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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: catamaran on December 11, 2012, 04:17 pm
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This guy has had my MP in processing for over a week! He's already emptied it, and hasn't answered any messages. Now he's closed his shop down after being in stealth. I recently discovered bitinstant, and am sorry I didn't use it earlier. What a waste of money. How many others are in the same boat?
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Exact same situation for me. Gave him two codes now both cards have a zero balance on them and I have no bitcoins while his profile page says he's closed.
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Damn, that sucks. How much did you guys lose? He always came through for me, but it's been awhile since I used him. Something must have happened.
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There is no reason that it should be taking him over a week (I usually process it the same day and I'm pretty sure Chronic Crew and Sugar Mama get theirs done in 1-2 days as well) ... especially not without some kind of communication. That's ridiculous.
I hope you all have reported this on SR? From reading his vendor review thread, it seems like a lot of people have been having problems with him recently.
Oh no... another one bites the scam? :( That fucking sucks, if so...
Sugar Mama is the oldest active coin-trader, now... and amazingly fucking honest, so I'm sure that won't be changing... ever.
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say it aint so!!! I was raelly afraid of this.. This is why I switched from BTC buddy to Sugar Mama about 1-2 months ago. After the summer and his vacations and recommendations for using his,"Other Vendors" who were essentially just him on another account while BTC Buddy was in vacation mode. I didnt want to believe it at first but if he is taking the money and running its proabbly becasue most of his steady clientel didnt like paying twice for bitcoins. There is NO ROOM for selective scammers on the road. I had about 10-15 successful maybe closer to 25 I dunno he was around when SYG Scammed WUMG out of like $5000 and straight up confessed to it in the forums lol That was when I first joined the Silk Road and its forums and now I am very sad to see BTC Buddys name being added to the scammers list. Just goes to show you that you have to be skeptical with EVERYONE you do business with. Trust is earned on the Silk Road not jsut given out. Ever since Tony76 & Noriega Scams everyone has been on their toes and I have luckily had Escrow to save me from those scammers.
Stay in escrow and only use Sugar Mama for Bitcoins that is the best advice that I can give out!
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Stay in escrow and only use Sugar Mama for Bitcoins that is the best advice that I can give out!
There are actually several reputable bitcoin vendors here (including Sugar Mama) -- Chronic Crew, Blue Sky Traders, RxKing when he was selling bitcoins, oh, and ME! :P
I've always been wary of the MP to BTC vendors, you're just blindly sending your cash to someone and hoping they don't F you. That's why I've always stuck to the bank deposit system, plus the huge bonus that almost all the time they take an hour maybe 2 to finalize transactions, compared to MP where everyone seems to be waiting days for their BTC . People like Mal(whom I have used and have nothing but praise for) as others like Blue Sky and when they were operational BTC King, who seems to have died off with Trustcash.
Anyways the reason I like the deposit system is that at least you have some recourse if something happens, in all cases you have a deposit slip with a name and address, so at least you have some info to go by. I think this also is the reason deposit vendors tend to be more honest. As opposed to MP where you have no clue where it went, and even worst are some of the impatient buyers who send their MP codes to multiple vendors and then get to hear the "It wasn't me who cashed it" song.
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Anyways the reason I like the deposit system is that at least you have some recourse if something happens, in all cases you have a deposit slip with a name and address, so at least you have some info to go by. I think this also is the reason deposit vendors tend to be more honest. As opposed to MP where you have no clue where it went, and even worst are some of the impatient buyers who send their MP codes to multiple vendors and then get to hear the "It wasn't me who cashed it" song.
We agree. The bank deposit receipt is the tool that helps protect both us and the customer. Easy for us to untangle any question using the data on it, difficult for doofs to claim scam because they won’t have one.