If you can buy $200 worth of BTC @ Bitstamp +3%, I'll go for this.

Not really worth it for me to cover a fee worth 25% of the total sale.

They get paid out of the fee for listings being bought, regardless of what those listings are. If someone sells a pair of shoes on SR, the site gets paid a fee. The problem is that the admins see that silly money being tossed around and choose to get involved in the illicit sale of illegal material.

But to blanket SR admins with "They are drug dealers" isn't accurate at all. If I ran a shadow market, I wouldn't give two damns what people were selling. And I sure wouldn't be a drug dealer. I would just take my fee for each listing, not know or care what it was for, and be happy to provide a free market for ANY type of goods.

I'll take both. Sending you a PM.

I might only take one if my buddy gets back to me that he already has one. But I'll probably take both.

Is this a normal beta key (closed beta) or the stress test which is only good for 3 days?

I'll sell 1 BTC @ Bitstamp +5%.

If you can make a transfer to BoA, I'll do this.

Looks like his price is about Bitstamp -5%. Figured I'd throw that in here. It would help tossing that in the OP.

Sending you a PM

Yeah, forget PayPal. I'll sell you 0.1 BTC @ Bitstamp +5% for a bank transfer or WU.

What the title says. I'm looking to unload 0.1 BTC at Bitstamp +5% (At the time of this post, that would be about $62).

This isn't a panic sell or anything, I'm just looking for a little extra cash for some expenses. I'm looking for a bank transfer, cash deposit, or Western Union (WU only on the weekends).

I'd like to get this done sooner rather than later, not only in case the price keeps dropping, but also because I need a few things.

If you aren't reputable, don't even bother asking me to send the coins up front. I'll accept any reputable escrow, provided that you cover any fees associated with it.

Sounds totally legit.

If you're still taking orders, I'm down for some smokes. I should be quitting, but whatever.

How about a carton of Reds for an even $40 in BTC?

They aren't behind bars for receiving a package. They are behind bars for providing a pattern of behavior proving a criminal activity. There was an incident involving an otherwise upstanding citizen receiving a package in the mail. He brought it inside, and LEs swarmed into his home later. Turns out it was a drug dropoff that he had no knowledge of. He didn't get charged.

I've said this before, and I'll keep saying it - if it were a crime to receive a package containing illicit materials, you could send anyone you had a grudge against away pretty easily thanks to the wonders of internet contraband purchasing. I could literally send a package of coke to your house, and make sure to tip off the DEA about it when it ships. They would trap the package, probably GPS it, and storm you when you open it.

Plausible deniability is the cornerstone of of the internet drug market. This fails when they put a hook into you. Once you establish a pattern of criminal behavior, you're done. Then every package received or seized CONTRIBUTES to that pattern of behavior. THEN you do fed time.

But anyway. The thread was about ~4000 BTC being "stolen" from SR 2.0, not the debates over the "intelligence" of running a mail-order drug empire.

I'll do this. I could use a bit more in my bank account. I'll send you a PM.

So let's say all of that happens - how does one recover those coins? For the person sending the coins, they would still LOSE those coins. The only thing this feature would be used for is spite so that scammers don't get the coins.

Besides, this would turn "You send first" into "Unlock plz". It wouldn't stop scamming or shady deals, it would just mutate them.

If BTC were refundable in any way due to a system, that system would be abused in order to rip people off. It's just a sad fact.

Aaaand, it's a confirmed scam.

I stayed in contact with this user in the small hope that they were genuine. He kept sending me PMs about his rent being due, etc. I stuck to my guns that I wasn't going to send anything without verifying the collateral is what he claims it is, and that it works properly.

http://imgur.com/EKvxoRc,AdHneT8,DFbXqEV,5zJJgnF,korJ5pW

I like the last PM I received - basically accusing me of "cheating" him.

Here's what I received in the mail today:

http://imgur.com/lsj6EBq

I don't know how things work in India, but typically a few papers labelled "2013 DIT/BOLTON TRUST STUDENT ENTERPRISE COMPETITION" isn't valid collateral for a loan. I'm glad I didn't give in to his begging about "rent money".

Link to his Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Amratesh/about - Received from escrow.ms

Name on the envelope containing the bogus collateral: Gauray Shah (Could be Gauroy Shah)

So that's basically the end of this little drama. In the end, I got hit for 0.06 BTC for "shipping", and received a few papers in the mail. No wonder he was in such a rush for me to send the BTC.

I never thought this thread would get so much attention. I'm glad my random encounter with this guy turned into something that might help other people from getting hit. That's the point of this section of the forums, after all.

Thanks to whoever sent a tip my way - I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out what the hell it was for.

I never got PMed regarding delicious jerky. I am sad. D:

You guys should have hired me. I do web development in three phases, with payment due before each phase. I have Trust from someone I successfully did this for.

Paying everything up front is suicide.

All 21 cables are sold and have been shipped. Thanks to all who sent PMs inquiring.