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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Borneo on September 29, 2011, 12:21 pm
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Hi Everyone,
We have been diligently working to expand the number of buyers we can do exchanges for by a vast variety of methods, each designed to accommodate more buyers and still not draw the wrath and ire of the GreenDot folks. The first stage of that plan has been instituted and is up and running, thereby giving us the ability to handle an additional *six exchanges* each and every day. That may not seem like much but we have a couple of dozen of these plans that we are at various stages of having ready to roll out so the numbers will be growing quickly as each one is put in to place.
Therefore, we have six spots, as of this moment, for people to exchange with us on Friday, Sept 30. I will working my day job and doing rea life until about 1:30pm when I will be online for a couple hours and then back to real life until I return to the Silk Road around 7pm tonight. Whoever gets their order in first gets the spot, so get one while they're available. :)
BTW, as part of our new business plan we are instituting (and have updated our sellers page to reflect this) a $100 minimum exchange. There's just not much purpose in using a slot that could be used for a $300 or $850 exchange on a $27 one, but when the day comes that we have as many slots as we do people wanting to fill them we will gladly do away with the minimum and handle everyone's exchange because that's the way we'd like it to be. :D Until then, however, a $100 minimum is now in effect.
We appreciate your patience with us as we and Silk Road grow and mature together. >The Borneo Staff<
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So glad to hear this Borneo. I'm glad you are able to expand your slots for exchanges!!!
Now hopefully next time I need to exchange we can do it smoothly!
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That's a true businessman for you, getting creative! I have to give it to you, exchange moneypaks is not easy and almost not worth the hassle. I'm trying to keep up with orders. But many, like you said or low or below $100 which is not worth it for the most part. I hope you take this as a compliment and not competition, but I'm closely following in your footsteps. One is to follow success...no?
Good luck Borneo.
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Hey bro, AWESOME! For most people this is going to be the most anonymous and fastest way to procure BC's and there was some scams going on with the MP to BC exchanges (damn, I got jacked lol...) so I'm glad to see your growing and expanding. Sellers need buyers to have easy access to BC's to make sales flow so many thanks bro!
Now, how about a reverse process? That is how about offering some way to exchange BC's to cash (I though about you just reselling the MP's you get but that is too easy to track) Maybe you can cash out the MP's and buy new MP's with the cash and trade them back out to folks for BC's? I'm no banker, but I do know some very well placed ones on the international level (hint: Liechtenstein) so I'm gonna look into this problem playa. If I get a line on something good I'll PM ya encrypted and maybe we can figure something out for the sellers who need a way to convert BC's to cash expediently! This is the weak link in the paper trail that I think sellers need to be the most concerned about in terms of tracking them down. Of course I think if this type of exchange could be arranged sellers should open a clean SR buyer account, tumble the BC's externally from SR, send them to the clean new buyer account and then send them to you from a SR account or maybe just from a external wallet to your external wallet. Think about it, after all you are one of SR's unoffical bankers lol...
Paperchasing
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Hey bro, AWESOME! For most people this is going to be the most anonymous and fastest way to procure BC's and there was some scams going on with the MP to BC exchanges (damn, I got jacked lol...) so I'm glad to see your growing and expanding. Sellers need buyers to have easy access to BC's to make sales flow so many thanks bro!
Now, how about a reverse process? That is how about offering some way to exchange BC's to cash (I though about you just reselling the MP's you get but that is too easy to track) Maybe you can cash out the MP's and buy new MP's with the cash and trade them back out to folks for BC's? I'm no banker, but I do know some very well placed ones on the international level so I'm gonna look into this problem playa. If I get a line on something good I'll PM ya encrypted and maybe we can figure something out for the sellers who need a way to convert BC's to cash expediently! This is the weak link in the paper trail that I think sellers need to be the most concerned about in terms of tracking them down. Of course I think if this type of exchange could be arranged sellers should open a clean SR buyer account, tumble the BC's externally from SR, send them to the clean new buyer account and then send them to you from a SR account or maybe just from a external wallet to your external wallet. Think about it, after all you are one of SR's unoffical bankers lol...
Paperchasing
I had a listing offering this service, where I would send you a Moneypak in exchange for your bitcoins. I think most users here use all their bitcoins then buy crappy digital stuff from vendor like me to empty their wallets. Sellers on the other hand with loads of bitcoin is a different story. I'd love to hear your ideas. message me here or on SR.
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I sent you your requested payment about 27 hours ago, and tried to contact you again 5 hours ago and still haven't heard anything.
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Borneo resolved the situation and provided extra bitcoin.
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Contacted Borneo 4 days ago to request a slot at his convenience for moneypak-BTC exchange, and have yet to hear back from him. Have made other arrangements now, but disappointed in lack of response to a repeat customer. Even 'No, can't do it' would have satisfied. It's a tough market and I don't expect immediate gratification, but courtesy is good business.
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I sent payment last week...as far as I know he took the money (because there is nothing left on the card) and I got nothing and no communication.
PLEASE WAIT FOR A REPLY BEFORE YOU SEND MONEY!