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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Holland_SR on November 05, 2011, 11:14 pm
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Many people want to pay with Ukash, it is available in many many stores here. A simple 19 digit code that can represent hundreds of dollars easily. On the Ukash sites, codes can be changed, combined, split etc.
But I cant find any place to exchange it to LR or something without losing 25%.
Any idea why this difference is so big? Seem pretty secure as a store of cash.
I did hear you can fund BTC-e through Interkassa, but Interkassa is in Russian and seems to be more of a webshop payment system.
Too bad I already took in quite a lot ;)
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I'm not Russian, but Google is a great translator! :P If you notice most e-currency exchanges charge higher fees for services that use convenient and instant payment methods. Paypal, VISA/MC and uKash all have fairly strict charge-back methods which is why many exchanges place a higher fee on these transactions.
If you go down the btc-e.com/Interkassa route, you will lose about 10% in fees when the transaction is processed with Wallet-1.
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Be careful going down this Interkassa/BTC-E.COM route with Ukash.
The first 2 times I used the Ukash convertor to change from my home currency into EURO's with no probs (as that it what is needed to finalise the transaction).
The third time I did this Ukash gave me a voucher code that Interkasaa would not accept.
I'm now in the back & forth routine of trying to figure out what was wrong the the Ukash voucher I was given and why Interkassa won't accept it.
A lot of what I have to deal with is in Russian so that triples the difficulty.
Just be careful as it seems that the Ukash voucher codes are not all the same. At this point it seems that digit #9 of the voucher code could indicate an area when voucher have problems. The previous 2 vouchers that worked perfectly had a digit #9 as a 1 or a 2. This third (dud) voucher has digit #9 as a 5.
All I'm saying is Ukash has it's problems like most other methods. :(
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Be careful going down this Interkassa/BTC-E.COM route with Ukash.
The first 2 times I used the Ukash convertor to change from my home currency into EURO's with no probs (as that it what is needed to finalise the transaction).
The third time I did this Ukash gave me a voucher code that Interkasaa would not accept.
I'm now in the back & forth routine of trying to figure out what was wrong the the Ukash voucher I was given and why Interkassa won't accept it.
A lot of what I have to deal with is in Russian so that triples the difficulty.
Just be careful as it seems that the Ukash voucher codes are not all the same. At this point it seems that digit #9 of the voucher code could indicate an area when voucher have problems. The previous 2 vouchers that worked perfectly had a digit #9 as a 1 or a 2. This third (dud) voucher has digit #9 as a 5.
All I'm saying is Ukash has it's problems like most other methods. :(
What country was the voucher purchased in? I use a proxy to access the Ukash site and login from a different country that the voucher was purchased in and it gives me no problems. I also convert to Euro - EUR and not any of the other EUR options.
The only issues I've had is hitting a currency conversion limit per account on the ukash site and a wallet-1 -> interkassa transfer appearing to fail after a page timeout. However the funds were at btc-e 5 mins later.
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I also convert to Euro - EUR and not any of the other EUR options.
I think this might be the problem right there. I could never understand why there were so many options for the EUR currency and perhaps I chose one that is a 'trouble' EUR currency (if that makes any sense?).
I'll make sure I'll always use the "Euro - EUR" option in future. Now thinking about I did choose the EURO-EUR option on my first two conversions but may have chosen a different one on the 3rd voucher (the dud voucher), something like Austria-EUR, etc.
I'm stll pretty annoyed at Ukash - as they are giving me the run around - meanwhile I have a bunch of EURO's just floating around somewhere unable to be used. :(
Also, Interkassa/Wallet1 could make it clearer what is and isn't an acceptable Ukash voucher currency.
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I've been writing and writing to Ukash but they are so evasive. They even give you a feedback ticket number but is seems to have no bearing on the anything apart from make them look official. I quote my feedback number and some are confused, some have no record. I just don't know what is going on with that place.
My 'dud' voucher is worth 36.27 EUR so if anyone has any way of helping me turn that into BTC I'll offer a generous commission.
So, anyway, I went out again yesterday and bought 2 more Ukash vouchers only to find that Ukash has now taken down their toolkit so I can't convert, join, split, anything.
This quagmire is just getting deeper and deeper.
They claim they are doing maintenance on the toolkit (with a 2-week time-frame) which seems long in any language so for the time being it looks like I'm stuck with over $100 of Ukash vouchers when I could be snapping up cheap BTC's....
It's actually a real shame because it is such a great system. There nearest shop that can issue Ukash vouchers is only like 5 mins (if that) away.