# PR for Face to Face trade

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/pr-for-face-to-face-trade/5821>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [July 20, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/pr-for-face-to-face-trade/5821 "2018-07-20T23:47:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ManfredKarrer](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/manfredkarrer/32/26_2.png) [@ManfredKarrer](https://bisq.community/u/ManfredKarrer)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/pr-for-face-to-face-trade/5821/7 "2018-07-21T22:42:57Z")

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Just stumbled over an older discussion here:

> [@Payment Face to Face](https://bisq.community/t/payment-face-to-face/3545/18):
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> I think that: The hardest part about arranging a F2F exchange is finding a willing exchange partner locally. Doing so requires a service with enough network effect to attract participants worldwide. LBC is useful for this, but they try to funnel users through their escrow service which means loss of possession of coins and trusting a centralized third party at least temporarily. Not everyone wants that, and some like myself actively avoid it and will only deal with the few traders that …

The idea from @erizo to use a bank transfer as security tool was quite interesting.  
We could recommend the users that they do a tiny 1 EUR transfer to each other, so they know the others bank details. That gives them some sort of KYC and reduces the risk of robbery a lot IMO. As it is just a recommendation it is up to the users to do it or not. They could also perform a normal ID check but that comes with ID theft risk, so a bank transfer might be less critical.

@peertrade also gave a lot of input there. Would love to hear his opion about the current proposal.

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