Best ways to trade highly expensive items for mesos/NX

I mean, if you want SAFE, the only thing to do is mesos. ("Official") middlemen can make it less risky, but there's no way to do NX or money safely. Paypal is the worst because their policies are absolute garbage for online buying/selling. Actually, paypal is pretty much the worst *period*.

Paypal is absolutely the easiest way to get scammed. Do NOT use paypal for MMO-related transactions. Your absolute best bet is to use mesos. Buying apples or something that has a pretty solid non-fluctuating price is the way to go.

Thanks. Now I know Paypal is awful when it comes to this.

What's wrong with using collateral? Say you're selling a belt to someone for 3b. You guys talk it out and agree on the value of some other item he has, e.g. his shoes for 1b. He trades 2b + shoes to you at the same time you trade your belt to him. Then he trades 1b more for the shoes back. It's easy and risk free.

I don't think there's much wrong with collateral and your example is great. It's just that it's not always easy to be sure if those shoes are indeed worth 1b mesos, they could be much more or much less. They could also be duped which also complicates things. But yes, this is probably the method with the lowest risk.

i find collateral annoying, especially since my guildies usually get their collat stolen, i usually try to gain their trust and have the other guy go first. otherwise use items with a known meso value (say scrolls)

i don't use paypal, but from what it seems, you can pretty much 100% chargeback if you want. and well, official middlemen involves you going to "sites" to look for their services.

and eww man, your thread got me suspended for a day

I guess Paypal is useful if you're about to quit and you want to chargeback for real money. And sorry my thread got you banned . That troll guy ruined the whole thing and I got up today and saw a warning from Mr.Bot, thread was gone for some reason o__O. Oh yeah, I also got banned: "Moderator: Trading items for NX is illegal in GMS at this point. You cannot ask for information or give people information on how it's done.". Sure it is illegal Basil. If breathing was illegal would I be suspended for taking a breath too?

I don't know about other servers, but you could try using B Rank Nebulites as a form of payment. They always seem pretty stable and aren't that hard to resell.

That can work, except that someone would need to have about 5 good ones to have about a billion's worth.