1) I was given the negative trust the same day I opened my thread.
I can't stay 24h/day 7days/week online checking the forum. I happened to see your thread immediately because
I was mentioned there and got a PM explicitly asking for my opinion about it.
2) There were about 2-3 more Starbucks threads, open for months now and active that day but none of those sellers were given the feedback.
As I said I can't spend too much time on the forum. Besides until recently I was only after sellers who explicitly admit their cards are hacked or bought with stolen cards. I recently decided to start a campaign against those who don't admit it, like yourself.
More info about the campaign here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1375545.0"1) I am reselling the gift cards so I am definitely NOT laundering money. Im just buying from somebody and selling it here. Is that not what all physical stores and everybody on earth does? Manufacturer > Wholesaler > Retailer! That's not money laundering.
That just proves you don't even know the origin of your cards. If you don't steal them yourself it doesn't mean they're not stolen. If what you say is true then you're helping the thief/money launderer and people who buy from you are indirectly doing it too.
2) I have never scammed anybody and I am willing to accept escrow for my transactions. That proves that I dont want to and cannot (if escrow is used) defraud anybody.
As I said more than once already via PM: I'm not accusing you of scamming people here. I'm accusing you of selling stolen goods. Someone else was scammed in order to make this business possible.
3) As far as the source of the gift cards is concerned, please think about this:
a) Newbies are selling these cards from similar sources.
b) Everybody here is buying anyways.
c) Newbies have a risk attached with them that they might, after a few good deals, run away with the money and make a new account.
d) If I sell the same cards, I eliminate that risk making the community safer in effect.
e) Its allowed by the forum rules.
I agree it is a
big problem. We all must work together to stop it.
I also gave him
15 links including 13 members selling either gift cards, methods to scam companies and cracked accounts and asked him why he hasn't tagged them when those threads are running for months but mine was tagged on the first day!
I would like to ask members here, can this just be a coincidence or he's actually misusing his DT status and protecting a selected few sellers? If its a coincidence its a BIG one! He since has tagged about 3-4 members from those 13 members list I gave him. Not surprised to see that today the exact same members were tagged by the so called "
HateLeague" and most of those members have positive trust ratings for each other!
Another coincidence?As I told you via PM I already contacted them. Some have stopped, others haven't replied/been online yet and I've left negative trust to others. Regarding the "coincidence" I already explained it above.
There are too many illegal GC sellers and there's only one of me. That's why
I'm asking the help of other DT members. I guess that will also prove I'm not protecting anybody because I couldn't prevent other DT members to tag everyone.
And regarding your crazy accusation of course none of the "HateLeague" is my alt. But fortunately
they seem to have joined the campaign.
1) I have already
"haulted" my Starbucks sales and told this to EcuaMobi and agreed to lock the thread once he proves he's acting in a fair way and is not protecting some sellers.
2) So, I am indeed not selling anymore. So he finds another thread of mine where I am selling Groupon vouchers and gives me a neg trust for that.
Keep in mind he didnt have any issues with that till I asked him to prove himself to be unbias. And if he didnt look at my post history before tagging me, he doesnt deserve to call himself an experienced member. According to me, that will be his escuse to this.
3) So he has the time to bully someone who has already haulted the sales, but cant find time to tag sellers actively selling? That seems more sketchy than the sellers' behavior
No, you didn't really stop. You just temporarily halted and didn't even lock your thread! To make it worse you bumped your other money-launder thread! (
http://archive.is/SSnmk). That just made it clear you had no intentions to stop or collaborate with this.
I started warning and tagging others but -I repeat- I can't spend so much time here. I need help.
To summarize:
- I ask everyone to post your comments about the anti-money-laundery campaign here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1375545.0
- I ask other users, especially DT members, to join this campaign
- As bargainbin said: stopping sellers would stop buyers. And I consider selling much worst than buying it, mainly because the seller knows as a fact they're illegal and because they do it a lot of times. Tagging sellers is causing a lot of controversy; adding buyers would cause even more and require even more time, but if other DT members would go that far feel free to do it.
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