Seemed to be around 3% then my bank would hit me with an international fee of 3%. Now they wanted 525 for 505 in coins on coinbases side. I used a different bank account so hopefully the first one was a fluke with that intl fee shit but being the both are domestic banks i got a feeling it's a little unrealistic. On top of this I have to get a 3rd party (I'm banned) to get the coins for me, the person is trusted but lives far and works. Just to bitch a little more they are delaying purchase and xfer of coins.
At this point I might explore BTMs a little more and fuck with LBC a little. I've used LBC before at shoot for 5-6% but lately there is some authentication issue where it says to check my phone and I never get anything. Disabling 2fa works but trying to log in after says it's too weak and to activate 2-FA.
LX sucks my dick in this area and I'm close to Miami. They either no longer have it, have no idea what I'm talking about even afer telling them the instructions , or claim there is a new system and LX never came back to show them how to use it. One place is literally just a phone number that never answers calls or text and lists an address that when visited is an empty office that is unlocked. Contact LX and "We show they had 3 transactions this morning".
BTMs are available in my area, and can be used fairly easily so far with a fake ID or at least the scan along with a burner that can receive a text code. 5 dollars and dragging a bum inside next to me has worked in the past but I'd like to lower that by getting a DID from a VOIP company has SMS and using those as throwaways but even then the only company that looks like it will accept BTC for that is DIDX and signing up with them has proven difficult (will ban for certain email addresses which is sad, DIDs are only 1$ there with no minimum).
Let's see, Mycelium F2F trades has been good in the past but scarce as far as finding guys with good rates. One thing to be on the lookout is the seller using an exchange that gives you a bad trade rate. An example would be using an exchange that values BTC at the highest number. Now your money gets less BTC, get it? Bought off a few ruskies down here and a wigger that had me meet at a strip club and as soon as I walk in I hear "he's here to see the bitcoin guy" - yeah fuck that. I don't goto strip clubs for bitcoins, I go for blowjobs.
Coinmama sucks my dick, shitty exchange rate then they add tax , works out to around 24% markup on the 60 purchase, not sure if that scales, didn't care.
And can Kraken take any fucking longer to verifiy me?
$2 says you just stumbled on a legit money laundering operation.