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Really depends on your Country ?
I am in Australia and I now use a couple of trusted people on IRC now when I want to sell.
I send first, they send first, we all trust each other. Once we login to OTC (and nickserv) everyone happy and verified.
I know I will have the money in my bank account in 24 hour or whatever... takes a little while to get to that level of trust, but you do due diligence.
Plus they know I will kneecap them =)
but yeah, what country ? or you just asking a general question ? I think its county dependent.
That's good I believe the majority of transactions which involves turning fiat to bitcoin or vice versa is based on one trusting the other based on his/her previous dealings and reputation. Which channel do you use on IRC to trade? It was more of a general question typically for people outside of USA.
I live in Romania and right now i don't know who to trust here for a sell so it depends on where do you live
Exactly my point. You can sell here using trusted escrow services but we definitely need secured, trusted exchanges to make this easy, fast and some sort of legal assurance that people will not lose their btc or fiat in the process.
The price you can obtain on LocalBitcoins depends on your reputation.
If you're willing to start with low margins and build up your reviews you will eventually get the trades from the people who will pay more to deal with somebody with the best reviews.
Yeah, I am learning more about them, will try to do some small trades to see how easy and reliable they are and for now they seem to be the only ones dealing with different local currencies.
Local Bitcoins seems nice to me, maybe the prices are not so current but it has a reputation system like ebay, and you also can find physical
cash over there.
Yeah, I see some people offer to provide cash trade in person. I will try this out at some point and see how it goes.