Actually Ripoffreport has a design flaw in that should you make a report from Canada, your location is listed as "CA" as there is no drop down list for Canadian provinces. You have to select from American states even if you have put "Canada". Sometimes it doesn't refresh the provinces/states with Canadian ones after you select Canada. I've been in that situation before and my report (not related to this forum or anyone on it) showed as being from California too.

Regardless of if it's a valid report, it's ranked high in Google and people will naturally question the allegations. I would surmise Jeff King to be a pseudonym.

All I can speak of personally is that Vod *did* leave a comment on my rating concerning pedophilia and a daughter (screen cap taken of the now removed comment) which in my opinion leads me to believe he has some fantasies about underage girls. It's not something that comes to mind when I see a loan request, to want to make a neg rating involving a child.... nor would I think comes to the minds of most other people. "high risk" perhaps, "don't deal with them" maybe... but posting about a child in a sexual manner?

Martin's reputation is questionable at this point in my opinion, which he's brought on himself.


Call the media? Okay... I'll call the media in this case Ripoffreport. A free service, ranks high in search results and there seems to be a pattern concerning underage children - which I've also seen him post about in my own trust rating.

It is what it is.

Leaving feedback before the transaction is like leaving neg feedback for an Ebay user because you suspect they are going to do a chargeback. Perhaps OP will pay back the loan.

Hell, I'm going to PM him and offer 0.25 BTC. I have 43 coins so it's not a huge loss even if he does default, and then I'll leave him a + feedback. If he defaults, then I'll leave neg but the decision to loan will have been my own not based on an "anxiety suffering creepazoid living in mom's basement who doesn't use the forum for anything but trashing profiles".

A long time ago, someone decided the trust rating should be used to determine if someone was trustable with loans. You pay back the loan, you get a positive rating. You default on a loan, you get a negative rating.

Then along came Martin Lawrence (aka Vod).

He's taken it upon himself to use the trust rating system for negative feedback (check his profile, there's probably over 100 of them) for people such as yourself. You don't have to do anything wrong, all you have to do is ask for a loan without collateral. Where the rest of us would tell you, "You need collateral" or some might boldly say, "Well I'll cover it for you" (if it's a small amount), Vod rushes in on his white horse and doles out the negative feedback to people who just ask without collateral. It's not even that you're a risk, it's not even that we're old enough and wise enough to make our own judgement as to whether you can be trusted. Asking for a loan should not lead to a permanent blemish on one's account because one person chooses you're a risk. Sadly this forum has become a pathetic joke whereby neg trust is left for non-transactions and personal issues alone.

Please read up on:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Martin-Lawrence/Select-StateProvince/Martin-Lawrence-vodmlawrence-pedo-bitcoin-St-Albert-Edmonton-St-Albert-Alberta-1158255

I will say that when I first responded in a thread about Vod, he left me a negative trust which he later retracted in which he called me a "pedophile" and made mention of my "daughter". He believes I am someone else on the site named Shawn, but IP and user agent will show I am not the same person.

In any event, the fact Martin Lawrence of St. Albert, Alberta is throwing around accusations about pedophilia, in my opinion would seem to indicate he certainly has sexual thoughts about children on his mind.

Basically you'll need to abandon the account and register a new one, until some day where either the mods remove the trust feature, re-evaluate the use of it, or Martin is terminated from the site.
 
 

Ayup... because if I were a person who couldn't hold down a job, watched the world from inside my living room window as I lived with anxiety disorder and I had already declared bankruptcy, I know the first thing I'd do when people gave me what I deserved (karma) for doling out unwarranted feedback, is to find $5000 for a retainer and attempt to sue someone who probably has no assets, probably not living in Canada, and probably using a proxy or open wifi signal.


http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Martin-Lawrence/Select-StateProvince/Martin-Lawrence-vodmlawrence-pedo-bitcoin-St-Albert-Edmonton-St-Albert-Alberta-1158255