Share some of that popcorn.

Be careful with whom you sell your bitcoins to. Lots of vultures here.

Be aware of scammers, alts of scammers and their entire intricate network of co-scammers.

These scammers just keep coming and coming and coming. Old or new, these thieves can't keep their itchy hands away from bitcoins which aren't theirs.

Shameless.

It's amazing how one goes through great lengths to get bitcoins. Aren't you ashamed of using an online forum to expose your schizophrenic self? So you sent yourself a message with a pic of yourself holding your own ID and a note promising to pay back your alter ego? That's a new low.

The more educated users here become, the angrier the scammers. As you can see, they never want to go first (because they probably don't have anything to send in the first place). And if you reject their you-send-first demands or if you insist on using escrow, they stay hungry and a hungry belly makes a man short-fused and angry.

Temper temper.

You keep bumping this thread with an imaginary expectation that people here would buy or sell bitcoins with you when you are offering two domestic payment methods restricted to Malaysia only. Do you expect everyone here to have a CIMB or Maybank account?

If you want to make a roaring trade here, try to be more global. Public Bank, Hong Leong and Post Malaysia are some of the banks offering international money transfers such as Western Union.

You have my respect! That's how to keep their bellies empty. Don't send these lowlifes any coins so they stay homeless and hungry throughout winter.

First look at their rep and decline to proceed if you see all that red on their trust page. Excuses they give are just that: lame and sorry excuses.

Another scammer.

"I have only paypal".

Move your paypal money to your bank account, withdraw the money and use it to pay for the bitcoin in a more secure way!

Unless others here realise the risk of accepting paypal from newbies, this will go on and on and on. There will be endless stories here of scammers striking gold with very little effort.

Wanna bet that he will not be happy about moving the money to his bank account first? Scammers hate escrow and any irreversible payment method.

Guys, he does NOT want escrow. How else can he scam your coins if you keep suggesting escrow to him? He is very much against it. Scammers hate escrow.

And this kind of lowlifes will say anything-- localbitcoins is full of scammers (read: site offers escrow so no thank you). Enticing people to risk 10 instead of 100 using the "splitting" method is a common scammer tactic. The purpose is to make the victim feel comfortable with him. There are several intentions when using this method:

1. Do one or two $10 deals. Happy with the outcome? Let's do the $80 in one transaction. (Bait and switch)
2. Scam $10 from multiple members here. The small amount is there to "bait" you (the victim). As for the remaining $90, well, he will get that from everyone else who feels comfortable with doing a non-escrowed $10 deal.

Oh and by the way he's not going first. Wanna bet?

That. 100% scammer.

Unless you hold dual foreign-Philippines nationality, a foreigner cannot hold 100% ownership rights to any immovable property in the Philippines. Buying such properties can be quite risky. You need to enter into a partnership with a local national. If conflicts later arise, resolving them can be very complicated, time-consuming and difficult. And financially risky. Philippine courts do not resolve cases within days or months. Cases often take years. This can translate to an extensive loss of revenue (if the property is used for business or commercial purposes).

Plus properties can be quite expensive. As a dual national, I purchased a small plot in Punta Fuego in Batangas for 6 million PHP. That's about USD 125k. That's just for the land. Think about how many bitcoins you will need.

Marry a Filipina who can co-own the property or find a fool-proof way to really really really hold absolute rights to that property. Co-owning with a stranger is like playing with fire.

The audacity is unbelievable.

If 10 members here were to fall for this, that would be 200 Euros x 10 = 2000 Euros (USD 2170). Easy money for him.

What do you think the German police would do with photos of his "kid" and "licence plate"? This won't hold water at any court of law. And good luck trying to recover 200 Euros across international borders. German inkasso agents will charge you much more than this amount to process a loan recovery with no promise of success.

100% SCAM.
100% BETRUG.

Don't deal with anyone who avoids and refuses escrow.

Red flags:

1. Minimum transaction amount is 200 Euros. The OP is stupid ("bloed"/idiot if you want that in German). You are a newbie and you ask people here to send you 200 Euros on the basis of blind trust alone. Sind Sie verrueckt? Total plem-plem sind Sie ja!

2. He will NOT send BTC even with escrow. The guy is a mental case. Some Germans think they are entitled to be trusted blindly so be careful of this guy's sense of entitlement.

3. He will show his ID, his "kid", his car and his "licence plate" ---- anything which does not translate to a secure form of exchange. But he will not use escrow. Clearly a candidate for the Wiesloch Psychiatrisches Krankenhaus!

Don't do transactions with this German. What a POS this guy is!

Unbelievable. You are asked for other options and you offer another reversible payment method. Is this the same card which was used to fund the PayPal account in the first place? That's even more dangerous. This implies that you will be using PayPal funds which were sourced from a card, making the issue of reversibility an even greater risk.

You want a solution? Here:

1. Either take that card to the nearest ATM, insert it on the slot provided specifically for the card, use your finger to press the dollar amount you need, take the money and use it to buy bitcoins by sending the cash either by Western Union or Moneygram.

or

2. Withdraw the money from PayPal to your bank account and use it to buy bitcoins by Western Union or Moneygram.

Why do people here willingly and blindly walk into traps? 5 BTC is a fortune. Don't waste your coins.

Don't do this. Don't sell bitcoins for PayPal unless you want to be scammed.

No matter how sweet you are sweet-talked here, do NOT accept this PayPal trade. Love your coins and keep them safe from these greedy scammers.

They just keep doing and doing and doing and doing this. That's because they know that there are endless victims here who are too gullible and who refuse to believe in the reversibility of PayPal.

Forums like this are a gold mine for scammers. Endless opportunities. Endless victims.

Nah nah... having read this whole story again, instinct tells me he is not so new to bitcoin as he claims to be.

This statement: Never used bit coin before but wanted to purchase something and seller requires BTC. I tried to buy elsewhere but the conversion rate was a little, well not little but very high. Pretty much for how much I needed they wanted $1k which I won't pay

So much discrepancy here.

"never used bitcoin before..."
"tried to buy somewhere else but the conversion rate was a little... very high" (people really new to something won't be quite "into" the rate variation issue)
"dealing with trusted members only" (seems quite familiar with how this kind of transactions work here)
"1K" (sort of inducing people to think that there is no other option--- except for people here to take his reversible paypal)

There's something unbalanced about saying "i'm new to bitcoin and never used it before"... then saying "I want to deal with trusted members only".

It seems you do know a bit more about how transactions here work.

There's something "not-so-new" about your relationship with bitcoins.

Oh so this red-rated "quickseller" deleted my post.

I will repost this new thread instead.

Interesting and intriguing to see his audacity in full public view here where he denies, judges and measures people despite his screaming red notoriety. You have the audacity, sir. The shamelessness and audacity.

I don't need a loan. I love to simply observe how people interact here.

Fix your trust rating first, then re-evaluate your misplaced sense of self-entitlement.