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Hello
As a total newbie to Bitcoin and wanting a piece of the pie I find myself inexplicably drawn to the relatively "cheap" prices on this exchange when compared to other exchanges. But I don't want to send off my savings to persons unknown where I have read so much bad press about payments going missing, selective scamming, and unknown people behind this operation! I am sure others would like to know who they are. Surely its in the best interests of the Bitcoin community to put some faith behind this organisation as they appear to be a main player...so any speculation on who they are? The website is hidden in who.is and they use some Russian organisation registered in the UK thats providing them with wire transfer services, Mr Nikolay Rozhok of Mayzus Financial Services Ltd. Maybe Mr Rozhok and BTC-E.COM are the same..anybody have any ideas?

I've been using btc-e.com since 1/2 year and had no problems at all.
Also I never heard of any 'big' problems with btc-e. I can withdraw and deposit in a matter of minutes.

If you want a piece of the cake you have to trust someone. And I did choose btc-e over mt.gox or other because of their age in that business. The prices are ok and not overvalued and you can trade in different digital currencies.

In my opinion they are no scam but legit.

I think it is just all the others who are expensive, instead of BTC-E being cheap, but Gonzo was right.

Looking to open a acoount with. Do they require verification, if yes, how long do they take to verify.

I've used btc-e in the past without problems; granted I never deposited cash to them (where I live there are other exchanges that are easier to use to put new money into the currency).  However, they had one of the better layouts with plenty of volume and I would then send my bitcoins there to convert to altcoins.  If you want another exchange Cryptsy seems to have recently changed their UI and it seems quite nice and they have a large number of cryptocoins than btc-e, but volume is very high for many of them.

I have used BTC-e before without problem and know various people who have used it for years without problem.

I ran into some technical issues they were having once (coins withdrawn from my balance did not appear on the blockchain), but when I contacted support they credited the coins and fixed the issue. Haven't had an issue since.

It's definitely an interesting site. I couldn't be bothered with messing around with the funding options so skipped it.

But isn't anyone ever so slightly bothered that there's no proper contact information of any type?

Isn't anyone ever so slightly bothered that the majority of companies they're entrusting vast sums of money to could vanish into thin air without having much of a clue who they ever were?

This is a side of the Bitcoin economy that I well and truly don't get. No one would ever dream of handing over their 'real' cash to totally anonymous strangers.

Well let's just hope they don't pull a liberty reserve and just get shut down or something and then you're truly fucked.

I have used them to trade and they deliver. I couldn't tell you what the owners background. What I can say is that many people use "who is blocking" on their website account to not disclose personal information. Being someone who sets these up for business I always recommend that they pay extra for that service.

lots of replies from users who have traded with them for so long yet this is their first post.....interesting

I think I will give it a miss, until I at least know about the directors background (which doesn't look like is going to happen any day soon), I sincerely think its the same people as OKPAY/Nikolay Rozhok/Mayzus Financial Services Ltd et. al

The problem is it looks like they are setting themselves up to do a runner, and the day I let myself get ripped off by russian mafia will never come which is certainly what the whole setup looks like. A fool and his money soon parts....

Too many bad reports, thousands in fact on this forum, unbelievable that they haven't been asked to show who they are. Watch the Troll Box on their website, every five or ten minutes someone's complaining about no replies to tickets and missing BTC/USD etc...

what a load of crap, what financial organisation that takes millions of dollars in transactions use who.is privacy? and even if they did they would have the relevant company info on their contact page so they could be checked for pending litigation...

They could be being sued right now by thousands of people, made bankrupt even, and no one would know because no one knows what is even the name of their company...in the event of a dispute who are you supposed to sue? Last time I checked you cant sue a website for debt..

WHO ARE THEY?

You would be a fool to trade with this website until this has been answered

Maybe it's private?? As far as I know CoinBase is a small operation in itself (I mean the guy personally brings the keys to a safety deposit box versus a centrally owned vault of any sort) as well and wouldn't be surprised if they were masked with who.is protection as well.

In all honesty I've been trading with Cryptsy more lately than ever because BTC-E supports very few currencies, however I don't feel that who.is protection is any cause to call a company illegitimate

Also mtgox does not have too much information in their page. Sooner or later there will be some big issues

Remeber berny madoff? He steals millions of dollars and he has a nice and big office in new york, what do you think will happen to less important exchanges that handle millions of bitcoins and is not easy to locate them.

People is trusting too much this exchanges and that is not good.



 

I didn't say it was enough in itself, but together with the other facts it shouts SCAM

Anyway, if your a victim, you can hold the UK limited company responsible as they claim on their website its their bank which means BTC-E.COM is a trading style of...

Mayzus Financial Services Ltd

whatever good that will do you, maybe enough to scare them to get your funds back...


quote...
Beneficiary:   Mayzus Financial Services Ltd
Beneficiary Address:   869 High Road, London, N12 8QA, UK
Beneficiary Account:   4030200327
Beneficiary Czech Bank Code:   7910
Beneficiary IBAN:   CZ6979100000004030200327
Beneficiary Bank:   Deutsche Bank AG
Beneficiary Bank Address:   Jungmannova 34, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Beneficiary Bank SWIFT:   DEUTCZPX
Details of Payment:   FFC ACC.9311.23440 ACC ID S188171E
Fee:   1% (min fee 20$)
Min sum allowed:   2000$
Our bank may ask your documents due to a high fraud activity. If you seen in your btc-e account a money hold please provide a copy of you ID and utility bill in high res quality (>300DPI), create ticket with your ID in subject at https://hdbtce.kayako.com and upload your docs inside

I have been using btc-e for quite some time now and i find it to be the easiest and fastest exchange out there

says another newbie with 0 activity, sorry but I just don't believe you sock puppet

No, not a scam at all.  I have been using them for quite awhile and they are an indispensable service when it comes to converting your alt-coins to btc so you can actually realize all of your profits with a service like Coinbase. I have them as my default for deposits of Namecoins that I get in excess when mining primarily btc using BTCGuild with their merged mining of btc and nmc.  When my nmc hoard builds up to a nice amount I'll go and get a couple btc from them and BTC-E.com is the only place I have found that does this.

One Warning: You do need to see if people are currently gaming with the alt-currency that you want to exchange for btc because it can help or really hurt you. This site is the one place that is very easy to manipulate because of the lack of other market centers that trade these alt-coins and experienced users will take advantage of the novice if given the chance.

When it comes to not knowing exactly who are behind services around Bitcoin, get used to it :)

I used BTC-e to change my LTC to BTC last spring, after that I don't really have any experience with it.

Weirdly enough, even though they have been around for a relatively long time, they still seem to have rather shady reputation around them - maybe because they originate from somewhere around Russia?

I honestly haven't heard that they would have scammed people, however you can never know when they decide to disappear from the web. It seems that they've got good thing going on, so I wouldn't expect them to do that as they've got a good source of money from legit business.

Personally, I wouldn't keep money/coins on their site any longer than necessary. If you can choose to use an exchange with better reputation, you may be more comfortable with using their services. As far as my personal experiences go, there's really nothing wrong with BTC-e. But before depositing money, it would be wise to do some digging of your own.

I've used BTC-E to trade Bitcoins for other alt-currencies and doubled my Bitcoin money from it (from surge in litecoin price mostly), no problems there. Can't speak for depositing and withdrawing FIAT money with them though, but for alt-alt crypto trading they work really fast and easy.

listen maybe you are another sock puppet newbie with 0 posts, don't fill this thread with erroneous information about alt currency's etc trying to confuse people, nobody said there haven't been people who had trades that went through, the accusation is it is a selective scamming scheme i.e. they rip off a percentage of customers not everybody in order to perpetuate the fraud for months

yes a good thing they got going on over there, but maybe they realise that it could all end if it bursts, or maybe the temptation of millions is a lot stronger than 0.02 fee's, who knows what their mindset is, if they were scammers before the bitcoin revolution with the btc highs, old habits are hard to break!

And if they are genuinely just swamped with payments that they cant handle, the end result is the same, people are losing money and they should be closed down or at least told to get their shit together, repeating oh we dont speak english is no excuse, hire some staff!

still think its a scam though

I have been using BTC-E too. I have made two transfers of money through Perfect Money and I've had no problem. I've also done some trading with altcoins and USD with no problems. Although now I'm getting worried since this past week the amount of scam complaints have increased quite a bit and I'm planning to take my Bitcoins out of there if this stuff is not resolved for this people.

This thread started in and was originally posted in newbie section....anyway,

Gonzo418 - Date Registered:   November 26, 2013, 08:39:03 PM
Opunium - Date Registered:   November 28, 2013, 05:32:03 PM
Sepster - Date Registered:   November 28, 2013, 06:07:38 PM
Ifk1 - Date Registered:   November 28, 2013, 07:46:59 AM
Vizicore - Date Registered:   November 28, 2013, 07:36:26 PM


THESE are not "old accounts" dickwad, stop polluting my thread

oh I get it now, I apologise, I thought the opposite, I missed the sarcasm, once again I apologise profusely :-)

these are the oldest tricks in the scambook, sell something cheaper, appeal to peoples greed so they are blind to the obvious shortcomings of it, use every excuse under the sun why theres a problem, dont rip everybody off at the same time, then when the games up and they cant milk it anymore comes the final fuck and you suddenly realise how far away they really are. then you will all be looking at the blockchain watching your coins get traded away and fuck all you can do about it. brilliant scam, its gonna be millions, the biggest scam in btc history so far

better get your russian dictionarys out so you can write letters to the prosecutors in god knows where complaining about noone you know, not even a name

how can this not be a huge matter of concern for anybody holding bitcoin, and the mods on this forum??? once they go watch the crash, i think ill wait to buy in when everyone sells heh. btc-e clients and anybody holding bitcoin are gonna get right royally fucked, you have been warned

Seems obvious. BTC-e sock puppets have been around for a long time here. Their exchange is two years old. So they scam newbies, especially ones like me who sent them mucho BTC, and they have their shills and sock puppets here with "old" accounts to make the newbs look like dorks... Working it seems with most people who don't realize that age of your account or number of posts have anything to do with credibility. No wonder so many get scammed by BTC-e...

OP so try using exchange you like, so simple :D

BTC-E has been good to me, using it for 1.5 years or so.

Withdrawing any decent amount of NVC always takes a long time though, that's one drawback.

I always trust it a bit more because it is Russian, it is not as likely to be shut down from the latest Goldman Sachs-made financial regulation set by the American gov.

Though you should never leave a lot of money their for long periods of time (on any exchange) if you can avoid. After being scammed a bunch of times in the Bitcoin community, the latest with having my deposits to WeExchange stolen by the owner Ukyo / Jon Montroll, I'm sort of hesitant to use any service unless needed. But BTC-E hasn't given me much problems or worries.  

So you just barge in here, state that your are a noob and CLAIM some established business as a scam ?
Good job.

Mind you the whole point of BTC initially was to be decentralized and ANONYMOUS !

Haven't had any problems with them, though I only use it for trading, and I don't perform fiat deposits or withdrawals.

I wired $15,000 USD over 5 weeks ago and it has not been deposited yet :/  I've supplied all documents and sent three tickets. The most recent ticket auto-expired after no response in a week... Anyone know what my legal recourse is or what authorities I can contact?

But it wouldnt be that bad to know something about the site where you keep alot of money.
At least i prefer it.

BTC-e is now SCAM!

I've made my first deposit last year after verifying my account by bank statement and utility bill. The funding was on my account after several business days. Great!

Second deposit after 1-2 months and they didn't want to release my funding saying I need to verify my account. I told them nicely and even added the ticket number of my verification. They didn't bother to read or go to the ticket. They were very rude and just kept saying things like "you need to verify your account!"
They never answered why it suddenly got "unverified". Never explained anything, never said sorry for the inconvenience or anything in that matter. They just kept demanding me sending them all the documents. So I send them everything again and then they released my funds.

This year I needed to buy some coins for my sister and because she isn't familiar with this, I told her that I could buy it for her. I already have several accounts.
I wired the money nearly 2 week ago. 3 business days after I wired the funds, I began checking my account. Nothing, but I didn't worry. I checked day after day and nothing.
A few days ago I contacted them asking why it's taking so long. No answer or explaining, wanted to see proof. I send them my bank statement, but that's not good enough for them and so the drama continues.......

Those fuckers are even worse than Mt.Gox. No matter how bad things were at Mt.Gox, they did kept being friendly and apologizing for the inconvenience. I know that they got into trouble after the US government took millions from them. But the support at BTC-e is the worse!!!
Monday, I will contact my bank and ask for advice what to do.

so STAY AWAY from BTC-e!!!!

Good day, write please the ticket number, we will check and reply to you

Good day, write please the ticket number.

Good day, write please the ticket number.

My issue has been resolved after 7 weeks.

how you solve your problem with btce ? i have the same problem that i wired usd and they havent deposit. Did they find your money or your bank return to your personal account ?

I don't know if this is a scam or not but I've decided not to use them after I saw how many fees they have!Not to mention that I had to get verified!
And the fees are pretty high as I wanted to spend around 50$
If you have friends in Holland you can use an exchage there! i will send you the link!

See my thread for advice:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=426543.0

BTC-e.com, please help with my deposit. Ticket # NKJ-739-73863.

TIA

I'm still a relative newb to the BTC scene.

I use BTC-E to trade LTC to BTC (since November of 2013), then I transfer that BTC to to my COINBASE (USA) exchange account.  No problems at all with the transfer or with buying/selling/trading! 

In fact, I think BTC-E was one of the first exchanges I signed-up with.  And, I didn't know them from a hole-in-the wall.

For security sake, I just don't keep all my 'bits' in one basket.

I'll sum it up with the following statement President Reagan once said, "Trust but verify."

I almost forgot to thank you for resolving my issue btc-e.com

It was resolved the next day after I posted my ticket number at this thread.

Advice to everybody, creating a ticket has no value except for the reason you got a ticket number. Post your ticket here and it will get resolved!

Worked for me and I hope it will also work for you too.

Cheers.

Btc-e.com is plainly fraudulent. I have asked them to send me my money back. It never arrived. They do not answer any support tickets and are hiding. You should avoid them like the pest.

If you have lost money, report it to your police's cybercrime unit and contact the domain registrar to have this site shut down.

Domain Name: BTC-E.COM

Registrar IANA ID: 1376
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: legal@instra.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +61.397831800

Need help with a withdrawal, been days of false promises.

#NLZ-356-83004

Ive used BTC-E for over a year. Ive never been scammed never had any issues.

Ive also never withdrawn fiat however. Just used to trade crypto.

When Phinnaeus Gage enters a treads and highlights in pink, shit is about to hit the fan.

https://www.facebook.com/MtGox


http://web.archive.org/web/20100516084425/http://mayzus.com/


http://who.godaddy.com/whoisstd.aspx?domain=mayzusfs.com&prog_id=GoDaddy&k=U3qI%2fDwAKPkSiZpPh+TIvsLLyIvLQ5R5gDkdXXRJodZOWAQe9zZU6T6aGuao+zA0


https://www.google.com/search?q=%22GRANSY.COM%22+bitcoin&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS549US549&oq=%22GRANSY.COM%22+bitcoin&aqs=chrome..69i57.4630j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

Add another one to your list.

https://www.facebook.com/MtGox


The above was quoted from Mt Gox's official website at the time. Care to see the new edited version since then?

https://www.mtgox.com/press_release_20131219.html


Notice anything different? Thought so!

BTW, it was revised prior to Jan. 22, 2014: http://web.archive.org/web/20140122203954/https://www.mtgox.com/press_release_20131219.html

~TMIBTCITW

ELI5 ?

Hi all have account with BTC-E and sold PPcoins for BTC all fine then made deposit of 10 usd through LiqPay all fine so through I would deposit 600 USD did this and all went bad. contacted Liqpay (ref: 2919-58919704) pay part of payeer.com (ref:Ticket 28511) and still awaiting funds to clear my bank has confirmed funds have cleared but haven't be deposited into my BTC-E account. awaiting reply to ticket number #UMG-236-96710

any help would be great lets hope this is not a scam? I will keep you all updated.

Yesterday I make mistake on BTC-e.

I make deposit  around 0.04 LTC and only see after transfer that min deposit is 0.10 LTC  So I create a ticket to support and explain situation. I ask maybe they can add this coin to my account or send ir back.

support:

Hello! Minimum deposit 0.1 and 0.02 LTC system commission. Total to pay at least 0.12 LTC. Do coins not provided a review of payments, the funds can not be frozen or seized, this if you make a mistake, we can not give you back your coins. To us they did not come. Sorry.


I ask again so where my coin go if I use your LTC address but no answer that.


I'm nothing to blame,because I made mistake and I take responsibility just wanna sow how support try help own costumers.

Try depositing .12 ltc the 0.04 ltc will add up to the balance.

I just leave how it is.

Thanks for advice.

Btc-e is a good site for robotic trading because it has so many pairs, even internal arbitrage opportunities. That said, I withdrew all my funds and I'm not going back. I'll wait for OpenTransaction exchanges, they are coming soon enough, and they won't require trusting any third parties.

hello.

all btc-e is scamed .

i 48 hours ago deposit 13.2 usd perceftmoney and no add money to my account.

Support does not answer

You can not chat messages do not affect the balance

my bach :     97864025
   

12.08.15 16:32 Transfer Sent Payment: 13.2 USD to account U2433593 from U9072999. Batch: 97864025. Memo: Shopping Cart Payment.

Support has been very fast lately much better than they used (responded within the hour) i suggest you open another ticket !

I am using the BTC-E for a quite a time,I had no problems with them,maybe the 13.2 $ is too little and it is "consumed" with the Fees.

You have to check the Fees with ALL the participants in the money transfer,From your bank account to the exchange.

The BTC-E is charging (taken from their site):

Are there any fees involved when using BTC-e?
BTC-e charges a 0.2% fee on each transaction carried out by users on the website. This transaction may vary and may be different for each individual account. USD/RUR – fee 0.5% Specific job openings will be posted but we are always interested in hearing from you.

Or it just needs more time the money to arrive or maybe you did some mistake in the transfer

In the time I have used BTC-E.com I have never had any problems adding funds or trading. The only thing I find with them right now is they like to add some coins and remove them very quickly if they become inactive for x amount of time. Even with pair BTC-GBP it was going good and when things where not working removed it. If BTC-E had more cryptos to trade with maybe things would be a lot better their. When I trad it is good on it at times and still trade the odd bits here and their.

Even with their identity on their site protected or who is info can be misleading does not mean it is a scam. Many websites now days do not disclose personal info as people do not want to be attacked on their identity. Some will disclose full info but that is up to their business and what they are doing. Many say BTC-E is rouge on a number of things. Best advise if you do not want to put funds in right away. Goto somewhere that is fully trusted but even then they can have problems.

Go grab some coins of localbitcoins and then use them elsewhere and spread your coins across different exchanges. That way your are much safer, or your other option is only put coins into an exchange when you are on them being active and wanting to trade.



Most sites have fees or very little fees. Simple solution to that is off set your trades by 0.5% each time buying and selling so add 1% on top of any trades you make to cover all your fees and have a little extra on top each time. That way you are trading and covering all fees buying and all fees when selling. That way you will not get into a negative when it comes to working out your daily trading as you have offset your fees as many people forget to factor this in.

I did not do nothing wrong, and as always I transfer money.

Perfect Money account the transfer of $ 13.2 btc-e I did, but after 5 days still not in my account.

But I have to support my message clear message to

12.08.15 16:32 Transfer Sent Payment: 13.2 USD to account U2433593 from U9072999. Batch: 97864025. Memo: Shopping Cart Payment.



account percetmoney me : U9072999


account percetmoney btc-e : U2433593


and batch nummber : 97864025

and my balance 00.00


If the admin btc-e to see the answer here

i long waiting

hello

today add money 13.2 perfectmoney after 5 day .


12.08.15 16:32 Transfer Sent Payment: 13.2 USD to account U2433593 from U9072999. Batch: 97864025. Memo: Shopping Cart Payment.


#1665061478 +13.2 USD Manual deposit pm
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