I'm actually offering it cheaper for bitcoin than on bonaza for paypal, because I'd rather trade it for bitcoins

https://cryptothrift.com/auctions/dry-food/morel-mushrooms-dried-1-ounce-2/

This is also quite a bit cheaper than a previous poster for 1 ounce fresh for 5 dollars, fresh to dry is around 8x so that's like 40 bucks an ounce dried
. Anyway other than that post i think this is the first time dried morels are offered for bitcoin anywhere, plus they came from an infamous fire that was in the news. including us morel hunters

http://www.news10.net/story/news/local/modesto/2014/05/12/morel-mushroom-yosemite-rim-fire/9015965/

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2014/05/13/morels-rim-fire/

Not all of them went to waste. We saved some of them


I've been frying them up myself and they are yummy. At this rate i might eat all of them by the end of summer..LOL

I've had them on Cryptothrift for a month already and no biters yet, so I figured I'd post here. Thanks

I just checked Bitmit and it is now unblocked. I have access to Bitmit through Sonic once agains. yay


But this is very interesting that you got listed in this spam/phishing blacklist. It very well could be related to that. As a buyer/trader for some months now I know this isn't a phishing site so I'm guerssing somebody maliciously added Bitmit to that list. Perhaps the same people that were DDoS attacking 2 months ago?

Maybe it's Bitmits competition who is doing all these nefarious things? who knows?

But what really bothers me is that this small ISP, Sonic.net who is supposed to have less restrictions that the big AT&T and Comcast blocked Bitmit because somebody *said* Bitmit was a phishing site, not because it actually *was* a phishing site

That would mean that any website could end up on a phishing blacklist just because somebody doesn't like it, or doesn't like the owner, or had  bad experience with another user of the site. It would be no different than adding this forum to a blacklist because I had a bad experience with one of it's users


This alone should be embarrassing for Sonic the ISP. For me it's truly bizarre since Bitmit is one of the few places I have NOT been scammed. I've been scammed with Paypal and Moneypack. In fact just about any reversible transaction involving fiat money is subject to scam, so if they're going to be blocking anything, they should be blocking Paypal and Moneypack and even Ebay and banks for that matter

That's what makes it so utterly weird. Bitmit is the one place I have NOT been scammed because it uses bitcoin and has escrow. And as long as there's escrow and feedback with users, it's good to go

Every single trade I've done on Bitmit has gone smooth. In fact, I've found it safer than using Localbitcoins because now there are reports of people trading bitcoins in person with counterfeit cash, right here in San Francisco

http://coinbits.com/2013/10/01/i-was-given-counterfeit-20-bills-in-exchange-for-bitcoins-at-a-localbitcoins-com-trade-seller-beware/


I have not had this problem on Bitmit. In fact, I noticed the recent extra security measure where Bitmit now requires email verification when you pay for an item with your Bitmit wallet. I'm assuming this is to stop man in the middle attacks or some kind of unauthorized release of wallet funds. It's a slight inconvenience, but if it cuts down of fraud, so much the better and gets more of my respect


Until I get some kind of proof otherwise, Bitmit is THE BEST site right now if you want to trade bitcoins. And this is the problem I have with Sonic. I do not think there ever was any proof Bitmit was a phishing site


But yes, Sonic has now allowed access again to Bitmit


The censorship is still annoying tho, especially from free speech activist Sonic.net

update, Dane Jasper, the CEO did say it was reported as a phishing site. I don't know why since I've traded things there for months without any problem

https://forums.sonic.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1667&p=10278#p10278

also confirmed that Sonic is blocking at at the moment but might unblock it soon. It's possible it's because they went to cloudfare or a bigger hosting to help stop the DDoS attacks but that was 2 months ago and currently it seems all other ISP can access Bitmit at the moment except Sonic users

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28733662-Sonic-blocking-Bitmit.net-

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=259646.0

It's kind of ridiculous given that CEO Dane Jasper is a free internet crusader. Sonic is supposed to be less restrictive than the big ISP's like AT&T and Comcast. that's why I use them

https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/Open_Internet_Principals

apparently Sonic.net (isp) is blocking Bitmit.net. They said it was reported as a phishing site and I couldn't finalize an order for 3 days

I'm trying to find out if other sonic users also can't access it. I could get to it through a proxy tho, but not directly. weird stuff

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28733662-Sonic-blocking-Bitmit.net-

Bitmit is apparently being blocked by Sonic.net. I couldn't finalize an order for three days and called support and they said it was reported as a phishing site. wtf?

anybody heard of this before?

btw, I still can't access bitmit

my issue with Ms Bitcoin has also been amicably resolved. thank you

Ms Bitcoin did offer to fix this situation, at least refunding the bitcoin of the portion (275) that's frozen on the card. She said somebody else is recalling the moneypaks and she'll try to fix that end of it

I guess we'll see

hopefully me too

what I'm hoping for is if more people come forward that this happened to and actually call up moneypack related to their card getting frozen that they might get suspicious enough of the person doing the scam, not the victim

Because if it happens too many times with the same person disputing moneypacks, then they might go after that person instead of us victims

eventually they just might do it on their own with question like, how come this one person keeps getting moneypaks stolen again and again and it's involving different people around the country that are otherwise unconnected, except for this one person

In fact, I'm willing to bet that if they really went deep they'll find a relatively small number of people reporting a disproportionately large amount of moneypaks stolen

I just got off the phone with Account Now card people and they transferred me to the Moneypak people because that's why the card was frozen

The moneypak that was sold to me by Ms Bitcoin for bitcoin was in fact disputed after I loaded the moneypak. They said it would take 10 days to investigate the dispute and they'll get back to me on friday

so now we have a 2nd confirmation that the moneypaks sold were in fact disputed later. It was not because of loading too may cards or out of state shenanigans..The moneypak was actually disputed..As in, somebody called them up and reported the moneypak as being not kosher

i got 200 dollars out before it was frozen. the other 30 dollars was fees. fees at the atm, fees at the card company

that's another reason why it's not worth it, even if it did work

I'm not going to get scammed. I will do cash trades on localbitcoins. I know that works

yeah, that happened with the first card like 6 month ago which was actually a Greendot card. However they actually let me withdraw the rest of the funds I bought with moneypack at the time. Greendot just wouldn't let me load anymore moneypacks, so now it can't be used anymore.

I figured it would have something to do with the zip code that was entered. But in this case with Ms bitcoin it wasn't over a thousand nor multiple cards..Just one single card and 500

In some cases, you load  money pack number at the greendot site for an outside card(account now), then you enter your own zip code. That's what i did here. But I'm getting a dispute page instead of my account now, but it's possible it could be just out of state

If that's true that it is now impossible to buy moneypacks unless it's bought locally, then moneypack is screwed anyway as a means for trading bitcoin

You might as well do cash trades, then go buy your own money pack locally if you really want that. As far as I'm concerned there isn't much reason to even use money packs unless it's for things to buy online, and if you want to do that, just get a  gift card at Gyft...why bother with moneypack?

heh...no the card was not stolen..it was applied for nice and proper...the moneypack was the problem, not the card. the card issuer, Account Now, froze the card after the money pack was loaded, then a week later some kind of dispute happened with the moneypack

In other words, it was not my fault the card was frozen. it was the person who sold me the moneypack for bitcoin, then made a claim against it a week later. I still have that conversion on skype to prove it

the problem with moneypacks is it can take two weeks before you know if it's legit, even if the card loads perfect at first because whoever bought the card can make a claim a week later

It doesn't seem much different than paypal or any other charge back scheme

In this case it took a little over a week. i think 9 days. Also, I was on skype for 24 hours and Ms Bitcoin signed on a  few minutes ago, didn't answer my question, and then signed off

And also, I lost 270 dollars, but I already cashed 200 of it so I lost a little more than half. Most of the trades for bitcoin I do is for cash, either in person or by mail. It turns out that cash is the safest way, from my experience

At least if you get ripped off in a person to person trade for cash, you'll know right away, but I've never been ripped off in a cash trade. Cash in mail is also faster than moneypack because that only takes 3 days and all you have to check for is counterfeit and escrow works fine

But moneypack can take 2 weeks and then you get a big surprise when your card is frozen. I suppose the only way you could make moneypacks safer is to have an escrow for it, but you'd have to hold an escrow for 2 weeks or longer to be sure nobody's going to come back and file claims on that moneypack

Lucky for me I don't do that many moneypack trades anymore. It would not surprise me if this becomes a big issue. It used to be that companies did moneypacks but those are gone now, and Koukan exchange isn't doing much these days either and that was about the last I saw that did NOT have problems with moneypacks. But now the government is tightening the noose, everything left over seems to be scammers

so it's ironic that the safest way is now cash, paper money. I've had less problems with paper money trades for bitcoin than any other method, and THAT seems to be getting more common. I see more listing for it now, and of course Wired magazine basically said that in a recent article

sorry, no bestselller was a different moneypack seller on localbitcoins and that caused a previous card to be frozen. I just used that as an example of it becoming more common these days

as for Ms Bitcoin I traded with her last week via skype for 500 dollar money pack, no escrow was used, and it worked fine . It took two tries possibly because of technical browser issues, but it did load fine

Then I cashed 200 of that at ATM three days later and now it's frozen. The card is frozen. I'm out 300 dollars

The only other possibility in this case is if Account Now froze the card simply because I withdrew 200 dollars. That doesn't sound right, because when I log into the website now I can't see my account and instead a dispute page pops up

I traded with Ms Bitcoin after reading this thread. She had a good rep until  few days ago, and that's the only reason why I did it, but I did it via Skype, no escrow. the card loaded fine. the problem came a week later

I just had the same thing happen to me. I got a brand new Account Now reload card and bought one single 500 dollar money pack from Miss Bitcoin last week, and today the card is frozen 'unauthorized usage'

that's the only thing I loaded so there's no other possibility

don't buy from her until this situation is cleared up. This is the 3rd card that got frozen due to money pack. the first was from two buyers on localbitcoins,  user 'bestseller' was apparently doing funky charge backs and other people have also gotten their cards frozen after doing trades with him

The only reason why I went with Miss Bitcion is the good reviews she had on this thread up until now

So no more money packs for me. From now on I only do cash in person trades. The only safe thing left as far as i'm concerned

these problems with money packs are happening more and more compared to 6 months ago  

https://localbitcoins.com/forums/#!/fraud#i-got-scammed-by-bestseller

maybe next month

still going up