Please allow me to explain.
QwickBit was hit with a wave of fraudulent transactions immediately after launch last week. (I discovered that there was an entire secret Tor forum thread dedicated to cashing out of stolen credit cards using my site:
http://clsvtzwzdgzkjda7.onion/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=4671 and I strongly suspect many of the people participating in this thread are the culprits...). Anyway, to mitigate the damage from these attacks, I quickly disabled transaction processing. I also reversed some of the charges which I thought to be fraudulent. However, there is no one who was charged for Bitcoin who has not received them. If I have made a mistake and you have not received your Bitcoins, please post here and contact me personally at
info@qwickbit.com. Otherwise, I would kindly ask everyone to stop re-posting unsubstantiated rumors.
In regard to the $0.00 charges: Authorization charges are used by QwickBit's credit card processing company to determine whether the credit card number is valid. If a user tries to issue a charge with a valid credit card number but an invalid address or CVC, the authorization charge will appear on your credit card statement, but the charge will not be issued (since the info is invalid!). Several people tried to issue charges with invalid address information.
Phineas Gage, I do not hold any of my users' money--dollars or Bitcoin--so I don't understand the warning in your forum post (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84055.msg926054#msg926054). I run a retail Bitcoin exchange, not a wallet or banking service. Furthermore, I don't even store users' credit card info on my servers (the credit card processing company handles this).
I am unaffiliated with the Twitter account QwickBit.
I hope this addresses all of your concerns. If you have any other questions or complaints, don't hesitate to contact me at
info@qwickbit.com. I plan to re-launch the website sometime later this week, after having made significant changes to the fraud-checking algorithms.
Lastly, I created QwickBit as a service to the Bitcoin community (and to advance my libertarian-leaning political ideals). My only goal with the site is to not lose money. Keep in mind that any unsubstantiated negative comments on this forum only increase the likelihood that I will shut down the site, since the site is still in a nascent stage.