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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Spiral Eyes on April 10, 2013, 03:10 am

Title: Bitinstant stole my Ben franlkins , SR friends be warned
Post by: Spiral Eyes on April 10, 2013, 03:10 am
  Ok my fellow roaders, it's official . These scum bags have taken my money and do not intend to make good on the deposit I made, and I have proof that I made it. Some of you may have seen my other threads, asking for advice and what have you. It's been almost 2 weeks since I made a money gram deposit to bitinstant. They confirmed they got my money, and gave me an INVALID Mt gox code. In the last 2 weeks, they have ignored me, passed me off to various agents, supposedly sent 2 of my emails directly to CHARLIE the CEO, but mostly just aggressively refused to make good on the several hundred dollar deposit I made to them through moneygram.  Its been about 4-5 days since they've responded to me. So last night I sent an email stating that if I didn't get my money or resolution by tonight, I'd have no choice but to consider my money stolen by them, and that I have a large audience ( you all ) that will hear the details of my misfortune . An audience that has other options  for making their deposits. I have received no reply from said fuckwads.
   So, my friends , I hereby warn you. Bitinstant has stolen my fucking money. Flat out taken my my money and not given me anything for it. Several emails have resulted in not one apology for mishandling my hard earned hundreds, not one assurance that I will get my money back, not one iota of anything resembling customer service. I'm telling you folks, in all that I have seen from these fuck wads in the last 2 weeks, it feels very much like getting mugged. Apparently I have no recourse, no action I can take to hold them accountable. No better business bureau or the like. This fucking sucks people. All I can do is warn you all, and ask you to find yourself a better option. They have my hundreds, but they don't have to have yours. Sure, I made a few transactions with these assholes that went well. But not worth the hundreds they stole. And you may get lucky too. But if someone stole money from my friends, I would never do business with them again. Not if I had options. You've been warned.
Title: Re: Bitinstant stole my Ben franlkins , SR friends be warned
Post by: Spiral Eyes on April 14, 2013, 02:30 pm
I awoke this morning to find that BI has finally processed my funds . I'm a little disappointed that I was still charged BI fees and that I know have to pay $100 per btc rather than the $85 it was if my deposit had been processed correctly. Oh well, I'm happy to finally have my money.
  To anyone with bitinstant trouble, follow this thread:   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128314.5400

 Thank you to the SR forum member who pointed me to it. Not sure if I'd have gotten my money back without you. New deposits with BI appear to currently have about a %25 chance of failure, according to their support rep.