He sold me a Jupiter for 9 BTC. Here were his replies:
Sorry cannot do escrow as I need to cash out the coins now to guarantee the price I am happy with, if you check my trust feedback though I am sure you will be comfortable without. I have done much larger trades than this.
and this:
Thats the only issue I cannot send overnight air shipping because I work 7 days a week and the only place I can send which is open after I finish up work is express international by royal mail which takes 3 days.
I asked for a photo, here was his response:
Hello, sorry did not have chance to take a photo, couldnt find my data transfer cable but thought it would be more important to get it shipped to you so it is packaged up and I will have the tracking for you in approx 12h.
and then his son apparently went to the hospital:
Hello - just wanted to let you know I am really sorry but I am going to miss the last post today, my son got rushed to hopsital so I had to leave work to go with him. (which is unforseen, hope you do understand just wanted to pm you so you did not worry)
When he finally shipped it, he gave me a tracking number and thought all was well, however to this day it still says "It's on the way" (yah right).
Posted it as promised sorry for the delay.
Tracking is RJ315893634GB this can be tracked here :
http://www.royalmail.com/track-tracePlease let me know you get it and everything is OK.
Then after I complained a lot, he offered to give me back some of my 9
BTC:
What I am willing to do which I think is the fairest solution send you back 4.5 BTC now so we both have half the liability and then when we find out more what is happening we can take it from there
Then I complained some more, and he gave me more BTC back...
If you give me your BTC address I am willing to refund you another 2.25 BTC which is a 75% refund so far and you pay me back if the unit arrives.
If it doesnt we can discuss our options then, this means I am taking 75% of the responsibility for the shipment which I think is fair under the circumstances.
He then had the gall to ask me to buy multiple neptune preorders as well as more Jupiters through PM, some as low as 7.75 w/ shipping. Thank god I decided he was shady as hell, even with his supposedly good trust rating.
I've only been scammed out of 2.25
BTC at this point, but still upset. That's a lot of money to me. I'd be happy to provide any information needed to anyone compiling information. I'm about to start an escrow business--these scammers are total pieces of filth and I don't want any other good person to get ripped off