Always use a trusted escrow, guys. No sending first of money or coins here. Do your due diligence when accepting wires from people you don't know. You want to be sure the wire will not be reversed and, most importantly, you want to be sure that the person buying your bitcoins is the exact same person paying for them.

Don't settle for unknown escrows. Be on your guard for phished or cloned escrow profiles. Refuse all links, email addresses or escrow contact information given to you by the person you are trading with. Rely on your own search efforts.

Good luck with this trade.

If the cancer story is true, sorry to read about your mother's and your situation.

That red trust is difficult to ignore. It makes people cautious and worried which is the purpose it correctly serves.

If the laptop sale is genuine, you should engage a forum escrow for this transaction. Nobody and I repeat absolutely not one soul here will send you money first on the strength of your word alone. Everybody needs a solid guarantee and you can provide that by using a trusted escrow here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910

Upped the scam uhmmm legit thread?

Oh and no escrow, correct? Plus that special bonus of everybody (except you) sends first, right?

Such a safe and secure service! We all love it! Can’t wait for Monday to come so I can mortgage my home when the bank opens first thing tomorrow morning, then send you all that money upfront! I thought I can trust nobody but my dog but I was wrong. Found this thread and discovered a far more honest dog in you!

Don’t trade with anyone else! Wait for my pile of cash!

You probably know that forum escrows will not touch account sales in peril of being tagged themselves which leaves the buyer with that one alternative of paying you first.

0.03 btc is too much money to lose. Even if the sale goes smoothly, the sold account is at risk of being tagged later.

The above payment issues aside, there is also that frowned-upon part of selling and buying accounts which scammers use to, well, do what they do best: scam.

I can imagine there are users here who farm accounts for the sole purpose of selling them later. Lucrative yes but also really wrong.

If genuine, this is a beautiful timepiece.

I envy anyone who might seize this opportunity to own this. I sadly don’t have the resources to own one. Neither would I buy it if I had 1.1 btc worth of savings. I have more pressing priorities.

Owning this watch is not just owning a watch. It’s an investment. Decades from now it might be auctioned off for far greater than 1.1 btc.

Escrow is a must, yes. Good of you to think about safety. If anyone wants this, appraisal and inspection of the watch’s internal mechanism should be done at an authorized Panerai center, not just any watch retailer.

You do not want to pay the coins. Coins leaving your hot wallet is treated as revenue lost.

That excuse about money laundering won't easily convince people here to take your side. If you are genuinely concerned about money laundering, then you should have required KYC documents during the account opening or joining phase. Why was depositing coins perfectly OK but then you criminalized withdrawing them? If you are genuinely KYC/AML compliant as you claim, you would be applying the rules ahead of any deposit or even during the account opening stage and not when only when coins are to be withdrawn.

The verdict is simple: you are using every dirty excuse on the face of this planet to keep the coins. This is not fair play.

Fraudsters.

Some western EU countries are probably safe although it is still risky, knowing there have been deals in the past involving counterfeit Euros (usually in Italy but also in other countries) and the more dangerous meet-and-assault incidents. I can't comment for Russia and CIS countries but I'm sure it would be less safer to buy in such venues, knowing firstly that there are strict currency control regulations which might complicate efforts to export substantial amounts of cash. Law enforcement in those countries might not take a sympathetic stance when crypto deals turn sour. The tendency is to focus on what you do with bitcoins and why you are in the country with all that cash etc. Endless questions and you might end up being treated as a suspect too. Risky.

I'm sure the risk of assault or harm is just as real as anywhere, perhaps even more so. Imagine travelling to Russia all by yourself and meeting up in a remote location. You show up and out of the blue you see a group of people emerge and force you to get into their car. Under threat of harm, you are then told to unlock your phone and the wallet app within it. If they have a colorful imagination, they might even force you to buy more coins from exchanges via your prelinked bank accounts with Coinbase etc or even go further by raiding your bank accounts and credit cards.

Buying bitcoins carries the same risks. You might fly, say, to Russia but then you end up leaving without your money and coins.

Advertising to sell in Europe, Russia and CIS countries is in itself a red flag. A trader can't be in all those countries at any given time, signifying this might be an operation involving several persons.

Carefully think about the risks before entering into any meet-to-trade deals.

Sellers should be quickly and mercilessly tagged. These sold accounts are used to perpetrate scams and other fraudulent transactions. They are the root cause of misery and financial losses suffered by many on this forum.

Impostors use these accounts to impersonate reputable members or even cloak themselves with a fake persona. It can be financially damaging because fraudsters using the accounts are seen as trustworthy which gives them the upper hand when dealing with lower tier users.

Problem is buyers are difficult to identify if trades are done clandestinely and not openly here. I therefore suggest that sellers be tagged AND their posts be removed immediately or a posting ban be imposed.

Viabuy issues Mastercard, correct? It seems they allow their cards to be loaded with bitcoins via their processing partner, BitPay:

https://www.viabuy.com/service-experience.html

Are there restrictions similar to Skrill or are the funds spendable and withdrawable from ATMs? They have strict KYC regs and they have had an active web presence for years so I’m sure they are not a fly by night card operation.

A vibrant trading of accounts you all have here. The more posting activity in the auctions section, the more complaints and accusations you see in the scam section. These two sections are linked, just like that physics relationship about every action having an equal reaction.

3 heros + 1 senior. Got a box of legendaries too? A bagful of PayPals? Hurry, PM the buyers! They have pending scams and need the accounts quickly.

Horrible disaster. Why is there no accountability? Not even an offer for partial reparation or damage control! They have a duty to protect assets stored within their system.

This shows and proves that storing coins in any exchange is not only unwise but potentially can cause financial ruin. They boast and advertise state of the art security systems, top notch support services and protection systems rivaling those of banks but zero marks for integrity.

As if their regrets and apologies will make you feel better. Sure.

Theirs is a support system which leaves their customers feeling desperate and traumatized. They resolve issues when and if they want, totally oblivious to how their negligence might financially ruin people. The silent treatment is what frustrates and worries people, especially those who parked their entire coins on Yobit.

The sad part is that if you google Yobit scam you will be be given a long list of unhappy feedback which might fit an entire book. So you OP are not alone in your desperate effort to recover your coins. Incredibly they are still in operation. They even outlived that other notorious giant BTC-E. People see the scam complaints and yet continue to send their coins to Yobit's hot wallets.

If you are lucky, they might react quickly to your multiple tickets. Worst case scenario is waiting indefinitely. Weeks, maybe even months.

So you are not even offering to settle on par with the market price? Instead you want to pay less than the market price? Why would anyone want to sell something to lose money?

Buying coins at market price is difficult enough and now you want to challenge sellers to trade their coins for less than the published price. Are you assuming sellers are that desperate to sell?

This is a classic and sad example of greed. You want to pay less than market price and resell the coins via your ATM business. We all know how crypto ATM operators price their coins: usually 20 to 30% above exchange or market price.

Oh yes indeed, do not underestimate Singapore’s law enforcement system. Criminals have done the deed and yet you read of reports days later that someone was arrested and is assisting police with investigations. Technology is on their side too. Interpol recently inaugurated the Interpol Global Complex for Innovation in... yes, Singapore. Read all about it here:

http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1765805/interpol-opens-new-singapore-base

Think twice before trying to scam anyone who holds that formidable pink IC.

I know it’s none of my business and I shouldn’t interfere with the choices made my adult members here but I just want you and others here to know that selling and buying such accounts is not allowed. This is especially risky for the seller as the account might be used for scams, potentially putting the seller in hot water with the authorities.

Paying a good amount for the account might seem tempting but pause and think for a minute before selling your PayPal account. Is it worth a criminal record? Or time behind bars?

Forum escrow? Nobody's going first here.

Payment method? I'm sure you are aware that PayPal is reversible so it shouldn't be PayPal. It must be something which cannot be reversed.

Trade with escrow protection. Never send coins or money to strangers without a trusted middle man. There are honest people but there are also dishonest characters here and they far outnumber the honest guys. Be on your guard.

You should have used a forum escrow. If you did, you might still have the coins and you would have found a more reliable source of PayPal funds.

It's too late for regrets of course. He has the coins now and it has been almost a month since you sent them. On top of that, he is being dismissive and unhelpful about the situation. Learn from the situation and use escrow when you next trade with someone here.

I hope you can find a way to recover your coins from him. Or get paid for them. It's the right and fair thing to do. Just like crime, dishonesty doesn't pay.

It works this way:

If a buyer offers to buy your 1 BTC and pay by SEPA, the first step is to do you due diligence. "no discussion about identity, phone number and address" puts you in grave danger of being scammed. Scammers are known to use hacked IBAN accounts or stolen funds channeled or laundered on a third party account to buy coins. Another risk is called the MITM or Man In The Middle Scam. The scam usually involves placing fraudulent ads on classified advertisement websites. Goods offered are almost always high-ticket items such as phones, laptops, cars, jewelry, concert tickets, gemstones or just about anything. When a buyer offers to buy any of those advertised goods, the scammer contacts you for your IBAN information and identifies himself to the buyer as you (the BTC seller). The buyer sends payment by SEPA, thinking all along the payment is for a car or something. A few days later, when he realizes he was scammed, he will contact the authorities and report your IBAN account which is of course easily traced to... you! So be careful and try to at least conclusively identify the person buying your coins as the same exact person who will pay you.

When that part is completed, you and the buyer agree on which forum escrow to use on this list:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910

When you have established your choice of escrow, contact the escrow directly (buyer will also do this) and discuss the terms of the transaction. If the escrow agrees to act as middle man, you will be instructed to send the coins to the escrow's wallet. When the escrow confirms the coins are in his control, the buyer sends SEPA payment.

After you receive the money on your account, the final step is to instruct the escrow to release the bitcoins to the buyer. The escrow's role is to protect both you (the seller) and the buyer. Without escrow protection, if the buyer sends the money first you might take the money and not send any coins or if you send the coins first the buyer might not pay you.

A word of advice: contact the escrow directly here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2439910

Do not rely on thread or profile links or email addresses given by the person you are transacting with. If you are asked to give your email address and instructed to wait for escrow's instructions, this is a red flag. Scammers are known to use fake or spoofed email addresses which look very similar to the genuine escrow's email address or they create a fake reproduction of the escrow's profile page or even an entire thread. The solution is to contact the escrow directly and to wait for that escrow to respond. Do not allow yourself to be pressured to bypass escrow and beware of the increments scam (the scammer suggest that you do the trade in increments or smaller amounts and you are expected to send first).

Attracting investment funds is first and foremost about establishing credibility and transparency. Conservative investors are cautious and will do their due diligence before parting with their funds. Even aggressive investors will not blindly invest on the strength of your first post above. You will need to be very open and honest about who you are and what you need the money for.

There remains the one open question: why would anyone need you or engage your services to invest in ICOs when the direct route is far more lucrative and less risky?