User: Leave -
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/leave-859786Deal: Leave offered me to sell $100 giftrocket gift card for $70 btc.
[For starters ,Giftrocket gift card can be redeemed to physical card or can be transferred to US bank account.Sender of gift card can use thier credit card and buy the card of any value and send directly to receivers email address.The receiver can click the link and buy any store gift card or just simply transfer to bank/credit card account.Giftrocket just authorizes the sender's credit card and will not charge the card till it is redeemed by the receiver]
What went wrong?: I offered @leave to use escrow ,but initially offered me that he will go first and asked me to send btc immediately after redeeming.But as I know teh actually charge will occur only once I redeem the card,i have not accepted it and asked to use escrow and will release after CONFIRMATION by the bank (which usually happens in 1 working day)..but he said he will give another $10 discount if I can send btc after redeeming .I have not agreed..he looked around for some escrows and could not get one.Finally he agreed for sending btc after confirmation by the bank.
He send the gift rocket redemption ink around 6 pm EST (after end of the business hours of bank).I have waited 1 day to see if it goes through .But nothing happened.Checked Giftrocket website,which says that the processing time is 3 to 4 business days [but by my previous experience it was never more than 2 days]
I have communicated the same to @leave that I will pay after confirmation.I was offline for a day and he oepned a scam report
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/scammed-100-by-green-trust-member-user-kirch-uid-92027-1513878TILL TODAY THE GIFT ROCKET FUNDS ARE NOT INTO MY ACCOUNT
As a policy giftrocket will respond to the funds status or any related queries if contacted from sender's or receiver's email and not to third party.I have PMed @leave few days back and asked him to contact gift rocket about the status and let me know.He has not yet got back to me
[I think that after I redeemed the card,the giftrocket has tried to charge the sender's credit card which has not gone through (for various reasons ) and the card got cancelled.]
I have already informed @leave that I am NOT a scammer and ready to deposit the funds in escrow,till the issue is resolved.Now I am fully convinced that he has send me a carded gift card and though he would get away with it