Not necessarily, I expect manufacturers like NastyFans would have a lot more experience in the technical security needed to keep a wallet safe. A wallet produced and then destroyed on an isolated  system is less likely to be compromised in future. Some people producing DIY coins could be vulnerable to a trojan fishing around their system and stealing credentials, even if they were deleted.

Maybe you should include todays date and your username, on a piece of paper next to the watch. I'd think you would get more money for this by selling it at a watch shop that is closer to you? Unless it's fake of course..

After a little bit of research, it seems that after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1993 the coins were taken out of circulation and were no longer accepted as currency within Russia. If they are as rare as the seller suggests, then the face value of the coin is irrelevant as you'd never trade it in on that basis anyway.

As far as I remember, eBay have never allowed funded coins to be sold and periodically take down this sort of item in a purge. They do this because people would buy the coins, redeem the stored value and demand a refund. Just be careful because you might be getting the wrong impression of availability from just once source.

I think they naturally become more scarce, but it's very dependent on the Casascius item. Like the bearer bars have shot up in value in the last couple years and it's very hard to even find one these days. People might lose them in various ways, redeem them at peak bitcoin periods or even have them stolen, so it's hard to figure out the long term value. I think the market is quite flooded right now and new buyers are scared to invest in such expensive little items, but maybe once bitcoin has proved it can stay high then others might start buying again.

Zeroxal might have used botnet services or be avoiding paying tax, if you think that is the case then you should have reported it to the Austrian* police with any accompanying evidence. That way, a person who is in the correct position of legal authority could have run a sting operation which was signed off by a judge. Amateurs trying to run extortion schemes would likely just become an accomplice to the original crime, regardless of your intentions. Trying to act too clever can be your undoing.

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My trading history is perfectly fine and you can contact anyone that I have done business with. You're just upset that I caught another one of your scams and called you out on it, Rob.

So, does you supposedly knowing who I am, in any way change these facts? No. Come knock on my door and we can settle it.

You see that -48 negative rep next to your name? It got their because you used shill accounts.

Now, you better go log into some other accounts to back yourself up.

I remember reading that there was the odd Coinographic coin which was missed and not cleared out. If the LTC was still loaded then it could potentially be worth more, although there is still a risk the manufacturer might clean it out later.

You follow his modus operandi and I don't doubt quickseller will be along in a minute. You've all been logged in around the same time and you actively sell proxy VPNs.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1744994.0

The original poster is a new account, asking to convert paypal to btc.

Later defended in the same thread by the user: 0x0010 who outed themselves as a Quickseller alt a while ago.

It looks like some people never learn.

Apparently 0x0010 admitted to being an alt of Quickseller, so it looks like he's up to those old scamming tricks again and it was a shill account scam.

Who are you exactly? A multi account shill for the original poster? This is a bitcoin forum. In the scams section you will find a clear warning to avoid these trades. If you're such a Good Samaritan then you can complete the trade for them. You are simply deflecting from the point, repeated many times, that this trade will protect the buyer and allow them to get their money back by reversing the payment. Good luck finding a poor soul to do the trade.

Why are you so insistent on PayPal then? It obviously gives you protection but whoever you buy off has zero defence if you reverse the payment. You're the one being unreasonable if you cannot see this. Nobody is labelling PayPal users scammers - just PayPal users who want to buy bitcoin. You're "new" here but you'll soon learn that nobody takes these trades for a reason.

No escrow will accept this trade for all the reasons listed here. It just means the escrow would lose money as well as the btc seller. Unless you're willing to wait a year for the funds to be released (as there is a time limit on payment reversals). Nobody reputable is going to take the trade, as many people have been scammed by this in the past.

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That is some really weird stuff to post on a bitcoin related forum. I'm sure plenty of people would love your coins but maybe you should ship them in bulk to a reseller with a more trusted reputation. They would still be your coins, the middleman gets paid for a small risk and any that don't sell after a month could be returned to you?