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Title: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: alexkravets on March 29, 2013, 03:32:58 AM
https://xrptrader.com


Title: Re: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: fr33d0miz3r on March 29, 2013, 03:57:47 AM
Where can I obtain an "Offer code"?


Title: Re: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: alexkravets on March 29, 2013, 04:00:27 AM
Where can I obtain an "Offer code"?

No idea, the site was demo'ed at today's ripple meetup, that's how I found out about it going live, presumably it's gonna make it "easy" to buy / sell XRPs (as opposed to doing it the hard way by creating a gateway account and withdrawing IOUs into Ripple to trade inside ripple directly).



Title: Re: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: mobydick on April 14, 2013, 09:40:08 PM
Bad communication, won't return my 1 bitcoin I sent despite numerous attempts to contact.


Title: Re: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: alexkravets on April 14, 2013, 10:07:09 PM
Xrptrader to me appears to be at best a Mickey Mouse job and at worst a scam.

Stay away until proven otherwise


Title: Re: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: hahdouken on April 14, 2013, 10:12:11 PM
On their site, they ask you to register and agree to their terms of service, even though there's not a link anywhere to their terms of service!

That seems sketchy.


Title: Re: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: mobydick on April 16, 2013, 11:22:37 PM
UPDATE: They refunded my bitcoin and I've had four transactions go through just fine. 


Title: Re: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: tclo on April 16, 2013, 11:40:51 PM
This looks interesting but will wait to see if it gets more positive comments.


Title: Re: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: alexkravets on April 16, 2013, 11:42:41 PM
For people in this forum that site is probably a waste of time, just trade inside ripple.com/client itself or do private transactions with bitstmap.net

xrptrader is for the ignorant masses who'll flock to Ripple eventually, think of it as a tax on people who can't figure out how to run regular ripple.com client and how to grant trust to a gateway.


Title: Re: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: tclo on April 16, 2013, 11:55:39 PM
That site looks horrible. Here is what it says:

To buy XRP, please send bitcoins to the following address:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
You Send At Least   You Get
0.6 BTC   3000 XRP
1.65 BTC   10000 XRP
4.95 BTC   30000 XRP

I am paying 1 BTC for 39000 XRP:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=176060.0

so this guy is basically paying like 600% less than me.  Something like that.  His rates are just a joke.  



Title: Re: First site to purchase XRPs (probably similar to Coinbase) goes live
Post by: alexkravets on April 16, 2013, 11:57:54 PM
Yes, it's a joke, but hopefully the joke won't be on anybody with half a brain, the sheeple will of course go to the slaughter as usual :-)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178402.0