Localbitcoins.com trying to scam me. What can I do?

[Kapteiner]

2 and a half years ago I did a trade on LBC where I had to pay with Skrill ($345) to a vendor. I paid him and he verified the transaction and was satisfied and then he released the coin to me.
About 10 days after the transaction he contacted me and said the money got reversed and he wants his BTC back. I said that the money never returned to me and I never asked for the money to be reversed.
Next moment my account was placed on "forced holiday" and all trading and withdrawing abilities were stopped.
I contacted support and they told me to pay him back the bitcoins before they allow me to use my account again. I was stunned and left it there without paying back because i felt that after a vendor released the BTC, then he cannot get it back because he is supposed to assure everything is good before releasing.

Now 2 and half years later Im still sitting with $400 worth of BTC in my account that cannot be withdrawn. I contacted support again in the hopes of getting an admin with some brains this time but to no avail.

Now they went from incompetent to corrupt because they are demanding an external payment to an external wallet which belongs to I dont know who. The vendor is not even on the platform anymore and I dont know whether it is his wallet. I asked for access to the negotiations atleast because I dont believe that the wallet really belongs to vendor. They refused. Im also not allowed to use the coins inside LBC to pay the vendor... must be from outside.

What can I do or who can I contact for help?

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[Anonylz]

It is even strange that after 10 days of transaction the vendor now claimed the money was reverse and needs refund, I thought once the vendor/seller confirmed payment and that's it, nothing else can be done afterwards, and why the LBC are not doing any thorough investigation to know what happened in between that 10 days when the money was supposed to be with the seller? Since they have access to all details of the platform they can atleast make an investigation before coming up with refund solution,
I have never trade in LBC but in binance p2p once you confirm payment and the coins are released to the other party I don't think their is much binance can do when there is a claim of reverse funds after 10 days of transaction,  sounds all very strange to me.
 The customer support should have been your best shot to resolve this issue but it appears they are not very transparent too.

[BITCOIN4X]

Move your thread here and get more answers in the right board. Scam Accusations

OP, 2 and a half years is a long time to try to find a solution on this forum after you seem pretty active throughout 2019 and early January 2020. I've never seen you complain about localbitcoins before based on your post history. How can you prove to us that you have tried to solve your problem with the site? Do you have any evidence to substantiate your allegation to the site?

[DaveF]

Or you are just a scammer / troll causing issues, topics you started:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5347447: Topic: $8000 QuickX stuck. Help me for good share
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215638: Topic: Help needed with Electrum Private Keys - 1 BTC Reward to Person Who Can Assist
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204240: Topic: Bitcasino.io complaint - Am I Wrong?

You have no money, you will never have any money.
Stop being a looser and wasting everyone's time. Get a job and move out of your parents basement.

-Dave

[mindrust]

2 and a half years ago I did a trade on LBC where I had to pay with Skrill ($345) to a vendor. I paid him and he verified the transaction and was satisfied and then he released the coin to me.
About 10 days after the transaction he contacted me and said the money got reversed and he wants his BTC back. I said that the money never returned to me and I never asked for the money to be reversed.
Next moment my account was placed on "forced holiday" and all trading and withdrawing abilities were stopped.
I contacted support and they told me to pay him back the bitcoins before they allow me to use my account again. I was stunned and left it there without paying back because i felt that after a vendor released the BTC, then he cannot get it back because he is supposed to assure everything is good before releasing.

Now 2 and half years later Im still sitting with $400 worth of BTC in my account that cannot be withdrawn. I contacted support again in the hopes of getting an admin with some brains this time but to no avail.

Now they went from incompetent to corrupt because they are demanding an external payment to an external wallet which belongs to I dont know who. The vendor is not even on the platform anymore and I dont know whether it is his wallet. I asked for access to the negotiations atleast because I dont believe that the wallet really belongs to vendor. They refused. Im also not allowed to use the coins inside LBC to pay the vendor... must be from outside.

What can I do or who can I contact for help?

If he was lying then LBC wouldn't have locked your account. That's my guess.

Then there was something wrong with Skrill probably. You say the money didn't return to you. The other guy says Skrill took the money back. LBC agrees with him because he must have a proof.

Then either you lie or Skrill is a piece of shit.

The third possibility is he managed to fool LBC without showing any proof but I believe that's a low probability.

[Potato Chips]

Did you send LBC proofs backing up your claim? e.g. skrill chat support screenshot/video recording otherwise it makes sense for them to not believe you.

It's hard to believe LBC is this forgiving though. Your account was suspected to have been involved with fraud and returning the money does not clear that... so might as well back your claims here.