How do I become an escrow? | Bitcointalksearch.org

noel57

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Quote from: brendanjhwu on June 17, 2015, 12:59:00 PM

Is there any certain requirements?
Not going to charge a fee for escrow.

I am sorry, your negative trust have killed your plans, nobody will patronize you even if you are give out 10% more than any money kept you.

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Quote from: brendanjhwu on June 17, 2015, 12:59:00 PM

Is there any certain requirements?
Not going to charge a fee for escrow.

No, make a thread where you offer your service in the marktplace section and wait for some people.
Of course nobody will choose you if you are a new member or have negative trust.

And you need some people that will trust you at your first escrows, than people will automatically come to you.

erikalui

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It's something good to note that the OP received negative feedback after making this post. If scammers now start working as escrows, this bitcoin community is doomed for sure.

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Negative trust. Who will escrow a negative trust member.
Also i would recommend escrows to put some money in hold to staff/admin lets say 1btc and then escrow thing up to 1btc so we can stay safe. This is one alternative.

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The irony in this post...

First off, not getting your account hacked and painted with red feedback...

Frankly, your goal should not be to become an escrow. The best escrows on the forum built a name for themselves being trustworthy by completing numerous deals successfully, and by contributing on the forums with solid posts, ideas, feedback, ect. The most trusted and successful escrows are Hero or legendary accounts. So your forum tenure is also a contributing factor of whether or not people will use you. Professionality is also important. Security as well. Lots of things really. Those are just a few.

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Quote from: --Encrypted-- on June 28, 2015, 01:36:17 AM

Quote from: btcfinans on June 27, 2015, 04:59:27 PM

Quote from: brendanjhwu on June 17, 2015, 12:59:00 PM

Is there any certain requirements?
Not going to charge a fee for escrow.

did not have this stats

Trust: -4: -2 / +0
Warning: Trade with extreme caution!
Ignore

to be fair. he scammed and got those ratings AFTER he made this topic.. guess people change when they see opportunity.

i doubt, usually something like this are planned long time before they will happen, i think he was a scammer even before this topic

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hee-ho.

Quote from: btcfinans on June 27, 2015, 04:59:27 PM

Quote from: brendanjhwu on June 17, 2015, 12:59:00 PM

Is there any certain requirements?
Not going to charge a fee for escrow.

did not have this stats

Trust: -4: -2 / +0
Warning: Trade with extreme caution!
Ignore

to be fair. he scammed and got those ratings AFTER he made this topic.. guess people change when they see opportunity.

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Quote from: brendanjhwu on June 17, 2015, 12:59:00 PM

Is there any certain requirements?
Not going to charge a fee for escrow.

did not have this stats

Trust: -4: -2 / +0
Warning: Trade with extreme caution!
Ignore

Clint

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I asked the same thing weeks ago, answer I got was to be very trusted. And the way you're going to be trusted is to trade which means buy and sell with bitcoin. Perform smooth transactions.

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Quote from: Btree on June 27, 2015, 04:27:00 AM

Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on June 27, 2015, 02:38:00 AM

Quote from: subSTRATA on June 27, 2015, 12:35:47 AM

Quote from: krazey on June 26, 2015, 11:59:50 PM

Is there a list of approved escrows on this forum?

there is this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/escrow-list-108716
don't know if its been updated recently though.

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It is not upto-date. See new one : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-escrows-trade-safely-855778.

i hope moderator Lock that thread and create 1 official escrow list
escrow is important to help us from avoid scams

There must not be any official escrow list because if one of the user in the list scams another user, forum will have to take that responsibility. In other words, there should not be any vouch to particular user from the forum to avoid potential big problems.

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Quote from: subSTRATA on June 27, 2015, 12:35:47 AM

Quote from: krazey on June 26, 2015, 11:59:50 PM

Is there a list of approved escrows on this forum?

there is this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/escrow-list-108716
don't know if its been updated recently though.

-snip-

It is not upto-date. See new one : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-escrows-trade-safely-855778.

i hope moderator Lock that thread and create 1 official escrow list
escrow is important to help us from avoid scams

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Quote from: subSTRATA on June 27, 2015, 12:35:47 AM

it seems this guy went and scammed, no need to bother. looks like he wanted to become an escrow service to scam people anyways.

Yep, and this is why any random person offering escrow without very good reason to should be negged on sight. If you aren't a familiar and very active member, don't have lots of trades or already aren't very trusted by the community then you shouldn't be offering these services. Only a matter of time before someone gets scammed by an 'escrow' and this guy would have run off as soon as he got his hands on an amount he liked.

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Quote from: subSTRATA on June 27, 2015, 12:35:47 AM

Quote from: krazey on June 26, 2015, 11:59:50 PM

Is there a list of approved escrows on this forum?

there is this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/escrow-list-108716
don't know if its been updated recently though.

-snip-

It is not upto-date. See new one : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-escrows-trade-safely-855778.

subSTRATA

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:^)

Quote from: krazey on June 26, 2015, 11:59:50 PM

Is there a list of approved escrows on this forum?

there is this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/escrow-list-108716
don't know if its been updated recently though.

Quote from: lockscreen on June 23, 2015, 05:25:31 PM

just be a trusted member and learning from someone who's escrow service
how to be a trusted member ?
try to more contributing in this forum, might be your name be easy to remember by those people ,

it seems this guy went and scammed, no need to bother. looks like he wanted to become an escrow service to scam people anyways.

krazey

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Is there a list of approved escrows on this forum?

lockscreen

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just be a trusted member and learning from someone who's escrow service
how to be a trusted member ?
try to more contributing in this forum, might be your name be easy to remember by those people ,

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:^)

Quote from: melisande on June 23, 2015, 05:10:28 PM

Think of what you can do to get some green trusts, and get to the rank of Hero.
People will give you their funds without looking back.

thats a fair bit of naivety you show right there; just because someone is a hero member and has some trust doesnt mean you should blindly trust them with whatever money you have; theres been plenty of scams that happened with similar scenarios, like the recent exit scam by maidak for example.

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Think of what you can do to get some green trusts, and get to the rank of Hero.
People will give you their funds without looking back.

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Quote from: hilariousandco on June 19, 2015, 03:26:09 AM

Quote from: brendanjhwu on June 18, 2015, 10:59:03 AM

Quote from: randy8777 on June 18, 2015, 04:58:13 AM

being an escrow isn't worth the time. some times you get a tip or so, but most of the top escrows do it for fun. not to gain something from it.

Yeah that's the point, I think it's fun lol.
I legitimately think it's fun to be an escrow.

What's fun about it? You're potentially offering to hold on to a lot of other people's money that you have been entrusted with. Will it be fun if something goes wrong or you lose funds somehow? You sound quite naive, especially when you disregarded everybody's advice in here and went and started a thread offering to escrow.

Quote from: brendanjhwu on June 18, 2015, 11:03:50 AM

Hey!

Thanks for the reply, do you think I can start escrowing now?
I'm pretty sure no ones gonna trust me with anything over 0.5 BTC, but I gotta start somewhere right?

Do you think people would allow me to do their small deals?

Why would anyone trust you with 0.01? They have no reason to and using you defeats the purpose of escrow. How does anyone know you won't just run off as soon as someone sends you 0.5btc or an amount you like the look of? You don't start off by offering escrow, you build your trust and rep over time by doing trades and being an active member of the community. Most escrows should fall into it naturally and if you're an active and trustworthy member people may ask you to escrow deals regardless but announcing that you want to hold onto people's money with no previous experience and zero rep just looks suspect at the least.

You're right.
That's why I stopped the thread.

I'm sorry for wanting to be an escrow! I'll wait for more rep, and prove your "suspect" thing wrong. Count on it.

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Quote from: aysha9859 on June 19, 2015, 05:47:27 AM

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secondly use PGP
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Using PGP is not mandatory. You can also use a Bitcoin address for signing.

Quote from: aysha9859 on June 19, 2015, 05:47:27 AM

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and then trust is coming to you step by step.

You first need to be trusted to act as escrow. Not the other way around.

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