Ok, I've laid the bait.
I've laid out what I propose to help do here.
I intend to be an Expediter/Coordinator for Group Buys on this forum. I know that sometimes speed is of the essence when pre-ordering. I intend to be the grease that lubricates the wheels that help to keep things moving. I intend to act as a spam filter for this board, by helping to weed out fraudulent GBCs and to help improve the quality of Group Buys even listed in the first place, by coaching/mentoring GBCs *before* they get started with the Group Buy, in order to greatly improve their chances of success. I intend to help Group Buyers feel confident about taking part in Escrows I'm involved with, in this crazy, crazy Wild West economy where risks abound everywhere and every cockroach wants your hard earned money and
BTC.
Doing this also adds new competition to the marketplace, meaning everyone has to keep on their toes as new value is added to this marketplace with innovative ideas and innovative forms of risk management that are beneficial to *ALL* stakeholders involved. As I said, I'm willing to risk my job and freedom to help facilitate this, because as someone who's been watching new technologies take off, I feel that I can offer unique value to this forum with my expertise and experience and I see so much promise in both this forum and our larger
BTC as a whole.
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Here are my Services and Fees I'm offering below. Escrow fees and collateral to be paid up front, because this form of Group Buy transaction can sometimes allow for PayPal for BTC purchased shares of miners when set up in this way:
DyslexicZombei's (DZ) Group Buy Escrow Coordinator Services
Escrow Protection of Group Buys: I am willing to offer my job and my freedom to help you, a well intentioned Group Buy Coordinator, perform a Group Buy on this forum as an Escrow Service for the purposes of facilitating reduced risk Group Buys for ASIC hardware. This will include - at this point - ASIC chips, cases for manufacturer specific ASIC mining rigs such as BitFury, mass quantities of fans and Power Supply Units direct from a manufacturer, for as well as Escrow protection for traditional (haha!) ASIC Bitcoin Mining machines Group Buys.
If someone wants to facilitate an order of 500 PSUs or case fans to get a wholesale discount, and ship them out to Group Buyers with a small markup, well, now they have an easy way to do it! Variety and competition will have been added to the market helping to result in lower prices for all, and we all win!
In this transaction, I agree, in my own free time and using my own purchased resources, to help facilitate your Group Buy by:
1)
Vetting your ID and background with your permission on behalf of the Group Buyers. We may check LinkedIn, we may check Twitter, Facebook, and other social media. We could even contact a colleague on LinkedIn if you have a profile (which would help your cause tremendously), to help keep people honest, and if the Group Buy is large enough to warrant it.[/b]
2)
Securing a collateral or deposit from the Group Buy Coordinator for providing a public bond against fraudulent behavior from you, the Group Buyer Coordinator.
Buyers will more readily trust a Group Buy from new or relatively new GBC attempting to organize a Group Buy if they see that the GBC seems to be risking his job/freedom as well as sufficient collateral to NOT be that douchebag that scams and steals from others via the interwebs. Seriously. Don't be that d-bag. When fraud is almost nonexistent on this forum, Group Buyers will feel more secure about their transactions and the Group Buys economy, as a *whole* will grow in both size and variety.
My fee for this transaction is 2.2% of the proposed value of the Group Buy. For example, if you're trying to raise 50BTC in funds, my fee is 1.1 BTC, paid in BTCup front.Escrow+ Services: Escrow+, or Escrow Plus, is a new service I'm offering just for the Group Buys forum. This is the premium package: my coach and mentoring before you even get started. I'll help clean up writing (yes, I know, I make mistakes too grammar Nazi
) and help you figure out if your Group Buy idea is a *good* idea.
Escrow Plus services cost 2.3% of the proposed value of the Group Buy, meaning I'm offering you everything above except with my coaching and mentoring before the Group Buy starts to help you greatly improve your odds of success for
only 0.1 BTC! I may not be able to offer such low rates for mentoring/coaching in the future but for now these are my rates.
When you pay for my
Escrow+ Services:
- You're getting the full attention of a world class IT Specialist skills that many of this country's top rocket scientists and research engineers in a variety of projects have relied on for about 10 years for their IT related needs. I've supervised and worked on the the e-infrastructure of 6 different world class Hawaii based research labs on 3 different islands, including supervising the electronics of a premier rocket test facility for missions with 6, 7 and 8 figure budgets.
- Someone who was once Mensa qualified as a child FWIW (142 on the Stanford-Binet scale, big whoop) and offered the opportunity to jump up a grade (declined).
- My knowledge of technology, electronics, and networking.
My first PC used was a TRS-80 and my first PC was a Commodore-64. I've read WIRED from the start & keep up with tech changes, and changes in the ASIC marketplace daily. I was the first national internet football champ. I was a beta tester for the first Instant Messaging program (ICQ), a beta tester for Gmail, and have been involved in CAD/3-D printing, even fixing the 3-D printer for the Kauai Robotics High School team. I'm an IT specialist in every sense of the word.
- My knowledge and respect for world history, foreign countries, and my fellow man/woman
I read The Economist, The Diplomat, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Reddit, and Kotaku on a daily basis, among other sites. I have approx. 80% of a US History degree in addition to an IT degree which allows me to not only better understand technology, but also technology's role in cataclysmic changes throughout history, such as the one we're seeing now with the rise of the worldwide Bitcoin Economy.
- My understanding of designing and developing Information Technologies from scratch from low TRL numbers
- My deep understanding of fraudulent behavior, scams, and phishing attempts
- My nearly 30 years worth of sales skills which were honed by learning/selling/teaching skills since I was a teenager
- My understanding of the current and near term market values of various technologies, which has allowed me, a rank noob to have reached ROI on my BTC related investments in only a month (even with a huge ASX Projects brain fart) thanks to arbitrage.
- a huge respect for Karma and the rest of my brothers and sisters living under my flag and other flags.
If your good idea seems to be worthy of my limited time & efforts, you agree that I will vet you to check that you appear to be a good intentioned Group Buy Coordinator that appears to bring innovation, value, and variety to the Group Buys forum. I will only take a few Group Buys at a time under escrow because I do owe it to my family to also spend time with them too.
This is my offer of services to the Group Buy forum. I hope it can provide liquidity to the overall BTC economy and quality to the Group Buys forum. I intend to follow up on Canary's comment about an automated web site, but for now, it'll be manual escrow support.
Also, since this is a new service, the Introductory Price will be 10% off the listed prices above. Since I want to encourage the world's youth to explore safe opportunities on a worldwide digital marketplace,
if you're a student you'll get a Student Discount (but you might have to prove to me that you appear to be an adult in High School or College). Please PM me for Student Discount rates.
Cheers!
DZ
P.S. This last post will be posted up separately in a different thread.
