To be fair and quite honest, the only reason my bid was retracted was upon further inspection of your account standings on these forums. I've been rushing for scrypt stuff this past week, and was a little too quick to bid for my own liking. Not many people are open to trusting new forum members, and with a lack of trust, not many people would take anything seriously.
Even with escrow, there's still no guarantee the BTC won't be taken and run off with. A couple of weeks ago, I put BTC1.2 up with escrow for a piece of hardware. In the end, the relatively new escrow agent was paid 50% to pretty much aid the scammer in taking my BTC. Very depressing the things people stoop to here, these days.
Anyways, I suppose it isn't fair. The lack of trust around here makes it very hard for people offering genuine services to get through to potential customers. I for one say things need to be changed to promote sales and trades of hardware and services, but with so many people clearly trying to scam others, it just works to do the opposite.
I understand everyone's frustrations with scammers and I, myself had a dealing with
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/watsonic-194162 (watsonic). He wanted me to send coins first but I dug a little and asked
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/duffman-172159 (Duff___Man) about him. He told me to stay away so I did.
With regards to your comment about my account standings, was it the lack of not being a newbie? Just curious.
Instead of using a person on here, is there a safe site to use for escrow going forward in auctions?
If it makes anyone feel better, I sell on eBay under these 2 accounts for future ref:
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=chucky76wilsonhttp://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=mackavellio
