Topic: Escrow list - page 13. (Read 74292 times)

I'm quite new but willing to offer escrow for tips + transaction fees)

I'm UK based and online all the time.

+1 for John and Graet

John and Graet escrowed my ASICMINER auction with a total of 2380BTC, which denominated in fiat at today's rate might be the largest volume escrowed so far in Bitcoin world.

Everything went smooth and fast. Great service. Can absolutely recommend both. Thanks.

I, too, would like to become an escrow. I don't have much reputation yet, but I was hoping this could help boost it up. I will charge nothing to be the agent.

I would like to be an escrow. Will take 0.5% for the trouble.
I own a blog about BTC at bitcoinmalaysia.com

If you need to host the Escrow list on my site, PM me as
its on the unlimited bandwidth and storage package.

forgot to mention here, i dropped the thrucoin fee down to 0.5% a few weeks ago as the most recent visitors have no doubt seen

PS: Just to consolidate and manage the escrow requests I've been receiving, I've made a new topic here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/john-john-ks-escrow-service-previously-known-as-johnthedong-141672

I'm happy to announce that I am offering free escrow service with of course tips greatly appreciated. I have various feedbacks you can check me on the list. I am currently doing my first escrow for a bfl single trusted with $600+ in bitcoins currently and looking forward to helping out this community more in the future!

Has anybody used gigavps as an escrow before?

+1 for Graet, just used him for my first BTC purchase.  Quick and easy.

+1 for Graet.

I've used him countless times for hardware purchases on the forum.

Posted on here before, but have had many successful high dollar trades using john(johnthedong) as escrow. +1 for sure. And he doesn't ask for anything in return, but I try to give him a nice tip.

What do you guys think about move this list to Google Docs?

At some point there will be some instances where the escrow partners will need to perform dispute resolution.  

Like right now, I'ld be hard pressed to know how using escrow would help a seller where the buyer makes a false claim (e.g., the buyer claims the box that arrived had a brick in it instead of the expensive item the seller had shipped out.)  How does the escrow know if the seller is not lying, or if the buyer is not lying, or both are not lying as in the scenario where the box did indeed come with only a brick, but someone at the package delivery service was responsible for the switch.   Heh, or this situation -- FedEx says it was delivered.  Buyer says it wasn't:
 - http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/ups-man-steals-ipad-mini

We know how PayPal deals with it (the seller is presumed to be guilty unless the seller has done hundreds of transactions and does not have a history of getting customer complaints).
 - http://codenerdz.com/blog/2012/12/05/post-mortem-outcry-of-the-crowd

As bitcoins start to be used for transactions involving higher dollar amounts, I can see there being the need for an escrow partner who is local and will provide the personal services sometimes necessary with certain types of transactions.  For instance, if the escrow partner personally inspects the shipment and the terms are FOB origin, for instance, the seller can be paid before waiting for the items to reach the buyer.  Or the escrow partner meets with the domain name seller and observes the transfer real-time to ensure it was assigned properly.  Or maybe provide additional services as well (e.g., visiting the seller to pick up the item because the buyer will be traveling to complete the transaction and won't arrive until after business hours.)

I came to this realization that this really is the essense of these P2P startups (AirBNB, TaskRabbit, RelayRides, etc.).  They are escrow and payment providers each for a specific niche of service provider.  Those startups get a nice cut even though the provider plus an escrow partner with no other intermediary might be a good substitute.

+1 for Graet, TangibleCryptography, Kludge, and gweedo. I've used all of them in the past, and they're all excellent choices. I remember using Patrick as well, but I don't see him on the list, and that's a whole other story. 

I'd also like to throw my name up on that list. I've offered escrow for a few small dealings for other people, and my own personal trade history is HERE.

I'm honoured. 

i will remember  (for next projects)

I do free Engrish->English translations, fwiw. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1410158   

The website is a place were you can advertise what you do for bitcoins. If someone is interested in your services, then he will place an order and send the bitcoins to the system. The system will hold them until you finish the work, and then when it's delivered will release them to you.
That's basically bitcoinerr.com

The referral program is a marketing program for bitcoinerr.com that allows you to earn bitcoins just for telling others what you do. Simply as that.

By the way, cookies are part of internet life. I would say that 98% of the sites you have visited have installed some cookies on your system. That's how sites remembers things like preferences, tokens.. or whatever.


That's it, and user A will get FOREVER that 1% from user B's sales.

We didn't use a referral link because our main goal was to incentive people to spread what they are willing to do.  Moreover, we think is fairer for User A this system, because you never know if user b is not going to sign in just after visiting user's A service.

I would like to thank you for your explanation, as i'm not English and i couldn't express it so good.

I'll throw my name on the list, if someone needs an escrow agent.

My rep includes so many trades in the hardware section and alt currency section I've lost count.  Plenty of references available.  jduck1987, bigal, juggalodarkclow, AnonX, lightlord, liquid, Dalkore, BCB, starlightbreaker, nethead....on and on and on...

I won't charge anything, just a thanks, and maybe a tip.  

I can also hold altcoins in escrow.  Even if it doesn't say I'm online, shoot me a pm.  I get that directly on my cell phone, and can see that you need me. 

Typical referral system, but uses cookies instead of just referral URLs (so if someone visits the site using a referral link but doesn't sign up right away, the initial referrer still gets his cut if the person referred should sign up in, say, 2 weeks). The cookie would store the referring user's ID code (possibly among other things... dunno).

So let's say User A refers User B. User B looks at the service using User A's link, but isn't selling anything which'd use escrow. A week later, User B has a sale and uses bitcoinerr.com to handle escrow. Because Bitcoinerr used a cookie to store referral information, User A still gets a 1% cut, even if User B signed up going directly to bitcoinerr.com instead of say, bitcoinerr.com/UserAReferralCode. If the item costs 1BTC and the burden of paying for an escrow agent is to fall on the seller, the BTC flow would break down as follows:
*Buyer gives bitcoinerr (escrow agent) 1BTC.
*Bitcoinerr takes a .033BTC cut of that.
*Of that, Bitcoinerr gives User A (the referrer) .01BTC, now leaving Bitcoinerr with a .023BTC net gain.
*Seller receives .967BTC once the buyer releases escrow.

Referral or not, Bitcoinerr takes the same cut.

(P.S. I'm listed in OP as "Klunge")