How to make a successful crypto transaction on the P2P Market

17.09.2021

The biggest advantage of a P2P crypto market is that individuals can buy or sell crypto at their own accord, without any intervention of a third party. Combined with the convenience of a wide range of payment method options such as PayPal or Neosurf, crypto markets provide great freedom in crypto buying and crypto selling. Today, we will discuss in detail how you can buy your crypto gift cards from the market with maximum efficiency and security.

1. Your account

First thing’s first, you will need to set up your account. The process is quite simple, you will fill in some basic details, create a strong password, verify your phone number and your identity. These verifications are mandatory in order for us to be able to maintain a safe community and detect any signs of suspicious activity. We also recommend setting up a 2-factor authentication just to add another layer of security to your account. When you’re all set and ready to explore the market, you can head over to the market section on our website and enter your desired crypto gift card value and preferred payment method. The market offers a lot of them - PayPal, Neosurf, Skrill, and many other ways to buy crypto of your choice.

2. Finding the right offer

Crypto Voucher’s market provides transparent information about its sellers, so you can choose the one that best fits your needs and preferences. You can browse through all the offers and click on the seller’s profile to find out more about them. Here are some information that you can find in the offer or in the crypto seller's profile:

Username & profile picture
Status - whether the seller is online or offline at that moment.
Ratings - users can rate their experience with a seller after their transaction. That way, you can check if other buyers were happy buying from this seller.
Verifications - you can check whether the seller has verified their phone number, identity, address, and if they’ve registered as a company. We verify our sellers to make sure that they are trustworthy and do not expose our community to any risks.
Fee rate - market sellers set their own fee rates. It is a percentage of the value of your voucher that the seller wants to receive for their service. You can later choose whether this percentage will be taken from your voucher’s value or added up to it.
Requirements - some sellers require their customers to have their identity verified.
Restrictions - there can be some country restrictions specified for some sellers.
Minimum & maximum value - how little or how much worth of crypto can you possibly buy from that particular seller.
Information & working hours - these can be found in the seller’s profile. Here you can check the seller’s trade partners, completed transactions and daily working hours.

3. Communicating with the seller

When communicating with a seller, it is important to remember that there is a person on the other side of the chat. That being said, a conversation with a seller should always start with a nice “Hello!” before you start discussing your payment. The seller should send you simple payment instructions. After you’ve paid according to these instructions, you should check with the seller if they’ve received the money. If everything went smoothly, you can click on the “I have paid” button. You should receive your crypto gift card shortly.

A seller should never ask for your passwords, credit card details, private key to your crypto wallet, nor any other such personal information. If a seller does anything of such manner, please cancel the transaction and notify us of this behavior. In case of a dispute, you can also find a dispute button in the chat. This button will call a moderator to interfere and help resolve the dispute.

4. What if it goes wrong?

We, at Crypto Voucher, do everything to identify our sellers and welcome only the legitimate ones. In fact, we are proud to say that we have only had very few disputes - mainly due to simple misunderstandings.

However, The greatest strength of P2P markets becomes their greatest weakness, when it ends up in the wrong pair of hands. Even though companies providing P2P services make their best efforts to filter out scammers by adopting strict security measures, sometimes a scammer is clever enough to pass all the checks and infiltrate the platform. A P2P scam can have many shapes and forms, from the seller simply not sending you your voucher after you’ve paid, to them trying to gain access to your account or crypto wallet. When buying crypto through P2P platforms, there is always a certain risk of encountering people with malicious intentions. If you feel like you’ve been a victim of a P2P scam, the best thing to do is to contact the platform’s customer service.

To keep yourself safe, always pay attention to seller’s details and ratings, never expose your personal information and if you feel like you have found a potential scammer, or that you’ve been a victim of a P2P scam on our market, please report it immediately to our customer support team at [email protected].