I feel like the OP is missing some info.

Understood. Thanks for the explanation

Thank you. I totally missed that link

Edit: It just comes up as a blank white page for me.

Thanks for clarifying that. I guess I still don't know how to figure out who is on whose Trust list.

Canary, I like you, man. You're OG and you've always been cool with me (well, my main account anyway). But taking a look at your Trust list raises some eyebrows. Leaving a positive rating for someone you've traded with is fine -- I do it myself sometimes. However, it appears that you're actually adding these people to your Trust list, which is completely separate than your Trust ratings. I'm not sure if were aware of that dichotomy, as the Trust system itself is fairly confusing, and I'm embarrassed to say that I wasn't aware of the difference until several months after the Trust system went live.

Here's one branch of your Trust list that might need a 2nd look:

CanaryInTheMine -> Trynmpo -> PlusLegit

The latter two have been decisively outed as scammers:

Trynmpo: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=925125.0
PlusLegit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576101.0 (as well as a bevy of other scam accusation threads)

IMHO you should really start off with a clean slate. Wipe your Trust list and add only those you actually trust. I usually ask myself, "Could I confidently send 500 BTC to this user and trust that they'd send it back without hesitation?" If the answer to that is, "yes," then they're a candidate for my own Trust list (Depth 1 I guess).

Regards,
TC

I'm no math whiz, but wouldn't it be cheaper to just secure a loan from a bank @ ~5%?

ITT: A bunch of people who would rather have analog fiat than Bitcoin.

So just reverse your Skrill payment.

You could just PM me for escrow.

I hope you use escrow this time.

A quick Google search of EcurrencyXchanga.com shows that it's nothing but a scam site. My sig even references it as a scam site.

Oh wow you're actually a real account? I thought you were a PM hit & run impostor. I'll go ahead and change your rating, sorry about that

Can you please link the username he used from this forum? Bitcoinist on this forum hasn't logged in since 2013.

Yeah, best way to get in touch is by PM'ing me since I usually forget to check this thread.

Ok, lemme just send my coins right on over, brb!

I think you guys are arguing a moot point, as his account has likely been abandoned and this transaction will never take place.

This is very similar to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=856071.0

As in that thread, we have here a seemingly unrelated user rushing in apparently trying to help. Also using "dear" in all sorts of weird ways.

LMK if you need an escrow. I'll do this one for free.

Always operate under the assumption that Paypal payments will be charged back later on down the road.

No offense taken. Most of the time, if someone is out to make a quick buck at the expense of other users, he'll do so in a short amount of time knowing that if he fails, he can simply create another account. Because of this any negative ratings often have to be levied as quickly as possible to mitigate any damage that a scammer might inflict. There are a number of indicators that I go by when evaluating whether someone might be up to no-good or not. However, one's Trust rating (at least for me) is an ongoing process, not an final evaluation. Just because someone might have a negative rating yesterday doesn't necessarily mean they won't redeem themselves tomorrow. And vice versa, just because someone has deep green Trust doesn't mean they won't pull off a scam later on down the road, as we've seen with a few notable cases in the past.