Just to confirm here that I am doing escrow for this on the request of OP. Please PM me when the auction is done, and I will send the contract out to both the buyer and seller directly.

PS: I can escrow this, of course. Just drop me a PM when it is needed.

http://www.pastebin.ca/2374270

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=HWHjiWp8

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The escrow address for Arklan's(the operator) Group buy transaction for ASICMiner USB Miners would be:

1FFyoorSfwQC15Xv7zNZ4Lv5yZcM6WFKuF

Please state and agree to the conditions (if item is received damaged, item lost with tracking, customs fee etc) beforehand.

If possible, GPG sign your agreement to prevent any discrepancies later on and please ship with tracking to prevent problems during delivery. GPG signing is not a requirement, and any verbal exchange in the form of private messages or posts on bitcointalk.org, or email is effective as a statement of condition.

The fine print:
This Contract is solely generated for the purpose of facilitating the transaction between the seller and the buyer, which refers to the pseudonyms used on bitcointalk.org.
The escrow holder, John, assumes and gives no liability or guarantees on the satisfaction of all parties involved, although he agrees to mediate and facilitate the deal to the fullest extent he is capable of.  On the event that any problems arises, he will release the escrow to whichever party that presents him with the most convincing proof and/or after an open discussion with others or theymos. 
The verbal acceptance by both parties (or the failure to reject) and the sending of Bitcoins to the escrow address above constitutes the acceptance of the terms and conditions stated, and the activation of this Contract.

Please understand that I am assuming the risk of holding the escrowed Bitcoins, and I am using my own time to facilitate this transaction.   
I am imposing a fixed fee of 2% for this transaction, pre-paid to 1NB1KFnFqnP3WSDZQrWV3pfmph5fWRyadz .

Thank you.

John (the escrow holder)
6 May 2013
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Arklan, I will PM you my email - please send the documents there. Also, I'd suggest you to make a spreadsheet to keep everything in track and easily updated - an example of spreadsheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiYcEqkgyjc_dGU0VzhHRGpOOUxudWkxdWpDN3RmbFE#gid=0 (what I used previously for another group buy)

Thanks,
John

Maybe they're trying to snap up more shares discreetly and don't want to 'disturb' the prices on PT's. 

The show is hosted by a famous program there - '经济半小时' (literal: Economics in half an hour). I'd say they did a ton of research on the issue (even going as far as to introduce Avalon, ASICMiner and other companies in China), and didn't brush off the entire idea as a bubble or anything.

250 shares aren't really newbie friendly. 

I read (and write Chinese) and I agree that the news are mostly positive - no drugs/weapons connotations for example. They even interviewed high-ranking bank officers and a Bitcoin hedge fund manager in China about this, and the fund manager says he's been getting overwhelming enquiries from investors/businessmen interested in Bitcoin.

I'm still trying to squeeze some time out so that I can do a sub on this. 

Include the fact that most people want to get 'direct' shares, and you get a pretty good idea of why auctions here are going for 1.5BTC each currently while the price is bad on passthroughs.

Uh, you've nailed what I'm offering here as the escrow.  

As per what I'm doing the previous group-buys, I am also holding the operator's fee until the end of everything including the documents above.

Hey, this job is mostly thankless and headache prone - not to mention that the trust issue is on hand here. A rogue global mod might edit posts to add their own BTC addresses in, or ban people for fun. 

He got banned as soon as I started deleting his threads. Can't I get a break sometimes? I've only been away from the computer for 1 hour and this is what I see.   

I can do this escrow as what I did in the last here where I held various identifying information by the OP:


In addition to the docs above, I also received a utility bill scan (with the address confirmed as the shipping address, and the operator's full legal name), exterior photo of the house with OP within, and a photo where the house's number is clearly in place.

Total time logged in: 96 days, 22 hours and 9 minutes.

PS: I believe I have replied to all required PM's apart from the lengthy ones - if I missed you please drop me another PM again. 

Well, they're correct here. I did almost 2GH on one of my rigs before I shut it down. FYI, they're referring to bitcoin mining not litecoin.

Nah, no one cares about that. Seriously, game gold mining is an extremely profitable and public job in China. It's a defunct or dead law.

I returned his funds to him after it was evident that foofight wasn't going to do the trade after all.

It's an ASIC for sha256 hashing.

How much did you overpay again? Thanks. 

... Apparently this is the first time someone sent the coins before checking to see if the contract came from me. *facepalm* Hell, if you received an email saying it's from your bank (and not attempting to spoof the 'from' part), would you give them your ID too?