beware of BTC-e -- they keep their clients' ETC (Ethereum Classic)

[davidpamrein]

After the hard fork I wrote to BTC-e and said: "please pay out my ETC". Their reply is that they "do not support ETC". Which in essence means, they keep their clients' ETC on the other end of the fork and cash in on them. BTC-e then issued a statement that ETC is "a fraud". I don't care what they call it, I just want the ETC that I am entitled to, having held a 4 digit number of ETH before the fork. BTC-e is keeping several thousand dollars' worth of my ETC. In an e-mail to me they say that they "only have an obligation for ETH but not for ETC" against their clients. That is their justification to rob all their clients of the ETC.

This is an untrustworthy, fraudulent company. I immediately withdrew all deposits from there. They are not to be trusted.

Are there other BTC-e clients who are in the same situation and would like to think about maybe doing something about it against BTC-e?

[freshman777]

Do not hold coins at exchanges. You don't own them, exchange owns them. You own exchange's IOUs which is not the same thing as real coins. Being your own bank is the primary goal of investing in crypto. You've thrown away the primary goal by holding coins at exchange. Bitfinex clients did the same, Mt.Gox clients did the same. It is always the same story ad nauseum. When will people learn?