I had 5 people reply via pm, I am very uneasy about it. Paypal has a no refunds on intangible items policy. I have a paypal balance from selling items, and that is what I wanted to use to purchase the btc. I know if I got screwed and used my debit card/credit card via paypal I could just call the card company and it is no big deal, but I am unsure how it would work with the intangible goods policy and paypal funds. BTC-E unlocked my account today anyway, and the group buy I wanted to get in on is now closed, so the whole thing is moot now, however what is the easiest ways to purchase btc in the future? I looked around on local bitcoin, but the rates are higher than gox or coinbase.
4.25BTC sounds like you want buy antminer, there is a new group for another 150 or more units.
The best way is bitstamp or gox or any of your local exchanger. Where you are located?
I am located in Nebraska, That is good that they are doing another groupbuy, I will have to get on that. I have the btc for it now. I have been using my gpu to mine litecoins and had accumulated a qty of them. I decided I wanted to buy an antminer so I used btc-e to exchange them. Btc-e changed out my ltc for btc but wouldn't let me withdraw them for 3 days, and I was sure the group buy would run out of stock before they unlocked my btc. Paypal is the only way I knew of to transfer money online and quickly(besides btc of course) so I was low on options.
I looked at the local option, the closed person to me is 140 miles.(we are kind of spread out over here) and he wanted 15% more than gox.
