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Topic: Direct sell of BTC, buyer can scam. Escrow, seller can scam. :/ (Read 1556 times)

legendary
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Okey Dokey Lokey
the fee's should get shoved back into the nodes to support the network
full member
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The question is, if that company starting to support chargebacks will have to set some high fee. Like those 4% credit card companies have. Then, one of big Bitcoin benefits will disappear.

For that particular spindly crag on the bitcoin iceberg, yes. The rest of it floats on unaffected.

hero member
Activity: 531
Merit: 505
The question is, if that company starting to support chargebacks will have to set some high fee. Like those 4% credit card companies have. Then, one of big Bitcoin benefits will disappear.
newbie
Activity: 36
Merit: 0
One day someone will launch, a company which will provide a chargeback like functionality on top of bitcoin and will put paypal our of biz. this is of course if paypal do not start playing ball first.

It's just a bit early for this kind of services to pop up.

why not ?
its buziness, after all ?
if anyone need it, someone provide it, for reasonable fee.

I'm sure someone can just say hey I'll mediate one transaction for a fee or so on, but to launch a full scale business solution that can provide for all won't happen overnight. Without even going in depth, there should be a pretty significant initial investment to manage the risks involved while running this type of business if their goal is to reach the masses.
newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
One day someone will launch, a company which will provide a chargeback like functionality on top of bitcoin and will put paypal our of biz. this is of course if paypal do not start playing ball first.

It's just a bit early for this kind of services to pop up.

why not ?
its buziness, after all ?
if anyone need it, someone provide it, for reasonable fee.
hero member
Activity: 812
Merit: 1001
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One day someone will launch, a company which will provide a chargeback like functionality on top of bitcoin and will put paypal our of biz. this is of course if paypal do not start playing ball first.

It's just a bit early for this kind of services to pop up.
newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
use deals with insurance.
buy in trust sheme.
legendary
Activity: 1708
Merit: 1010
It is unsafe.  The consumer (you) need to be more dilligent about the quality of vendors you do business with, as opposed to being dependent upon the chargebacks that other payment methods provide for you while charging the vendor 1.9% of the cost of the item.
full member
Activity: 162
Merit: 100
Build a reputation slowly at #bitcoin-otc
full member
Activity: 131
Merit: 100
 Huh

If I sell my BTC, the person buying them can chargeback on paypal/etc
If i sell through escrow, that puts me in the position where they view me as the scammer!  ("But i swear, I sent the goods!  The mail must have lost it!")

Where's the balance for newcomers?  I've yet to transact, but am looking to soon, but it just all seems quite unsafe.

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