Topic: Do you think BiPolarBob is crazy ?? - share with us the help he gave to you - page 12. (Read 38445 times)

free bob! lol how long more till 30 days?

He has been banned for 30 days, because he give Altcoins away (which is disallowed on this forum).

Bipolar Bob now has negative reputation and is out for at least a month

People say he ask to send the coins first, but when I bought the Steam code he sent first, and I guess he does not verify who pays and who doesn't.

That neg rep is not true, and might have scared away him

EDIT: why BiPolarBod has been banned?

EDIT2: because of the litecoin giveaway. Any hint about how long?

He has sold gift cards for as much as .08 BTC each (which represents a deep discount). The reason he does not sell more is due to his "limited" supplies of gift cards. He could easily sell for less of a discount and in higher amounts. Another thing is that he has previously limited people to only be able to buy one from him period (once you buy a gift card from him you cannot buy another). The likely reason for this is to get as many people to "trust" him as possible. He could easily remove this rule to get repeat business. He also gets many people to ay him at once, and only after all payments have been received he sends the gift cards. He could easily say something along the lines of "when I was banned for 30 days I have accumulated 100's of various gift cards worth $100 each send .08 to 1bipolarbobsaddress and post here to claim your card", if he were to get 100 responses from 100 members (this would not be unreasonable IMO) then he would get 8 BTC (~$3,200) which I would estimate would be more then he has given away. if he were to take away the "one card per user" limit then he could potentially get many more responses.

In reference to your comment about escrow, most escrow services are free, and could easily be streamlined with one escrow service. Also since the cost of the gift cards is so low, the buyer paying for escrow would still result in a very deep discount on the gift cards.

Actually, escrow is very dangerous for the seller (at least for gift cards).  Just think about it.  All the buyer has to do is redeem the gift card and then say "the gift card didn't work."

Then the escrow won't release payment to the seller..

How can the seller prove the gift card wasn't already redeemed or sold to someone else prior?  (This is what the scammer would be claiming.)  You can't prove a negative.  Basically, escrow is the best way to scam a gift card seller. 

UNLESS it's a gift card that allows the escrow to view/verify the balance first.  Then I could see escrow being useful, because it prevents either party from stealing and running.  But most gift cards aren't like this.

I think escrow would require sometime to be processed and usually get charged for a small fee. There are usually a lot of people buying gift cards from him at once so it would be quite a mess if he were to use escrow. Also, he usually give those away for free. I don't think his trust is worth 100++BTC, not even 10BTC to be honest, once someone says that he is a scam, his account would go to waste immediately so it is impossible for him to get that much profit.

Didn't you read what multiple people told you? He always gave the codes first and asked for the BTC after that. He even removed his BTC addresses from his topic's so that people wouldn't pay upfront anymore.

But well, we shall see what happens, right? Everything that has been said right now is speculation.

Wow, this guy is really giving. Hopefully I can get a deal with him once he gets back.

He always asks for money upfront. He asks people to send him very small amounts of bitcoin to his address first and to contact him to get the code for the gift card he is selling. His posts always say that he is not willing to use escrow and people are willing to do this.

I also do not see why he would not be willing to use escrow. If he is giving these gift cards away for very small payments then I see no reason why he cannot do this, other then to set people up for scams in the future.

I would not be personally surprised if he were to offer a great deal for users once he gets unbanned and ends up running away with 100+ BTC from people who "trust" him

Nah. Only negative he has right now is from luke-jr. Still has a couple days left on the forum ban. He'll be back.

Maybe he is angry he got negative feedback for no reason

I think hes banned period has been finished but I do not know why he does not post any new post, It is excellent if the people who posted negative feedback describe it more.

No no he had actually been banned from the forum. He did a LTC giveway which was against the rules. Hopefully we will see him come back after.

I traced his address that he paid people out from and it had well over 400BTC. As long as he doesn't ask for money upfront I dont see what issue is

IIRC he can still login to his account, just can't post or PM anybody, which is why I thought it was weird that he hasn't been online for two weeks. Like, he was logged in during his ban before.

hope hes not permbanned ;(

Does anyone know what happened to BPB? He hasn't logged in to his Bitcointalk account for 2 weeks now. Anything new?

Just because someone is a "newbie" doesn't mean they don't have a lot of money.

I think he is creating an environment in which people will easily get scammed because it will cause them to become more trusting then they should be with their bitcoin on these forums.

Or maybe he is trying to increase adoption on these forums by giving away things of value. Has anyone looked at the addresses he sent from to see just how rich he is?

Same here. He gave me a steam code in PM first, and when I asked for his bitcoin address, he disappeared.

Talking from your ass for both of these statements? He has given plenty of things free without asking for btc in return. For the one or two instance where I bought something, he gave it to me first before giving me a btc address to send.