Well, I ended up getting scammed. Perhaps my story will help others avoid the mistake that I did. So, a user named bitcoinjedi contacted me through a pm and said he could give me bitcoin for my paypal at a near 1:1 preev rate. We talked on google hangouts via text and exchanged information. Ended up sending $1,300 to the paypal address he provided. Never got the btc. I believe I was part of a man in the middle type scam where I would send money to some third party and he, having already communicated with this third party, would receive the bitcoin instead of me. His recent posts indicate though that he never received the bitcoin either though, so he might have got scammed as well. I thought I was safe with paypal, but apparently you can't charge back friends and family payments. Anyways, lesson learned the hard way. Looks like I'm sticking to just trusted sites now. Hopefully this story will help others in the future.... Misconceptions can cost you a lot of money!
i am sorry that you got scammed, but
lots of people here - legit people - have offered you their service + escrow
it's your own fault bro
edit: could you not file a claim? id do that immediately if the @seller@ stops contact after money were transferred
I actually don't believe you because bitcoinjedi https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/bitcoinjedi-55140 hasn't been online since the 3rd of April 2012
while thebitcoinjedi https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/thebitcoinjedi-514942 was part of a dispute with Venusianism who has retracted his/her accusation against a third person.
Start a scam accusation in the so named section if you are genuine.
