Safe purchases?

[Jordsie669]

How can I make safe purchases with bitcoin? What if I buy a product but I dont get it?

[DannyHamilton]

Don't do business with merchants you don't trust.

Check to see if anyone else is reporting issues with a business you are considering transacting with, and what sort of issues they are.

Publicly call out any merchant that does poor business so everyone else knows to avoid them.

Consider insisting on an escrow service run by a mutually trusted third party if you have reservations about doing business with a particular merchant.

With paypal and credit cards, the consumer is protected from merchant fraud.

With bitcoins merchants are protected from consumer fraud.

[BIT4BRAIN]

If big or risky use an escrow service..

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[Jordsie669]

So for complete safety I should exchange my BitCoins to Dollars or Euros and then buy the product on PayPal?

[DannyHamilton]

So for complete safety I should exchange my BitCoins to Dollars or Euros and then buy the product on PayPal?

Actually, until better services are created for bitcoin and less merchants are willing to accept paypal, you're probably right.

But that wasn't your question.  Your question was how you can make safe purchases with bitcoin.

You've been given plenty of advice in that regard.  Use that advice however you like.