Sell good for BTC when price is unknown yet

[FullofSats]

Never transact anything unless the money is received via escrow, the buyer looks really suspicious i mean why would he need to contact an individual if there are tons of services online that offers the same task you're doing and out of all people why did he only chose you to contact, cause according to your story it seems to me that he's just a random stranger that contacted you.

He saw my previous post. He's looking for a local product and to buy it with BTC. I don't see any problem as long as a reputable escrow is used.

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[Deborahbanshee]

If you are used to do this, what's the usual, safe way?

Do not make a deal unless you make sure that all the payments "maximum values" have been deposited to the collateral so you can start making the deal.
With regard to price fluctuation, you can request that the transaction in stable coins and then pay the conversion fee to BTC.
The collateral can bear any excess costs to the second party and stable currencies will improve stability.

This is reaosnable and welcoming approach to take

[redsun114]

You would need to strongly calculate few things before you start drop-shipping. What I can understand by reading your thread is that you are interested in starting a business of dropshipping with bitcoin as a payment method. In this case you should have the ability to convert bitcoins to your fiat currency as soon as you receive them in order to stop the constant price change with the change of price in bitcoins.

Once, you convert bitcoins in cash as soon as you receive them then you can buy the product you wish to re-ship and by calculating the escrow fees, shipping charge(by verifying it with the postal office) and every other such charge including the VAT tax if you are shipping outside nation boundary and then you can give an approximate estimate about the price to the buyer.

[@prashant]

I think always do trading with respect to btc quantity only rather than reference it to fiat as it will become easy to trade and always use trustable escrow service. If you still wants to do trade with fiat in mind then send some extra btc and request the escrower to send it back when deal is completed.

[avatar_kiyoshi]

If you are used to do this, what's the usual, safe way?

I ever trade goods with altcoin as payment. First, you need to know how much the shipping cost, usually the post office have a website which you can estimate your shipping cost.
For the calculation I used fiat or USD rate on the transaction, then convert it to coin price, use seller fees to avoid the volatile price, I set 50% of total payment for seller fees, so the total payment = price product + shipping cost + seller fees (exclude escrow fees).

In my experienced, selling(if you are a merchant) goods in cryptocurrency as payment require extra funds to cover the volatile price.
Not all buyer agree with the seller fees.

[FIFA worldcup]

I've been contacted by someone in another country (B) who wants a product from the country where I live (A). He would pay me in BTC to buy the product and ship it to him.

I want to make an estimation of the price of the product + price of shipping, add a deposit %, and divide by an estimation of Bitcoin price in A's currency, to know how much Bitcoin he should send to an escrow at first. Then I'd buy the product, ship it, and I'd take Bitcoin's price at the time of both events, to know how much it really costed. Then the escrow could send me the real price in BTC, and the difference back to the buyer in country B.

But the buyer insists there is no need for a deposit, that using an escrow is enough. The problem is I don't know the exact price of the shipping until I'm at the post office with the product already purchased ready to be sent, and we don't know what the price of Bitcoin in A's currency will be at the time of purchase. There could be a day or two between the time he sends Bitcoin to the escrow, and the time the product is bought.

If you are used to do this, what's the usual, safe way?

You have to mutually agree on the price of bitcoin at time of escrow and not at the time of purchase. If the purchase is 2 -3 days later, who knows the bitcoin might dump/ pump to 500$ or more. These days bitcoin is not very stable and you cannot be sure what will be the price of bitcoins even after 24 hrs.

[brownellcharlie]

This deal sounds really like not that serious or true.. You shouldnt make such deal specially if they are offering like its too good to be true.

[BitcoinsGreat]

This deal sounds really like not that serious or true.. You shouldnt make such deal specially if they are offering like its too good to be true.

Yes, the goods should only be sold when the price is clear from both the parties. Ambiguity like this often cause the problem later and it should be avoided at all cost. OP case is a bit confusing one and i suggest him to first clear all the queries before making any deal.

[Images21]

This deal might have already been settled?

If not, I guess a transaction will be finalized first before funds and goods are actually sent. The full payable amount in BTC will be agreed before the buyer will send the full payment through a trusted escrow agreed by both parties. There may actually be no need for an advance.

[FullofSats]

This deal might have already been settled?

If not, I guess a transaction will be finalized first before funds and goods are actually sent. The full payable amount in BTC will be agreed before the buyer will send the full payment through a trusted escrow agreed by both parties. There may actually be no need for an advance.

I had proposed a price in BTC based on the best estimate of the cost of the product + cost of shipping + my own service fee, and I would have covered any unexpected variation. I had found an escrow and wrote an agreement in which the buyer would have covered the escrow fee, Bitcoin network transaction fees, and any custom tax in his country.

The buyer did not go forward with the deal after that point.

[Images21]

This deal might have already been settled?

If not, I guess a transaction will be finalized first before funds and goods are actually sent. The full payable amount in BTC will be agreed before the buyer will send the full payment through a trusted escrow agreed by both parties. There may actually be no need for an advance.

I had proposed a price in BTC based on the best estimate of the cost of the product + cost of shipping + my own service fee, and I would have covered any unexpected variation. I had found an escrow and wrote an agreement in which the buyer would have covered the escrow fee, Bitcoin network transaction fees, and any custom tax in his country.

The buyer did not go forward with the deal after that point.

That deal sounds fair to me. But there must be a good reason for the other party to consider not proceeding.

Anyway, my response came a bit late.

[liuqi]

This deal might have already been settled?

If not, I guess a transaction will be finalized first before funds and goods are actually sent. The full payable amount in BTC will be agreed before the buyer will send the full payment through a trusted escrow agreed by both parties. There may actually be no need for an advance.

I had proposed a price in BTC based on the best estimate of the cost of the product + cost of shipping + my own service fee, and I would have covered any unexpected variation. I had found an escrow and wrote an agreement in which the buyer would have covered the escrow fee, Bitcoin network transaction fees, and any custom tax in his country.

The buyer did not go forward with the deal after that point.

That deal sounds fair to me. But there must be a good reason for the other party to consider not proceeding.

Anyway, my response came a bit late.

Proceeding should not be and you want to deal any transaction you mean you have the escrow as set above and if you both guys online can be done in in few hours. If someone not escrow paid can we cancel that.

[bearexin]

Escrow is actually a must these days. There are a lot of strangers asking for a lot of deals these days and I won't blame each of them as also some genuine peoples who might want to sell their products might take the hard efforts to contact each and every individual asking to buy their product.

This might be their marketing strategy but in this case, we should never trust those guys and always tend to use escrow services provided over here on this forum or maybe direct online escrow service platforms like escrow.com, etc in order to keep our funds safe and to deal trust worthily. Escrow would off course charge some fees but paying that fees is always better rather than getting scammed for the entire amount.