I just bought my first Bitcoins? Experiences?

[tescomatty]

I also think localbitcoins is the best option because you can organize everything the way you want it and therefor minimazing the risk of unwanted danger

But most people preffer easy buy button, and believing Coinbase guarantee their coins are safe there

[FiddyCent]

Experience with bitcoin is good,its good payment,bad experience is that I want to do some trading and im not able to send PMs to exchangers since my account is new,this is not cool.

[Flanagan]

I've bought recently my first using localbitcoins. All went very fast and without an y problems.
Now I'm interested in using some exchange too. Studying many threads that mention some of them, but all of them seem to have critics.

For an European, if you had to choose, which one could you recommend ?:

Mt Gox
BTC-E
Bitstamp

Things like how fast the set up is, how reliable, costs, easy to get money in and out, etc.

[Kith]

i havent had any problem with coinbase...ive only gotten 4 btc from them as a test (2 and 2)  the last 2 i got i had validated with their level 2 security validation  and  so i got my btc instantly.  Very nice..now if China could get their act together!

[hieroglyph]

I got lucky and found a member on the forum to send me a coin for a money pak.  It was pretty awesome.  Don't like the idea of being limited on the amound of coins I can buy one bit, sounds like a hole lot of hoop jumping.