I would really definitely do the same thing too and as you said why would use other service if there are sites which are more reputable than on the site have been mentioned aboved? You are just risking your money on that one and everything that you looks suspicious and shady then better to stay away directly on it if you dont really like to suffer unexpected things might happen.
The reason I fell for it (apart from haste and credulity) was greed.
They managed to persuade me that they have a buyer for Payoneer funds who pays a premium.
Some shitty country with insane capital controls, thought I. Okay, I believe you that you can exchange Payoneer 1:1 without fees once I reach some volume.
If I would use Payoneer as usual Mastercard on an exchanger, I would lose at least 1.5% in Payoneer fees + 3% Mastercard fee.
Also, I would risk being spotted by Payoneer and my acc. would be closed.
(Obviously that risk remains if you use operators like this one, if their acc. get busted, yours could be as well).
If only I knew about Bitwage back then.
Or if only I asked for escrow up front.
Or if only I did it in $100 chunks...
This is from correspondence with them (from one of the 69 messages written so far):
Its sad this happened to us. What happened is what we have explained to you the way we have not done to any other client and what i can tell you is that, you will never say we are scam until you complete it to $400 and then we didn't pay then you will say we are scam.
Basically, it tells that until I send them $400 more I cannot say they are scam!
