Damn - well thats just the nail in the coffin (mine are still there atm)

Lets hope they are using the funds to get the site back online ... doubt it tho

Yeh - my LTC is still there too.. which is a very good sign.. if I was a scammer, Id be taking the money and running

Personlly what I think has happened is
a) They did the database upgrade to allow ghs without a good backup/fall-back position
b) something went wrong and they have not been able to recover it
c) They cannot get access to the LTC because all the info/private keys to access them were likely in the database (would be stupid if they were)
d) our LTC will sit there forever as no-one will ever be able to access them

There is a slight chance they somehow fix the database and recover something (perhaps even a site) but I'd be surprised... I think they have stuffed up royally and are just throwing their hands in the air and giving up

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Hello, we dont know nothing about this site. We can operate only with IP address. This site use CloudFlare IP address.
Also we never provide any personal data to 3d party.

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do you have an english version ofyour site?


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*of course it was all in russian so the above was googles translation of it*

I would say that is just their mailserver as their web address resolves differently

C:\>nslookup www.markets.cx
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  192.168.1.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    markets.cx
Addresses:  2400:cb00:2048:1::a29f:f8cd
          2400:cb00:2048:1::a29f:f7cd
          162.159.247.205
          162.159.248.205
Aliases:  www.markets.cx


but that could just be cloudflare.. The company is suppose to be in China..

I'm in Australia - tracert only goes as far as Sydney then stops (cloudflare)..
without cloudflare giving us the real IP we wont be able to trace it

There is a mixture of both positive and negative points.. it certainly seems weird for a scam.. paying out the day before.. not removing ltc from wallets, telling everyone they were doing maintenance

Maybe their ISP died or they lost access to their DNS (would explain why email is bouncing too) - or maybe the process of adding ghs corrupted their database and they are rebuilding everyone's accounts from scratch before going live again..

If they are still down with no more announcements in a week.. then it is was a scam.. nothing we can do about it either way

Cloudflare would know nothing about how they transacted LTC.. if they used a merchant there might still be hope..

I'm still positive about the fact that the LTC I sent them is still sitting in the address (if they were scamming they would be doing MANY transactions to try and make it hard for anyone to trace the coins) - they would have made at least one withdrawal/move you would assume
http://block-explorer.com/address/LeJVCU437PxU8ts3tWcBQiNiotNKeNYGhZ

Arrgghhh the wait is infuriating.. I wonder if they are still mining and when it comes back we get access to that (positive thoughts... positive thoughts.. )

Do we know if they used a merchant facility like coinbase? (obviously one for LTC)

Its just that when I was scammed last time I complained to them and they froze the account of the scammers and distributed the money back to people who invested (after evidence was given)... was awesome..

If... after a few more days - the site is still down.. it would be good to go to them and see if we can recover our investment

did the gridseed come from markets.cx or elsewhere?

A scam site would not be sending out hardware.. they would just delay and delay until D day when they went off..

The other thing that worries me is that their email bounces back... technical problems all around? Seems that they should at least be able to receive emails

Having been scammed before.. this feels familiar.. but certain things are not
a) Right before the site I got scammed on went AWOL they "upped the ante" and started offering services/prices that were way too good to be true - Markets.cx has not done this
b) The other site didnt take the time and effort to use cloudflare
c) The site has had LOTS of work... way more than the other site I got scammed by.. if it is a scam they invested heavily into it.. far more than I would have
d) They did announce an upgrade prior (not well.. but they did announce it) whereas the other site just turned off

So with that in mind.. I'm thinking its about 50/50...scam vs unforseen tech problems

Personally I'm worried... but I'll give them another 24 hours before I start crying and lose my faith in humanity completely

Their crap PR aside.. I have worked in IT long enough to know that sometimes upgrades, especially major upgrades can sometimes go wrong and it can take AGES to fix it.. especially if they didn't plan well, do a test prior and didnt have the ability to fall-back to the working site..  I sincerely hope they have just had more serious technical issues or the database changes are not taking and they will eventually give up and revert back to the old site and try the GHS option again later

Yeh You have a point

I'm only cautious because I lost quite a bit of BTC with a site like this... It just so happens that those AWESOME people at Coinbase.com managed to get my money back (thanks guys!!!) so an outage like this feels very familiar to me (same as what happened to me last time I was scammed) ..

Hopefully by tomorrow it will all be back up and will be even better

I might be jumping the gun...

Apparently its planned maintenance

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=500576.new#new

Well thats good to know.. its been down for at least 6 hours now and I was starting to think SCAM.. but I'll wait a bit longer..

Oddly enough, their emails are bouncing back.. if they were just doing website maintenance
a) Why do their emails bounce and
b) Why couldnt they at least put a splash page up (not hard) showing that they are doing maintenance??

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The Site - Markets.cx has been down for well over 8 hours now..

Is it a scam or are they just have a a DDoS Attack?

oddly enough even their emails are bouncing

Anyone know any different?

ta