Hi, I'm looking for someone to escrow my prizes. I'm holding a contest and 3 winners will be selected by me. This means I will give away 3 prizes, 0.1 btc, 0.25 btc and 0.5 btc. I will start off with 0.1 btc, I will pm you as soon as I pick a winner. However, this could take a few weeks.
Could I do business with you?
Could I do business with you?
No. I don't see any benefit to providing escrow for this scenario except adding a false sense of trust. If you're choosing the contest winners, then you could easily select friends or aliases as winners and that would undermine the escrow. It sounds to me like you need someone to build you a trustless lottery system.
First off, don't make accusations before knowing anything. It's the first time I'm using escrow and yeah I forgot about the fact that you need to choose the winners (else it wouldn't have any point).
There is no reason to become emotional about it. You asked if we could do business and I explained why I would not provide the service you are requesting. I turn down quite a few escrow requests for similar reasons. The only accusation I made was that you need someone to build you a trustless lottery system, which you should view as friendly advice instead of becoming defensive. I still believe that to be true, as your escrow agent certainly isn't going to choose winners of your contest.
Rofl, then how would I be able to show I'm not "building a trustless lottery system". Ofcourse there are 'escrow agents' that are willing to take 1min of their time to pick a winner, maybe you do not. Besides, my contest is free and no registration is required. It's funny how high ranked members always thinks newer guys are scammers.
If you explain in simpler words, it would be better for me. 