Yes, if you were going to order electronics from a non Indian website anyway, then you might as well order from them - as they are cheaper. But otherwise, with customs, their prices are not competitive.
What I've been doing is actually placing orders via bitspend.net to my friend in HK who can get electronics to India when he comes. Way cheaper.
Find friends in HK and Dubai is what I recommend :p
You lucky dog you ..
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Hey hey hey Benson , if you are pointing at "mild accusations" at me. dont worry. my accusation will start when people start signing up with them and their money and bitcoins start to disappear. a firm created in secret no verifiable information, dont really know who this person is. trust is hard to gain but like i said before . when people dont answer questions asked that becomes suspicious. may be you are ok when people dont fully answer questions . but not me. Question being avoided and twisted are signs of anterior motives. There are alot of underlying problems to this, that has not been cleared out. the fact being that a exchange holding a client money basically turns an entity into a bank, meaning that all withdrawals have a interest amount attached to it. (RBI norms). if they are going as a Trading firm then the SEBI is involved. which has more rules than a banking regulation. there are too many rules to counter money laundering in india. many are pointed to stop withdraws of cash, and transfer of cash outside india. A exchange in india still holds INR in its account for a client after the sale of bitcoins . making it a deposit felicity . then comes the problem of withdrawing money from the account or the ewallet, and that is prohibited . this is the only thing that needs to be worked around. once this problem is solved then an exchange can operate within india without government interference, atleast for some time. If these problems have not been solved by an exchange opening in india, then the risk of this, being a temp operation is high. The main problem, security of the site is not ensured and the people starting this has a more or less a carefree attitude towards security , showing verry little care about the clients money that are going to be entrusted in them. So Benson if you call this an mild accusation then you are mistaken, ckz this is an observation. the accusation will come later on.
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I remember a story about a taxi driver who was accepting bitcoin as payment, but I think he got fired because his boss didn't know about it or something. Pretty cool, though!
i think that taxi driver was from Germany . i hope he got to buy a taxi of his own like he said he would. but that was quite a long time back.
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Edit :- Forgot to mention , most of the questions i asked was not answered. so before signing up and transferring your funds think twice.
And for the rest of you toddlers out there, make sure you drink your milk. :p was that for me . :-) Awwww that so sweet. Benson stop pulling my chain . arnt you out of cigs yet..
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Agreed Benson Samuel there is no accusations here just a red flag of caution.
be careful. people.
icoinv build your trust. hope you do business in a fare manner.
Edit :- Forgot to mention , most of the questions i asked was not answered. so before signing up and transferring your funds think twice.
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Thank you for your honesty. in not able to win my trust.
From my side it a Red Flag for you organisation i-co.in or Sree Vinayaka Enterprises[S.V.E] what ever you call it.
I dont know what the others would want to say about this .
So guys a little feedback on this would be appreciated
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are you a partner , managing director , or a CEO.. If you have partners how many , what are their background and their entire details.
But i guess it useless trying to save a drowning ship.
Awh well best of luck on your other endeavours.
hard to lie you way out of this one chum.
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CEO is just a designation .. looks like you also don have any experience in business. or running a company. let me educate you ,
In a partnership firm the partners are the designation.the profit sharing ration in the business. in a company established by the companies act of 1957, a company is an entity , with shareholders who elect a chairperson who appoints a CEO. (my memory is a bit vague but this is about right.)
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Arjun ( icoinv) you are now making your self look really ignorant, about the bitcoin community , and frankly what you just said suggest that we in the Indian bitcoin community should settle for a bellow standard security. I really wonder what you know about the bitcoin community as a whole.
I really dislike people who see bitcoin as a quick money making scheme. i wonder if that is the same with you . looks like you patched up a website in a hurry with verry little security and used a firm, or some enditity to start up this business (wonder if that enterprise is like a family owned old business you are using as cover). and you have made sure to hide all of your details . so , no can identify you. if you cannot meet the basic security needs and identity disclosure , you are better off working in what ever company you are working as a programmer.
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So basically we have no way to verify if, you are who you say you are. ther is nothing that can link you, no phone number, no proper address. dont even know if you are real.
Secondly you have no two factor auth, so i can safely amuse that your site is venerable to sql injection tooo, if you are not able to even impliment a simple two factor auth on your sites. . come to think of it, it's quite odd that some of the business that sell bitcoin came under a ddos attack before you guys announced your self. coincidence may be may be not .
You guys seems to be highly reluctance to give out your identy to make every one feel secure. that raises a big red flag. as far as i know you could be my neighbor next door, your information is not sufficient .
Let me tell you some thing, in a country filled with scam artist, for you to do business you will have to assure your customers that you can be trusted ., right now there is no trust .
As for now i would put a RED FLAG on i-co.in , Sree Vinayaka Enterprises or iCoin .
P.s - Bitcoin is an open community if you want this community to trust you stay in a open manner. dont try to hide or obscure details and twist things around.
By the way in an earlier post i think you said you were a partnership , now it is a enterprise with a "CEO" Who is the chairman? but then again that is only in a "Company" , some thing is real fishy.
I'm not convinced
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cool Thanks for the update.
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Now ive got more questions. guess after looking through your site and details there is a larger Question mark.
You are located in a town no bigger than 10 football fields big in the middle of nowhere. you contact numbers not there . owners name not there. atleast we could see the people before doing business with.
you still have not been able to answer how you are working around the RBI guidelines of withdrawing money from the e wallets .
awaiting your answer eagerly .
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O i forgot to ask you, how are you getting around the RBI guidelines of withdrawing INR from you e-wallets .
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Who are you guys a little details will help . i really don trust "the fly by night operators. "
and not some crappy word about being a bitcoin believers and for the community crap .
your supporting evidence is that, you guys are a registered company with your company details . office phone numbers, office address, list of partners, and your photographs.
and do you have permission to run a bitcoin based business with the bank you are operating with ?
Straight froward questions and require straight forward answers .
Thanks :-)
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What happened to the last project skang was trying to do ? i dont see any updates on his project. would yours also die out like that ?
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I would suggest if you are selling in bulk drop the 10% you would get more buyers, buying in bulk.
why dont you put in a amount you would like to sell. and the price for each .. i have listed a buy request from you . i can list a sell request so that every one will know you are selling how many at how much.
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I have freshly mined btc everyday
You should put it up for sale. some of it, may be a bellow the rates other sellers are selling at. might be a good thing for the community. i think you will still earn a profit on that .
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well identification of users in the bitcoin chain is possible . with the proper analysis of the addresses and the transaction history, and should remain to that only . however in terms of identification of users in the sights for a government data base, is some thing history has far to often shows how violent it can be . Hitler created a data base look what it did.
Crypto currency was a theory by which two entity can securely transfer funds to each other without the processing entity not knowing the identity of each other. some thing like the Yao's Millionaires' problem,(not exactly but similar).
If i want to be identified i'll just use pay pal. crypto currency, addresses a specific problem of value transfer without others knowing what is being transferred. any sort of identification is not some thing good for the ideas this was formed upon.
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Hey Pinwheel & legendster your purchase and sell rates are now close enough to do the transaction . have you two already done the transaction yet.
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