You can start a trade and ask him to not send any gift cards codes and then you don't have to release anything to him. I would highly suggest staying from that user though:
I thought about starting trading with him in offer, but it was impossible. Paxful requires me to have a minimum amount to start trading and what's worth mentioning here is that his trading started at a minimum price of $ 500. I have no need to make such a transaction nor do I have enough money on Paxful, I just wanted to trade at $ 50, so I still couldn't contact him. Is there any other way?
There’s probably a reason it starts at 500... How many other paxful traders are there where you need to trade a minimum of 500$? If he has such rates, he could do massive volumes if he accepted below 500$. (As for him, there is no risk- he received plain btc...) so- if there is no risk for him, why wouldn’t he do so?
Probably because after the first customers gets blocked by amazon/ steam for using carded cards, they’ll open a dispute on paxful. (Thus locking his remaining funds).
I’d also like to add that his rep is no indicator of trustworthiness. There are rep trading groups, but you can also make 150 transactions for 10$ giftcards @ lets say 5% fee, which means it’ll only cost you roughly (10*150)*.05 = 75$ for 150 ++ rep. (Selling them back after buying them, or not doing tx’s at all- fake trading as mentioned above.)
I believe there have been cases of accounts with 1k+ fake rep scamming for 100$, so it definitely isn’t impossible.If i read
https://paxful.com/user/Teemain trading history correctly- it seems to me that he never was the seller- from all his transactions of december he was the one who initiated them. He sold Amazon GC’s for btc- and now he’s doing the exact opposite thing- selling Amazon GC for BTC..,, another thing to keep in mind when lookong at these ratings.
Another guy who sells them for ridiculous rates —
https://paxful.com/user/Iamhakay (who, before buying bitcoin using amazon GC, repped his account by SELLING amazon gc for btc.. Exactly the same as teemain) i’m not too familiar with the Amazon -> btc market, but this does seem suspicious.
I would avoid them all together. This simply seems like playing russian roulette to me.