If that guy can buy $500 worth of bitcoin via LBC then I will sell it to him in two weeks for that much bitcoin once you default on your loan. He would need to pay prior to me giving you the loan though. Tell him to create a bitcointalk account if he has not done so

I would be willing to use escrow with a more reputable member of this community if any party does not think I am sufficiently trustworthy to hold the btc.

If you do not actually have someone willing to buy it for as much as you claim it is worth then it is not worth that much. That is simply how the market works. Something is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay.

I don't see why they wouldn't be willing to have their $400 held for two weeks if it means they can buy it for a 50% discount. I'd even be willing to pay a small amount of interest if I end up not being able to deliver the weapon (in the extremely unlikely event that you actually repay your loan).

If someone is willing to buy it for $800 then they should have no problem lending you $250 for two weeks. If the people saying it is worth $800 are not actually willing/able to pay that much then their statement of its value is meaningless   

Why don't you find someone who is willing to buy it for $400 and can pay for it now. Then I will lend you the 1BTC that you are looking for and if you repay the loan I will refund the buyer and return the collateral to you. If you default then I will simply complete the sale and sell your collateral to the buyer for $400

Why don't you borrow the money from one of the people who would be willing to buy it for $400 or for $800? They should be more then willing to lend you 1BTC for your collateral as a worse case scenario would be that they make .2 btc from the loan and a best case scenario would be that they buy it for ~$250

How would you know how many people will say that your weapon is worth a certain amount? Like I said you could fake it by using a different computer to send back the price. How would you know that these people are going to be willing to confirm over Facebook that they are claiming that something is worth a certain amount? Unless you are going to have someone associated with yourself (or will be responding yourself) then you have no assurance that you will receive these responses.

he asked me if I was willing to escrow for him and I told him that I can so I would assume that he is accepting escrow.

Even if you can prove that some random person said that your weapon on your game is worth a lot it doesn't change the fact that this person is a random person. It would not prove that you didn't just use a second computer to chat with yourself.

Like I said if your collateral is worth as much as you claim then that person should have no problem with lending you money.

You are a scammer because you are offering things as collateral that have zero value to the lender and are bogus.

Anyone that lends money to you will never see their money again and will not be able to sell any collateral secured for anything.

The changing of avatars was disabled due to a hack that exploited weaknesses in the security of avatars. Then when the uploading of avatars was reenabled the forum was DDoS'ed within hours of when the April fools joke regarding the avatars was suppose to expire, allowing avatars to work "properly".

It should be obvious as to what happened.

this is not proof of anything. The person you are chatting with has zero reputation here. You redacted his handle for a good reason. It is only appropriate to give a value of specific collateral if you can independently verify the value of such collateral.

This is very similar to you signing a message from an address that has had a lot of Bitcoin pass through it. Both will do nothing for the lender when (not if) you default on the loan.

It that collateral is worth as much as you claim then you should get a loan from him.

you are not offering collateral. You are offering something that you claim is worth a lot of money however the "proof" of it's value is bogus as it is a chat log with someone no one knows and whose identity is not known (either RL identity or forum identity). You are a scammer

If he did that then everyone would know the identity of the accounts and fewer people would want to buy them because people generally do not want to own a known purchased account.

I really don't think it is any of your business however it would most likely be a good business decision regardless of if he ended up repaying the loan. I am fairly certain that he will repay though as he has a fairly solid trading history (he has pretty solid positive trust per my fixed trust list), and I don't know what terms he got the loan on.

This is not true. Moderators are not suppose to tell others what happens in the staff forum as what happens there should generally be secret. Also the modlog does not show the moderator who banned and/or deleted posts of someone. The modlog shows who was banned (in certain cases) and whose posts were deleted.

The question of if someone was banned or not is generally not public information, although it will often leak when they post about it in meta and some other ways too

I can do this for you if you can sign a message from an old address and agree to provide your account as collateral.

I have verified a signed message that was dated the same date I believe it to have been written.

I confirm that the account in question does exist, and that it posts were written in English.

If you reach an agreement with the OP and decide to use my services for escrow please start a group PM with the OP and myself and I will reply with an escrow contract with what I believe the terms of the sale are, with a escrow address and will be PGO signed. If any changes need to be made to the escrow agreement please work out any adjustments prior to funding escrow if possible.

My fee is 1% or .0075 btc, whichever is greater 

Are you able to provide a signed message from an old address posted by the account a long time ago?

I agree that those kinds of posts/threads are spammy. That same person has done the same several times and it is very annoying. I don't think he is breaking any rules, but I think a rule should be added that you can't post links to BTCjam (ect) listings in the lending section. IMO they are borderline the same as referral spam and most landing sites' community standerds are different then what the community standards generally are here.

Hero accounts are much more rare then seniors are. So you get a lot more prestige having a hero verses having a senior account.

People are less willing to post a lot to earn btc on sig deals because the price of btc is low and has been low for several months now. Also if you spam then your accounts will get banned so you do need to put in a good amount of effort into posting. I am sure that people have gotten burned by buying up a bunch of accounts and then they got banned for making instubstantial posts with a paid signature.

I agree that selling a hero is a much better deal for the person selling.

some people are recognized by their avatar more then their account name so turning off viewing avatars might make it difficult to recognize certain people.

You are right that business owners will want their advertisements to be pleasing to the eye however some people just have bad taste (eg candy) and will pay people to display an annoying avatar.
i don't think I was around for these arguments. However most avatars pre yesterday were almost either blank or were unique unless it was Bitcoin related or was some variant of the Bitcoin symbol. I would think pre sig advertising that a lot of people would have their btc address in their signature which is very similar to everyone having almost the same signature.