Topic: Collateral scam? (Read 1481 times)

trust is a condom

For me, I think I would give him the benefit of doubt because at a point of desperation one can be willing to sell or use as collateral which ever comes first but where I would support a Red Trust is if the same goods is sold or ownership has transferred but the loan request is still active, then that an intention to scam which is frown against at any point in time. Opening both threads does not necessarily means to defraud, it could mean waiting for the first one to happen.

Yes it would assume that the user was probably trying to sell his "collateral" to an unsuspecting lender but I don't think that you should convict someone purely on an assumption.
It's really up to the lender to do his homework anyway and any good lender would have found this in his post history.

I would be more inclined to say tag the account if you want but do it with a neutral feedback, leave red for proven scammers, but that's just my opinion.

Im sorry to say this but no,it can't.
Vod is right as he describe it because indeed someone that after a sale put the same item as collateral,doesnt seem quite right.

Still in this occasion of yours, i think red is a bit harse. For all the other occasions i have seen here though,i am strongly in favor of red.

this assumption can literally be made with every user here.

And to you both I will say:

Yes the dates matter. Let's say if the loan is (being loose here w numbers) 100 and the collateral value 250 and its default lender gets their $ back. Ya lil hassle but least he don't lose. Lenders know what the value is and hey at least it's cards not an account.

Edit: your lucky Vod is kinder than I am. At least he gives a chance I don't 

I feel I am being logical.   

If you put an item up for auction, it means you have no attachment to that item, and would rather have bitcoin.  Just because you put an end date on that auction, doesn't mean your attachment to the item automatically comes back.  You still would rather have bitcoin.  When it comes time for you to trade your bitcoin for the the collateral you have no attachment to, you could just abandon the account.   

 

thanks for that momma, it's reassuring to see someone here still possesses logic and common sense, and is also capable of looking at the facts, regardless, however i have lost the battle

I know what collateral is.  But IF the above dates are true, I can't call it a collateral scam.

IDC if the guy wants 1000 loan request on 1 dollar collateral value, the lender and he would decide.

But again, if those dates are correct.  The sale ended.  It was no longer being offered.  THEN the loan request was made.  I can't see this being a collateral scam warranting neg, because of the above.

A collateral should be a liquidable good that is easy to sell or is able to fetch at least that value.

If there is no interest, there should likely be no market for it here. Unless the lender is able to at least guarantee a substantial amount more than the loan amount, I don't see what is the point of even offering it as a collateral. It's way easier to lend it as collateral than to sell it.

Wish ya included quotes, but thanks for the links.

From what I see he ended this auction because of no interest in it on 7/15 and says it is closed.

On 7/23 the loan request is posted and offering that item as collateral.

IF the above is true and I'm not missing anything?   THEN

NO I can't see how it's a collateral scam or NEG is warranted

Simple Logic : If you're selling it,either you want to get rid off it or even taken loan on that collateral you'd most likely not repay the loan as you were selling it anyway way.
Yes,if you have your sale thread opened or even have the item for sale when asking loan through the same collateral,negative is  a must.

lol i was not actively selling my collateral

If the intention is to sell the collateral and try to disguise it as a loan, that this definetly deserve red trust, regardless of the value of the collateral, the end result of the transaction or any other things.

The bottom line is that you lied so you can't be trusted.


Discalimer: I'm not reffering to anyone in particular, I'm just expressing my oppinion in a theoretical situation.

I totally agree with this post but i'm more than sure that Vod,doesnt referr to this "special" kind of scenarios. Besides we dont see a lot of these.
Instead we see a lot of members to try to get the max that they can get,in any way they can. Imo this is one of them.
Everybody knows (or can ask at least) what someone have to do to get a loan and to "protect" any possible lender from defaulting aka loosing his money.
To sell the collateral that you offer (?) and without telling/justify it from the beggining for all to know,its at least shady. Thus a red.

I think the negative feedback is fully justified, considering that he was trying to sell it.
I personally would not accept such things as collateral if i was  lending, because those can easily be fake, as well as the price is hard to determine.
It would be different if it was something like electronics, that actually have value rather than the cards do.

Thank you everyone for your votes and your input.  I will use this thread as a reference the next time someone gets tagged for trying to sell their collateral.

From what I see on the thread you asked for at least a $400 loan and than posted cards you said where worth around $150. I don't think adding junk cards worth under $10 would have made it any better, because than if you dont pay the loan the funder is stuck trying to sell pokemon cards where most of them are crap and priority shipping is more than the card it self

there was never even a chance to establish the worth of collateral
never got to a point where a potential lender asked for ex. $800 in collateral

but with everything else about this, its all being based on assumption and alternate scenarios...instead of facts



everyone sees this, and is making their voice heard based off of this alone, instead of doing their due diligence before
providing their opinion on the matter

I would have to agree with this, but I think if the user has been trying a good "worth" X amount for over 1month, I wouldn't consider it valid collateral because it doesn't meet the criteria of being easy to sell.


I think every alt coin as collateral that is worth 1 sat with almost no volume should be marked negative because that is clear to be scammish.

I would have done the pokemon card loan(and I am sure everyone else would have) if the value of the cards exceeded the loan by 200% but that was not the case.

However, I requested a loan where I did not want the collateral back per say because my issue was selling the collateral for cash in the first place, but the collateral was BTC, so does that make it different?


https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17483711

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justified or not,it's all based on every individual opinion.
in my view,they deserve a red trust or even banned.
based on my observation they'burrower' are who's asking for a loan and using an account that he want to sell as a collateral.
that mean he's trying to scam a lender,it's really hard to sell an account plus we can see many people get hacked.
(found a lot of cases about account hacked and the hacker him/herself trying to sell it or even we can see it they're trying to use it as a collateral)
a dog always be like a dog,same like a scammer always be like that and trying to scam people everyday.

would it make a difference if the previous thread with the "for sale" item
was closed a week before the loan request with the same item was made using that item as collateral?

If he is trying to cheat and not informing the lender that the collateral is already posted to sell, so he deserve the red trust. Otherwise , if the lender know about this and accept it, there is no need to the red trust, in my opinion.

It deserves negative trust if there's a clear intention to defraud. If it's obvious the borrower doesn't have intentions to repay the loan to get the collateral back then it definitely deserves negative trust.

However I can think of a scenario where it doesn't:

• A person needs 0.5 BTC
• He has a good worth 1 BTC which he could sell if required
• He posts 2 threads: one trying to sell it for 1 BTC and another one asking for a 0.5-BTC loan, offering his good as collateral
• Whatever happens first, he closes the other thread

If it's clear the good is worth much more than the loan then he doesn't deserve negative trust. The reason is simple: he does want to get the collateral back even if he's trying to sell it because it's worth considerably more than the loaned amount. Of course the difference between the loaned amount and the good's value must be clear for this to apply.

Dont deserve the red for me, if the lender accepts a collateral that only means he thinks it is valuable enough for the loan so if the borrower does not pay the collateral now belongs to the lender and he can sell or keep the collateral. If i am the lender, i would not accept anythng i dont like as collateral in the first place

In that case I would agree with you. For example someone making a thread to sell their domain and also offering it for collateral that would be a great example.

I am not referring to anyone in particular. Is a general question at least for me, so i just post my opinion/answer about it.
I will not grand a Loan Request with this collateral anyways...

Thanks ls

Do keep in mind what I was offering was in fact not for sale...
Edit: it was however previously offered at auction more than a week prior.

IMHO when you offer something to another person/service/pawn shop as a Collateral, you can't sell it. Simple as that.
Because here physical items are rare to have them in our possession (so sale it's out of the picture), its needed to somehow protect all of us.

For me, Red is the only shield of protection at the moment. So until we have a better way, negative feedback needs to be given.
Thanks for creating this pool Vod, it's always good to share our thoughts and discuss.

Deserve red trust, Only in one case, if it is hidden from the Lender, In all other cases, it is a matter for the two subjects to handle.

I might be a bit bias, as jjrundy has been a borrower from me for quite some time, so my vote should not count.

So instead, I would just share an experience with him as his previous lender.

I would say that the guy is trust worthy enough here and he would likely not run with the amount.

I lent him a couple of times, and one time he sent me collateral (PINK Coins in poloniex) that went way below the loan amount. It was not his fault as I was not able to set a stop-loss limit. So I informed him about it, and I said it was my fault for letting it drop to that amount and not auto sell, and said that we could just clear the loan. He did offer repeatedly that he would pay the loan amount plus interest less how much I was able to sell the collateral. In short, he still wanted to pay the difference of the repayment amount and the amount I got for selling the collateral. But in the end, I just insisted that I just clear his loan.

He also had a no collateral loan with me of about 0.02BTC which he paid promptly without even me asking him to pay up.

Do note, however, that all loans with me was not as big as this loan amount. The highest amount he got as loan was about 0.08BTC.

Also, I do not have any comment on the Pokemon cards. But personally, I would deny most physical collateral.

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Edit: I would say that in case someone is using collateral that is currently being sold, that's not a good thing. However, I have a reservations on this rule, and I think there is an exception and in my opinion these are the requisites of this exception:

1. the item that is being sold has ceased to be for sale for a long time
2. the amount of loan being applied for is far from the price of the collateral (<60% of the market value maybe?)
3. the collateral can be easily liquidated for far more than the price of the loan.

I vote a ''No'' here.

As long as the Lender accept for those collateral, even trying to sell,
Anyway, Lender can say 'NO' if they think it is not a good deal.

I don't see any problem.

This is not unlike factoring and/or an inventory loan.

the collateral, was https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pokemon-card-2011641 the loan request using previously said collateral is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2041156.0days

Offering collateral for a loan and a sale for said collateral at the same time does deserve Red. It should be self explanatory.

Most of the time I see that too.  BUT You don't provide a lot of other information?  So, I can't vote except say:

Did the loanee, have the item for sale prior to requesting a loan?
Did the loanee inform prospective lender this item is up for sale?
Did the loanee initially claim, "no collateral" and when "called out"/shown this for sale thread did they change the request?

I saw that in the lending thread.  I'd probably give him the benefit of the doubt as long as that other selling thread is closed.
In either case, he's probably not going find anyone who'll take Pokemon cards as collateral.  Nice cards, but physical collateral doesn't seem to go over well.
He's probably learned his lesson.  But if that's truly what he's up to (selling items he's using for collateral), Vod is correct in his feedback.

I recently tagged a user for trying to use collateral he was actually trying to sell.   To me, this means the user has no interest to pay back the loan, as they don't want the collateral.

What do you think?  Is negative trust justified in this case?