Can't you see how stupid this is?
The thread is 19 posts long and only a single bid in the auction so far. I am considering giving up. Yes, you can scam each other as much as you want, I thought I would like to be a part of this community, but it is too much of a burden for a normal person to play this hide-and-seek. If anyone cares, the silver is now selling at about spot price, 20% cheaper than any dealer in the EU.
By the way, the escrow was added. I am fine with John K.
I can understand your concerns and I posted repeatedly in the "trust noone" thread that it's important to trust people and fuck it, people should just trust people, otherwise what kind of world would that be?
However you need to understand there have been a lot of abuses of trust on these forums. This is due to the nature of the money we use as you will surely understand. With other forms of payment you usually have either chargeback capability or identifying information of the payment receiver. This is why you "cash first, it's like it has always been in the metal business" doesn't quite apply.
Thanks for offering use of escrow. It's a rather easy way to make things possible (apart from building trust yourself here and/or on #bitcoin-otc). I'll have to find out who "John K." is, though.
Luckily the buyer is a company and therefore rather public, so I hope this did not cause too much damage. I am still learning...
