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ACH transactions are reversible FWIW.
Yes, I am aware of that. I told them in my last email that I will be reversing my ACH if they continue to ignore me.
Of course, you could be contributing in a bank run, though that's not your concern.
To all of you who say that Bitcoin shouldn't be regulated - this is what it results in. If it was any regulated financial deal - say, purchase of stock or Yen - then there are clear rules on how to handle that, namely, you'd be entitled to at least compensation for any decrease between the 'locked' price at the agreed settlement date and the real settlement, whenever it may happen, and the interest for the period. Re…
No way. Regulation won't solve these sort of things. It will just make the barrier to entry that much higher. Now people have a voice more so than ever before. If companies don't act appropriately, people can post stories and complaints online. The companies reputation will then suffer. This is exactly what's happening here.
For anyone considering using Coinbase or similar services where you have to pay via bank transfer -- think twice and take this as a serious warning that you have almost no protection if they screw you/up somehow. I have a problem with Coinbase for a much smaller sum (luckily): ordered at what I was convinced was a fixed price and just received less BTC at a much higher rate. Their customer support refuses to help (or…
> Further avoidance by them will lead me to make a few calls to news stations. Eek. The best case scenario is that you'll get a news blurb on local TV where you're portrayed as a sucker. "Weird online currency thing does weird stuff in the way you'd expect weird online currency thing to do, and look at this greedy rube who got sucked in and lost it all! Film at 11."
Clearly you don't know who mGrunin is. I'd do a little research before making comments like the one above.
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What is "bucketing"? Isn't this a simple case of goods paid for but not received? This is the same as if I buy 100 gallons of fuel oil for $5 and they don't deliver it.
No it isn't, because holding the assets is causing a depreciation in value for him.
> Further avoidance by them will lead me to make a few calls to news stations. Eek. The best case scenario is that you'll get a news blurb on local TV where you're portrayed as a sucker. "Weird online currency thing does weird stuff in the way you'd expect weird online currency thing to do, and look at this greedy rube who got sucked in and lost it all! Film at 11."
Clearly you don't know who mGrunin is. I'd do a little research before making comments like the one above.
I mean, I don't know who he is but I generally wouldn't fuck with someone who has $35k to drop on pretend money. Anyhow, main stream news can be foolish, regardless of who the subject is.
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No way. Regulation won't solve these sort of things. It will just make the barrier to entry that much higher. Now people have a voice more so than ever before. If companies don't act appropriately, people can post stories and complaints online. The companies reputation will then suffer. This is exactly what's happening here.
If companies don't act appropriately, people can post stories and complaints online. The companies reputation will then suffer. Ah, Libertopia! It's almost upon us, Comrades!
The stupid libertarians get their stupid pie-in-the-sky currency and you get to sit back with a bowl of popcorn (purchased with a government-secured currency of your choice) and enjoy the show.
> Further avoidance by them will lead me to make a few calls to news stations. Eek. The best case scenario is that you'll get a news blurb on local TV where you're portrayed as a sucker. "Weird online currency thing does weird stuff in the way you'd expect weird online currency thing to do, and look at this greedy rube who got sucked in and lost it all! Film at 11."
Clearly you don't know who mGrunin is. I'd do a little research before making comments like the one above.
Looks like an utter douchebag too: http://instagram.com/mgrunin
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Clearly you don't know who mGrunin is. I'd do a little research before making comments like the one above.
Well, maybe you could post a two-sentence summary and save us all the trouble?