Sell I mean

Yeah I'm glad I didn't buy now

Guys I was going to leave this one be but I had to share. I sell these on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-unfunded-physical-bitcoin-Hard-secure-bitcoin-Wallet-/200965840108?hash=item2eca7f5cec
I sell them fully funded also and have been doing it for a while now. Today I was approached by someone who wanted to buy bit coins directly without postage just sent to their wallet. The bit coin price was 80 GBP and I said 100GBP. They wanted 4 and I thought it would be easy money so I said yes. I was going to make 80 gbp for doing nothing right???

I told them my email address and they sent payment as a gift immediately 400 pounds of it. I was excited about the thought of making 80 pounds effortlessly.....

Something didn't seam right though. I sent 0.1 BTC and they confirmed they had it. I then started analysing the name on the paypal account and the email address I have been emailing him with and confronted him about it. He told me a load of bollox saying something about his wife and it was her account. I said before I send the remaining 3.9 BTC I want to see some proof you have some association with this email address on paypal. He told me not to worry and he repaid the 0.1 BTC and told me to repay the gift payment and we can officially go through ebay. I stupidly made a refund ( I should not have done as he will now rip someone else off)
and I have not heard from him since.

He is still free waiting to rip someone off. SO BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


He was using a hacked paypal account I fully believe all you BTC people beware.

hi this is 400 GBP so 20 GBP more than the going rate each

someone on ebay wanted to but bitcoins from me. 4 for 400. He paid with a womans paypal account sending the payment as a gift. His personal email has a name completely different to the woman's pay pal. Is it a scam? I already sent 0.1 BTC then I started thinking... this is too good to be true.

Hi I am buying and paying a good price for all things sold by casascius in 2011. Even coins that have been redeamed I will pay a very good value for. Get back to me if you have anything thanks.

Also what would worry me is who is going the engraving. I engrave my own coins inorder to maintiain security. I also have put a photo copy of mty passport on my website You might want to consider doing this.

Can anyone please reccomend a programmer for my new project? I need to compile an app from the casascius address code and also add a bitcoin payment on my website. I know of Gweedo who seams ok does anyone have reccomendations of him and how about anyone else? I was going to go though elance but thought it would be better to stay within the BTC community as reccomendations on here are better informed. Thanks

thanks for all the replies I have forgotton this idea and used my friends engraving machine and done it myself. only problem is it isn't a laser machine so doesn't look as good

How do you encrypt it though?

But then the last engraver will know it all lol. Anyway I am going to change it a bit. Thankyou

Yes maybe I might do that. Thank you

For next time how do you think I can write my private key in code safely but easy enough to decode by hand?

Well there is nothing for them to believe it has anything to do with bitcoins you see. They are a normal engravers. I am going to save 1000 GNP on there you see.  From what you say they would have to suspect bitcoin first then at the same time be a programmer. I feel secure that it's unlikely they are not. Thank you for your reply though

I want to get a coin engraved with my public address and private key. Basically my public address will be shown and the private key will be fully written yet have some characters capitalised/ decapitalised and some numbers that are slightly different.

In total for one full private key generated from bitaddress.org the private key was changed by capitalising 3 letters, decapitalising 2 and changing 1 of the numbers.

So the engraver will see my public address and my private key with a few changes. Are there any risk of my coins getting stiolen?
Thanks

OK deal. Thanks.

Actually I was going to buy a coin off this chap. Is he a scammer or not?

Ok thanks. When will you be free any time soon?

Ok thank you for the info and you are correct I am a newbie. I could perhaps pay someone to tell me how to compile it? Any offers with cost?

I want to get a piece of metal engraved with my public address and private key. Basically my public address will be shown and the private key will be fully written yet have some characters capitalised/ decapitalised and some numbers that are slightly different.

In toltal for one full private key generated from bitaddress.org the private key was changed by capitalising 3 letters, decapitalising 2 and changing 1 of the numbers.

So the engraver will see my public address and my private key with a few changes. Are there any risk of my coins getting stiolen?
Thanks