really be safe on your part, Escrow, collateral or something
that you can have some assurance specially on buying and selling on this forum.You cant just trust anybody even on how you do know such person online but not on real life.You cant just trust up like that.
Always take precaution and necessary steps for you to save up yourself into such possible scam problem.

You can buy / Sell digital goods in  here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=93.0) and simple goods here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=51.0).
You need to be careful when making the transaction with anyone of them because the forum does not provide any escrow services but you can find many good escrow service providers here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910.0)

Buying and selling here in the forum is not prohibited as long as you are in the right thread section, then second is if you want to have a good result in terms of transaction whether buy or sell you need to use escrows so that both parties will become more comfortable and convenient to both parties, just simple as that.

Depends on what he sell since if he want to post some illegal stuffs here well that is different story since this forum is not intended for illegal things, but if he have good digital items which can we consider legal well thats totally fine here but make sure to deal with legit people since there are so many scammers here.

And your suggestion to have an escrow is the ideal to make sure that the deal is safe here.

It's risky to buy online in these day because a lot of scammer. And scammer now is getting smarter, so we should be wise and smart enough before purchasing something online. I'm fearful to buy online before. I always concluded what if I got scam. I remember the first time I buy something online I asked the buyer if we can meet personally. She handed me personally the thing I bought and I also pay her personally. Actually it's a win win situation but I realized I spend more compared if I let her sent it to me via parcel plus time it's consuming. Before buying online make sure the shop or seller is legit, there is a lot of platform where you can check the reviews of the seller or shop, you can ask also for actual photo and review her old transactions. This is our world now, we can or sometimes need to do everything through online. We just need to be smart when shopping and for sure you all be good.

If you sell anything to any Forum user in p2p Transaction without Escrow . You Can be a victim of scam. So,  use Escrow To deal with safety & Easily.

Use Top 11 Escrow service from  here  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910.0)

Another backlinks farming case. Is there a thread somewhere to report these? As far as I know there is one for reporting plagiarism but a separate one for backlinks farming posts would also make sense.

#makebitcointalkcleanagain

If you wanna sell any from the forum you have to get some samples and images showing the goods you are selling for users to identify quickly, before that would likely happened there should be an escrow before initiating the transactions to avoid being played along the line.
Note: if is anything tradable then I suggest you go directly to the trading platform to exchange yourself all less there are some restrictions and limitation of your account for that you look at DEX at your convenient.

well i suggest for you t have an escrow. because it is the safest way to transact because others might scam you and remeber to always see their rank before agreeing to a deal. newbie accounts should be eliminated always check and dont be scammed

to buy and sell on the forum you need to choose the right topic to sell or buy your item,Please deal with trusted people or escrow it will be a bit complicated but your assets will be safe,and Describe your item as detailed as possible, good luck and safe transaction. 8) 8) 8)

use a escrow, middle man, just post your buy or sell order after that use a trusted escrow and everything should be fine

Buying and selling on a platform like requires an escrow and one also has to be careful when choosing escrow to be used in order to avoid being a victim you wanted to avoid. Ensure you choose the escrow that is popular and can be trace to the admins or moderator that you can get to in case of a breach in the agreement.

Exactly, escrow is the better way to do business, safely. It protects you and the buyer (or the contrary). The few % fees are nothing compared to the security of your deal.

Escrows is the number 1 important for this matter, He will your middle man or bridge to make your transaction will be done successfully.
Just make sure the escrow is truly legit and besides, there are section here were we have a listing escrows that are trustworthy anyway. Second of course, you need to show the products or items you are selling here in the forum.

OP is not active on this forum anymore. He was last active on December 2020. So there is no point giving him more advises when is not here to listen.
Perhaps he did not sold anything here. Perhaps he didn't find this right platform to sell his product or maybe it was not related to crypto.

Even though OP is not active here still the discussion towards this issue is good to discuss since there are so many newbies come here since they think they can earn here and by looking at signature campaign makes them think about buying an account so that they can join immediately without putting to much effort to get merits to rank up. And good to read some pointers given by other forum member since for sure newbies can learn a lesson that its never be a good idea to buy a account here.

My experience in buying and selling forums here, I like to involve a trusted third person, because I think it is very important so that there is no cheating from one of the irresponsible parties.

You have to be careful, never transfer money to people you don't know, even if it's legendary.

Trusted 3rd person means escrow on this forum. When you need to choose escrow from the forum, make sure he is a trusted member here.
Some non-trust member also can scam in name of escrow so we need to be very careful in any deal.

It will be a bit difficult to buy or sell in getting to contact to the buyer or seller due to differences of location and the forum consist of users which we all are anonymous to each other. So I think it will be kind of complicated though.

You have probably already received some replies saying that the best protection is to use the trustable escrow service.
I also confirm that in my opinion this is the safest form of securing P2P transactions on this forum.

It is certain that we have an escrow on any transaction that is to be made on crypto. To be on a safe side is why an escrow is needed cause trust issues are things that can't be over or under emphasize and on this forum, it is okay to make a transaction with a high reputable member of the forum, for whomever will be carrying out this transaction will want to keep his reputation and make things smooth, otherwise, to me, it is more preferred to hire an escrow on any transaction, whether on this forum or any other place concerning any crypto transaction.

look for an escrow who willing to help your transaction process (trusted people preferred) or if you look their trust is good and many people leave positive feedback when trading with them then u can try to trade with him/her.

What section are we to located the buying and selling of items?

What kind of goods are you trying to sell here? Maybe try to visit this section since most of the members post create their sale threads here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=51.0

Also choose if your item is digital goods, computer hardware or collectibles then post it there.

Make sure that you are not selling illegal items nor forum accounts since this is discourage to do here.

If you need any help or if you need any sirvices then you can post on service but if you need any goods then you should go
following Link...https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=51.0

If you are talking about cryptocurrency then you can definitely go with the p2p or PayPal... This would be the safest way to buy or sell your currencies

No, you need reputable escrow to be on the safest side. With PayPal you can always try to reverse payments or refund and most likely you'll get scammed.

Use a trusted escrow agent on the site. I’ve used many before and they all worked great for me if it’s a large enough trade I’d go as far as having an actual established business escrow the trade for you.

People's are taking loans on Bitcointalk forum. Anyone can take a loan on this forum but first you need to verify yourself and after verification loan provider agent will send you loan amount.
But we need a middle person that takes amount from buyer and takes product from seller.

hello bro i think you should confirm before any buy or sell any currency. because this online field are so risky that,s why both have should be satisfied before any type of deals so you will never sad feel after that if you loose you,r important money. there are many buy selling exchange and also p2p with best exchange like binance . you will be best choice if you have follow