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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: schism68 on May 28, 2012, 01:10 am
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Unfortunately, I just made my 2nd (and far worse) mistake on SR.
I went simply by feedback instead of reading these very forums and trusting my instinct.
I purchased 2 moneypaks and sent them to Shamaster to exchange for BTC.
He was communicating for every second up until that point - and then - *poof* - vanished into thin air.
Since he won't switch the order to "in transit" I will never be able to leave bad feedback.
My only recourse are these forums - but it's a painful lesson learned as it was a bit of money.
Anyway - be smart - unlike me - user your brain - never act on impulse - I had to learn the hard way.
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Did he read your messages? Have not read your messages and ignoring messages are different.
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I just received a notification from SR that my order was cancelled - MP numbers have been used. Done deal.
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schism ... like the handle!!!!
with a vendor name of shamaster I woulda been a little hesitant in the 1st place
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surely there is a better way to get btc in the states then money pak. aren't any trade sites offering direct deposit into bank accounts? Would be way better to walk into a bank and deposit the money then take the huge risk of using money paks.
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yea go with the vendors close to the top of the listings, they run in order of "best selling" so its not good to pick a random person 2 pages back. sugar mama and BTC Buddy are the 2 most legit people i have heard of. (i used sugar Mama myself,went very smoothly)
also, you can try bitinstant.com but you will need to learn a little how it works, fees are a lot better and you don't gotta worry about gettin scammed..
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schism ... like the handle!!!!
with a vendor name of shamaster I woulda been a little hesitant in the 1st place
hahaha - Indeed Maynard, we are on the same page!
surely there is a better way to get btc in the states then money pak. aren't any trade sites offering direct deposit into bank accounts? Would be way better to walk into a bank and deposit the money then take the huge risk of using money paks.
I agree - lesson learned.
also, you can try bitinstant.com but you will need to learn a little how it works, fees are a lot better and you don't gotta worry about gettin scammed..
Thanks teepis - I'll check bitinstant out.
Not one of my shining moments on SR. Yeah - money paks=stupidity. I usually go the bank route but lost my mind today. I will say that, barring the H section - which is a crapshoot at this point, SR has been outstanding. Counting tonight's incident, I've only had 2 shadesters out of like 15-16 vendors dealt with. Both could have been avoided using a little common sense by just the name..
After some brief research I found a connection with World Of Warcraft...that pretty much says it all.
Hope he buys something good with it at least.
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Thanks for writing this. I was just about to go get a moneypak because 120.00=100BTC is INCREDIBLE! Im sorry you got scammed man. We should petition this guy or at least try to get the word out more! Last thing we need on here is more scamming. Is there any way we can battle this??
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another victim here same MO
Man, I hate having to learn from my mistakes
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Thank you guys for finding this and posting.
We can finally get him/her fucking off of here.
Obviously he/she can start it up again under a different name but she'll have to pay her sellers cost again at least....I know..the tiniest of victories..but it's something.
I think at this point we have a pretty decent scam report.
I'll ask Leech about it and hopefully he will add her to the official scams....she may be listed under selective...because her MO is to take a few smaller money paks (I'm assuming) get some feedback then rape anything over a certain amount....actually a horrible loophole in the system...and it will keep happening unless SR has some policy on moneypak/BTC vendors.
Thanks again guys.
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Oh, and I am saying she/her because of the picture - I believe she is fucking egotistical enough to take a picture of herself with the stupid disguise on. I could be wrong..it's all karma.....I really had to talk myself down after this one...this one really got to me...I know better than to not look in the forums first...never again.