So - I responded to an ad on this forum - the guy claiming to have 1 BTC to sell and would take PayPal.
I contacted him and because of my refusal to send first, my insistence on using escrow for a different method of payment - and perhaps mainly my lack of stupidity in not falling for his scam he left me a negative trust - how can I get this removed as it is so wrong?
I have all the pm's to back this up.
Unless I'm reading this wrong...
....The guy didn't even give you NEGATIVE trust. He just left normal Trust with "PayPal scammer" in the comments and 1.0 BTC risked.
Anyway. Like I've mentioned in other threads, Trust isn't a black and white indicator of trust/being a scammer/whatever. It's a person's opinion of you. No one is really going to care that someone with negative Trust called you a PayPal scammer.
It is being abused right now, people are falsely accusing of people of things which are far from the truth based on theories and lack of knowledge and destroying genuine business opportunities.
I m bitter cuz it happened to me, it didnt destroy my rep completely but it did slow it down.
It looks like you have 3 spam negative Trusts for someone you don't get along with. That shouldn't effect business opportunities.
The other negative Trust you have looks like it could be suspicious, but again, that's really up to the people checking out your Trust. For instance, I wouldn't really care about the negative Trust you have if we were going to do business.
Now if you have 3 unknowns and 2 reputable people saying you stole BillyBobSoAndSo's 50 BTC, with screenshot proof and links to the thread, that's another matter.