I also think that BTER is scam.
In april of 2015 I was try to withdraw COMM (CommunityCoin). On the withdrawal page of BTER was appear TxID number, that indicates withdrawal complete.
But I not received coins. There is no mistake with address. I haved fully working wallet for this coin, sinchronized.
I wrote to support, but they answer: "Dear Sir, There is no workable block explorer to confirm if the transaction was sent to you successfully."
Second time I wrote this:
"Problem still not resolved, COMM still not received.
I don't found workable online block explorer for COMM, but there is
alternative way to check transaction. This is Debug Window in
CommunityCoin-qt application.
I use this command:
getrawtransaction
6a3d136fe20c3d396e97ee61a6b695863f9d06afbba20fa84af498c1184438bd
And I get this answer:
No information available about transaction (code -5)
Wallet is fully synchronized."
But this was ignored by support.
Next months I was wrote some tickets to support, but it was fully ignored. They was not answer on my questions.