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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: jahbless on May 22, 2013, 02:14 am

Title: Does this sound scammy to anyone?
Post by: jahbless on May 22, 2013, 02:14 am
This vendor claims to be offering BTC in exchange for ReloadIt, Vanilla, MoneyPak, and Western Union: http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/user/aec1ef2352

Sounds a little sketchy to me...

In the first place, he/she claims that "some folks may have dealt with different members of our group in the past" but he doesn't list the group he/she belongs to.

Secondly, his asking rate is 5% commission (independent of the size of the trade) whereas most other vendors are in the 10%-15% range, esp for small trades.

Thirdly, the account has only been registered for nine days and already has eight positive reviews.

None of this proves anything of course. I am just curious what other people think.
Title: Re: Does this sound scammy to anyone?
Post by: quixotist on May 22, 2013, 02:23 am
Yeah this looks like a scam. From what I understand (I may be wrong) Silk Road take a cut of the price of an item, so that feedback costs nothing to create. Also there's no way to use escrow there.

If I were you I'd use one of the clearnet services rather than this place, find someone on #bitcoin-otc's web of trust and deal with them directly.
Title: Re: Does this sound scammy to anyone?
Post by: jahbless on May 22, 2013, 02:48 am
Thanks for the advice. I am not actually a complete newbie, but I never heard of #bitcoin-otc before. Good stuff!
Title: Re: Does this sound scammy to anyone?
Post by: jackie91 on August 10, 2013, 09:20 pm
This vendor claims to be offering BTC in exchange for ReloadIt, Vanilla, MoneyPak, and Western Union: http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/user/aec1ef2352

Sounds a little sketchy to me...

In the first place, he/she claims that "some folks may have dealt with different members of our group in the past" but he doesn't list the group he/she belongs to.

Secondly, his asking rate is 5% commission (independent of the size of the trade) whereas most other vendors are in the 10%-15% range, esp for small trades.

Thirdly, the account has only been registered for nine days and already has eight positive reviews.

None of this proves anything of course. I am just curious what other people think.

Who's the vendor? I have done multiple deals with a vendor who charges 3%-5%. The only problem is they can't always do the deal if they don't have someone lined up to get a reload card. Just now I PM'd them about a $500 Vanilla but they don't have a buyer until Monday. They are completely legit.
Title: Re: Does this sound scammy to anyone?
Post by: Joy.Raptar on August 10, 2013, 09:44 pm
What's the reason a vendor would be offering the coins 1$:1$ via western union? for instance.. it would cost 5025$ to put 5000$ on your account via western union but, To put 5000$ on there at 5.9% fee through a bitcoin agent equals 278.56 FEE. So that's saving a good 250$.

I thought maybe thos was to avoid cash paper trails, also get cash faster to avoid the fee's of withdrawing via a middle agent(2% to sell).

Does SR charge vendors to withdraw? Or only the 15% per sale?

I have a vendor who i think i trust but i'd like to think he made something out of this making it worthwhile, having to go to western union all for a bit of quick cash and no trail? kind of seems worth it.