Sounds like you should have used bitcoins to take payment rather than paypal. Perhaps we can all learn a lesson from this: use bitcoin more.
For the guy who scammed you, I guess it is hard when you already have a relationship, but maybe you should look into using an escrow service when buying a large order using bitcoins?
Im still exactly looking into what went on. He had done great work in the past and drove 35 min to make in person transactions. Desloc never got his canvas and I do not know if he is in actual recuipt of the btc as no contact has been made in a long time. I just assume.
As far as Paypal, up until this, they had been great. Our very first paypal contract got held while they made sure he made the purchase and in 24 hours the funds were released and I got great assistance from paypal on how to handle these transactions. I had explained our work to them and they understood the concept of subscription bassed server rentals for processing power. The problem that caused the issue is that the scammer claims he never even heard of us or bitcoin and that this was a stolen paypal account.
Just to make sure everyone is clear. We are not stoping opperation. There are still contracts to finish, and even some to start so there will be alot more of Shades Minoco. One of the things that is happening is that alot of our hardware was 5830s and thus why I am selling them to buy 5970s to make managing this cluster a bit easier than that many 5830s.
