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This is aspirational!
If any collector's of CI coins have anything they are willing to part with, please DM me and tell me your asking price.

Thanks for posting! sweeteye

Edit: Any rumors on what the next sports coin will be 

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sweeteye

"Bitcoins were issued in silver, and this buyer-funded example with a black address is a great rarity, one of only 10 issued." Do we know of actually how many were issued with black addy?

I'm also confused by the COA photographs in the link...

d for me, please!
Thanks!

Wow~ Serendipitous to feel the blockchain love today!
Thanks for the raffle Hookzup1, and to y'all who play and collect and share to make this the most awesome place on the worldwide webs 

Hello.
Can you please elaborate on this?

Coins and the Bitopoly guys arrived and they're amazing!
Love the design, love the quality~
Great work!

Here’s an update: Seller and I have made contact, he was hacked, .email settings changed and is in the process of restoring his account. We’re going to settle this tomorrow, but I don’t believe this seller had any malicious intentions and this was an unfortunate situation exacerbated by confusion and compromised communication. Will expect the best outcome possible for this and hope seller gets his account safely restored.
When in doubt, use escrow, friends! Sellers, accept that escrow is a part of doing business with the increasing value of our coins and other collectibles. Most of all, if it doesn’t feel right, it probably ain’t right. And don’t take anyone’s sensitivity around trust personal. Everybody has to take care of themselves and we can hopefully look out for each other and crush the MFing scammers, liars and thieves! sweeteye

***UPDATE: Also, the other member referred to above, reached out to me after my first post and confirmed he sent the same amount as I would have for the transaction, and a longstanding member of the forum has vouched for the seller and confirms his user identity and email were hacked.

For anyone following this drama, I still can't respond to the seller because I'm blocked, so am posting here with the hopes he sees my response and we can make the deal work and this has a happy ending with valuable lessons learned. I got burned a little bit similarly a couple of weeks ago with what OGN refers to as the MITM scam, I fortunately sent coin to the address in the OP, but immediately after doing so got an email from seller's "mobile account" with a different address because the old one was *n.g. I replied to the mobile account that I'd already sent payment and the response from the mobile account was, "Oh, that's too bad, but I'll honor our deal and send the items out... But could you kick in a few extra SATS so I don't have to eat shipping?" No, shit -- all of this unbeknownst to the legit seller that had no clue this was going on until I started forwarding him the messages. Happy ending is that seller got his SATS, I got my goods, and I only got scammed for some shipping (plus a little extra because I felt bad for the dude before I knew he was scamming me). Scams are sometimes predicated on greed but always on trust -- as a collector I'm not above greed for sure, and as a member of this community I want to give the good people here the benefit of the doubt. That said, there are an increasing number of bad actors in our space and my motto after this is a version of "verify don't trust" which includes escrow when you can't verify. Anyone not open to escrow without solid trust and merit is probably not worth doing business with here. Also, want to thank the members of the community who have checked in with me and helped slueth this - that's what makes us the best community on this forum and why we will defeat scammers who think they can fuck with us.  *Seller gets the benefit of the doubt here for now, is currently open to escrow, has since changed his password and is working with admins if below is actually from seller smh. We'll see:

If you're offering escrow we can do this, and I can help walk you through the steps. I was careful not to point the finger in my posting because obviously there is something going on in the community with bad actors and I don't want to *assume you're one of them. This is the second time that mid-transaction a fake address has disrupted a sale for me, so am once bitten, twice shy. I want the coin and as soon as our comms can be securely restored we should involve minerjones or MoparMiningLLC for escrow, I send them your payment, you send them my coin, they release payment when received and then ship to me, at my expense.

Note that I've tried responding to your earlier emails and am blocked, will see if this gets through. Happy to share previous messages once we've secured comms. Thanks for reaching out! sweeteye

Send report
User [REDACTED] has blocked your personal message. (LMFAO)

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Hey y'all,
Hope you can get something from this. Below is correspondence with a newbie user from an auction purchase that has gone away for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was a major fault of my own for even bidding in the first place. I've redacted names and addresses and amounts because I do not have the PROOF to back up that this was a scam, or attempted scam, or anything more than inexperience from the seller, but rather a hunch and circumstances. My first clue should have been that the member refused to take escrow -- sure, I think I get it, homie wants his money quickly. That said, to switch an address on me from the OP was a big red flag and the fact that this seller hasn't responded to my last correspondence (posted below) and that thread has been locked, tells me pretty much everything I need to know about doing business with this *user - meaning this username at this time.

I feel pretty lucky right now and wish everyone here the best of luck with their awesome collectibles hobby. Be careful out there! Kind regards, sweeteye

*****Leaving this here for transperancy:

Re: BTC Auction winning bid
« Sent to: [username REDACTED] on: 2021-11-03, 22:52:08 »
   Reply with quoteQuote ReplyReply Remove this messageDelete
Quote from: [username REDACTED] on 2021-11-03, 22:18:21
Congrats on the winning bid, I am glad I was able to reply to you in time to bid.  Please send [amount REDACTED] (0.001. is for shipping) to the following address:
[legacy address REDACTED]

Please provide me with the name and address where you would like your coin shipped to and it will be in the mail the following business day.
I will send you tracking information and photos of your coin and packaging as well.

Thanks again! I will look out for your payment and shipping info.


     *****My response (after request for confirmation of users segwit address different from legacy address that was listed in auction OP):

Hey, I'm struggling with a couple of things here. Have had recent scam attempt on this site, so I'm obviously on the defensive:
1) Changing your address from what's in the OP is a huge red flag to me
2) Shipping in US is $40 with $5000 USD insurance according to OP - you're charging me .001 or $60'ish and you haven't asked where I live
3) While your explanation when asked about escrow is, "I have a sold coins in the past this way and many others do as well." Just as many use escrow, especially with newbie accounts
4) "Feel free to check my other auctions." I see that you've had feedback for two auctions almost 6 months ago -

I admit I should have dug deeper before making a bid, but this auction wasn't on my radar until you bumped it and I acted hastily despite you giving fair warning that you would not accept escrow - that's on me.

Bottom line is this just doesn't feel right, so here's my offer: Escrow through [escrower REDACTED] or [escrower REDACTED] at my expense for the [amount REDACTED] + accurate shipping, or, offer this back to the next highest bidder (at [amount REDACTED]) and I will make up the [amount REDACTED] difference at my expense.

This is the best I'm able to do.

Cordially, sweeteye


     *****And while posting, this just came in:


Dude, I'm afraid there's some fuckery going on and our security has been compromised.
Only way I can make this happen now is through escrow.
Let me know your thoughts

sweeteye

     *****And then this to my response:

User [username REDACTED] has blocked your personal message.

     *****Evidently no intent to work this out. That's the story, hope this helps someone. Addendum:


Yeah, there's some fuckery going on here.
Pencils down on this.
It's escrow only for me.

sweeteye


     *****And when I try to send:

Send report
User [username REDACTED] has blocked your personal message.

6, please! Thanks!

PM'd w/ TxID

My bad, MJ~
Apologies for the extra work.
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Please confirm Cyrus' bid at 16:56:05 (ET) extended this lot auction to 17:05:00 (ET)

Please confirm this came in before the 1400 PDT deadline

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