Topic: Do you think BiPolarBob is crazy ?? - share with us the help he gave to you - page 15. (Read 38445 times)

Where does he ask that? I have never seen him make a post like that.

Asking people to send him bitcoins and he will double them, is in itself a negative/harmful act, even if he follows through.

I have done many deals with BiPolarBob in the past and have talked extensively with him on IRC. He always send me the gift codes first and asked me to pay afterwards (or not at all). He is a really nice guy if you ask me and I wouldn't label him as a scammer. It's of course possible, but for the time being, I highly doubt it.

EDIT: He also paid of a debt: Arklan and gifted someone their scammed BTC back (this is a bit sketchy, I agree): click.

Teaching people how to be good scam victims is not helping them out.

He's helping people out, but i guess you're just too thick to notice that. Good job on abusing the trust system.

I don't trust people who are either scamming or teaching people to be scammed. That's a perfectly valid reason ("excuse").

You must be so dense to leaving feedback without a valid excuse.

He's always been trustworthy and you leaving him that rep IMO is a huge violation of the trust system. That's a dick move.

you must be a real big idiot to leave him -rep you are buthurt because you not got a good deal from him?

you are a BIG ASSHOLE :-)

cmon leave me -rep i do not care ^^

Giveaway is hugely different from "send me your bitcoins first".

People are such cynics these days No one can giveaway anything before being accused of being a scammer, thief, etc, etc such as in BiPolarBob's case here.

This proves absolutely nothing at all.

pirateat80 was "really true" too... until it wasn't.

Where's the proof he isn't:
1) Scamming people with different nicks, to pay for those gift cards
2) Being paid off by scammers who take advantage of those he predisposes to making foolish decisions

Even if he isn't doing any of those things, he's de facto teaching people to make foolish decisions and become scammer bait.
IMO that makes him at least partly at fault for scams resulting, whether he was directly involved or not.

So I heard there was some naysayers in this thread. One person even claimed that BPB paid for the gift cards with stolen credit cards.

I can say this is not the case.

BPB myself were talking and he proved that not only is he extra CrAzY, he is also legitimate. None of the GCs he's sold here (or elsewhere) for ridiculously low rates are paid though illegitimate means. They were all paid for with BTC. But how do I know this?

Well, we worked something out, and he shared with me his secrets. He is just genuinely a nice guy that likes to give away good deals to the community.

He gets his gift cards from gyft.com, which also accepts BTC as a form of payment. He allowed me to log into his account and personally verify every GC was paid for with BTC, which as we all know, is irreversible.

proof of previous GC cards being purchased with BTC: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof1.jpg

But, hey, this might be some random person's login? Well, we worked out a CrAzY deal for myself. I managed to score a MASSIVE amazon gift card from him. He paid for it with BTC in his own login session on his PC, and allowed me to view the code myself (I forgot to make a screenshot of the screen that shows before it reveals the code, but oh well)

$1000 amazon card purchased: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof2.jpg
Forgot to screengrab before I revealed the code, but here it is after I revealed it: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof5.jpg
BTC payment showing on blockchain: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof3.jpg
He also paid me from the same address to confirm it was his: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof4.jpg

I was able to add it to my amazon account without a hitch: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof6.jpg
And use it towards the purchase of a shiny new computer CPU: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof7.jpg
Order placed: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/proof/proof8.jpg

So he is simply an extra crazy, but charitable person. He has a number of BTCTalk forum +rep's and some +rep's on #bitcoin-otc (He was able to tell me in IRC PM what I PM'd him in the forum, linking the two account). For the foreseeable future, you can trust this guy to hold up his end.

But guys, PLEASE, remember to exercise caution with "too good to be true" deals. While BPB's case really is true, it's very atypical, and people should exercise caution and do their research before making a decision when trading on similar "too good to be true" deals.

Got a Steam code from him. He's CrAzY!
I feel sorry he's banned for the time being. It's unfair.

How do you know? I don't see any loss on the buyer side as they either pay wayyyy below the market price for each of the gift card and he even have some of them for free. So far, no one have reported a single problem out of a lot of buyers. I believe the gift card he gave is lesser than the total amount he gave out in those coins. I personally have received more than $100 of the coins out of the blue. I can see that he have given out more than that amount of individual users and the community. If he starts scamming people, the person would most probably report it and people would spam him negative trust and stop buying from him. It only take one trade $5-10 to ruin a $1000++ perfect trade history.

The total value of gift cards he's given out is a HELL of a lot more than the total value of these LTC giveaways, handouts and debt repayments he's done. I never said those giveaways/repayments were illicit, they were obviously OK, but I don't believe his story that he's paying for all these gift cards at full price and I suspect something illegal is going on to obtain them which is reasonable considering how common carded gift cards are. Maybe he's just a rich carder/troll but who knows really all we can do is speculate, but you can bet I won't be getting any of those gift cards and people need to be careful.

I'd feel a lot less suspicious if he gave a reasonable explanation as to how he's obtained so many gift cards from many different websites, but thus far he hasn't he just claims he buys them for cash at full price and is giving them away for a fraction of the cost.

Ok, so that covers the "stolen gift card" aspect. Now how do you explain him paying other people's debt, handing out btc to people in hardships, or kickstarting a fund with btc that otherwise wouldn't have happened? None of these that I mentioned involved any gift cards that could be potentially stolen like you mentioned. First time I saw him paying someone's debt out of the blue, my jaw just dropped, as I was pretty confused. But then I saw this several more times and figured he was more than generous to help someone out. Are you going to say these are stolen btc too?

Perhaps the people that donate to charity in real life, maybe all these funds are illicit too, right?

Maybe you should learn to read. Reread all my posts in this thread. He's giving away stuff for free or nearly free, he's probably not a scammer but maybe a troll giving away stolen gift cards and codes for free and he wouldn't be the first person on the internet to do that.

He says that he buys all the gift cards for cash at full price. Do you really believe him? where do you think he gets all of them?

Came across this topic while browsing randomly.

Does sound as if Bi-Polar Bob is a very kind-hearted person, not to mention very rich! 

I had heard of those unbelieveable giveaways earlier on some other forum but just didn't know he was the protagonist!

It really doesn't matter if he is crazy, as long as he is generous and humane. OFC there are a lot of scammers on this forum, i just hope he has the foresight to identify them and send them on their merry way instead of letting his money end up in scammer pockets! Keep up the good work Bob. Hope that many more people are touched by your generosity.

Acoin this is very interesting. 400 BTC, I wonder how we got that much. Tell me in skype whats his original address.